Best International Feature Movies Bucket List

A Rio mother holds her family together after the dictatorship takes her husband in 1971.

A Stasi officer listens to a playwright's flat and slowly changes sides.

A dying Montreal professor is gathered up by his son, his friends and his ex-lovers.

An elderly Parisian couple, a stroke, and a husband who keeps his promise.

Loren and Mastroianni in three stories, three cities, and the striptease.

A Swedish father and son work a Danish farm at the end of the nineteenth century.

Costa-Gavras on the assassination of a Greek deputy and the cover-up; thriller as journalism.

French and German colonists in 1915 Africa learn there is a war and stage their own.

Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.

A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.

Eight Italian soldiers are forgotten on a Greek island for three years of the war.

Two chess grandmasters, one Soviet and one defector, in a Geneva title match.

An actor sells his conscience to the Nazis for the stage; Klaus Maria Brandauer's great performance.

A deserter in 1931 Spain is taken in by a painter and his four daughters.

A police chief murders his mistress and leaves clues to prove he cannot be touched.

Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.

A young railway apprentice worries about sex and, by accident, the Resistance.

Truffaut plays a director shooting a bad film, and every crisis of a shoot.

A racing driver and a script girl meet at their children's school in Deauville.

Tati's Monsieur Hulot against an ultra-modern house that hates people.

A Slovak carpenter is made "Aryan controller" of an old Jewish widow's button shop.

A husband recruits a stranger to cheer up his depressed wife, and a boy of thirteen does it instead.

A French cook in a Danish Lutheran village spends her lottery win on one dinner.

A Buenos Aires teacher begins to suspect her adopted daughter was taken from a "disappeared" mother.

Six friends keep trying to have dinner; Bunuel keeps stopping them.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through the rise of the Nazis in Danzig.

A Kurdish family tries to cross the Alps into Switzerland on foot, in winter.

Five generations of women on a Dutch farm, told as a fable.

The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.

Bergman's medieval revenge ballad; Wes Craven remade it as a horror film.