New Arrivals · DVDs—Foreign Feature Films

A twenty year old Indian boy who thirsts to become a singing icon who can blaze a trail for himself among the galaxy of existing stars.

In the midst of the 2002 riots between the Hindus and the Muslims in Gujarat, the lives of people from different walks of life are all tested, from a couple desperately trying to decide whether or not to stay in their home, to a woman who must deal with the guilt of sending someone away, to a group of men bent on revenge.

Using her sister Lena's love life as well as her own for inspiration, Ariane writes romantic stories for a popular magazine. But for these love-struck sisters, the lonely millionaires of the fiction world are miles away from the commitment-phobic boyfriends that live in their reality.

Don Ciro is a timid middleman, who distributes money to the families of imprisoned clan members. One day he is ambushed by two angry clan members with an obvious grudge against their fellows. He later offers to defect to their side and leads them to the location where he is given the money for distribution. Totò is a 13-year-old grocery delivery boy who observes some drug dealers ditching some drugs and a gun when running from the police. He returns the items to the gang, who take him in. When a gang member is killed in a drive-by, they decide to exact retribution on Maria, whose son has joined a secessionist gang. Roberto is a graduate who works in toxic waste management. His boss, Franco, illegally dumps the waste in disused mines. During an operation, a drum of toxic chemicals is accidentally spilt on a driver and Franco refuses to call an ambulance. Pasquale is a haute couture tailor who takes a night-job training Chinese garment workers. His secret work is discovered nonetheless, and on a ride home two gunmen on a scooter open fire on the car. Marco and Ciro are two cocky wannabe gangsters who spy Camorra gangsters hiding a stash of weapons and decide to steal the weapons. The angry gangsters find them and threaten to kill them if they don't return the weapons within a day. Later, they are ambushed and killed.

A woman tries to survive the Soviet invasion of Berlin during the last days of World War II by seeking protection with a Red Army officer.

Before graduating from college, a hearing-impaired, handsome young man decides to cycle around Taiwan, where he rediscovers his roots, makes new friends, and falls in love.

Sang-hyun is a priest who cherishes life - so much so that he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to eradicate a deadly virus. But the virus takes the priest, and a blood transfusion is urgently ordered up for him. The blood he receives is infected, so Sang-hyun now exists as a vampire.

A couple falls in love and feels that nothing will ever tear what they have apart...until they try to get their families together to meet for the first time.

Li Qiming travels from his small village to the city of Wuhan, determined to fulfill his wife's last wish of seeing her son. But instead of finding his son who was killed during a gun fight, he discovers his daughter working as a karaoke bar escort, forcing him to come to terms with their long-estranged relationship and the tenuous future of his family.

A business relationship turns into a love triangle when an ex-soldier begins working for a store owner and his beautiful wife.

Using vignettes, Elia Suleiman's critically-acclaimed satire chronicles the absurdities of life and love on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli border.

This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.

A Palestinian businessman brings a struggling Eastern European circus to a town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The action revolves around a lost lion, which becomes the focal point of everyone's desires, and perhaps a symbol in itself of a treasure so valuable that its seekers risk destroying it.

Story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman. Considered Truffaut's greatest film.

A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.

"...a heart-warming, young slice-of-life comedy about the traials and tribulations of two con artists, a struggling director and actor and the zany situations they face in the pursuit of their tinsel-town dreams."--Container.

A car thief, a conwoman, a gangster, a prostitute, a hitman, and more embark on a wild rollercoaster romp through the underbelly of a teeming metropolis.

New York is a contemporary story of friendship set against the larger than life backdrop of the city. Omar has gone abroad for the first time in his life, and soon enough he begins to see and love America through the eyes of his American friends Sam and Maya. These three friends discover a new world together, but one day the world around them changes.

Tarek, a young Palestinian man blackmailed into a suicide mission in Tel Aviv, is given a second chance at life when the fuse on his expolsive vest fails to detonate.

Opens with an ambitious politician fleeing a hit-and-run accident in the dead of night. Afraid of hurting his election chances, he pays off his chauffeur Eyüp to take the rap. While Eyüp stews in jail, this devil's bargain takes its toll on his brooding son Ismail and restless wife Hacer, who falls into an illicit affair with the politician. Ismail's discovery of his mother's infidelity and Eyüp's suspicions after he gets out of jail crank up the simmering tensions in a household already haunted by hidden ghosts.

A woman caught in fallout during the bombing of Hiroshima returns to her village, where she is ostracized and considered unsuitable for marriage.

Light Yagami is an ace student who finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.

Light Yagami has joined the investigation team in pursuit of the serial killer known as 'Kira.' While L strongly suspects Light is 'Kira, ' Light continues to seek out L's real name so he can kill him using the Death Note. Things get more unpredictable with the appearance of a second 'Kira' who possesses the 'Eyes of Death God, ' enabling the owner to see the true identity of lifespan of any person.

A young fisherman befriends a wild stallion.

A working-class man finds the only way to free the woman he loves from the arms of another is to commit murder.

A young baron's daughter begins a tumultuous affair with an archduke who is heir to the Austrian throne. Based on the true story of the tragic events surrounding the life of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Baroness Mary Vetsera.

Ignored by girls and harassed by seniors after being admitted to a prestigious college in Mumbai, a bright young student strives to prove himself to the skeptics who consider him less than exceptional. Nihaal hails from Chandigarh. He's got the gift of gab, and he's a whiz with electronics. Unfortunately no one at college, including popular beauty Meesha, seems to recognize Nihaal's good traits. Meesha is spoiled, but Nihaal can't help falling in love with her. When Nihaal finally starts to win some friends, Meesha starts to resent him. Then something incredible happens: Nihaal dreams that Meesha is in trouble, and he races to her rescue. When his dream becomes a reality, Nihaal realizes that he has the power to see the future. But there are those who would manipulate Nihaal's power to destroy his dreams. If Nihaal can just weather the storm and master his power, perhaps he'll have a shot at winning over Meesha after all.

Alexandra and Orestes are a young couple who decide to spend the summer holidays in the picture-perfect seaside town on Cyprus with Orestes' family. Phaedra, the mother of Orestes, decides to stage a play with the help of family and townspeople. When Orestes' brother and Phaedra's old lover enter the scene, tensions begin to mount, relationships are tested, and love and betrayal are all on the program.

Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. This compelling film explores the shocking political machinations and shady criminal underworld surrounding this fascinating and controversial figure.

On the eve of Holi, a festival that heralds the coming of spring in India, Dev and Meera, a couple living in New York, plan a get-together with a few close friends and relatives.

An engineering student falls for a young woman visiting her uncles. A case of mistaken identity finds him kidnapping her before she is married to someone else.

A shy and lonely 35 year old security guard at a supermarket works the night shift monitoring the surveillance cameras. One night he discovers a 25 year old cleaning woman through one of the cameras and is immediately attracted to her.

On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal with Fidel Castro: to overthrow the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

Mew and Tong are childhood neighbors who become good friends after Tong protects Mew from bullies. Tragedy strikes when Tong's sister disappears, however, and soon Tong's grief-stricken family moves away. Years later, the two boys are reunited in Siam Square, a trendy teenage hangout in Bangkok, where Mew often performs with the popular boy band. Rekindling their affections after all these years, the two must decide if their feelings for one another are something more.

Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenaged Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.

"The story opens with a family with twin children losing one. The separated boys grow up in different environments. The one grows in Chennai becomes an officer (Vasudevan) in a private investigative agency and the other grows in Dindukkal becomes a typical rustic young man (Vetrivel). The city bred Surya charms up Swathi (Asin Thottumkal) through his professional ethics. Rustic Vel is engaged in the bloody tussle with Sakara Pandi (Kalabhavan Mani), who has deep rooted enmity against the family. Vasu is full of brains and smile while Vel lives with sickle and dangerous duels."--Wikipedia.

The major of a WWII prison camp in the South of France goes against his superior officers and smuggles 800 people out of the camp and into Morocco.

Odd Horten is a neat, meticulous, pipe-smoking train conductor. He is winding up 40 years of service for the Norwegian railways. He wonders, when a man's life has been determined by timetables and clearly-defined journeys along narrow tracks, how he will now spend his free hours. Horten goes about his final work shifts and then enters into the uncertain world of retirement. He meets the dilemma of buying a new pipe using the same placid curiosity he brings to meeting a stranger who invites him to his home.

After the Cuban Revolution, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death.

A barber and his family try hard to compete with a new parlor that's opened up in their small village, complete with air conditioning and other modern conveniences. When his celebrity friend comes to town, everyone treats the barber very differently, hoping the poor man will get them an audience with the famous friend.

After her husband is arrested on suspicion of being a Communist, a woman is suddenly in charge of taking care of her household and her two daughters, with the help of her husband's sister, during the early days of World War II.

When Israel is attacked by a nuclear missile, an 11-year-old boy and his father take shelter in an underground bunker. They must adjust to a new way of life in their cramped underground quarters, and emotionally deal with the death of the boy's mother six months earlier. Soon the boy realizes that his father has been keeping some secrets in the underground shelter that are too terrible to tell.

"In 24 hours, forty-something professor Jon will be getting married to a student half his age. But before he can make it to the ceremony, he'll have to deal with a massive debt to his mother-in-law to be, his extremely drunk best man, the logistics of a remote Icelandic island, an increasingly hostile reverend, and the guilt-ridden memory of his emotionally unstable first wife"--Container.

"In today's world, the major source of relief, information and entertainment is the TV. So much so, that it has moved up from its modest position of being just another 'household appliance' to actually determining the power equation in a family. It is easy to identify the hierarchy in the family depending on who controls the remote control. So what happens when the TV realizes this power and begins to take control? What happens when instead of showing you the facts, the TV begins to show you what it wants you to see? What happens when Manohar, to his great horror, realizes that this is exactly what is happening with his wonderful family, who has just moved into their sweet new home at 13B" -- Container.

In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a man betrays his family by having an affair with another woman, which changes the course of events with both his wife and his mistress.

Wealthy Yuvraj has had four close friends since childhood. He meets and falls in love with Deepali. However, his cousin, Reema, is also in love with him. After Deepali sees Yuvraj with Reema, she becomes jealous and his friends decide to throw a birthday party to mend the trio's fractured relationship.

The relationship between Krishnan and his son Surya has always been good and Surya has always looked on his father as a role model and mentor. When Surya's life is drastically changed for the worse, can his father bring him out of his depression?

An unlikely friendship begins between a superstar and a poor barber and his family.

Tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage.