Winner of the Best Director prize at Berlin Film Festival, the latest film from Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow) is a simmering, impeccably crafted Cold War thriller. Set in the summer of 1980, Barbara, a doctor, has applied for an exit visa from the GDR (East Germany). As punishment, she is transferred from Berlin to a small hospital out in the country. Jörg, her lover from the West, is already planning her escape. Barbara waits, keeping a distance from her new colleagues. But her boss Andre confuses her—his confidence in her professional abilities, his caring attitude and his smile. Has he been assigned to keep track of her? Is he in love? As the day of her planned escape approaches, Barbara starts to lose control—of herself, her plans and her love. Germany's official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil over a dying relative. In the meantime, the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

The story, which seems at first a straightforward tale of two people, Binoche and William Shimell, getting to know each other, gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity in art, as well as in relationships.

Ten examines the lives of women at significant emotional junctures. The film focuses on ten conversations between a female driver in Tehran and the passengers in her car. Her exchanges with her young son, a jilted bride, a prostitute, a woman on her way to prayer and others shed light on the lives and emotions of women whose voices are seldom heard.

Abbas Kiarostami tells the Aesopian tale of a desperate man, Badii, bent on committing suicide and attempting to enlist the help of someone to make sure he is buried dead and not alive. Can he find a compassionate man to do him such an unusual favor in exchange for a large monetary reward?

Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out she's pregnant, she winds up at the Brewer's door. She needs their help, and although they can't quite admit it, they each need her so they can begin to heal.

Roy gets cut from his high school football team just days after his estranged father dies. For him, football is more than a proving ground; it is a promised escape from his lonely rural existence and salvation from the paralyzing passivity that dominates his life. Enter Gideon, a loner living on the roughneck fringe who is looking for gamers--kids who scrap hard--to play on his six-man football squad. Roy joins the Renegades, and he and Gideon enter into tenuous friendship that pushes the limits of male bonding.

When his latest body of work – provocative, nighttime studies of the city and its inhabitants -- earns struggling photographer Leon Kaufman interest from a prominent art gallerist, she propels him to get grittier and show the darker side of humanity for his upcoming debut at her downtown art space.Believing he’s finally on track for success, Leon’s obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer, Mahogany, the subway murderer who stalks late-night commuters -- ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable….

What's Eating Gibert Grape? is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he knows this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the week while waiting for parts for their vehicle. This realization unties new ...

Philippe Abrams helps run the post office in a picturesque small town in the South of France. Philippe's wife Julie has been down in the dumps, and he thinks one way to lift her spirits would be to relocate to the more glamorous surroundings of the Cote d'Azur. However, Philippe's attempts to finagle a transfer fail, and he ends up demoted -- he's sent to Bergues, a village in Northern France stuck between Belgium and England. Philippe is appalled at the news, and matters only get worse when he has to learn the local dialect, a strange bouillabaisse of French, Flemish and Latin dialects. Julie opts to stay behind, and as Philippe drowns his sorrows in beer on his first night in town, he nearly runs over a man while driving home drunk -- who turns out to be one of his new colleagues at the post office, Antoine Bailleul. But Philippe finds to his surprise that he enjoys life in Bergues, and he becomes infatuated with Annabelle, a beautiful letter carrier. Philippe is pondering just what he should do about his feelings for Annabelle when he gets word from Julie that she's decided to join him in the unfashionable North.

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are as brittle as glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then ...

Before playing the title role of Cyrano, the 17th-century poet and Soldier with a big nose, in Cyrano de Bergerac(1990), Gérard Depardieu has brought to life the harmonica-playing, romantic idealist Jean de Florette in this idyllic epic of the force of destiny. The city intellectual Jean (Gérard Depardieu) has inherited a piece of Provençal land from his mother Florette and soon returns to his “motherland” to start a fresh farming life with his wife and daughter. However, the ever-helpful, simpleminded neighbor Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) and his scheming uncle Papet (Yves Montand) turn out to covet all along his land and its precious liquid gold—the spring water of the hills. Adapted from Marcel Pagnol’s novelL’eau des collines, Jean de Florette and its sequel Manon des sources belong to French super productions of the 1980s.

Manon of the Spring takes place a decade after the tragic death of Jean de Florette. Jean’s wife has resumed her operatic career in Marseille while his daughter Manon (Emmanuelle Béart) stays behind to become a wild and beautiful shepherdess after witnessing Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) and Papet (Yves Montand) unblocking her father’s spring. As Ugolin’s carnation-growing career takes off, Papet hopes that he gets married to prolong the family line. Ugolin falls hopelessly in love with Manon after peeping at her bathing nude in the mountain stream but Manon feels affection for the new schoolteacher. After knowing that the villagers are complicit in concealing the spring from her father, Manon blocks the spring of the whole village... Emmanuelle Béart was awarded two Césars, Best Supporting Actress and Best New Talent, for her exquisite beauty and intense performance. Daniel Auteuil fails to win her heart in the film but won the César Award for Best Actor and married her in 1993.

Christine is a wheelchair-using woman with severe multiple sclerosis. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains, along with other people with varying disabilities. During her stay she begins to regain the use of her limbs. This is in contrast with others, who appear to have stronger faith than Christine but experience only slight, passing improvement. Her fellow pilgrims are eager to call it a miracle; however, as the pilgrimage draws to a close, exactly how accurate a claim this is becomes uncertain.

前綠茵健兒Leila過了五年鐵窗生活後終於重獲自由，巧遇剛在車禍中失明的年輕運動員Yannick。Yannick 失明後，唯一可以競技的項目只剩下賽跑，而他必須尋覓一雙「代睛」才能圓夢。Leila 的出現正好是天掉下來的大好機會。Leila 對自己的過去隻字不提，兩人相對時常默默無言。不過，Yannick因厭倦家人朋友予以憐憫同情，所以他對Leila 的沉默反而感到舒心。兩個活在世界邊緣的人在準備比賽之間，慢慢重建各自的嶄新人生。 只可惜，縱然他們如何樂觀懷抱希望，過去的夢魘原來一直如影隨形夾在他們之間。過去遺下的陰霾，此刻不能自我的情感，為他們的生命引發起掀天動地的衝擊……

CHICKEN WITH PLUMS is the story of a famous musician whose prized instrument has been ruined. Unable to replace his violin, he decides to die, and eight days later, he renders his soul. Yet what seems like the end is really just the beginning. Under its romantic allure, this film is conceived as a thriller with flashbacks and flash forwards which shed light on Nasser’s personality and the reasons for his despair. Death is used as a springboard to talk about life.