Genre: Foreign Movies

Writing on cinema from beyond the English-speaking world — the films, traditions, and voices that tell their stories in other tongues.

  • The Hunt (2012) Cover

    The Hunt (2012)

    Vinterberg's 2012 Danish small-town drama. Mads Mikkelsen as a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of child abuse. Mob mentality study at its sharpest.
    Drama • Foreign Movies
    May 17, '26
  • Fanny and Alexander (1982) Cover

    Fanny and Alexander (1982)

    Bergman's 1982 Swedish family epic. Theatrical cut three hours, TV cut five. The autobiographical work he meant to end his career on.
    Drama • Foreign Movies
    May 17, '26
  • Persona (1966) Cover

    Persona (1966)

    Bergman's 1966 Swedish psychological drama. Two women at a beach cottage. Identity dissolves. The film Bergman called his closest to abstract music.
    Drama • Foreign Movies
    May 17, '26
  • Wild Strawberries (1957) Cover

    Wild Strawberries (1957)

    Bergman's 1957 Swedish drama. An aging professor's day-long road trip to accept an honorary degree. Memory, regret, dreams. Among Bergman's most accessible.
    Drama • Foreign Movies
    May 17, '26
  • Downfall (2004) Cover

    Downfall (2004)

    Hirschbiegel's 2004 German WWII drama. Bruno Ganz as Hitler in the bunker's last ten days. The film YouTube remix culture turned into meme footage.
    Foreign Movies • World War II
    May 17, '26
  • The Lives of Others (2006) Cover

    The Lives of Others (2006)

    Donnersmarck's 2006 German drama. A Stasi officer surveilling a playwright. Won Best Foreign Language Oscar. East Germany at the edge of collapse.
    Drama • Foreign Movies
    May 17, '26
  • Wings of Desire (1987) Cover

    Wings of Desire (1987)

    Wenders's 1987 German fantasy. Angels watch over divided Berlin. Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander. The source Hollywood remade as City of Angels.
    Drama • Foreign Movies
    May 17, '26
  • Metropolis (1927) Cover

    Metropolis (1927)

    Fritz Lang's 1927 German silent SF epic. The film every dystopian city movie has copied. Restored 2010 cut is the version to watch.
    Foreign Movies • Science Fiction
    May 17, '26
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948) Cover

    Bicycle Thieves (1948)

    De Sica's 1948 Italian neorealist drama. A father and son search Rome for a stolen bicycle. The foundation document of postwar realist cinema.
    Drama • Foreign Movies
    May 17, '26
  • M (1931) Cover

    M (1931)

    Fritz Lang's 1931 German film. Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by both police and the criminal underworld. The first proper serial killer film.
    Crime • Foreign Movies
    May 17, '26
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