Foreign Films

In a Better World, the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Picture, is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. A provocative film that explores the difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness, In a Better World follows two Danish families and the unusual and dangerous friendship that develops between them. Bullied at school, Elias is defended by Christian, a boy greatly troubled over his mother’s death. So when the two become involved in an act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, it’s their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy.

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Evil lords are evil. They like to torture, kill and rape their subjects and have fun doing it. Shooting children with arrows? They love that, too. Why? Because they’re evil. But evil lords sometimes need to be put in their place – by the good guys. And often that means killing them. Enter 13 Assassins.

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Nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture, the Greek film Dogtooth is one of the best – and also the strangest – movies of the last year. An exploration of humanity without the typical confines set by modern society, or something along those lines, Dogtooth is compelling, alluring, troubling and memorable.

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Just when you thought horror was contained, directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza return with [Rec] 2, which continues moments after the last one ended. [Rec] 2 is an entertaining and somewhat scary monster flick that suffers simply from the fact that it’s retreading material seen in the previous movie – and the American remake Quarantine.

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On behalf of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, we are pleased to present Of Gods and Men, now available on DVD and Blu-ray. The acclaimed drama won the 2010 Grand Prize at Cannes Film Festival and Best Foreign Language Film from the National Board of Review. It has a 92% fresh rating on RottenTomatoes.com, described as “patient and restrained, Of Gods and Men asks deep, profound questions that will linger in the audience’s mind long after the movie.”

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In Gustavo Hernandez’s La casa muda, or en inglés The Silent House, audiences are treated to a movie with a single, 79-minute take – a gimmick, yes, but an ambitious gimmick nonetheless. Unfortunately, as with so many movies based on a gimmick, the filmmakers forget the basic rule of film: entertain the audience.

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The Oscar-nominated Peruvian drama The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada) is about Fausta, an emotionally and sexually repressed young woman who has grown up with a psychological fear of intimacy following her mother’s brutal rape. It’s also about boring the audience.

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Easily one of the most brutally violent films I’ve seen in years, I Saw The Devil pulls no punches in its portrayal of revenge come full circle. Korean director Kim ji-Woon, who created another one of my favorite Asian imports, A Tale of Two Sisters, shows he has improved with age as the film’s direction pushes it way beyond the typical revenge-torture film.

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