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Multimedia Library

Alphabetical listing:

Title Director Year Language
100% Arabica
In a poverty-stricken concrete housing estate located on the outskirts of Paris, African immigrants struggle for recognition in a society where they are often regarded as second class citizens. As a local group of musicians start to gain in popularity, their success threatens the orthodox religious groups who control the neighborhood.
Comedy		 Mahmoud Zemmouri 1997 French w/subtitles
11'09"01
In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as they saw fit. The one guideline they were given was that no one film could exceed 11 minutes, nine seconds, and one frame.
Drama / Essay Filmmaking		 Various 2003 Various w/subtitles
After the Fall
A documentary exploring the aftermath of the Berlin Wall's fall, the film features interviews in English and German with long-time residents and foreign visitors/residents from both sides of the former divide. Winner at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival (in the Neue Deutsche Filme sidebar).
Documentary
Eric Black & Frauke Sandig 1999 German/English w/subtitles
Aimee & Jaguar
In World War II Berlin, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women - Aimee, the wife of a Nazi officer, and Jaguar, a Jewish journalist. Based on a true story, this film won a Silver Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Drama, Romance, War Drama
IMDb Review		 Max Farberbock 1999 German w/subtitles
All About My Mother
Manuela is the perfect mother.  A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son, an aspiring writer.  When tragedy strikes, she relocates to Barcelona and becomes a caregiver to a colorful extended family.  1999 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film.
Drama		 Pedro Almodovar 1999 Spanish w/subtitles
les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Lovers on the Bridge)
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants. The streets, skies and waterways of Paris are used as a backdrop to the story in a series of stunning visuals which dominate the film.
Drama, Romance
All Movie Guide Review 		Leos Carax 1991 French w/subtitles
Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
A painfully shy waitress working at a tiny Paris cafe, Amelie makes a surprising discovery and sees her life drastically change for the better!  From then on, Amelie dedicates herself to helping others find happiness.
Comedy		 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2001 French w/subtitles
Un Amour a Paris (A Romance in Paris)
A romantic drama about two strangers who meet and fall in love in Paris. A young Jewish girl from Algeria, who comes to France in hopes of becoming a model, gets sidetracked when she meets a French-born Arab and ex-convict.
Comedy, Drama
IMDb Review
Merzak Allouache 1987 French
Antonia's Line (Antonia) 
Joyful European drama which chronicles the life of an independent, strong-willed Dutch woman who lived in a small farming community. 
Feminist, Comedy Drama 
Bill & Beth Review, Film.com Review, Text fragments, Austin Chronicle, Allmovie Review		 Marleen Gorris 1995 Dutch w/ subtitles

Arabian Nights
A legendary heroine tries to save her kingdom and her own life by seducing her husband's imagination with the fantastical tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and other larger-than-life heroes, warrior and djinns. Made-for-TV retelling of the classic tale A Thousand and One Nights.
Epic, Fantasy Adventure
All Movie Guide Review

Steve Barron 2000 English

L 'Auberge Espagnole
C'est l'histoire d'un jeune homme de 25 ans qui part faire sa derniere annee d'etudes a Barcelone.  Il va partager un appartement avec 7 etudiants qui viennent chacun d'un pays d'Europe different.  Commence alors pour lui une experienceunique: la vie en communaute...
Comedy, Romance

 Cedric Klapisch 2002 French
Bab El-Oued City
Set in a popular district of Algiers a few months after the bloody riots of 1988, this film follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.
Drama, Political Drama
Arab Film Review, IMDb Review		 Merzak Allouache 1994 Arabic w/subtitles
Babette's Feast
Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee, seeks shelter in a desolate coastal town of Denmark. The two elderly daughters of the town's long-dead minister take her in. Babette holds a secret that may very well allow these women to have a second chance at life.
Drama
IMDb Review 		Gabriel Axel 1989 Danish/Swedish/ French w/subtitles
Bezness
"Bezness" takes place in one of Tunisia's beautiful coastline tourist cities. It tells the contemporary story of a young man trapped between Arab tradition and prostitution.
Official selection, Cannes 1992.
Comedy, Drama 		Nouri Bouzid 1992 French
Bon Voyage
A motley group of Parisians head south to escape the imminent German occupation. Murderous intrigues, scientific secrets, love affairs, and suspense flourish in this dark comedy.
Comedy, Drama
IMDb Review 		Jean-Paul Rappeneau 2003 French w/subtitles
Bread and Tulips
When Rosalba is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, the busy wife decides to take an extended holiday on her own in ravishing Venice. Her tyrannical husband recruits an amateur detective to bring her home. Will she return to her old life or embrace the exciting possibilities of a new one?
Comedy, Romance
All Movie Guide Review 		Silvio Soldini 2000 Italian w/subtitles

Britain's Parliament at Work: Order, Order!
A guided tour of the Parliament which has served as the model for legislatures all over the world. Because of Parliament’s traditions and pageantry, the program is colorful and fascinating as well as intellectually stimulating and important.
Documentary

 Films for the Humanities & Sciences 1992 English
Carrington
This period biopic chronicles the long-term passion of early 20th-century painter Dora Carrington for gay Bloomsbury Group writer Lytton Strachey.
Biography [Feature], Romance 
Carrington Homepage, Allmovie Review		 Christopher Hampton 1996 English
Le Chemin du Retour (film to accompany Debuts, an introduction to French)
Centered around a young French TV journalist who is investigating her grandfather's hidden past, this film takes students on an incredible journey throughout parts of the French-speaking world.		 McGraw-Hill Higher Education 2002 French
Chocolat
Curious and observant seven-year-old Franch spends her days amidst the paradise of her family's estate.  But behind the household's exterior beauty lies growing hostility brought on by France's always-traveling father, her bored, frustrated mother - and Protee, the noble, intelligent house "boy" who suffers the indignities of his status in silence.
Drama		 Claire Denis 1988 French w/subtitles
Chouchou
A North African immigrant to Paris gets work and finds romance despite his scatty character.
Comedy
All Movie Guide Review 		Merzak Allouache 2003 French w/subtitles
December Bride
An independent, stubborn servant girl living in late-19th-century Northern Ireland, defies convention and shocks her community by having affairs with her employers' two sons and by refusing to name the father of the resulting child.
Drama
Dejanews Review, IMDb Review		 Thaddeus O'Sullivan  1993 English
Degenerate Art
This documentary brings to life the historical context of an infamous 1937 art exhibition mounted by the Nazis in Munich, examining the far-reaching effects of the Nazi's vilification of the avant-garde in Germany. The life and works of several artists whose very existence was threatened by the suppression of modern art are highlighted.
Documentary
David Grubin 1993 English
Douce France
In this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable cultural identity. The story centers on four young men in their 20s: Farida, who tries to live according to family traditions; his rebellious sister Souad, who wants to be as Westernized as possible and works at a fast-food outlet; her ex-boyfriend, Jean Luc, who wants to be an immigrant lawyer; and his friend Moussa. The film is comprised of brief incidents from their lives.
Comedy		 Malike Chibane 1995 French w/subtitles
East is East
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
Comedy, Drama		 Damien O'Donnell
 		 1999 English
Eight Femmes
One morning an industrialist is found stabbed in his room. Eight women are his potential murderers; the house is isolated in a snowstorm, the phone is dead and one of them has to be the culprit. Mutual suspicions reveal the various secrets in their lives.
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Musical		 Francois Ozon 2002 French

Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud)
Modern film noir with the classic theme of lovers plotting to kill the husband and make it look like suicide.
Crime Thriller, Film Noir, Psychological Thriller 
Circle Theater Forum Review, Soundtrack info, 
IMDb Review

 Louis Malle 1957 French w/ subtitles

Emma
This splendid dramatization brings to life all the glorious romance of Jane Austen's arguably finest novel, recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character, Emma, of whom she wrote "no one but myself could like."
Romance, Comedy

John Glenister 1972 English
The Experimental Avant-Garde Series, volume 1: Bunuel and Dali Meet Dr. Freud
Un Chien Andalou - Salvador Dali and Louis Bunuel collaborated on this famous avant garde film. A cascade of images -- ants emerging from a human palm, an eyeball being slit, a severed hand in the street -- follow. The result is a remarkable surreal film with little symbolism. Presented with a synchronized music score that Bunuel added in the 1930's.
The Hearts of Age - This surreal short of a street magician was the first film shot by Orson Welles. The imaginative camera angles and special effects hint at the images he would later present in Citizen Kane.
Ballet Mechanique - Fernan Leger weaves images of geometric shapes and humans into a symbolic Freudian dance.		 Louis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Fernan Leger 1928, 1934 Silent films with added music scores
The Experimental Avant-Garde Series, volume 4: Dada Doo Doo
Symphonie Diagonal - Viking Eggeling’s smash Dada hit examines the fundamentals of cinematic time.
Entre'acte - Man Ray appears in this film directed by Rene Clair. A major early experiment in cinematic special effects; fast and slow motion, split screens superimpositions and more.
L'etoile de Mer - Man Ray lenses reality through a frosted glass. What happens in the film depends on what the viewer chooses to see. 		Viking Eggeling, Rene Clair, Man Ray 1921, 1924, 1928 Silent films with added music scores

The Experimental Avant-Garde Series, volume 14: Man Ray, Director of Ludicrous Movies
Retour a la Raison - Ray's attempt to confuse and confound the participants of the last great Dada convention was this film which was made without a camera.
Emak Bakia - Ray employs textbook surrealist techniques to create an unconventional surreal film.
Les Mysteres du Chateau du de - An unsolved "mystery" in a modern villa designed by Malet-Stevens.

 Man Ray 1923, 1927, 1929 Silent films with added music scores
Facing Windows
A young working-class wife and mother has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers the stranger's secrets, it unlocks a freedom within her heart that she never expected.
Drama, Romance
IMDb Review 		Ferzan Ozpetek 2003 Italian w/subtitles
Far Away, So Close (In weiter Ferne, so nah!)
Sequel to Wenders acclaimed 1987 film "Wings Of Desire," in which angels descend to Earth and take a hard look at the fruits of German reunification. 
Drama, Fantasy 
Webstation dedicated site, Soundtrack info		 Wim Wenders 1993 English
Faust
Faust was the mammoth German production which won F. W. Murnau his contract with Hollywood's Fox Studios. Emil Jannings glowers his way through the role of Mephistopholes, who offers the ageing Faust (Gosta Eckman) an opportunity to relive his youth, the price being Faust's soul.
Fantasy, Drama, Surrealism, Expressionism 
Silent Majority Review, German Literature Review		 F.W. Murnau 1926 Silent w/ orchestra
A Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbes
At the death of her husband, Soumicha has to earn a living and becomes the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbes (Algeria). The film shows her working conditions in a job normally reserved for men, and a city where integrist violence rages.
Documentary		 Belkacem Hadjadj 2000 Arabic w/subtitles
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
A simple, naive provincial girl meets her street-smart Parisian counterpart in this compelling character study, which introduces the pair into various dramatic situations in each of its four narrative segments.
On Rohmer's Moral Tales, Rohmer Filmography		 Eric Rohmer 1986 French w/ subtitles
Friday Night (vendredi soir)
Internationally acclaimed director Cliare Denis' film is both an erotic and beguiling story of a one-night affair between two strangers and an ode to the city of Paris.
Drama 		Claire Denis 2002 French w/subtitles
les Gens de la Riziere (Rice People)
A poor, rural Cambodian family slowly disintegrates during the cycle of a single rice crop in this moving, and beautifully photographed European drama adapted from a novel.
Drama
All Movie Guide Review 		Rithy Panh 1992 Khmer w/French subtitles
The Girl in the Cafe
An aging civil servant falls for an enigmatic young woman. However, when he takes her to the G8 summit in Reykjavik, their bond is tested by his professional obligations.
Comedy, Drama, Romance 		David Yates 2005 English
Goodbye Lenin
In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
Comedy, Drama, Romance
All Movie Guide Review		 Wolfgang Becker 2003 German w/subtitles

Harem Suare
At the turn of the century in the last days of the Ottoman Empire, an ornate story of love, power, and fear takes place in Istanbul, at the Yildiz Palace.
Romantic Drama
All Movie Guide Review

 Ferzan Ozpetek 1999 French, Italian, Turkish w/subtitles
Hate (La Haine) 
A film spanning 24 hours in which three racially diverse friends vent their frustrations about police brutality near Paris.
Drama 
Hate Homepage, IMDb Review		 Mathieu Kassovitz 1996 French w/subtitles
Head-On
Set in a working-class Hamburg neighborhood, the story follows two Turkish immigrants who enter a marriage of convenience. Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.
Drama, Romance 		Fatih Akin 2004 German, Turkish w/subtitles
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (a la folie pas du tout)
Rising young artist Angelique (Audrey Tatou) is wildly in love with Loic. She is happily planning her future: a career as a painter and a future with Loic... what more could she desire? But things are rarely as they seem and Loic, a married cardiologist, has a slightly more jaded take on their affair...
Comedy Drama, Black Comedy
Laetitia Colombani 2002 French w/subtitles
His Secret Life
A woman dealing with the loss of her mate learns he had a surprising secret life.
Drama, Gay & Lesbian Films		 Ferzan Ozpetek 2001 Italian, Turkish w/subtitles
L'Homme de Cendres (Man of Ashes)
This film depicts a young man and his friends, whose dreams of leaving their small Tunisian town are at odds with the social, religious, and sexual mores of a strongly conservative society.
Comedy, Drama
All Movie Guide review		 Nouri Bouzid 1986 Arabic w/French subtitles

House of Cards
Ian Richardson stars in this malevolent satire of greed, corruption and ambition in the highest realsm of government. As the Maciavellian Chief Whip, he schemes and backstabs his way to the top. But the unflappabale politico may have made a deadly mistake when he made young journalist Mattie Storin his dupe.
This TV trilogy has won a primetime Emmy and two British Academy Awards.
Drama
All Movie Guide review

Paul Seed 1990-1995 English
I Can't Sleep (J'ai pas sommeil) 
A vicious murderer walks the streets of Paris, targeting elderly women in a string of brutal attacks. This French drama uses two plots that occasionally come together. The stories are set within the multi-ethnic neighborhoods of Paris. 
Drama
IMDb Review
Official selection, Cannes Film Festival 		Claire Denis 1994 French w/ subtitles
Inch'Allah Dimanche
In this passionate immigrant story of a woman struggling against old world traditions, Zouina leaves her homeland with her children to join her husband in France. In a land and culture foreign to her, she struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
Drama 		Yamina Benguigui 2001 Arabic, French w/subtitles
Indochine
Catherine Deneuve stars in this Oscar-winning (Best Foreign Language Film, 1992) tale of passion and revolution in colonial Vietnam.
Drama / Romance		 Regis Wargnier 1992 French w/subtitles
In July
Getting there is all the fun in this sunny, award-winning film about following and finding your destiny. A shy Hamburg student teacher impulsively resolves to follow a beautiful tourist he just met to Istanbul. His hapless odyssey is complicated by a street vendor who sold him an enchanted ring she guaranteed would help him find his true love.
Comedy, Romance		 Fatih Akin 2000 German w/subtitles
Irish Civil War: the Madness from within
In 1922, the people of Ireland turned against each other in one of the bloodiest civil wars in history. In the aftermath, the country descended into a subversive, fratricidal conflict that lasted for decades. This documentary features inverviews with participants in the Civil War, interwoven throughout with archival footage and photographs from the period.
Documentary 		Films for the Humanities & Sciences   English
Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim)
An influential film that has grown in stature over the decades, Jules et Jim was often viewed by the counterculture of the 1960s as a cinematic proponent of the free-love movement, but in actuality the picture is a statement against such a way of life.
Romantic Drama
IMDb Review		 Francois Truffaut 1962 French w/ subtitles
Lamerica
Grim, realistic picture of the suffering and despair in post-Communist Albania. Story of two con artists, Gino and Fiore who come to Albania with a get-rich scheme which would allow them access to Italian government aid to Albania.
Adventure Drama
IMDb Review		 Gianni Amelio 1994 Italian w/subtitles
Life is Sweet
Examines life among the British lower-middle class through the eyes of Andy and Wendy, the kind-hearted, good-natured parents of twins Natalie and Nicola.While the former twin is quiet and driven, the latter is a troubled bulimic who lashes out at everyone and everything, especially herself.
Family Drama, Comedy Drama, Urban Drama, Made for TV
IMDb Review		 Mike Leigh 1991 English
Lola and Billy the Kid
Set in Berlin, portrays the community of "guest workers" where Turkish transvestites are shunned not only by Germans, but by their own kind as well. The result is a strong film with moments of tenderness, emotion and laughter, juxtaposed with the harsh realities of life for those who dare to be different.
Drama, Urbam Drama
IMDb Review		 Kutlug Ataman 1998 German, Turkish w/subtitles
Love Actually
Set in London, "the ultimate romantic comedy" involves more than a dozen main characters, each weaving his or her way into another's heart over the course of one particularly eventful Christmas. Funny, irresistible and heartwarming, an all-star cast (Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth and Emma Thompson) will take you on a breathtaking tour of love's delightful twists and turns.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
IMDb Review		 Richard Curtis 2003 English
The Lumiere Brother's First Films
A collection of the Lumiere Brothers' turn-of-the-century work with commentary by Thierry Fremaux (in French) and Bertrand Tavernier (in English).		 Louis and Auguste Lumiere 1895-97 /1996 French and English Commentary
Madame Butterfly
Puccini's classic opera of a trusting woman and how her love was tragically betrayed comes to the screen in this faithful film adaptation.
Drama		 Frederic Mitterrand 1995 Italian w/subtitles
Mansfield Park
Austen's story of virtue and vice tells of young and impoverished Fanny Price who arrives at the elegant country estate of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram. True virtue triumphs over superficiality in this distinguished, BBC productione of Jane Austen's celebrated novel Mansfield Park.
Drama, Romance		 David Giles 1986 English
Marriage of Maria Braun  (Die Ehe der Maria Braun) 
This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days 
of WWII. Fassbinder has tried to show the gritty life after the end of WWII and the turmoil of the people trapped in its wake. 
Marriage Drama
IMDb Review, On Fassbinder		 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1978 German w/ subtitles
Maybe . . . Maybe Not (Der Bewegte Mann)
Story of Axel, a handsome hunk with a taste for cheating on his girl friend Doro. When she throws him out, he ends up staying with his gay friend Norbert who is terribly attracted to Axel. 
Comedy
IMDb Review		 Sonke Wortmann 1996 German w/subtitles
Melilla, l'europe au Pied du Mur
Melilla est une enclave portuaire espagnole située à côté du Maroc. Devant ses portes, sont maintenus dans un parc de voitures destinées à la casse, Africains du Nord et du reste de l'Afrique. Tourné sur plusieurs mois, le film présente leurs témoignages. Mais aussi ceux des autorités de la ville, alignés sur les objectifs de l'Union Européenne: normaliser l'immigration. L'enquête met en évidence l'impossibilité de réguler la circulation "humaine" et les conséquences dangereuses d'une telle politique. Dans un contexte de racisme où les "Maures" sont repoussés à la faveur des autres Africains, "Melilla" est un regard sur la situation qui a progressé notamment vers les émeutes de El Ejido, un an plus tard.
 Arlette Giradot & Philippe Baque 1998 Arabic w/French subtitles
Michael Collins
Violent, fact-based historical drama provides fascinating insights into the events that lead to the religious and political battles that have raged in Northern Ireland since the early 20th century.
Political Drama,Romance
IMDb Review		 Neil Jordan 1996 English
Monsieur Ibrahim
In 1960s Paris, a Turkish deli owner in a working-class neighborhood befriends a young Jewish man . Together they begin a journey that will change their lives forever.
Played the Toronto and Venice film festivals.
Drama, Coming of Age
IMDb Review 		Francois Dupeyron 2003 French w/subtitles
Mostly Martha
When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.
Drama, Comedy, Romance
IMDb Review
Sandra Nettelbeck 2001 German, Italian w/subtitles
The Mother
After her husband dies, May, a shy suburban housewife moves to London to be near her grown children and their families. Quite unexpectedly, she becomes attracted to a handsome carpenter half her age who's currenly haivng an affair with her daughter. After he returns May's advances, the two embark on a forbidden affair that threatens to destroy May's family in this powerful film.
Winner of British Acress of the Year at London Critics Film Circle Awards.
Drama, Romance 		Roger Michell 2001 English
My Son the Fanatic
In a small city in the English midlands, a Pakistani immigrant named Parvez works long hours driving a cab to provide modest comfort for his disapproving wife, Minoo, and better opportunities for his collegiate son, Farid. When Farid breaks off his engagement with the daughter of the city's white police commissioner, drops out of university and joins a cell of Islamic fundamentalists, Parvez must bide his time and hope that his son will come around to his own liberal, assimilationist views.
Comedy / Romantic Comedy		 Udayan Prasad 1997 English
The Nanny
At the dawn of 20th century Rome, a Professor and his wife bear a child. But the mother cannot supply milk - or even love - to the child. So the professor hires an illiterate country girl as a wet nurse and a nanny. An explosive situation develops between all involved.
Drama 		Marco Bellocchio 1999 Italian w/subtitles
The Nasty Girl
When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her. Based on a true story. Winner of two Berlin Film Festival awards.
Comedy, Drama 		Michael Verhoeven 1990 German w/subtitles
Neurosia
This documentary exercise in narcissism represents gay activist Rosa von Praunheim's autobiography, framed as murder mystery in which the loopy director is the victim. 
Art, Experimental, Comedy, Gay
Box Office Online Review, Filmography, New Jersey Online Review		 Rosa Von Praunheim 1995 English
Night of Destiny (la Nuit de Destin)
After inadvertently witnessing a murder, an Algerian Muslim living in France barely escapes from the murderes by hiding out in a mosque. The detective assigned to the case is exposed to the contradictions and challenges minority communities face as they struggle to live in a new culture with a different set of values and religious beliefs.
Crime, Drama, Suspense Thriller
African Film Review		 Abdelkrim Bahloul 1999 French w/subtitles
No Man's Land
Fleeing enemy fire, an injured Bosnian soldier named Ciki retreats to a trench, where he finds himself trapped with a wounded comrade and worse...a Serbian!  With no way to escape and with his fellow soldier lying on a spring-loaded bomb set to explode if he moves, Ciki realizes he must do the unthinkable - trust his enemy - if he wants to survive.
Drama		 Danis Tanovic 2001 Serbo-Croatian w/subtitles
Northanger Abbey
A tale of intrigue, adventure and romance, this enchanting dramatization captures the spirit and wit of Austen's classic novel. The setting is 18th century Bath, a society of decadence and deceit, into which Catherine Morland arrives bursting with freshness, integrity and a passion for macabre Gothic novels.
Drama, Romance, Comedy 		Giles Foster 1987 English
Nowhere in Africa
Spanning two continents, this film tells the true story of a Jewish attorney and his family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. As the war rages on, his relationships with his wife and daughter become increasingly complicated: they struggle between resisting and embracing their new life, while reaching out to each other.
Winner of Best Foreign Language film in 2002 Academy Awards.
Drama
All Movie Guide Review 		Caroline Link 2001 German w/subtitles
On Boys, Girls and the Veil
With his leading protagonist and friend, Nasrallah takes us on an exquisite tour of a subject normally overdramatized by the West. Taking the debate beyond the simplistic approach and with familiarity rarely seen, young men and women talk about the ‘hijab’ and its social implications.
Documentary		 Yousry Nasrallah 1995 Arabic w/subtitles
Persuasion
This beautiful dramatization of Persuasion conveys all the passion and frustrations of Jane Austen's most mature heroine Anne Elliot, as she finds herself persuaded to reject her chance for true love.
Romance, History 		Howard Baker 1971 English
The Pianist
Based on the true story of a privileged musician who spent five years struggling against the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Won Best Actor, Best Director at 2002 Academy Awards; Palme d'Or at 2002 Cannes International Film Festival.
Drama, War Drama
IMDb Review 		Roman Polanski 2002 English, German, Russian w/subtitles

Planete Millau

 Christophe Gay and Louis Zollet 2001 French
Poldark
In late 18th century Cornwall, the political and social atmosphere is as stormy as the sea that pounds the rocky shores. Into this landscape, Captian Ross Poldark returns from the American war to take up his inheritance and take up with his beloved Elizabeth. But with false reports of his death having reached Cornwall ahead of him, what will he find? This BBC television production is comprised of 3 series.
Drama 		Christopher Barry & Paul Annett 1975 English
The Postman (Il Postino)
Pablo Neruda, the famous Chilean poet, is exiled to a small island for political reasons. Mario, the mailman, is to hand-deliver the celebrity's mail to him. Though poorly educated, Mario learns to love poetry and eventually befriends Neruda. Struggling to grow and express himself more fully, he suddenly falls in love and needs Neruda's help and guidance more than ever.
Romance, Drama, Comedy
All Movie Guide Review 		Michael Radford 1994 Italian, Spanish w/subtitles
Pride and Prejudice
Shot on location in the beautiful English countryside, this flurry of romantic courtships is full of injured pride and unfounded prejudice. This realistic production truly captures all the nuances of the 18th century life among the English gentry, a society obsesssed with profitable marriage contracts.
Drama, Romance, Comedy
Cyril Coke 1985 English

Princesa
Fernando/Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian transvestite, travels to Milan and becomes a prostitute to finance a sex-change operation. Fernanda dreams of becoming a "real" woman but in Milan is transformed instead into Princesa, a mysterious figure of allure. She then meets Gianni, a straight-laced, married businessman who falls in love with her. It all seems to good to be true...and is.
 Drama
All Movie Guide Review

 Henrique Goldman 2001 Italian, Portuguese w/subtitles
La Promesse
A young man born into criminal circumstances is forced to deal with his conscience in this drama from Belgium.		 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 1996 French w/subtitles
Promise, The (Das Versprechen)
Two star-crossed lovers, separated by the Berlin wall for thirty years are reunited. The major events in
their separate lives become the focus.
Political Drama
IMDb Review, Biography		 Margarethe Von Trotta 1995 German w/ subtitles

Rana's Wedding
About a Palestinian girl of 17 who wants to get married to the man of her own choosing. Rana wakes up one morning to an ultimatum delivered by her father: she must either choose a husband from a preselected list of men, or she must leave Palestine for Egypt with her father by 4:00 that afternoon. With ten hours to find her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem, she sneaks out of her father's house at daybreak to find her forbidden love.
Drama, Comedy

 Hany Abu-Assad 2002 Arabic w/subtitles
The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir)
It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post- Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control. 
Romantic Drama 
Description (in French), Chanson, Background (in French)		 Claude Autant-Lara 1957 French w/ subtitles
Respiro
An intimate tale of a family living in a quiet fishing community. Grazia, a carefree mother of three becomes the focus of her neighbors' gossip. While they work and live hard - oblivious to their native paradise - Grazia alone is courageous enough to blissfully embrace life's treasures. Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Comedy, Drama 		Emanuele Crialese 2002 Italian w/subtitles
Richard III
Set in 1930s Britain and much like an old-fashioned gangster movie, Richard becomes a criminal mastermind, expert at manipulating others and the system; he is unafraid to use violence in his struggle to become king. 
Tragedy, Drama, Crime
Richard III Homepage, Historical Background, IMDb Review		 Richard Loncraine 1995 English
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg was a key figure in founding the German branch of the Communist party near the turn of the century. This well-wrought drama tells her story.
Biography [Feature], Drama
IMDb Review, Historical background		 Margarethe Von Trotta 1986 German/Polish w/ subtitles
Rosetta
Rosetta, a shy 17-year old girl, lives with her alcoholic mother in a trailer park in Belgium.  Desperate to live a normal life, her one ambition is to get and keep a job.  Hired to work at a waffle stand, her growing frienship with a handsome co-worker begins to draw Rosetta out of her shell.  But her new-found stability collapses when she's laid off.
Drama
IMDb Review		 Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne 1999 French w/ subtitles
Run Lola Run
Two star-crossed lovers have only minutes to change the course of their lives. Lola receives a frantic phone call from her boyfriend, who's lost a small fortune belonging to his mobster boss. If Lola doesn't replace the money in twenty minutes, he will surely suffer severe consequences.
Thriller, Crime, Drama, Romance
All Movie Guide Review 		Tom Tykwer 1998 German w/subtitles
La Saison des Hommes (The Season of Men)
The gulf between men and women in Tunisia - political, psychological, and physical - is explored in this downbeat drama from director Moufida Tlatli.
Drama		 Moufida Tlatli 2000 French
Salut Cousin!
Realistic tale of the other Paris-the poor tenements of the 18th arrondissement. Alilo, just off the plane from Algiers, hooks up with his French-born cousin, Mok, who guides him in the underground of Paris. 		 Merzak Allouache 1996 French w/subtitles
Satan's Brew (Satansbraten)
Fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his confusing life. 
Black Comedy
On Fassbinder		 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1976 German w/ subtitles
Satin Rouge
Lilia, a middle-aged Tunisian widow, becomes drawn to an exhilarating nightclub netherworld of Rubenesque belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure-seekers.  In trading her shapeless housedresses for sequins and satin, she begins to emerge from her cocoon of melancholy and loneliness.		 Raja Amari 2002 French w/subtitles
The Scent of Green Papaya
Set in Vietnam in the 1950s and '60s, it is the story of a shy peasant girl who comes to Saigon at the age of 10 as a household servant. Attuned to the people around her and enchanted by nature, Mui grows into a beautfiul young woman who inspires her upper class lover to break with convention.
Drama 		Ahn Hung Tran 1993 Vietnamese w/subtitles
Sense and Sensibility
Hailed as "wonderfully 18th century" and offering equal measures of humor and drama, this magnificent BBC production tells the story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England.
Drama, Romance 		Rodney Bennett 1981 English
Sex is Comedy
A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two leading actors who can't stand each other.
Comedy, Drama 		Catherine Breillat 2002 French w/subtitles

Shirley Valentine
Spending the bulk of the film speaking directly to the audience, Shirley, a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, reveals her innermost thoughts and fears. Once a young rebel, she now chafes under her husband's insensitivity. However, when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
Romantic Comedy
All Movie Guide review

Lewis Gilbert 1989 English
The Silences of the Palace
The pain of servitude, the power of music, and the need for women to stick together provide the underlying themes for this Tunisian-French drama set in the ruling king's compound the night before Tunisia declared its independence.
Drama
IMDb Review		 Moufida Tlatli 1994 Arabic, French w/subtitles
Some Mother's Son
A 1981 hunger strike in a Belfast prison is the historical inspiration for the drama Some Mother's Son, which attempts to focus on the personal dimensions of the event through its portrayal of the families of the striking prisoners.
Political Drama
IMDb Review		 Terry George 1996 English
The Station Master's Wife (Bolwieser)
This drama is set in Bavaria prior to Hitler's rise to power and chronicles the many affairs of a stationmaster's bored wife.
Drama
On Fassbinder		 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1977 German w/ subtitles
Steam: The Turkish Bath (Hamam)
Tired of his troubled marriage and his profession, an overly tense Italian businessman's life changes dramatically after he learns that an aunt has left him property in Istanbul.
Drama		 Ferzan Ozpetek 1997 Italian, Turkish w/subtitles
Sur mes levres (Read my Lips)
Carla is a woman in her mid-twenties who works as a secretary in a real estate office. More cute than pretty, Carla is shy by nature, and the fact that she has a hearing problem has made her all the more withdrawn.  Carla makes the acquaintance of Paul, a rough-hewn small-time criminal who has just been released from prison on parole.
Drama		 Jacques Audiard 2002 French w/subtitles
Talk to Her
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.
Drama		 Pedro Almodovar 2002 Spanish w/subtitles
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The mad Dr. Mabuse is imprisoned in an insane asylum, yet he continues to run his crime empire. In his cell, he plots the world's destruction, leaving behind journals detailing his plans. After the mad doctor dies, the asylum's director, Professor Dr. Baum, is possessed by the soul of Mabuse and carries out his plans for destruction.
Supernatural Forces, Master Criminal Films, Crime, Horror
Fritz lang Filmograhpy		 Fritz Lang 1933 German w/ subtitles
Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Die Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse)
Extension of Lang's early Dr. Mabuse (1922) and Testament of Dr. Mabuse. Set in the present (1960, that is), the film begins with a series of unsolved murders in a Berlin hotel. The modus operandi of the murderer is the same as that of long-dead megalomaniac Dr. Mabuse. 
Crime Thriller, Police, Master Criminal Films, Mystery, Horror, Crime
Fritz lang Filmograhpy		 Fritz Lang 1960 German w/subtitles 
Total Eclipse
On the great French poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wrote all his poems during a brief burst of activity in the early 1870s, when he was just a teenager. Rimbaud carries on a torrid, absinthe-soaked homosexual love affair with the older and not quite so great poet Paul Verlaine. This affair ended when Verlaine shot Rimbaud in the hand in a Brussels hotel room.
Drama
Fine Line Features dedicated site		 Agnieszka Holland 1995 English

Touch of Pink
A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit unexpectedly. She intends to return him to Canada and get him matched up with a "nice girl".
Comedy
IMDb Review

Ian Iqbal Rashid 2004 English
Tunisiennes (Bent Familia)
Three well-educated North African women deal with machismo and sexual stereotyping in modern Tunisia.
Comedy, Drama
IMDb Review 		Nouri Bouzid 1998 Arabic w/French subtitles
A Veiled Revolution
Egyptian women were the first Arab women to march in political demonstrations, the first to take off their veils publicly, and the first to receive free secular education. But today the educated granddaughters of those early Arab feminists are returning to Islamic dress, complete with full face veil and gloves. This film considers possible reasons for this turn back to tradition as Egyptian women speak out.
Documentary		 Elizabeth Fernea & Marilyn Gaunt 1982 Arabic w/subtitles

Vera Drake
Vera Drake, a devoted wife and mother in 1950s England, secretly helps women terminate unwanted pregnancies. When she is arrested, her entire world unravels, leading to a very dramatic, emotional conclusion. Winner of Best Film and Best Actress at the 2004 Venice Film Festival.
Drama, Crime

 Mike Leigh 2004 English
A Very British Coup
When Harry Perkins becomes Britain's prime minister, his socialist agenda horrifies the entrenched ruling class and the right-wing media. The establishment and its American allies conspire in a brutal back-room struggle to retain control. This PBS Masterpiece Theatre miniseries won an International Emmy Award and the Banff Television Festival grand prize.
Drama 		Mick Jackson 1988 English

Vivre au Paradis (Living in Paradise)
Set in France in 1961-1962 during the Algerian War, this film serves as a thought-provoking examination of the lives of North African immigrants trying to find a place in the social system of Western Europe.
Drama, Political Drama
All Movie Guide Review

 Bourlem Guerdjou 1998 French, Arabic w/subtitles
Waalo Fendo: Where the Earth Freezes
Two Senegalese brothers who have illegally immigrated to Italy struggle to survive in a new and often hostile environment.
Drama
African Film Review 		Mohammed Soudani 1997 Wolof, French, Italian w/subtitles

The Way We Laughed
This powerful drama focuses on the relationship between two brothers as their goals and ideals drift apart over the course of seven years, each of which is represented by a single day. Winner of Golden Lion at 1998 Venice International Film Festival.
Drama, Family Drama

Gianni Amelio 1998 Italian w/subtitles
Western
From under the most unlikely of circumstances, a bumbling drifter and a chick magnet from Spain pair for one of the most resfreshing road movies to hit the screen for a long time.
Comedy
IMDb Review		 Manuel Poirier 1997 French w/subtitles
Westler: East of the Wall
Love affair between two disparate men separated by the Berlin Wall.The East-West relationship is not easy to maintain as they must constantly deal with the bureaucratic red-tape and the stress of being apart. Though they both lead widely disparate lives, they are unable to bear their separation any longer and the Easterner finally defects.
Romance, Drama
Strand Releasing Review, Popcorn Review		 Wieland Speck 1986 English
When Father Was Away
It's an open secret that father has been sent away to the mines for fooling around with the voluptuous object of desire of a Communist Party Official.  Six-year old Malik, however, thinks Papa is away on business.  Set in 1950's Yugoslavia.
Drama		 Emir Kusturica 1985

Serbo-Croatian w/ subtitles
When the Cat's Away
Chloe has the single-girl blues.  Feeling disconnected from her glamorous job as a high-fashion make-up artist, she decides that what she needs is a vacation.  Entrusting her beloved pet to a cat-sitter, Chloe returns from her seaside holiday to find her feline companion missing.  With the help of a hilarious cast of characters, she might just find her cat and a little romance along the way.
Romantic Comedy		 Cedric Klapisch 1996 French w/subtitles
Yara
Turkish Hulya is kidnapped by her own family from her home in Germany, and is forcibly taken back to Turkey in this non-linear drama.
Drama 		Yilmaz Arslan 1999 Turkish, German w/subtitles
Yes Minister
In this BBC television series, the newly appointed British Minister for Administrative Affairs finds even the corridors of power congested by the machinations of his Permanent Secretary and his Civil Service cohorts.
Comedy 		Sydney Lotterby 1980 English

Young Adam
Ewan McGregor (Joe) stars in this thriller based on the cult novel by Scottish Beat poet Alexander Trochhi. Ella may have been the boss' wife, but Joe couldn't have cared less. Their torried affair took his mind off the beautiful dead girl found in the river. Her name was Cathie, and Joe was the last person to see her alive. The shocking truth about her death could save the life of an innocent man... or send a guilty one to the gallows.
Drama, Crime, Thriller

David Mackenzie 2003 English
 
Global Music Show
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Sufism, Music and Culture Carl Ernst Jan 27, 2006 Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations
Rap and the Riots in France Martine Antle Feb 24, 2006 Center for European Studies
How I Excaped Karaoke: Contemporary Chinese Rock and Pop Since 1995 Thomas Martineau Apr 7, 2006 Carolina Asia Center
Senegal: Music and Culture Michael Lambert Apr 28, 2006 African Studies Center
Mexican-American Immigration Hannah Gill Aug 25, 2006 University Center for International Studies
The Politics of Czech Rock 'n Roll, 1968-2006 Chad Bryant Sep 22, 2006 Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
Diversity in Brazilian Popular Music Robert Anderson Oct 27, 2006 Institute of Latin American Studies
Music from the Axis of Evil: Exploring Iran and Iraq Carl Ernst Nov 30, 2006 Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations
 
Miscellaneous Resources
Title Director or Institute Year  Language
Business/Economics EU Delegation 1994 English
DeGaulle and France
PBS  30 November 1992		 taped: TV 1992 French
European Union Historical Overview (3) EU Delegation 1994 English
IAM (rap group - Marseille) taped: TV 1994 French
Implementing Common Policies (3) EU Delegation 1994 English
International Cooperation EU Delegation 1994 English
Interview with Chirac on Larry King taped: TV 1997 English
Interview with Jodie Foster (making of Contact) taped: TV   French
Last Frontier, The     English
Les Harkis (Algerian interviews) taped: TV 1994 French
Ties & Tensions: EU-US Relations in the Next Century (2) EU Delegation 1997 English
1989 State Opening of Parliament taped: TV 1989 English
60 Minutes: "Clintonization of Labor" taped: TV 1997 English
60 Minutes: "Why the French hate/love US culture" taped: TV 1994 English
Foreign Languages: Doors to Opportunity Patricia Ryan Paulsell 1997 English
Britain's Parliament at Work: ORDER, ORDER!
Guided tour of the Parliament, which has served as the model for legislatures all over the world. Demonstrates step by step how a Government proposal becomes the law of the land. Explains how Members of Parliament perform their function as "watchdogs of the people".
Documentary		 Films for the Humanities 1994 English