Best Foreign Language Films at the Oscars

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.

A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.

Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.

Story of a lonely young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.

A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.

An apprentice train dispatcher looks for love while aiding his colleagues in their resistance against the Nazis.

The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.

The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

A high-ranking police inspector kills his mistress and deliberately plants clues indicating his responsibility for the crime in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion.

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.

Madame Rosa, an ex-prostitute of Jewish origin, lives in a dilapidated old building in Belleville. Tired and worn out by life, she looks after young children, placed in her care by the social welfare people.

A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Three young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.