My 30 most loved films, mostly european

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.

In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

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

Seidl takes his camera to an abstract-art exhibition and asks the public to comment on what they see.

In the tomb-like quiet of their ranch-style purgatory, a divorced husband and wife fight a wordless war while mourning an unspeakable mutual loss. A sadistic lover's ritual humiliation spawns both tenderness and revenge.

A documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living.

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Filmmaker Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth, the filmmaker behind The Perfect Human (1967), to remake his classic short under circumstances of increasing constraint.

A look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.

A widower's transcontinental quest to find answers about his wife's death leads him to explosive secrets.

An Eastern European US immigrant with a love for musicals has to cope with the gradual loss of her vision.

A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.

A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.

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

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Main character of this movie is Rene Rupnik, a former math teacher. He is forty years old and lives together with his mother in a desolate block of flats. Ever since his early youth women with big breasts have fascinated him, because they symbolise a kind of earth mother to him. He has never had an especially close relationship with his own mother; she was too 'bony' for him. Object of Rene's fantasy is the actress Senta Berger, to him everything a woman should be. Standing by the blackboard and explaining the mathematical laws of sine and cosine ('sinus' is bosom in Latin), Rene sings the praises of the female curves and those of Santa Berger in particular. Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl let the former teacher speak freely about his obsessions and desires, intercutting his monologues with scenes from the protagonist's day-to-day life.

A remix of images and sounds, using a films original material and mixing it with new imagery.

The slightly fictionalized story of an art forger, a journalist desperate for a big story, and the biggest press scandal in German history: the Hitler Diaries.

A successful Danish family faces agonizing choices when its charismatic patriarch falls ill.

The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".

Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.