A film by Claire Denis
One of the best reviewed films of 2009, Claire Denis' sublime, achingly beautiful 35 Shots of Rum is the story of a father and daughter whose close-knit, tender relationship is strained by the arrival of a handsome suitor. On over three dozen top ten lists including The New York Times, as well as critic polls in Film Comment, Indiewire and the Village Voice. Pre-Order ships April 20, 2010

A film by Alexander Sokurov
A hauntingly beautiful new film from Alexander Sokurov, director of Russian Ark and Mother and Son, about an elderly woman who comes to see her grandson, a young officer at a remote military base. Alexandra was picked as one of the ten best films of 2008 by Manohla Dargis of The New York Times.

A film by Benoit Jacquot
A stylish, erotically-charged thriller reminiscent of the early films of the French New Wave from acclaimed director Benoit Jacquot and featuring rising star Isild Le Besco.

A film by Alain Corneau
Compared by critics to Office Space and Lost in Translation, this perversely funny film stars Sylvie Testud as a dreamy and romantic young Belgian woman hired as a translator by an enigmatic Japanese corporation; a performance that earned her the French equivalent of the Academy Award for Best Actress. Based on Amélie Nothomb's best-selling autobiographical novel.

A film by Christian Petzold
A French woman's search for her kidnapped child intersects, almost randomly, with the lives of two teenage girls, drifters, on the run from the authorities in Berlin. Could one of them be the missing child? A haunting film from the director of Jerichow.

A film by Frédéric Fonteyne
A haunting tale of love and betrayal in 1930's France from the director of An Affair of Love (Une Liaison Pornographique) and starring the extraordinary Emmanuelle Devos.

A film by Per Fly
The heir to a vast industrial fortune is torn between obligations to his family and the woman he loves in this taut cinematic drama starring Ulrich Thomsen (from Thomas Vinterberg's classic Celebration).

A film by Christian Petzold
In a small desolate town in northeastern Germany, a handsome ex-soldier, a Turkish businessman, and his beautiful, restless wife find themselves in a desperate love triangle in this suspenseful reworking of James M. Cain's classic Depression-era novel "The Postman Always Rings Twice."

A film by Mika Kaurismäki
When Scottish undertaker Richard (DAVID TENNANT, TV's Dr Who, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) is smitten with beautiful American tourist Barbara (VINESSA SHAW, 3:10 to Yuma, Eyes Wide Shut), he leaves his dull life behind and follows her back to Los Angeles. A hilarious fish-out-of-water love story with some surprising guest stars.

A film by Dominic Savage
Love + Hate tackles the conflicting emotions that explode when a white boy falls in love with a Muslim girl. Uncompromising, trenchant and passionate, Love + Hate is the latest revealing look at contemporary Britain from rising filmmaker Dominic Savage.

A film by Emmanuel Carrère
An engrossing mystery about a man who inadvertently loses himself when he shaves off his mustache. Adapted by director Emmanuel Carrere from his own novel.

A film by Anna Reeves
A delightfully winning comedy about love, community, and freshly shucked oysters, filmed along Australia's beautiful Hawkesbury River.

A film by Xavier Beauvois
A gripping police noir about an ambitious young cop who joins a plainclothes crime unit in Paris, starring Nathalie Baye. Named one of the ten best films of the year by Time Magazine.

A film by Agust Gudmundsson
A tantalizing black comedy about a mysterious woman who returns to a small village in 1950s Iceland and casts a unique, and perhaps deadly, spell on the local male population.

A film by Christian Petzold
A couple with a terrorist past have been living on the run for 20 years and have a 15 year old daughter, Jeanne, who has never known a normal childhood. When their money is stolen, they are forced to return secretly from Portugal to their native Germany, undertaking a journey during which Jeanne's teenage development coincides with the violent disintegration of the family cell.

A film by Stefan Krohmer
A sexually provocative young girl stirs trouble for a well-to-do family in this acclaimed psychological drama that's been compared to the films of Roman Polanski and Claude Chabrol.

A film by Christian Petzold
A stylish and suspenseful mystery from one of Germany's most acclaimed new directors, Yella is the story of a young woman trying to escape her small hometown in former East Germany for a new life in the West. Inspired by Herk Harvey's cult classic A Carnival of Souls.