City of Women

In 1985 a gang of criminals steals 140 pre-Hispanic pieces from the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.

The story of an elderly man and his granddaughter who walk together through China with a bird in a cage.

Diagnosed with breast cancer, a woman (Penélope Cruz) forms a strong bond with a man (Luis Tosar) who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident.

Exploring issues of class privilege among Rio's decadent elite, "Casa Grande" depicts a teenage boy's struggle to escape his overprotective parents as they covertly spiral into bankruptcy.

Victoria, a black 8-year-old orphan, is taken in by a white bourgeois family for a night. Years later, she has a brief affair with the youngest son of the host family and bears his child.

"Marius" is the first part of Marcel Pagnol's classic trilogy following the loves and losses of a Marseille port community. Actor and director Daniel Auteuil ("The Well-Digger's Daughter") has made a sumptuous adaptation that will make you swoon. Marius (Raphaël Personnaz) is the strapping young son of César (Auteuil), a blustery café owner.

"Fanny" is the second part of Marcel Pagnol’s classic trilogy following the loves and losses of a Marseille port community. Actor and director Daniel Auteuil ("The Well-Digger’s Daughter") has faithfully and beautifully recreated the grand emotions of this beloved text. Following the events in the first part, "Marius," Fanny (Victoire Bélézy) is abandoned and pregnant, and fearful for the future of her unborn child. To secure the baby’s future, she agrees to marry the wealthy merchant Panisse (Jean-Pierre Daroussin), who guarantees a comfortable, if loveless, future.

In the early 1900s, a young shaman (Nilbio Torres) in the Colombian Amazon helps a sick German explorer (Jan Bijvoet) and his local guide (Miguel Dionisio Ramos) search for a rare healing plant.

Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires an eccentric 76-year-old woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?

Filmed over seven months in the forbidden Dolpo region of Nepal, "Himalaya" tells the story of a generational struggle for the leadership of a tiny mountain village between its proud old chief and a headstrong young caravanner. The balance of power shifts uneasily as they make their annual salt trek across the Himalayas.

On the cusp of the capitalist explosion in China, Shen Tao has two suitors: Zhang, an aspiring entrepreneur, and his best friend Liangzi, who works in a coal mine. Shen Tao decides to marry Zhang — a man with a future.

A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.