IMDB: 8.1/10

Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

IMDB: 7.5/10

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

IMDB: 7.5/10

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

IMDB: 7.9/10

A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.

IMDB: 6.1/10

Viggo Mortensen plays the Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country's 17th century imperial wars.

IMDB: 8.5/10

Ten years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan.

IMDB: 7.8/10

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

IMDB: 7.2/10

During a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.