Le ballon rouge (AKA: The Red Balloon)

IMDB: 8.1/10

A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.

Karigurashi no Arietti (AKA: The Secret World of Arrietty)

IMDB: 7.6/10

The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter Arrietty is discovered.

Roma città aperta (AKA: Rome, Open City)

IMDB: 8.0/10

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (AKA: Four Nights of a Dreamer)

IMDB: 7.2/10

Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.

Dare mo shiranai (AKA: Nobody Knows)

IMDB: 8.0/10

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

El secreto de sus ojos (AKA: The Secret in Their Eyes)

IMDB: 8.2/10

A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.

Maboroshi no hikari (AKA: Maborosi)

IMDB: 7.5/10

A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.