Naissance des pieuvres (AKA: Water Lilies)

IMDB: 6.7/10

After meeting at a local pool over their summer break, a love triangle forms between three adolescent girls, which proves difficult to sustain as they each desire the love of another.

8 femmes (AKA: 8 Women)

IMDB: 7.0/10

A man is murdered in an isolated chalet, and the eight female residents are all suspects; their secrets are revealed as they try to determine who is guilty.

La strada (AKA: La Strada)

IMDB: 8.0/10

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

Mediterraneo

IMDB: 7.4/10

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.

Arranged

IMDB: 7.3/10

ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of...

The Dancer Upstairs

IMDB: 6.8/10

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

Iklimler (AKA: Climates)

IMDB: 7.1/10

Dowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behav...

The Reader

IMDB: 7.6/10

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.