Perfect for summer, the French comedy is light, sweet, and bubby as a Kir royale.

In this kind-hearted and poignant film, director Cédric Klapisch puts his heroine through her paces as she faces new and unfamiliar music.

A mystery that morphs from a fascinating procedural into a sadly damning portrayal of innate misogyny.

Emmanuele Crialese’s loosely autobiographical story of a transgender tween and his family’s internal struggles in 1970s Rome.

A precise, purposeful, and rare political film that dares to criticize everything that falls under its gaze.

An intimate, suspenseful film that has the feel of the political paranoia thrillers of the 1970s.

Director Cristian Mungiu lays bare the tensions, pettiness, and fears in the mountainous Transylvanian rust belt, and takes the temperature of the populace—it has a high fever.

The understated and ultimately moving film explores a long, close friendship through its inevitable peaks and valleys.

A coolly dystopian film centered on the Japanese government’s assisted euthanasia program for those ages 75 and up, created in response to a glut of seniors and an increase in hate crimes against them.