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Before we dive headlong into 2012, let’s take a last look at some of 2011’s offerings: these thirteen foreign films which arrived during the month of December!

Foreign Film fans, you’ll be happy to hear that we’ve received a flood of new films from overseas this month! Over thirty new foreign films have landed on our shelves in the last thirty days, check out the list below…

“Be careful, don’t be noticed, they say that endlessly in this country.”
The first part of this line is an underlying message, if not the outright moral from any classic fairy tale… given those stories were designed to keep children in line.

We have over 25 fresh new Foreign Films to choose from this month! Be sure to check out our recommendations, marked with the red star below:

Imagine for a moment that, back in 2002, when Steven Spielberg was tweaking E.T., instead of changing all the guns into walkie-talkies, he added more guns. And maybe more aliens, too, making them considerably less friendly (and presumably rather less intelligent). And set everything at night in an already-sinister London housing block? [...]

Over the years, a number of films have been made about the 1937 Japanese occupation of Nanking, China. Most were documentaries, although the 2009 film, John Rabe, was about the German businessman of the same name who saved many of the occupied Chinese from the massacre and atrocities committed by the Japanese [...]

We’ll start with the premise of the film, then decide if “that conversation” needs to happen again.
Milos (Srdjan Todorovic), a semiretired Serbian porn star, finds it hard to provide for his family on the savings left from his career. A father with a gentle, hangdog demeanor (except onscreen as a [...]

In England, Steve Coogan has been a popular BBC actor for nearly 20 years, his cavalcade of characters such as Paul Calf, Tommy Saxondale and, most famously, Alan Partridge having made him something of a household name for comedy in the UK. In the US, he has a small slice of fans, [...]

How about something with subtitles tonight? We have a ton of great new foreign film features to choose from, check out the synopses below:

This might have been our biggest Foreign Film month yet, with the arrival of thirty new films from nearly every continent, many of them Criterion Collection releases, film festival favorites, and even an Oscar winner: