Films that Explore Local Culture & History Overseas

Argentina – La Herencia, The Official Story

Austria – Before Sunrise

Australia – Rabbit Proof Fence, The Castle, Picnic at Hanging Rock

Brazil – City of God, Pixote

Central America – Mosquito Coast, Romero, Under the Same Moon

Chile – Chile: Hasta Cuando?, Missing

England – East is East, The Full Monty, Notting Hill, The Queen, My Beautiful Laundrette

France – French Postcards, Kings and Queen, Code Unknown, The Beat My Heart Stopped, A Heart in Winter

Greece – Shirley Valentine, Mediteraneo, My Big Fat Greek Wedding

India – A Passage to India, Gandhi, Monsoon Wedding, Water, The Namesake, Born into Brothels, Slumdog Millionaire

Ireland – Waking Ned Devine, The Commitments, In The Name of The Father, The Snapper, Michael Collins

Italy – Il Postino, Enchanted April, Blood and Roses, A Room with a View, Tea with Mussolini, films of Fellini and Antonioni

Japan – Tokyo Pop, The Last Samurai, Shall We Dance?, Tampopo, Lost in Translation, I Wish

Kenya– Out of Africa, Nowhere in Africa (German Title: Nirgendwo in Afrika), White Mischief

Mexico – Like Water for Chocolate, Amores Perros, Pan’s Labyrinth

New Zealand – Whale Rider, The Piano, When We Were Warriors

Russian Federation—Piter-FM, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Rwanda – Hotel Rwanda

Scotland – My Name is Joe, Trainspotting, Braveheart, Local Hero

Sierra Leone – Blood Diamond

South Africa – Cry the Beloved Country, Tsotsi, Cry Freedom, Invictus, Sarafina!

Spain – L’Auberge Espagnole, films of Almodovar

Tibet – Kundun, Seven Years in Tibet

Vietnam – Indochine