From Brazil to Japan to France and Senegal, from Neo-Realism to Dogme to J-horror, we've compiled a list of the very best films not in the English language note: features, not documentaries. So rustle up some sushi, strike up a gauloise and make sure you've locked your bicycle as we count down the top world cinema movies It's Buffy meets The Matrix meets Blade! In Moscow! It seems that the world is still peopled with witches, werewolves, vampires and the rest - but they are divided into Light and Dark Others, battling it out for supremacy, and the souls of new, emerging Others, on the streets of Russia's capital. Extraordinary visuals on a shoestring budget, bravura subtitle design it matters and a plot that just makes sense unlike its "Chalk of Destiny" powered sequel , this is the most visually imaginative superhero movie of the last decade.

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A couple, their adult son and two adult daughters live in a fenced in compound. The children have no knowledge of the outside world; their parents say they will be ready to leave once they lose a dogtooth , and that one can only leave safely by car. The children entertain themselves with endurance games , such as keeping a finger in hot water. They believe they have a brother on the other side of the fence to whom they throw supplies or stones.

Dakota Johnson stars as an American ballerina attending a prestigious academy in pre-reunification Berlin, tutored by severe instructors giving her a faintly Satanic vibe. Perhaps it has something to do with all the meat hooks? At the Markos Dance Academy, movement is the essence of life. In the selections below, characters move as a plea for help, as an elated outburst, as a rebellion against authoritarianism, and as a prelude to murder.