Note: All payments on movie orders will be processed at the time of shipment. Most films are special orders, so they will take longer to ship than other products.
Welcome to our foreign films page, featuring foreign movies in video and DVD format in languages from a host of countries. Note: unless stated otherwise, all videocassettes are in VHS and NTSC format, and all DVDs are for players that support Region 1 encoding (United States and Canada) and are in NTSC format. Check our DVD Compatibility FAQ for more information about region encoding, television formats, and other specifications. If you can't find what you need, please email us.
Special offer: every time you buy three videos, get one free! Just include the promo code MBVideo3plus1 while ordering four videos, and we'll give you the lowest-priced video free.
Loves of a Blonde Milos Forman Milos Forman's great comedy is an acute satire of Czech daily life. The film focuses on the relationship of a factory girl and a touring piano player. After spending a night together in a provincial town, she suddenly appears at the doorstep of his parents' house with devastating results. With Hana Brejchova, Josef Sebanek and Vladimir Pucholt. "Compassionate, painfully true and continually beguiling" (Time Magazine). The DVD is a Criterion Collection edition, and includes interview with Milos Forman, deleted scene, and new and improved subtitle translation. Czech with English subtitles. Czechoslovakia, 1965, 88 mins. DVD | $44.95
Amadeus Milos Forman Milos Forman's celebrated adaptation of Peter Shaffer's play is structured as a confession related in flashback, told by the aging court composer, and Mozart's adversary, Salieri (F. Murray Abraham). Cinematographer Miroslav Ondricek finds a baroque, expressionist intensity in the Prague locations. Choreography by Twyla Tharp. With Tom Hulce as the comically immature Mozart, and Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole and Jeffrey Jones. Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actor (Abraham), and Screenplay. The DVD is a 2002 Director's Cut release, with 20 minutes of additional footage, letterboxed, 16x9 widescreen, and includes commentary by Milos Forman and Peter Shaffer, theatrical trailer, and a 37-minute behind-the-scenes documentary. In English. USA, 1984, 160 mins. DVD | $37.95 DVD - Director's Cut 2 Disc Edition 2002 Director's Cut release, with 20 minutes of additional footage. Letterboxed, 16x9 widescreen. Includes commentary by Milos Forman and Peter Shaffer, theatrical trailer, and a 37-minute behind-the-scenes documentary. $44.95
Black Peter Milos Forman The first feature by Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus), this coming-of-age tale about a malcontent teen in love heralded the arrival of an important cinematic talent. Forman captures the minute details of awkward romance and teenage rebellion with a keen eye to create a vivid portrait of youth from the Czech New Wave. First prize winner at the Locarno Film Festival. "A timeless comedy" (Newsweek). Includes an interview with Milos Forman and an extended booklet. In Czech with English subtitles. Czechoslovakia, 1963, 85 mins. DVD | $44.95
Competition Milos Forman Forman's first film combines two short features, Do We Need All Those Brass Bands? and The Audition. Both films deal with the generation gap, the first in a band competition which can't overcome its tradition, the second a hilarious look at amateur singers auditioning for a role in a Prague cabaret. Forman's style "was simple: focus the eye of the camera as closely as possible on human detail, and then put on the screen everything that turns up as a result of such a microscopic view" (Antonin Liehm). Co-scripted by Ivan Passer. Czech with English subtitles. Czechoslovakia, 1963, 84 mins. Videocassette | $44.95
The Firemen's Ball Milos Forman One of the hallmarks of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman's anarchic and freewheeling black comedy is a wry and devastating parable about Stalinist authoritarianism. The inventive story concerns the rituals surrounding a small town's celebration of a retiring fire chief and a bizarre beauty pageant. A trenchant commentary about the social and political order. Screenplay by Ivan Passer and Jaroslav Papousek. Cinematography by Miroslav Ondricek. The DVD is a Criterion Collection edition, and includes interview with Milos Forman, a behind-the-scenes look at the transfer process, and new and improved subtitle translation. Forman's last Czech film. Czech with English subtitles. Czechoslovakia, 1967, 73 mins. DVD | $44.95
Hair Milos Forman The first musical about the American anti-war movement of the 1960's. Exceptional adaptation of the musical stars Treat Williams as a hippie who meets John Savage, a youth from Oklahoma bound for Vietnam. Forman moves the story beyond the bounds of the stage play to make a strong statement about war. Choreography by Twyla Tharp. In English. Czechoslovakia, USA, 1979 121 mins. DVD | $37.95
Man on the Moon Milos Forman Jim Carrey impressively captures the unusual presence of Andy Kaufman in Milos Forman's film biography of the late comedian and performance artist who provoked and challenged audiences with his bizarre brand of humor. The film follows Kaufman's rise from unknown show business oddity to unexpected superstar, detailing his increasingly enigmatic public behavior and private life. Paul Giamatti, Danny DeVito and Courtney Love also star. The DVD is letterboxed, closed-captioned, and includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, deleted scenes, two R.E.M. music videos, theatrical trailers and documentary feature, "Andy: The Andy Kaufman Story." In English. USA, 1999, 119 mins. DVD | $37.95
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Milos Forman Milos Forman's superb adaptation of Ken Kesey's anti-authoritarian novel has secured a place as one of the great movies of the modern film era. A shrewd nonconformist (Jack Nicholson), sentenced to an insane asylum, encourages a group of marginal misfits to assert their rights and independence, over the rigid opposition of the head nurse (Louise Fletcher). This became the first movie since It Happened One Night to win Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor (Nicholson), Actress (Fletcher), and Screenplay. Cinematography by Haskell Wexler. With Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito and Scatman Crothers. DVD is letterboxed, and includes production notes; English, French & Spanish subtitles. In English. USA, 1975, 134 mins. DVD | $37.95 DVD - Two-Disc Special Edition Letterboxed, 16x9 widescreen, closed-captioned. Includes commentary by Milos Forman and producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz, 8 additional scenes, theatrical trailer, and a 48-minute behind-the-scenes documentary. $44.95
The People vs. Larry Flynt Milos Forman Based on the true story of the controversial Hustler magazine publisher, who was sued by the Religious Right and paralyzed by an unknown assassin's bullet, Forman's film focuses on Flynt's (Woody Harrelson) inadvertent crusade for freedom of the press and on his unconventional marriage to an ex-stripper (Courtney Love, in an award-winning performance). With Edward Norton. The DVD is letterboxed, and includes multilingual subtitles; French, English & Spanish language tracks; commentaries by Woody Harrelson, Edward Norton & Courtney Love; deleted scenes; two featurettes; a photo gallery and more. In English. USA, 1996, 130 mins. DVD | $44.95
Ragtime Milos Forman The lives and loves of a middle class family are set against the scandals and headlines of early 20th-century America. Howard Rollins, Jr., plays the black man involved in murder, Mary Steenburgen is the sweet middle-class woman, and Elizabeth McGovern is the beautiful chorus girl, in Milos Forman's entertaining transposition of the popular best-seller by E.L. Doctorow. In English. USA, 1983, 155 mins. DVD | $37.95
Valmont Milos Forman Milos Forman's adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses stars Colin Firth, Annette Bening and Meg Tilly; the script was partly written by Jean-Claude Carriere (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Unbearable Lightness of Being) and the cinematography was by Miroslav Ondricek (The Firemen's Ball, If...). Released less than a year after Stephen Frears' own version (Dangerous Liasons), this adaptation is "rapturously beautiful, enticing us into a lush, aristocratic world...Valmont lacks the wit and erotic charge of Dangerous Liaisons. But Forman's vision is, finally, more humane, more devastating" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). The DVD is letterboxed, 16x9 widescreen, closed-captioned, and includes optional French audio; optional English, French and Spanish subtitles; theatrical trailer. In English. USA/France, 1989, 137 mins. DVD | $37.95
