Kinda a non-specific question.
Here are some foreign, artsy, and documentary movies that are very good
Check out everything by Akira Kurosawa & David Lynch
motorcycle diaries was pretty good (best when they didn't go out of their way to hint at che becoming CHE later in life) Good soundtrack and impressive landscape shots.
If you haven't seen these get em(discriptions aren't mine):
Children Underground
This Oscar-nominated documentary explores the tragic policy decision by Romanian dictator Nicolei Ceaucescu to outlaw contraceptives and encourage his impoverished populace to have more children. Thousands of children were born to broken or dysfunctional families in a nation mired in political and economic instability, resulting in a large and rapidly growing population of homeless children (more than 20,000 estimated) in the city of Bucharest.
Huey P. Newton Story
Spike Lee and his frequent collaborator Roger Guenveur Smith adapt Smith's Obie Award Winning off-Broadway one-man show for the screen with this intimate portrait of the late co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Shot before a live audience, Lee also utilizes archival footage to give the film a layered effect and provide even more historical insight.
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Australia's aboriginal integration program of the 1930s broke countless hearts -- among them, those of young Molly (Evelyn Sampi), Gracie (Laura Monaghan) and Daisy (Tiana Sansbury), who were torn from their families and placed in an abusive orphanage. Without food or water, the girls resolve to make the 1,500-mile trek home. Meanwhile, a well-intentioned tracker is trying to return the girls to the authorities.
RAN
Legendary Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa retells Shakespeare's classic tragedy King Lear against a samurai backdrop. Tatsuya Nakadia is a warlord who transfers his kingdom to his eldest son. A power struggle ensues, incited by his two disinherited younger sons. Kurosawa is a master storyteller (almost on par with The Bard himself), and Ran ranks among the maestro's most compelling films.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
On April 12, 2002, the world awoke to the news that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had been removed from office and replaced by a new interim government. Documentarians Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain, in Venezuela making a film about the left-leaning democratic president, suddenly found themselves in the heart of a coup d'état and captured those frightening moments and days in which a nation's political future hung in the balance.
Salvador
Richard Boyle (James Woods) is a washed-up reporter who heads to civil war-stricken El Salvador for his chance at journalistic fame in Oliver Stone's film. The scrappy Boyle convinces disc jockey pal Dr. Rock (James Belushi) to join him as he digs for the perfect war story, but Boyle digs too deep. Realizing the danger he faces is more than he can handle, Boyle decides to flee with his Salvadoran girlfriend before the country is torn apart.
Titus
Anthony Hopkins is a victorious Roman general who returns from battling the Goths with their queen (Jessica Lange) as his prisoner. But kidnapping is anathema to the Goths, and a devastating cycle of revenge is triggered. Director Julie Taymor takes Shakespeare's bloody classic Titus Andronicus and puts it through a phantasmagoric time machine. Highly stylized and thought-provoking, Titus received an Oscar for its brilliant costume design.
The Battle of Algiers
One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers focuses on the events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Shot in the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film vividly re-creates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French. The violence soon escalates on both sides in this war drama that's astonishingly relevant today.
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