Foreign Films (non-U.S.)

Resources in this category:

AlloCiné
http://www.allocine.fr/

"AlloCiné is a French language entertainment information Web site for moviegoers."

Asian Film Connections
http://www.asianfilms.org/

Site dedicated to comtemporary cinema in China, India, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Each regional section consists of background and analysis, highlights from recent feature films, lists of award-winning films and leading directors, and articles about cultural context with suggestions for creating educational curricula.

British Board of Film Classification
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

The British Board of Film Classification is an independent non-governmental body that decides the ratings for movies and videotapes (and some video games). The site includes a detailed history of the ratings, including examples; a list of recent decisions; details about the classification process; more.

The British Film Institute
http://www.bfi.org.uk/

The BFI offers a huge range of services both for the general public and for organisations with an interest in film or television. These are just some of them: it runs the UK's National Film Theatre, supports cinemas UK-wide and runs the London Film Festival, and also support film festivals UK-wide. In addition, the BFI preserves the UK's film and TV heritage, encourages life-long learning about the moving image and it is an authoritative source of information on film and television. Its excellent Web site offers news about film events in the UK, as well as links, among others, to its library and archive collections, films playingin the UK, BFI publications and issues of the film magazine Sight and Sound.

British Films and Filmmakers
http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/

On this site you can browse or search three sources of information about British films: the British film catalogue, British film directors, and British films in progress. Here you can study British film makers and learn about thousands of British films made since 1998 or still currently in production. Using the database of British feature-film directors you can study film makers past and present and follow links to resources about filmmakers on the Internet.

Foreign Films.com
http://www.foreignfilms.com/

Search for information and reviews of foreign films or browse by country, genre or language. This site includes lists of top foreign films by decade, voted on by visitors to the site, and has lists of foreign films that have won awards.

In Black & White: French Films of the 1930s
http://www.inblackandwhite.com/FrenchFilmsv2.0/index.html

An overview of what is now called the "golden age" of French film. "Brief notes on directors, actors, and films of the period seek to raise interest in some of the best movies ever made."

Classic Movies: Ingmar Bergman
http://www.thegoldenyears.org/ingmar.html

This site is a collection of online resources about the Swedish film director with links to biographies, filmographies, movies reviews, print resources and more.

Italian Neorealism
http://www.inblackandwhite.com/ItalianNeorealismv2.0/

This site is an introduction to the Italian neorealism cinema movement of the 1940's and 1950's, including a chronology, filmography and information about directors of the movement.

Korean Film
http://koreanfilm.org/

This site provides comprehensive information on Korean cinema including interviews, essays, reviews and index of current and old films.

Pacific Film Archive--Past Film Program Notes
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/search/film

A searchable database of "over 16,000 critical and historical texts about films shown at PFA from 1979 to the present, many of them constituting unique documentation of rare films."

Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection
http://satyajitray.ucsc.edu/

Here is an introduction to research on one of India's most famous and important filmmakers. Includes a biography, filmography, and lists of print and online resources for doing futher research.