KWLA, Fall 2024
What is your favorite film/TV show in your target language? Explore titles in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish selected by teachers at the Kentucky World Language Association's fall 2024 conference. We hope that this list will provide helpful classroom resources, entertaining personal viewing, or maybe both!
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- CreatorJuan Carlos CuetoRocío Martínez LlanoDaniel ÉcijaStarsMarta TornéMartiño RivasRaúl Fernández de PabloAfter losing their parents at sea, two siblings enter an exclusive boarding school. The students soon realize that the school is full of mysteries and secrets.
- StarsAna Maria PoloRolando BauteMary CruzIt's about how supposedly a judge makes her decision with different cases.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliSalvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
- CreatorTatiana RodríguezStarsMichelle JennerRoberto EnríquezHugo SilvaSet in early-18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman.
- DirectorPierre MorelStarsCyril RaffaelliDavid BelleTony D'AmarioCaptain Damien must team up with Leito, a local insurgent from District 13, to defuse a neutron bomb that has fallen into the hands of a local drug lord, Taha, and rescue Leito's sister Lola.
- CreatorDarío MadronaCarlos MonteroStarsOmar AyusoItzan EscamillaMiguel BernardeauWhen three low-income students are offered scholarships to attend an exclusive school, their affluent classmates react with distrust and hostility. The friction that ensues results in a murder, which irrevocably alters all of their lives.
- CreatorThierry BizotAnne GiafferiStarsIsabelle GélinasBruno SalomoneAlexandra GentilMockumentary about the conservative Lepic family and their neighbors the liberal Boulay family, who are good friends. Their biggest point of contention is how they educate their children.
- StarsAdriana OzoresAmaia SalamancaYon GonzálezA family-owned hotel in the fictional coastal Spanish town of Cantaloa in 1905: love, blackmail, jealousies, crime, comedy, and plots and counter-plots all involving the hotel's owners, guests, detectives, and residential employees.
- CreatorJean-Luc AzoulayStarsPatrick PuydebatHélène RollèsPhilippe VasseurHélène Girard and her friends are college students and aspiring musicians. They study for exams, gather in a local cafe for gossip, laugh at the gym, and of course, fall in love.
- CreatorRamón CamposGema R. NeiraStarsIvana BaqueroJon KortajarenaAlejandra OnievaTwo sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.
- DirectorOlivier NakacheÉric ToledanoStarsFrançois CluzetOmar SyAnne Le NyAfter he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
- DirectorClaude BerriStarsYves MontandGérard DepardieuDaniel AuteuilA greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
- DirectorJacques MaillotStarsGuillaume CanetFrançois CluzetClotilde HesmeThe story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favorite.
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio CantariniWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
- DirectorFlorian Henckel von DonnersmarckStarsUlrich MüheMartina GedeckSebastian KochIn 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
- CreatorGeorge KayStarsOmar SyLudivine SagnierSoufiane GuerrabInspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.
- CreatorÁlex PinaStarsÚrsula CorberóÁlvaro MorteItziar ItuñoAn unusual group of robbers attempt to carry out the most perfect robbery in Spanish history - stealing 2.4 billion euros from the Royal Mint of Spain.
- StarsAmaia SalamancaÁlex GarcíaVerónica SánchezIn the Spanish city of Melilla, during the Rif War of the 1920s, Spanish volunteer nurses of Red Cross with no experience adapt to their new lives.
- DirectorVladimir MenshovStarsVera AlentovaAleksey BatalovIrina MuravyovaThree young provincial women come to Moscow in search of what people in all the capitals of the world are looking for - love, happiness and prosperity. Their destinies develop exactly as the character of each of the girls suggests.
- DirectorWalter SallesStarsGael García BernalRodrigo de la SernaMía MaestroErnesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.
- DirectorXiaoning FengStarsEddie EagleDalong FuAnna GeneralovaA Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another.
- CreatorLina UribeDario VanegasRoberto StopelloStarsKate del CastilloHumberto ZuritaAlejandro CalvaTeresa Mendoza returns to Mexico after 8 years to fight with Mexican drug dealers.
