When Zorba the Greek premiered in 1964, it didn’t just introduce international audiences to Greece—it created an archetype…

Two films from the early 2010s—”Eat Pray Love” (2010) and “Letters to Juliet” (2010)—cemented Italy in popular imagination…

Peter Collinson’s 1969 “The Italian Job” is famous for one thing: a spectacular car chase through the streets…

Italy has featured in multiple James Bond films, representing glamour, danger, and the sophisticated European locales that Bond…

When you think of Greece in modern cinema, one image likely comes to mind: a sun-drenched Greek island…

When we discuss the birth of modern cinema, the conversation inevitably centers on France (the Lumière brothers and…

Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne franchise has become synonymous with kinetic action cinema, realistic espionage plotting, and urban environments…

Wolfgang Petersen’s “Das Boot” (The Boat), released in 1981, stands as one of cinema’s most important examinations of…

Few books have been adapted to film as many times as Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the…

Tom Tykwer’s “Run Lola Run” (Lola rennt) arrived in 1998 like a kinetic jolt to international cinema.

Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies” (2015) represents a particular kind of Cold War cinema—the espionage thriller that uses…

World War II remains cinema’s most extensively documented historical moment.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 remains one of the most cinematically significant geopolitical events…

There are few periods in modern history as cinematically compelling as Weimar Berlin—that brief, electric interregnum between the…

When Netflix’s “Dark” debuted in December 2017, it announced to the world that German television had arrived on…

Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch (2021) is set in a fictional French city called Ennui-sur-Blasé, but it was…

Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006) is a distinctive take on the famous historical figure, queen of France who…

Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo are among the world’s most beloved…

Netflix’s Call My Agent (original French title Dix Pour Cent, literally “Ten Percent,” referring to the agency’s commission)…

Pixar’s Ratatouille (2007) is unusual among animated films in that it’s deeply rooted in a specific place and…

The French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) was a revolutionary film movement of the late 1950s and 1960s that…

Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset (2004) is something special in cinema: a film that operates almost entirely as a…

The Normandy beaches and the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, have become the subject of numerous films…

When Casino Royale premiered in 2006, it reinvented James Bond for a new era.

Prague is perhaps Europe’s greatest cinematic chameleon.