On My Way (Elle S'en Va), Emmanuelle Bercot, France (2013)

Homage to beauty-
Frollicking through rural France;
Regrets aren't useful. 

The Book Thief, Brian Percival 2013

Narrated by death:
Nazi destruction again,
The magic of words.

Fury, David Ayer, USA, (2014)

Unrelenting mud,
Is this an anti-war film?
And killed or be killed.

Whiplash, Damien Chazelle, USA (2014)

Buddy Rich returns:
Tyranny and giftedness,
Bleeding on the kit.

The Bridge, Hans Rosenfeldt, Season 1, 2011

Complicated crime;
Danish and Swedish sleuthing,
With power issues.

The White Masai, Hermine Huntegbunth, Germany (2005)

Visually hot,
Emmersed in Massai culture:
Love story goes bad. 

Flame & Citron, Ole Christian Madsen, Denmark (2008)

Two Danish hit man:
Collaborators, Nazies;
Confused loyalties. 

Hanna's Journey, Julia van Heinz, Germany (2014)

Inherited guilt,
In the context of romance.
Berlin/Israel.

Nebraska, Alexander Payne, USA (2013)

End of life frenzy,
With landscapes grey and striking:
A world unfulfilled.

Happy, Roko Belic, US (2011)

In the west, that is,
Fifty big ones is the bar:
It's all about clan.