1. Nobody Knows • (MGM/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
A mother abandons four young children in her Tokyo apartment in the latest feature from writer/director Hirokazu Kore-eda (After Life). The children do their best to survive on their own, but when forced to engage with the outside world, the fragile balance sustaining them collapses.

2. Turtles Can Fly • (MGM/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
The mountains of Kurdistan play backdrop to both tragedy and humor in Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi’s (Marooned in Iraq, A Time for Drunken Horses) third feature, about a boy (Soran Ebrahim) who falls for a sad-faced orphan girl (Avaz Latif) traveling with her brother and caring for a three-year-old child.

3. Kings & Queen • (Wellspring Media)
Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a single mother struggling to rise above tragic circumstances when her ex-husband (Mathieu Amalric), a neurotic musician, descends into a comic nightmare as he is mistakenly committed to a mental hospital. Directed and co-written by Arnaud Desplechin (Esther Kahn).

4. My Summer of Love • (Focus Features/Universal Studios Home Video)
Intelligent Mona (Natalie Press) and spoiled Tamsin (Emily Blunt) experience a mutual fascination and attraction in director Pawel Pawlikowski’s (Last Resort) depiction of the emotional and physical changes that bloom one summer for two 16-year-old girls in Southern England. Featuring music by Goldfrapp.

5. Born Into Brothels • (THINKFilm/Lions Gate)
Debut writers/directors Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman offer a portrait of several children who live in the red light district of Calcutta. Briski gives each child a camera and teaches them how to take pictures, causing them to look at their world with new eyes. Academy Award® Winner for Best Documentary Feature.

6. Head-On • (Strand Releasing)
Director Fatih Akin (In July) explores contemporary Turkish culture and issues of identity in this gritty love story about a marriage of convenience between two troubled Turks living in Hamburg, Germany. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

7. Tropical Malady • (Strand Releasing)
A mystical love affair between a young soldier and the country boy he seduces is disrupted when the boy suddenly disappears. Written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, one of the most prominent young directors of the Thai New Wave. Winner, Special Jury Prize, 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

8. Me and You and Everyone We Know • (MGM/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
Writer/director/actress Miranda July delivers a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Winner of a Special Jury Prize (for Originality of Vision) at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and four awards at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

9. The Beat That My Heart Skipped • (Wellspring Media)
Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips) updates James Toback’s 1978 cult film Fingers and delivers a gripping modern noir about a young man (Romain Duris, L’Auberge Espagnole) torn between a life of crime and the opportunity to become a concert pianist.

10. Brothers • (Focus Features/Universal Studios Home Video)
Newly released from prison, Jannik reunites with his soldier brother Michael before he departs for Afghanistan. When Michael is presumed dead after a helicopter crash, Jannik becomes close to his brother’s wife and daughters. But Michael survives the crash, and is on his way home.... Directed by Susanne Bier (Open Hearts).