CurlyQ is right--Motorcycle Diaries is a great movie, even though it puts forth a romantic view of Che Guevara, a radical, left-wing, Marxist revolutionary who is responsible for the torture and deaths of thousands of people. Just bear that in mind when you watch it. This movie focuses on his early years when many of his radical ideas were formed.
The Chorus is another great foreign movie currently showing on cable "OnDemand". It's french with subtitles about a post WWII reform school for boys that's run by a tryannical headmaster. The headmaster hires a new math teacher. The new teacher, who loves music, puts together a boys choir against the orders of the headmaster. Reminiscent of Dead Poets Society and Mr. Hollands Opus.
Michele