The Secret in their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos - 2009)

This tightly-plotted thriller won the Oscar for Foreign Film plus 13 wins and 4 nominations from the Argentinean Academy in its home country and many more around the world. We thought it was terrific, as has everyone else who's told us they've seen it. There's a lot of profanity and the plot revolves around a brutal murder (with a woman's naked and bruised dead body in the beginning), so leave the kids at home. Juan José Campanella (winner of 37 awards including this Oscar) directed various episodes of House before and after adapting Eduardo Sacheri's novel with Sacheri. The movie flits back and forth between 1974 and 1999 (it's easy to tell, because of the hair length of Irene (Soledad Villamil, winner of four awards for this role) and hair color of Benjamin (Ricardo Darín, won three for this, eight for others, many credits in Argentina and a few others here). Most of the characters in the story exhibit great patience, especially one, but you will not be itchy to leave, at least not because of the movie. It trots along beautifully and we did not see the end coming. Check it out before someone gives it away.