Rick, if your video players played the same system as ours i could send you over a boxful! Thing is they're all European movies. American movies seem to my family to be made for young adolescents, and made badly at that. The best Hollywood period was the Noir time, and they were films that had a great deal of input from emigrant Europeans!
We seem to be getting more world cinema films on various tv channels over here in the UK and we've got a cupboard full we've taped but haven't watched yet. Generally there are no special effects, no gory deaths, no gung ho patriotic crap..it's mostly character and relationships and good plotting.
Try the subtitled section...if your shop has one!!