Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)

You're better off going in cold about this movie.  Mostly I'm saying that because I was.

Facts relevant to your viewing experience:

- it's French and subtitled

- it's good

Not that you *need* to be and a quick Google search will bring up any number of plot points (including the ubiquitous Wikispoiler) but for once all I'd heard about this was "it's good and you should watch it sometime," so I did, and it was very enlightening to come into a movie *not* knowing the first hour and a half from the trailer plotwise.  Actually discovering, "Oh, *that's* where they are and what they're doing" on my own, and deciding for myself how to feel about the events onscreen, instead of consuming all manner of ancillary reviews and forum opinions before going in so all I can think of is *their* attitude toward it.  Funk dat.

No affiliation here, but feel like plugging theauteurs.com because it's in beta and has free old foreign films (free until they take it out of beta, assumedly).  That's where I saw this.