The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
These foreign films share the same emotional core, themes, and structural feel as The Grand Budapest Hotel. Every one of them has confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
Like The Grand Budapest Hotel, this one is rooted in longing. The world both films live in revolves around caught between worlds, class and money, and family wounds passed down. Both move the same way too, whimsical, warm, and episodic.
