Chinese Take-Away (2011)

Ricardo Darín at his most gloriously grumpy, as a meticulous hardware store owner who collects newspaper stories about absurd deaths. When a Chinese man who speaks no Spanish is thrown out of a taxi in front of him, he reluctantly takes him in while they hunt for the man's uncle. Sebastián Borensztein builds the comedy on misunderstandings and Darín's slow-burn exasperation, then reveals why one of those bizarre clippings, about a cow falling out of an airplane, matters more than it seems. It is small, warm and very funny, and it won the Goya for Best Ibero-American Film. A perfect gateway for anyone wary of subtitles.