'Three Colors: Red' & 'Three Colors: Blue'

A collection of actually three films -- red, white, blue -- creating these very vivid characters whose lives are all kind of interconnected in a hodgepodge of circumstance and heartbreak.

The three films were directed by the Pole Krzysztof Kieślowski, who went to the same film school as Roman Polanski.

After Red was released, Kieślowski announced his retirement. In 1996, at the age of 55, he died after a heart attack and open-heart surgery. He certainly kept his promise of a long retirement.