Conversation Piece (1974) - Luchino Visconti 
Sugar Cane Alley (1983) - Euzhan Palcy 

Unfortunately the Visconti was good old fashioned crappy VHS and was formatted to fit this screen. I do believe at the film was shot in English so the audio wasn't a particularly large problem. The Palcy film was excellent, and seems to fit into a characteristic that I've been finding a lot of in French cinema, which is to observe but not pass judgment on situations. Watching Varda's Vagabond that was another film were we saw a character who was neither good nor bad and the film wasn't asking us to take a side, same goes for the unfaithful wife in India Song. Sugar Cane Alley may show some of the exploitation but it doesn't really attempt to preach, instead showing some of the joy that can be found in the very mundane.