Thanks. Here is the IMDB page on The Thief.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124207/
A friend of mine gave me the DVD and I watched it with my wife and we were just crying our eyes out, it was so incredibly moving.
Doing some research I came to the conclusion that this movie was indeed buried BIG TIME and it goes without saying because it went against two things liberals love to celebrate and promote: Single motherhood/fatherless kids and Marxism, both of which this movie absolutely destroys by showing its true reality, its ultimate result.
This movie also came out at the same time as that other foreign movie, the clown movie that made light of the holocaust: “Life is Beautiful” which of course Hollywood threw awards at. Yes, death camps and the holocaust is always a good backdrop for comedy. Meanwhile a movie like ‘The Thief’ which portrays reality is shoved under the rug.
I’ll keep looking. My massive DVD library has several titles that were very hard to locate, such as Song of the South. The search is half the fun.
The search was to easy. Amazon had several region 1s used copies for sale. I’ll be watching it by this time next week. Thanks again for the tip,