Un prophète [The Prophet] (2009) - French

Nominated for Oscar 2010 for Best Foreign Film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235166/

Plot & Summary
Nineteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik El Djebena is just starting his six year prison sentence in Brécourt. Although he has spent the better part of his life in juvenile detention, this stint is his first in an adult prison. Beyond the division of Corsicans and Muslims in the prison (the Corsicans who with their guard connections rule what happens in the prison), he has no known friends or enemies inside. He is just hoping to serve his time in peace and without incident, despite having no prospects once he's out of jail since he's illiterate and has no support outside of the prison. Due to logistics, the head of Corsican inmates, a sadistic mafioso named César Luciani, co-opts Malik as part of the Corsicans' activities, not only regarding what happens inside the prison, but also continued criminal activities outside. The innocent Malik has no idea what to do but cooperate. This move does not sit well with the other Corsicans, who only see Malik as a dirty Arab, and the Muslims who now mistrust him. But as time goes on, Malik works to save himself while in prison, while setting up his life post prison on his own terms. Both his demon and his salvation in prison is the specter of one of the first people he really got to know during his incarceration.

Rating 

 8.1/10; 9,656 votes

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Mio fratello è figlio unico [My Brother Is an Only Child] (2007) - Italy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846040/

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Two brothers come of age in the 1960s in a town south of Rome. Manrico is handsome, sometimes feckless, a leftist making the revolution. His younger brother Accio ("Bully") is a seminarian when the story beings, soon home studying Latin and joining the Fascists. Francesca, an aristocratic student, becomes Manrico's lover and Accio's friend. Over the next ten years, these three experience family, love, attraction, politics, and the challenges of adult responsibility. Subplots include Nastri, a father figure and political guide to Accio, Nastri's wife Bella who guides Accio in other ways, and the brothers' parents and sister, who are dazzled by Manrico's charm while depending on Accio.

Rating

7.0/10 ; 2,362 votes

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Volver [To Return] (2006) - Spain

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441909/

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Raimunda, her daughter Paula and her sister Sole travel from Madrid to the windy and superstitious village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to visit the grave of their mother and aunt Irene, who died years ago in a fire with her husband. Then they visit Irene's sister Paula, an old senile aunt that raised Raimunda after the death of her parents that insists to tell them that Irene is alive and living with her; later, they go to the house of her neighbor and friend Agustina, who gives a support to Paula. They return to Madrid, and after a hard day of work, Raimunda meets her daughter completely disturbed in the bus stop waiting for her. When they arrive home, Paula tells that she killed her unemployed father Paco, who was completely drunk and tried to rape her. While Raimunda is hiding his body, Sole calls her to tell that their beloved aunt Paula had died. On the next morning, Sole travels alone to the funeral, and when she returns to Madrid, she finds her mother hided in the truck of her car. She brings Irene to her apartment, where secrets from the past are disclosed.  

Rating

7.7/10; 31,894 votes

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Y tu mamá también [And Your Mother Too] (2001) - Mexico

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/

Plot & Summary

Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, teenagers Tenoch and Julio meet the older Luisa at a wedding. Trying to be impressive, the friends tell Luisa they are headed on a road trip to a beautiful, secret beach called Boca del Cielo. Intrigued with their story and desperate to escape, Luisa asks if she can join them on their trip. Soon the three are headed out of Mexico City, making their way toward the fictional destination. Along the way, seduction, argument and the contrast of the trio against the harsh realities of the surrounding poverty ensue.

Rating 

7.8/10; 35,845 votes

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Wo hu cang long [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] (2000) - China

Winner of 4 Academy Awards 2001 including Best Foreign Language Film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/

Plot & Summary 

Li is a great warrior, famous throughout QING China for his adventurus life. He decides to give his powerful, ancient sword as a gift to an old friend of his, but soon the sword is stolen by a mysterious master of the martial arts. Now, it's up to Li to uncover the thief and return the sword to its rightful owner.

Rating 

8.0/10; 104,961 votes

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Los viajes del viento [The Wind Journeys] (2009) - Colombia

Colombia's official submission to 82nd Academy Award's Foreign Language in 2010

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1426374/

Plot & Summary

The rugged majesty of the Colombian landscape forms a spectacular widescreen backdrop for a simple, bittersweet tale of regret and companionship in "The Wind Journeys." Awash in scenic vistas and infused with a touch of the supernatural, this beautifully judged two-hander tells the story of an aging accordion player and the young wannabe musician he's reluctantly allowed to accompany him on his long trek north. Fest travel will take writer-director Ciro Guerra's second feature far and wide, particularly in Latin American territories, and smart, venturesome distribs should be able to capitalize on the film's abundant visual and emotional rewards.

Rating

7.8/10 203 votes

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La môme [The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf] 2007 - France

Winner of three Academy Awards 2008

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Best Achievement in Makeup

Best Achievement in Costume Design

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450188/

Plot & Summary 
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Édith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's soon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association.  

Rating 

7.6/10; 20,221 vot es

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Svoi [Our Own] (2004) - Russia

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403579/

Plot & Summary

It is August 1941. With the battle line far away in the east, three soldiers who have managed to escape from captivity find it difficult to hide: the territory is occupied by the enemy. The local woods are not safe: you can easily get embogged. Are the villagers loyal? Nobody can say. There is an old man who offers to help them. Is he reliable enough? He may kill them or report them to the local German authorities. Anything may happen, but one of them, the sniper, is his son who is his youngest, his dearest.

Rating

7.9/10 570 votes

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Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei [The Edukators] (2004) - Germany/Austria

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408777/

Plot & Summary

The film "The Edukadors" follows three idealistic activists living in present day Germany. When Jule gets evicted and is forced to move in with her boyfriend Peter and his slightly aloof introverted roommate Jan, she finds out about Jan and Peter's secret identity. this finding leads the three into a chain of dangerous events which leaves them as a love triangle. Brilliantly filmed and written. It's very rare that character's can develop fully in a film. The Edukadors presents three people trying to get by in a corrupt world.

Rating

7.6/10; 12,149 votes

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Upperdog (2009) - Norway

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489263/

Plot & Summary

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, he to material wealth on Oslo's west side, she to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now. All this is about to change, however, as Yanne's Polish friend Maria starts working as a maid for Axel's parents, there discovering a photograph of a young boy. Maria has seen the same picture on the wall of Yanne's flat. She decides to reunite them. But before having time to realize the consequences, she sets in motion a chain of events which throws many people into emotional turmoil.

This is one of the best movies ever made in Norway, if not THE best movie. Wonderful acting and casting. It is not a sad movie, although the people are pretty sad, and it's not a happy movie. It's a movie that speaks to the heart.

Rating

7.0/10; 422 votes

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Inside Man (2006) - USA

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454848/

Plot & Summary

From a cell, a man tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. A snarky detective facing corruption charges is assigned to negotiate. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in a high-powered fixer. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane - they know they won't get one. Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is the thieves' leader in a cell?

Rating

7.7/10   82,439 votes

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The Situation (2006) - USA

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468548/

Plot & Summary

Americans in Iraq, insurgency rising, truth illusive. U.S. soldiers in Samarra throw boys off a bridge; one drowns. An American reporter and her Iraqi photographer pursue the story. Samarra's mayor aids the U.S. and fears the rising power of an ex-Republican Guard. The mayor uses a Baathist ex-diplomat to sell out his rival. The diplomat wants a post abroad, so he trades "intel" for safe passage. The reporter's lover, a CIA man in Baghdad, pushes for progress on public works in Sumarra; he promotes cooperation with Rafeeq, an intellectual whom other Americans call an insurgent. Rafeeq is in danger. All roads lead to the village of Al Tawr. War at its most opaque: Iraqis call it "the situation."

Rating

6.4/10; 510 votes

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Sof Shavua B'Tel Aviv [For My Father] (2008) - Israel

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1043869/

Plot & Summary

The story takes place during one weekend in Tel-Aviv, in three main spots that lead to Carmel Market. There are three protagonists : 1. Tarek , a Palestinian youth from Nablus. 2. Katz , an embittered old fellow. 3. Keren , a 17 years old girl, who grew up in a strictly religious family , left her home to become a secular youngster. The three "heroes" are loners, driven by their past and by their inner conviction.

Rating

7.3/10; 109 votes

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Ryna (2005) - Romania

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449642/

Plot & Summary

16 year old Ryna is the daughter of a poor Romanian who runs a gas station in a small community in the Danube delta. Ryna has been brought up like a boy because her father had longed for a son. The film is about strong family ties, about a daughter's search for her mother, and about a despotic father slowly losing his grip. But, it is also about poverty, social suppression and the abuse of power by those who rule under the guise of a false freedom. Ryna shows the awakening of a young girl's soul and the pain that goes with it. Caught between traditional values and materialistic dreams, in the end Ryna pays a heavy price in order to preserve her identity.

Rating

7.1/10; 232 votes

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Mavi gözlü dev [Nazim Hikmet Blue Eyed Giant] (2007) - Turkey

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929775/

Plot & Summary

This is a story of the great Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet, the poet of struggle and combat, the poet of passion and love. Having adopted communism as his life philosophy, he reflects his thinking in his art, and is continuously chased by the police as a result. Every move he makes, every word he writes or says is under the close scrutiny of the state. During World War II, the poet Nâzim Hikmet is arrested once more because of his communist links. This time the military court sentences him to 28 years in jail. In the course of his long imprisonment, he transforms the prison into a school and workshop, encouraging his fellow inmates to use their time productively. Throughout these dark years he manages to sustain his courage and passion by creating immortal works, imagining a world with freedom of thought.

Rating

6.8/10; 489 votes

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Le harem de Mme Osmane [Harem of Madame Osmane] (2000) France/Spain/Morocco

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249568/

Plot & Summary

In 1993 Algiers, as civil war looms on the horizon, former freedom fighter Madame Osmane runs her apartment building with an iron fist. Determined to be respected despite the absence of a man of the house, Madame Osmane imposes her tyranical will on her daughter Sakina, maid Meriem and the other women who live in her building. But Madame Osmane's characteristic ferociousness will eventually lead to tragic consequences.

The acting is excellent, the dialogue is almost entirely in French although the singing is in Arabic....if one were to know Algeria only from the news reports in the international press, one would be very surprised at this portrait of Algerian society.

Rating

6.0/10; 59 votes

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Das Wunder von Bern [The Miracle of Bern] (2003) - Germany

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326429/

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The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. His problems in getting back to normal life are shown, with references to his children and wife. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.

Rating

7.0/10; 2,691 votes

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2 Days in Paris (2007) - France

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841044/

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2 Jours - 2 Days follows two days in the relationship of a New York based couple; a French photographer Marion and American interior designer Jack-as they attempt to re-infuse their relationship with romance by taking a vacation in Europe. Their trip to Venice didn't really work out,--they both came down with gastroenteritis. They have higher hopes for Paris. But the combination of Marion's overbearing non-English speaking parents', flirtatious ex-boyfriends', and Jack's obsession with photographing every famous Parisian tombstone and conviction that French condoms are too small, only adds fuel to the fire. Will they be able to salvage their relationship? Will they ever have sex again? Or will they merely manage to perfect the art of arguing?

Rating

6.9/10; 10,778 votes

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La habitación de Fermat [Fermat's Room] (2007) - Spain

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016301/

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“Do you know what prime numbers are?” a voice asks during Fermat’s Room’s opening moments. “If not, you can just leave now.” Luckily, you don’t need to know much about maths to understand this claustrophobic thriller. Its subject matter is abstract equations, but what you’ll be left with as the credits roll is clammy palms and an adrenaline comedown, rather than a school lesson buzzing in your head.
The voice belongs to Alejo Sauras, playing a floppy haired, blue-eyed cutie, who just happens to be one of the world’s leading mathematicians. He’s working on a proof of Goldbach’s Conjecture, the theory that every even number is the sum of two primes. But then his laptop gets destroyed, a mysterious invitation to a meeting of mathematical minds arrives at his door, and before you can say Cube, he’s stuck in a room that’s shrinking by the second with three other eggheads. To slow the mechanism threatening to crush them, the team must solve a series of puzzles, but each is hiding secrets that may explain what got them into this mess in the first place.
First-time writer/director team Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña know how to hike up the suspense, and their script throws out enough red herrings that smart-arses who like to claim they saw it all coming should be kept quiet. The tension steadily grows as the room gets cosier; shots of sliding walls, splintering furniture and exploding lightbulbs are interleaved with a geometrically pleasing bird’s eye view of the dwindling space.

Rating

6.7/10; 2,056 votes

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Into Temptation (2009) - USA

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232824/

Plot & Summary

Sex, sin, and Catholic guilt. If there's a better recipe for cinematic troublemaking, I don't want to know about it. "Into Temptation" dives into the deep end of collar-tightening, rosary-fingering unrest, creating a riveting momentum as it looks to articulate the push and pull between the obligations of religion and the overwhelming sway of sexuality. Sharply constructed with a heavy spray of noirish aroma, "Into Temptation" is a uniquely accomplished indie film, wielding salacious material sensitively, building an intoxicating sense of intrigue and discomfort.
Slightly bored with his daily business as a priest, Father John Buerlien (Jeremy Sisto) finds the arrival of a prostitute named Linda (Kristin Chenoweth) in his confessional captures his curiosity. Asking for absolution before she attempts suicide, Linda takes off into the night, leaving John consumed with finding her. Delving into the seedy underbelly of the city, John questions a series of unsavory types to learn more about this mysterious woman entangled in his every thought. Linda, on a crash course with death, seeks her own peace, confronting the violations of her life as she prepares for the end.

Rating

6.2/10; 320 votes

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The Narrows (2008) - USA

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1008010/

Plot & Summary

A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other side of the East River. This compelling coming-of-age story combines suspense, murder and loyalty. Based on Tim McLoughlin's novel "Heart of the Old Country."

Rating

6.3/10 ; 486 votes

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Storm (2009) - Germany/Denmark/Netherlands

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768239/

Plot & Summary

Hannah Maynard is prosecuting a Bosnian-Serb accused of war crimes in a maddeningly long, drawn out trial. However, it may all be for naught when her star witness is exposed as a fabricator and commits suicide shortly thereafter. Still, something about his behavior and that of his sister, Mira Arendt, arouses her suspicions. If he was not present when the atrocities in question occurred, perhaps she was. Not surprisingly, Mira is reluctant to even talk to the prosecutor, let alone testify.

Like any government office, the court is a hotbed of political infighting and bloated egos. Her boss, Keith Hayward, is skillful at navigating those roiling waters, but she only trusts him so far. Fortunately she has the support of her lover, Jonas Dahlberg, a jowly older Scandinavian EU representative. Given some rope by Hayward, she learns Arendt did indeed witness some of the events in question. Yet, what happened to her afterward was far worse—but not covered by Maynard’s original indictment.

While “Storm” is well stocked with interesting character actors, the leads are more of a mixed bag. Romanian Anamaria Marinca is fast becoming one of the great international screen actors of the day. After unforgettable work in “4 Months 3 weeks and 2 Days,” and a small but compelling turn in “Five Minutes of Heaven,” she again makes a strong impression as Arendt, convincingly conveying a wide spectrum of emotions, including fear, anger, and resolve.

Written by Schmid and Bernd Lange, “Storm” is a very smart (and cynical) film, up until the utterly unbelievable Hollywood-style ending. Still, “Storm” is hardly the first film to have trouble wrapping things up. For the most part, it is a fascinating depiction of the limits of international criminal law and a painful reminder of the crimes committed against humanity by the Bosnian-Serbs and their Serbian allies.

Rating

7.0/10; 372 votes

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Leila Khaled: Hijacker (2006) - Sweden

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0847570/

Plot & Summary

Leila Khaled was the first woman to hijack a plane. In 1969, she showed her grenades to the terrified passengers by order of the Che Guevara commando unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Through the ensuing media bombardment, she put the Palestinian nation on the global map. The pretty 24-year-old Leila became a hero to many Palestinians, including the Swedish/Palestinian teenager Lina Makboul, who is now a filmmaker. At least Leila dared to do something, Lina thought at the time. She visits Leila 35 years later with a camera, and finds a woman who does not regret anything.

Nobody likes a 'terrorist'--but watch this film, and you will have a better understanding of what motivates them. Leila Khaled was born in Palestine in 1944, and--along with hundreds of thousands of other Palestinian Arabs--lost her home in 1948 when Israel came into existence. Exiled throughout the Middle East, the Palestinian people placed their hope in Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, but when the 1967 war ended in disaster, they turned to more radical tactics, including airline hijackings. This utterly riveting documentary, produced for Swedish television, tells the story of Ms. Khaled, the poster girl for the Palestinian liberation movement, who was involved in a pair of hijackings, and who now works on behalf of her people as a member of the Palestinian National Council. For anyone interested in the often byzantine history of Palestine and Israel, this is essential viewing.

Rating

6.2/10; 38 votes

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La vie rêvée des anges [The Daydreams of Angels] (1998) - France

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120449/

Plot & Summary

In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to warmer climes. Marie usually is either angry or detached. Then, while Isa begins to visit the child in whose flat they live, going to hospital to read to her, Marie slowly falls for a rich youth. At first Marie keeps him at bay, then she not only pursues him, she begins to dream he is her life's love. When Isa tries to warn Marie, their friendship flounders. How will Marie handle the inevitable? And once they lose the flat, where will they go?

Rating

7.4/10; 4,500 votes

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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) USA

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101921/

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Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.

Rating

7.4/10; 22,817 votes

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Etz Limon [Lemon Tree] (2008) Israel

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172963/

Plot & Summary

Salma Zidane lives in a tiny Palestinian village on the West Bank. She is 45 years old and a widow. Her children have left home, and she is alone. When the Israeli minister of defense builds a house on the other side of the green line, Selma's lemon trees come to the attention of his bodyguards. Her trees are a security risk. They can hide terrorists and impede the bodyguards in their work. In any case, these Palestinian lemon trees simply get in the way of the powerful Minister's superior security needs. The lemon trees were planted by Salma's family many generations ago--they are synonymous with Salma's family history. Salma gets herself a lawyer. But Ziad Daud is up against a battery of clever military lawyers, all of whom are covered by the top brass. It's an unfair battle, that isn't made any easier when the 45-year-old widow falls in love with her lawyer, a divorcee ten years her junior--a scandal as far as her Palestinian neighbors are concerned. On the other side of the grove, Salma's struggle to keep her trees has not gone unnoticed. The defence minister's wife, who has become more and more lonely and unhappy as her husband's political career has blossomed, feels increasingly drawn to Salma as the unfair battle between her husband and their Palestinian neighbors drags on. An invisible bond connects these two very different women who find themselves on the brink of a new phase in their lives.

Rating

7.3/10; 1,707 votes

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The Cider House Rules (1999) USA

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124315/

Plot & Summary

Homer is an orphan in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Never adopted, he becomes the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch, who imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. When Wally and pregnant Candy visit the orphanage Dr. Larch provides medically safe, albeit illegal, abortions Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's family apple farm. Wally goes off to war, leaving Homer and Candy alone together. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?

Rating

7.4/10; 37,673 votes

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American Beauty (1999) - USA

 Winner of 5 Academy Awards 2000, including Best Actor and Best Picture

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/

Plot & Summary

"American Beauty" is a comedy because we laugh at the absurdity of the hero's problems. And a tragedy because we can identify with his failure--not the specific details, but the general outline.

The movie is about a man who fears growing older, losing the hope of true love and not being respected by those who know him best. If you never experience those feelings, take out a classified ad. People want to take lessons from you.

Lester Burnham, the hero of "American Beauty," is played by Kevin Spacey as a man who is unloved by his daughter, ignored by his wife and unnecessary at work. "I'll be dead in a year," he tells us in almost the first words of the movie. "In a way, I'm dead already." The movie is the story of his rebellion.

Rating

8.6/10; 279,108 votes

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Oorlogswinter [Winter in Wartime] (2008) - Holland

Netherlands contender for the 2010 Academy Awards Best Foreign-Language Films Award

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795441/

Plot & Summary

Winter in Wartime recounts the tale of a small-town adolescent boy Michiel (Martin Lakemeier) who, ashamed of his mayor father's outward friendliness to the Germans, dreams of fighting back, and has his chance when he stumbles on a wounded British airman hiding out in the woods. But he then finds himself in the Greene-like predicament of helping and betraying at the same time. The atmosphere of dread and suspicion is nicely caught by the director Martin Koolhoven, so too the reality of wartime shortages, and if the plot bends towards melodramatic shades then it still never forfeits our interest.

Rating

7.2/10; 1,864 votes

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Miracle Fish (2009) - Australia

2010 Academy Award Nominee - Best Live-Action Short Film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1337354/

Plot & Summary

Another film starring a young boy, Miracle Fish follows schoolboy Joe on his eighth birthday. He’s an unpopular kid from a lower class family. The only present from his estranged father is the titular item – a novelty paper “fortune teller.” He sneaks away from the bullies to nap in the sick bay. He awakes to find everything quiet – school has let out, or has it? It leads to a surprising resolution that I don’t want to spoil for you. If you can get ahold of this one to see how it plays out, I’d encourage it. Miracle Fish is clearly helmed by very talented filmmakers. Australian writer/director Luke Doolan knows how to craft a story, to build suspense, and to keep us engaged all the way through. The short effortlessly moves from playful to disturbing, and the ending’s payoff is fantastic. One could make the case that there isn’t a lot of forward motion in the story, and that Joe doesn’t have much of an arc. But the short is a format where filmmakers should be free to work outside of traditional screenplay/character structure, and this film is effective nonetheless. Producers, take note of a talented newcomer.

Rating

7.1/10; 222 votes

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Kavi (2009) - India/USA with subtitles

2010 Academy Award Nominee Best Live-Action Short Film 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399573/

Plot & Summary

Kavi brings us the story of a young boy in India, who lives his whole life in bonded labor. Working with his parents in a brick-making kiln, he is a modern-day slave. He has glimpses of hope every day through local children who play cricket nearby, but his dreams of being one of them are always crushed by the cruel foreman. When a chance comes for his escape, he must decide whether to follow an uncertain dream, or stay with the only life he’s ever known. Kavi is written and directed by American filmmaker Gregg Helvey and was shot in Maharashtra, India, in the local dialect. Sagar Salunke, who plays the title character, is a fantastic find, precocious but not so self-aware. He seems much more natural than most child actors. His story may remind viewers of last year’s Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire. It’s a hopeful story with a message behind it. Part of the film’s goal is to raise awareness about modern-day slavery, and its prevalence in the developing world.

Rating

7.2/10; 127 votes

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The New Tenants (2009) - USA/Denmark

Winner 2010 Academy Award - Best Live-Action Short Film 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520428/

Plot & Summary

It’s hard to know how exactly to describe The New Tenants. To relate the plot makes it sound like a violent American Pie sequel, but it’s much more sophisticated than that. It involves murder, adultery, drug use, and heroin spiked cinnamon buns – all in a mere twenty minutes. Peter and Frank have recently moved into a new apartment when they find out it has a disturbing history. In the course of the film, the apartment’s dirty past unravels and drops at their feet as they sit and watch. As dark as it sounds, it’s definitely a comedy. Crisp, clever dialogue, some outrageous plot twists; it earns a lot of laughs. Some great acting here too from some of the only actors we’d recognize, specifically Vincent D’Onofrio and Kevin Corrigan. The dark nature might be off-putting to some, but it’s unquestionably entertaining. And though it isn’t doling out deep life lessons, it makes you wonder: when the whole world seems to collapse around you, what else can you do but dance?

Rating

7.2/10; 202 votes

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The Door (2008) Russian with subtitles

2010 Academy Awards Nominee - Best Live-Action Short Film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1381557/

Plot & Summary

In The Door, we open with a young man sneaking into what looks like an abandoned city. We soon learn that the city is one of those evacuated by the disaster at Chernobyl. The man has returned to bring back the door of his old home. The door is a piece of tradition; his father’s body was carried on it at his funeral. Now the young man brings the door home for the funeral of his daughter, lost to disease from the radiation. The film takes place in the Ukraine, but is written and directed by Irish filmmaker Juanita Wilson. She brings a very contemplative tone to the piece. Snowy landscapes, the evacuation in flashback, a somber funeral – everything gives a sense of the desolation of the family’s situation. It’s a slow, very beautiful film.

Rating

7.4/10; 152 votes

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Le petit lieutenant [The Young Lieutenant] (2005) - France

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431979/

Plot & Summary

This French gem features the restrained and powerful performance that won Nathalie Baye the Cesar award for best actress of 2006.
"Le Petit Lieutenant" is an extremely tough drama about police life. Two Russian immigrants are going around robbing and stabbing people and throwing them into the river, and we see the process by which the homicide team gathers information. Yet this investigation, while at the center of the action, is not central to the movie's purpose, which is to explore the lives of a young rookie lieutenant from Le Havre (Jalil Lespert) and his boss, Caroline, the commandant, played by Baye.


More than on "Prime Suspect," more than any film in recent memory, "Le Petit Lieutenant" conveys the relentless toll of big-city police work. We get this in a number of ways, and yet as it wears on, the film's locus of meaning, more and more, becomes Baye's face. It's all there in her pained, stoic expression -- the physical and emotional exhaustion, the poison that works its way inside, the seeming meaninglessness of trying to hold back the tide of crime, the impossibility of suppressing human nature at its ugliest, and the crisis of the spirit that would naturally follow. Director Xavier Beauvois sums it all up in a beautiful final shot, the moment that won Baye the Cesar.

Rating

6.9/10; 1,097 votes

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Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero [Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!] (2007) Japan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910888/

Plot & Summary

Offbeat family drama starring Eriko Sato. When their parents are killed in a bizarre cat-rescuing incident, the dysfunctional Wago siblings are reluctantly forced to endure each other once more under the same roof.

Sumika (Sato) is a selfish wannabe actress, only returning to her quiet, rural home to collect her inheritance. When she finds there's no money and she cannot return to Tokyo for fear of a ruthless loan shark, she immediately recommences terrorizing her younger sister Kyomi and elder stepbrother Shinji, and his new and relentlessly upbeat and optimistic wife Machiko (a wonderful turn by Hiromi Nagasaku).

While being a black comedy from the get-go, 'Funuke' soon gets darker and more demented, as the family's history of violence, prostitution and dark secrets are revealed. While it's no classic, it's a good looking flick made with style and bolstered by some well measured and memorable performances.

Rating

7.5/10; 256 votes

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Ne le dis à personne [Tell No One] (2006) - France

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362225/

Plot & Summary

Based on a 2001 novel by American mystery writer Harlan Coben, Tell No One is a terrific French thriller full of twists and intrigue that, for once, deserves to be compared to a classic Hitchcock film.

Alex Beck (played by prolific French actor François Cluzet) discovers that his supposedly dead wife may not be dead after all and he has been implicated in another set of murders that are somehow related. By trying to stay one step ahead of the law and some ruthless professional thugs, Alex must clear his name and discover if his wife is actually alive. As the revelations pile up, so do the bodies.

Tell No One is only the second film by director Guillaume Canet, who is better known as an actor, but it is a very sophisticated and entertaining film. Like Spike Lee did in Inside Man with post 9-11 American politics, Canet uses the thriller genre to imbed some very serious social critique about class and racial barriers in French society. Tell No One also contains one of the most exhilarating on foot chase scenes the cinema has ever seen.

Rating

7.6/10; 10,940 votes

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Mary and Max (2009) - Australia

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978762/

Plot & Summary

In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. She's Mary Dinkle, the only child of an alcoholic mother and a distracted father. He's Max Horowitz, living alone in New York, overweight, subject to anxiety attacks. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence, interrupted by a stay in an asylum and a few misunderstandings. Mary falls in love with a neighbor, saves money to have a birthmark removed and deals with loss. Max has a friendship with a neighbor, tries to control his weight, and finally gets the dream job. Will the two ever meet face to face?  

Rating

8.3/10; 6,831 votes

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Der Knochenmann [The Bone Man] (2009) - Austrian

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1181927/

Plot & Summary

What is it about great European indies that make them so endlessly fascinating and watchable? The Bone Man is another example. It’s two hours of terrific entertainment. It kept me guessing throughout and I appreciated the exquisite quality of everything in the frame here: the acting, the cinematography, the music.
The script is pitch perfect too. Lead actor Josef Hader as “Brenner” does wonders simply with an aged, weathered gaze. His facial expressions are a symphonic performance in and of themselves. Playing a retired cop, now reluctant repo man, he keeps getting pulled back in to do one last job. A familiar storyline. But when he heads to the country to find a lemon yellow Beetle, things don’t exactly unfold as planned.
The supporting cast is equally strong.

Is it a thriller? A farce? A dark comedy? I’ll leave that for you to figure out. One thing it definitely is: awesome.

Rating

7.7/10; 1,297 votes

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Treeless Mountain (2008) - Korea

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1143155/

Plot & Summary

What is the nature of childhood resilience? Sisters Jin and Bin, ages 6 and 3, live with their mother. Jin likes school and does well. One day, their mother leaves the girls with their father's sister, a woman they do not know. The mother seeks a reconciliation with their father. She leaves them a plastic piggy bank, promising to return when the bank is full. The girls scrub and clean for their aunt, a tippler who's often cranky and complaining. She gives them a few coins for their work. They earn more money catching, grilling, and selling grasshoppers. They miss their mother. The bank fills. They watch for her from a mound of dirt. Will she return? Will stoic faces give way to a smile?

Rating

7.1/10; 453 votes

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El traspatio [Backyard] 2009 - Mexico

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1257579/

Plot & Summary

The problem of the death women is the hydra for any authority of Cd.Juárez, a common place for the intellectuals and artists to denunciate and a complete state of "under siege" for the society who see the problem unsolved since so many time. With that background, this is maybe the first Mexican film to approach this serious matter since the documentary "Señorita Extraviada" back in 2001. And definitely, El Traspatio goes in a more direct direction than Bordertown(2006) with J-Lo and Banderas having persecutions in Hollywood style, or that forced (and failed because it was superficial) mention in Casi Divas (2008). There are many talented people in this one: Reknown writer Sabina Berman takes some stories (of course it's not possible to hold the whole matter in one film) and builds the principal frame. Skilled director Carlos Carrera (from that Alfonso Cuarón/González Iñarritu generation) takes a crew of great actors (so many great performances!) and presents us the open wound. It's a great change for the Carrera style, going now into city stories more than rural ones. Look for the cinematography, is really outstanding. The story goes to the nearly stages (no one can tell the beginning) of the problem with a net of characters and stories that connect each other, transporting the audience to Cd. Juárez and giving many topics to think about. If you are interested in social intelligent cinema, don't miss this one.

Rating

7.2/10; 212 votes

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12 (2007) - Russia

2007 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! Best Foreign Language Film
WINNER! 2007 Venice Film Festival, Special Lion (Director Nikita Mikhalkov)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488478/

Plot & Summary

This is a masterpiece. The beauty of the film is in its simplicity.

A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager who allegedly killed his Russian stepfather. Stepfather took teenager to live with him to Moscow, during Chechnya war, in which teenager lost his parents. The jurors: a racist taxi-driver, a suspicious doctor, a vacillating TV producer, a Holocaust survivor, a flamboyant musician, a cemetery manager, and others represent the fragmented society of modern day Russia.

Rating

7.8/10 ; 5,273 votes

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Fatso (2008) - Norway

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1145446/

Plot & Summary

Like most Norwegian movies, the story concerns a sexually arrested man in an Oslo apartment whose main goal in life is to get laid. But unlike the cutesy characters usually presented, this guy is a monster. Only not. We get such uncensored glimpses of his sexual imagination that even as one laughs, one might also feel uncomfortable by the honesty with which his mind is presented. Especially since we all know that deep down we're not as far away from his thought processes as we imagine. The story is basically a repeat of the cinematic wave that made 1999 such a banner year for American cinema, exploring the male psyche and his place in modern society. Sure, not many women would want to sleep with, or get to know, this obese, inward-looking, one-track-mind person, but the filmmakers are fully committed to support his right to be fat, horny and in lust for companionship.

Everything he sees reminds him of sex, sometimes in very concrete ways, sometimes in more abstract ways and some times his mind wanders into combinations of childish superhero worship and universal needs. He is a lonely man who sits in his apartment eating, masturbating and subconsciously hating himself, until his father rents out a room in his large apartment to a sexy Swedish girl with issues of her own. Some see her character as underdeveloped, but we only see her from Rino's point of view, and there are enough moments of desperation in her story to suggest that the angst of the movie is universal, regardless of apparent status, looks and crowd. She doesn't need to be an angel or insanely smart because all Rino needs is someone, anyone, to see him, even if it is with disgust in their eyes.

The story takes us through Rino's journey out of his misery, but it only takes us so far, the filmmakers resisting the temptation to give us the American miracle-cure. The alterations he makes to his universe are things most of us could learn from, even if we're not in as deep a ditch as him. He goes from being an anti-hero to a hero in the traditional sense, trying anything to achieve his goals, while also displaying moral ambiguities that makes him tragically human. His relationship with his best friend is both hilarious and sad, the metaphors are direct and truthful, the way he sees the world has a twisted universality to it. Somehow a PERSON has found his way into a stylized comedy.

At it's core, this is not a movie about getting laid, losing weight, getting friends, status, cooler clothes or creative success, which are all goals the movie keeps open throughout. It's about seeing yourself in others. As he sees the tragedy beneath beautiful surfaces and beauty and humanity beneath ugly exteriors he keeps developing a sense of himself. And through discovering the human being in Rino, viewers who are honest with themselves may see their own lives in a slightly different light and walk out of the theaters as more of a person.

Rating

6.2/10 ;1,027 votes

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