Berlin International Film Festival - Best Director (Silver Bear)
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1. Autumn Leaves (1956)
Approved | 107 min | Drama
A lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened when the man's troubled past reveals itself.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene
Votes: 3,192
2. A Tailor's Maid (1957)
92 min | Comedy
The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonella Lualdi, Marisa Merlini
Votes: 334
3. Jun'ai monogatari (1957)
133 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Junai Monogatari is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances.
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Shinjirô Ebara, Hitomi Nakahara, Eiji Okada, Isao Kimura
Votes: 75
4. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Not Rated | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Votes: 42,216
5. Breathless (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Van Doude, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 87,891 | Gross: $0.34M
6. The Miracle of Father Malachia (1961)
122 min | Comedy
A monk is struggling with the consequences of a miracle that he prayed for.
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Horst Bollmann, Richard Münch, Christiane Nielsen, Günter Pfitzmann
Votes: 86
7. Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama, History
The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi, Pippo Agusta
Votes: 3,705
8. Young Aphrodites (1963)
88 min | Drama, History, Romance
200 BC. During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of woman become inextricably intertwined, as the omnipotence of the carnal instinct demands the total surrender of the flesh.
Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Eleni Prokopiou, Takis Emmanuel, Kleopatra Rota, Vangelis Ioannidis
Votes: 842
9. The Big City (1963)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Jaya Bachchan, Haren Chatterjee
Votes: 4,961
10. Charulata (1964)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance
The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal
Votes: 7,198 | Gross: $0.08M
11. The Hunt (1966)
91 min | Drama, Thriller
Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, José María Prada, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 2,455
12. The Rats Woke Up (1967)
79 min | Drama
A lonely man struggles to find the money for his ill sister's treatment while at the same time trying to escape his past and to make sense of the present.
Director: Zivojin Pavlovic | Stars: Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Dusica Zegarac, Severin Bijelic, Mirjana Blaskovic
Votes: 440
13. Peppermint Frappé (1967)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Mayo, Emiliano Redondo
Votes: 1,973
14. The Old Maid (1972)
85 min | Comedy
A shy thirty year old woman and an aging bachelor find a way to each other, after initial complications.
Director: Jean-Pierre Blanc | Stars: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Marthe Keller, Edith Scob
Votes: 519
15. One Hundred Days After Childhood (1975)
94 min | Drama, Romance
A group of Russian teenagers spend their summer at a summer camp. Mitia falls in love and gets so occupied with his own problems that he forgets the others.
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Boris Tokarev, Tatyana Drubich, Irina Malysheva, Yuri Agilin
Votes: 1,016
16. Caro Michele (1976)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
Michele is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Mariangela Melato, Delphine Seyrig, Aurore Clément, Lou Castel
Votes: 245
17. Black Litter (1977)
89 min | Crime, Drama
Tatin is a young man of fifteen years old who joins a violent group of extreme right-wing ideology, led by Blanca, a mature woman of influential personality.
Director: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | Stars: José Luis Alonso, María Luisa Ponte, Ángela Molina, Joaquín Hinojosa
Votes: 120
18. Avantazh (1977)
138 min | Drama
The action takes place during the socialist period in Bulgaria. The central character, nicknamed the Cock is an artistic personality, a man of strong character known as the king of the ... See full summary »
Director: Georgi Djulgerov | Stars: Rousy Chanev, Plamen Donchev, Maria Statulova, Plamena Getova
Votes: 255
19. Winterborn (1978)
100 min | Drama
The story follows a group of women in a maternity ward for women with complicated pregnancies. The women have different ages and background, but in spite of their differences they develop a... See full summary »
Director: Astrid Henning-Jensen | Stars: Ann-Mari Max Hansen, Helle Hertz, Lone Kellerman, Lea Risum Brøgger
Votes: 116
20. Confidence (1980)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Ildikó Bánsági, Péter Andorai, Oszkárné Gombik, Károly Csáki
Votes: 1,029
21. Il marchese del Grillo (1981)
135 min | Comedy, History
A mischievous nobleman and his poor doppelganger get into serious troubles when a practical joke endangers the Pope.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Caroline Berg, Riccardo Billi
Votes: 3,865
22. Pauline at the Beach (1983)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love...
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine
Votes: 10,524
23. Le Bal (1983)
109 min | History, Musical
Dance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier
Votes: 3,029
24. Places in the Heart (1984)
PG | 111 min | Drama
In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan
Votes: 13,533 | Gross: $34.90M
25. Voyage of the Young Composer (1985)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1905, young composer Nikusha, travels to the villages of a post-revolutionary Georgia to collect folk songs.
Director: Giorgi Shengelaia | Stars: Gia Peradze, Levan Abashidze, Zura Kipshidze, Rusudan Kvlividze
Votes: 112
26. Platoon (1986)
R | 120 min | Drama, War
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David
Votes: 439,310 | Gross: $138.53M
27. Moonstruck (1987)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
Votes: 68,401 | Gross: $80.64M
28. I Love, You Love (1989)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Pista, a lonely bachelor, working in a Post office, takes to drinking to get over his small stature and unsightly appearance. He is hopelessly in love with his colleague Viera, who in turn ... See full summary »
Director: Dusan Hanák | Stars: Roman Klosowski, Iva Janzurová, Milan Jelic, Milada Jezková
Votes: 167
29. The Nasty Girl (1990)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, History
When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.
Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bertram
Votes: 2,755 | Gross: $2.28M
30. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Votes: 1,547,498 | Gross: $130.74M
31. Ultrà (1991)
95 min | Drama, Sport
The "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, the former leader of the group, has been dismissed from jail a few days before.
Director: Ricky Tognazzi | Stars: Claudio Amendola, Ricky Memphis, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Giuppy Izzo
Votes: 952
32. Il capitano (1991)
110 min | Crime, Drama
A Finnish couple murders a young boy and his parents when they prevent the theft of their son's bicycle.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Maria Heiskanen, Antti Reini, Berto Marklund, Antti Vierikko
Votes: 907
33. The Cement Garden (1993)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
Director: Andrew Birkin | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew Robertson, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin
Votes: 5,327 | Gross: $0.32M
34. Three Colors: White (1994)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr
Votes: 79,573 | Gross: $1.46M
35. Before Sunrise (1995)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Pöschl
Votes: 339,088 | Gross: $5.54M
36. The Sun Has Ears (1995)
104 min | Drama
The story of a northern Chinese peasant wife in the 1920s whose personal life is played out against a background of sweeping political change.
Director: Ho Yim | Stars: Qiang Gao, Yong You, Yu Zhang
Votes: 35
37. Richard III (1995)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War
The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Christopher Bowen, Edward Jewesbury
Votes: 15,564 | Gross: $2.60M
38. Port Djema (1997)
95 min | Drama
Because he wants to keep a promise made to his friend, the physician Antoine Barasse, murdered in Port Djema, former territory of the French Empire in East Africa, Pierre Feldman, surgeon, ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Heumann | Stars: Jean-Yves Dubois, Nathalie Boutefeu, Christophe Odent, Edouard Montoute
Votes: 98 | Gross: $0.00M
39. The Butcher Boy (1997)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle
Votes: 11,461 | Gross: $1.82M
40. The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
R | 114 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Two cowboys have their friendship tested when they fall for the same girl.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Billy Crudup, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette, Cole Hauser
Votes: 4,573 | Gross: $0.16M
41. Man on the Moon (1999)
R | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Gerry Becker, Greyson Erik Pendry
Votes: 137,438 | Gross: $34.58M
42. Betelnut Beauty (2001)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A cute coed leaves her mother's home and gets involved with a pastry chef who just finish his military service. The two rebelious youngsters deal with the harsh realities of life on the ... See full summary »
Director: Cheng-sheng Lin | Stars: Chang Chen, Angelica Lee, Chen-Nan Tsai, Ming-chun Kao
Votes: 456
43. Monday Morning (2002)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Vincent lives in a village. Every morning he goes to the factory to work, and in the evening he takes care of his family. One day, he decides to go on a trip with the money given by his father.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Jacques Bidou, Anne Kravz-Tarnavsky, Narda Blanchet, Radslav Kinski
Votes: 1,109
44. Blind Shaft (2003)
Unrated | 92 min | Crime, Drama
Two Chinese coal miners have hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident, and extort money from the boss to keep the incident ... See full summary »
Director: Yang Li | Stars: Yixiang Li, Baoqiang Wang, Shuangbao Wang, Jing Ai
Votes: 2,915 | Gross: $0.03M
45. Samaritan Girl (2004)
R | 97 min | Drama
Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young... See full summary »
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Lee Eol, Kwak Ji-min, Han Yeo-reum, Hyun-min Kwon
Votes: 14,076
46. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf
Votes: 28,659 | Gross: $0.68M
47. The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
R | 95 min | Drama, War
Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
Directors: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui, Arfan Usman
Votes: 11,473 | Gross: $0.32M
48. Beaufort (2007)
Unrated | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.
Director: Joseph Cedar | Stars: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Ohad Knoller
Votes: 4,839 | Gross: $0.10M
49. There Will Be Blood (2007)
R | 158 min | Drama
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer
Votes: 640,816 | Gross: $40.22M
50. About Elly (2009)
TV-PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zare'i
Votes: 57,140 | Gross: $0.11M
51. The Ghost Writer (2010)
PG-13 | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 170,789 | Gross: $15.54M
52. Sleeping Sickness (2011)
91 min | Drama
A German doctor (Pierre Bokma) battling Sleeping Sickness in rural Cameroon fears that he will be a stranger in his own country as the end of his post draws near, and he prepares to move ... See full summary »
Director: Ulrich Köhler | Stars: Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily, Hippolyte Girardot
Votes: 703
53. Barbara (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke
Votes: 15,957
54. Prince Avalanche (2013)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch, Lance LeGault, Joyce Payne
Votes: 20,894 | Gross: $0.20M
55. Boyhood (I) (2014)
R | 165 min | Drama
The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith
Votes: 367,095 | Gross: $25.38M
56. Aferim! (2015)
Not Rated | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin, Alexandru Dabija
Votes: 7,766 | Gross: $0.10M
57. Body (2015)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga might try to harm herself, since she's still grieving over her recently deceased mother, sends her to see a psychiatrist, Anna, who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Stars: Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala, Ewa Dalkowska
Votes: 2,537 | Gross: $0.00M
58. Things to Come (2016)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama
A philosophy teacher soldiers through the death of her mother, losing her book deal, and dealing with a husband who is cheating on her.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob
Votes: 14,739 | Gross: $0.28M
59. The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Kaija Pakarinen, Tuomari Nurmio
Votes: 13,632 | Gross: $0.18M
60. Isle of Dogs (2018)
PG-13 | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban
Votes: 190,726 | Gross: $32.02M
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