Top Foreign Language Films of 2016
by felipenor | created - 19 Oct 2016 | updated - 08 Nov 2018 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Handmaiden (2016)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-ri
Votes: 172,867 | Gross: $2.01M
2. Aquarius (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 146 min | Drama
Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão
Votes: 20,762 | Gross: $0.29M
3. My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
PG-13 | 70 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to an orphanage with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.
Director: Claude Barras | Stars: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz
Votes: 29,154 | Gross: $0.29M
4. Elle (I) (2016)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling
Votes: 71,169
5. Sing (2016)
25 min | Short, Drama, Music
'Sing' is a childhood drama with a lot of music, set in 1990s Budapest, Hungary. Inspired by a true story, it follows an award winning school choir and the new girl in class who just might uncover the ugly secret behind their fame.
Director: Kristóf Deák | Stars: Dorka Gáspárfalvi, Dorottya Hais, Zsófia Szamosi, Borbála Karádi
Votes: 5,872
6. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (2016)
Unrated | 92 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title.
Director: Juho Kuosmanen | Stars: Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero Milonoff, Joanna Haartti
Votes: 5,009
7. The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
R | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In their secluded farmhouse, a mother (a former surgeon) teaches her daughter, Francisca, anatomy, and how life and death are not to be feared. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Pesce | Stars: Kika Magalhães, Will Brill, Olivia Bond, Paul Nazak
Votes: 14,468 | Gross: $0.03M
8. In Dog's Words (2016)
101 min | Drama
He was just a common man working as an animal control officer; however, he caught the wrong dog.
Director: Marcos Jorge | Stars: Lázaro Ramos, Babu Santana, Adriana Esteves, Milhem Cortaz
Votes: 550
9. Graduation (2016)
R | 128 min | Crime, Drama
A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Mãlina Manovici
Votes: 14,729 | Gross: $0.18M
10. Under the Shadow (2016)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Arash Marandi
Votes: 30,130 | Gross: $0.03M
11. The Untamed (2016)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.
Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza, Eden Villavicencio
Votes: 6,616 | Gross: $0.03M
12. 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: 14,746 | Gross: $0.28M
13. The Salesman (2016)
PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, Thriller
While Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mina Sadati, Babak Karimi
Votes: 64,734 | Gross: $2.40M
14. Julieta (2016)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta
Votes: 33,922 | Gross: $1.49M
15. Frantz (2016)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber
Votes: 17,455 | Gross: $0.88M
16. The Silence of the Sky (2016)
102 min | Drama, Thriller
Shattered after the brutal assault by two rapists in her house, a young mother of two decides to keep her ordeal secret from her unsuspecting husband.
Director: Marco Dutra | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Carolina Dieckmann, Chino Darín, Alvaro Armand Ugon
Votes: 2,191
17. Heal the Living (2016)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
A single devastating event intertwines inextricably the lives of an unfortunate teenager, a weary woman with a critical degenerative heart condition and a team of compassionate doctors; all perfect strangers, perfectly interconnected.
Director: Katell Quillévéré | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners
Votes: 3,563 | Gross: $0.00M
18. Big Jato (2016)
97 min | Drama
The rite of passage from youth that has poetry as its guiding light, and prose as its basis.
Director: Cláudio Assis | Stars: Marcelia Cartaxo, Artur de Maia, Clarice Fantini, Jards Macalé
Votes: 275
19. The Mermaid (2016)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Shan, a mermaid, is sent to assassinate Xuan, a developer who threatens the ecosystem of her race, but ends up falling in love with him instead.
Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Chao Deng, Show Lo, Yuqi Zhang, Yun Lin
Votes: 10,171 | Gross: $3.23M
20. Elon Doesn't Believe in Death (2016)
75 min | Drama
After the mysterious disappearance of his wife Madalena, Elon engages on a sleepless journey through the darkest places of the city, trying to figure out what may have happened to her, without losing his sanity on the way.
Director: Ricardo Alves Jr. | Stars: Rômulo Braga, Maria José Novais Oliveira, Helvecio Alves Izabel, Vinicius Rezende
Votes: 258
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