Cannes 2017
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1. They Came Back (2004)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Fantasy
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccaï, Frédéric Pierrot, Victor Garrivier
Votes: 2,977
2. Head-On (2004)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Güven Kiraç, Zarah Jane McKenzie
Votes: 57,618
3. In Another Country (2012)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Yoo Joon-sang, Jung Yu-mi, Youn Yuh-jung
Votes: 3,528 | Gross: $0.02M
4. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, Romance
A married film director falls for a young painter - twice.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Jeong Jae-yeong, Kim Min-hee, Youn Yuh-jung, Gi Ju-bong
Votes: 4,958
5. The Day He Arrives (2011)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
A professor in the film department at a provincial university goes to Seoul to meet his senior, who works as a film critic, and stays in a northern Seoul village for three days.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yoo Joon-sang, Kim Sang-jung, Song Seon-mi, Kim Bo-kyung
Votes: 2,760 | Gross: $0.01M
6. Woman Is the Future of Man (2004)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
Two college friends get together and reminisce on the woman they both fell in love with at different times in their past, and are thus propelled to find her.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yoo Ji-tae, Kim Tae-woo, Sung Hyun-ah, Kim Ho-jung
Votes: 1,893 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The secret relationship between a student and a teacher, will their love last?
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Jung Eun-chae, Lee Sun-kyun, Yoo Joon-sang, Ye Ji-won
Votes: 1,824
8. Hahaha (2010)
115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two friends, while having drinks together, share their memories of visiting the seaside resort of Tongyeong.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Sang-kyung, Moon So-ri, Yoo Joon-sang, Kim Gyu-ri
Votes: 1,511
9. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)
Not Rated | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
Relationship filled with pitfalls between a pleasant female video producer and a gallery owner as they become embroiled in their self-spun web of illusions. Bitter-sweet serenade to modern courtship.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Eun-ju Lee, Moon Sung-Keun, Jeong Bo-seok, Won-hee Cho
Votes: 1,522
10. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002)
115 min | Drama
Actor Kyung Soo leaves Seoul to visit an old classmate. The reunion with his friend does not amount to much, but the trip does lead to some romantic encounters. He gets involved with two ... See full summary »
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Choo Sang-mi, Ye Ji-won, George Georgiou, Jeon Guk-hyang
Votes: 1,464
11. Woman on the Beach (2006)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A movie director entices his young friend to come to the beach on the pretext of writing a script. He then starts an affair with the friend's girlfriend.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Seung-woo, Go Hyun-jung, Song Seon-mi, Kim Tae-woo
Votes: 1,413 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Our Sunhi (2013)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young woman returning to her old school to visit her professor also runs into her old boyfriend and her senior, each of whom has a past with her.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Jeong Jae-yeong, Kim Sang-jung
Votes: 1,414
13. Tale of Cinema (2005)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In Seoul, a suicidal student meets a young woman who decides to join him in his fatal gesture. Tongsu, an unsuccessful filmmaker, spots a beautiful young woman, who happens to be the lead actress in the film he has just seen.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Sang-kyung, Uhm Ji-won, Lee Ki-woo, Lee Kyung-jin
Votes: 1,866
14. Oki's Movie (2010)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
A love story between a middle-aged professor, a young student who prepares a movie and a student/film-maker who drinks too much.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Yu-mi, Moon Sung-Keun, Jeong-rim Baek
Votes: 1,319
15. Night and Day (2008)
Not Rated | 144 min | Drama
In the summer of 2007 a painter in his forties travels to Paris to escape arrest for smoking marijuana, leaving his wife behind in Korea. While there he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yeong-ho Kim, Hwang Soo-Jung, Park Eun-hye, Boris Baum
Votes: 1,297
16. Hill of Freedom (2014)
66 min | Drama
Kwon returns to Seoul from the mountains and is given a packet of letters from Mori back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the undated letters. She reads them and has to make sense of the chronology - and so must we?
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Ryô Kase, Moon So-ri, Seo Young-hwa, Kim Eui-sung
Votes: 1,436
17. The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996)
115 min | Drama, Romance
About desires and lives of four characters in diverse circumstances. A poor novelist, a cheating wife, a mysophobic husband and a ticket girl.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Park Choong-seon, Kim Eui-sung, Jo Eun Sook, Bang Eun-hee
Votes: 1,168
18. Like You Know It All (2009)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Tae-woo, Uhm Ji-won, Go Hyun-jung, Kong Hyeong-jin
Votes: 848
19. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)
110 min | Drama
Helmed by one of Korea's leading directors, Hong Sang-soo, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday in Korea's Kangwon Province. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover, ... See full summary »
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Jong-hak Baek, Oh Yun-hong, Kim Yu-seok, Jaehyun Chun
Votes: 1,014
20. Yourself and Yours (2016)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
A foray into the uncanny with a spin on Luis Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire".
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Ju-hyuk, Lee Yoo-young, Kwon Hae-hyo, Yoo Joon-sang
Votes: 1,561
21. On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
101 min | Drama
An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Min-hee, Seo Young-hwa, Jeong Jae-yeong, Moon Sung-Keun
Votes: 4,760 | Gross: $0.04M
22. Visitors (2009)
108 min | Drama
Part of the Jeonju Digital Project, Visitors consists of three films from three different directors. "Lost in the Mountains," by Hong Sang Soo. "Koma" by Naomi Kawase, and "Butterflies have no Memories" by Lav Diaz.
Directors: Lav Diaz, Naomi Kawase, Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kazuki Kitamura, Yûko Nakamura, Dante Perez, Lee Sun-Kyun
Votes: 230
23. Eastern Boys (2013)
Unrated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster's involvement in a controlling street gang.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov, Edéa Darcque
Votes: 3,838 | Gross: $0.02M
24. Goodbye Berlin (2016)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two young teenage boys steal a car and embark on a road trip that will probably change their lives.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Tristan Göbel, Aniya Wendel, Justina Humpf, Paul Busche
Votes: 11,012
25. The Cut (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra
Votes: 8,003 | Gross: $0.03M
26. Garbage in the Garden of Eden (2012)
85 min | Documentary
Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Mayor Hüseyin Alioglu, Bünyamin Seyrekbasan, Nezihan Haslaman, Sabahat Haslaman
Votes: 438
27. Soul Kitchen (2009)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan, Anna Bederke
Votes: 40,411 | Gross: $0.27M
28. Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)
151 min | Drama
Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Directors: Fatih Akin, Wolfgang Becker, Sylke Enders, Dominik Graf, Martin Gressmann, Christoph Hochhäusler, Romuald Karmakar, Nicolette Krebitz, Dani Levy, Angela Schanelec, Hans Steinbichler, Isabelle Stever, Tom Tykwer, Hans Weingartner | Stars: Adriana Altaras, Regine Andratschke, Bernhard Baron Boneberg, Peter Benedict
Votes: 447
29. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
120 min | Documentary, Drama
Seventy short films about cinema and its future.
Directors: Hala Abdallah, John Akomfrah, Wang Bing, Catherine Breillat, Júlio Bressane, Rama Burshtein, Antonio Capuano, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Isabel Coixet, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Claire Denis, Lav Diaz, Amit Dutta, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Frédéric Fonteyne, James Franco, Lluís Galter, Haile Gerima, Aleksey German Jr., Amos Gitai, Benoît Jacquot, Zhangke Jia, Kim Ki-duk, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Larraín, Tobias Lindholm, Guido Lombardi, Jazmín López, Samuel Maoz, Pietro Marcello, Brillante Mendoza, Celina Murga, Amir Naderi, Shirin Neshat, Nicolás Pereda, Franco Piavoli, Giuseppe Piccioni, João Pedro Rodrigues, Walter Salles, Paul Schrader, Ulrich Seidl, Luca Severi, Jean-Marie Straub, Tusi Tamasese, Tariq Teguia, Pablo Trapero, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Teresa Villaverde, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andrew Wonder, Yonfan, Krzysztof Zanussi, Karim Aïnouz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jan Cvitkovic, Atom Egoyan, Davide Ferrario, Monte Hellman, Semih Kaplanoglu, Marlen Khutsiev, Yorgos Lanthimos, Milcho Manchevski, Franco Maresco, Salvatore Mereu, Ermanno Olmi, Michele Placido, Edgar Reitz, Hong Sang-soo, Todd Solondz, Sion Sono, Kounosuke Tsukamoto, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Shekhar Kapur, Heeraz Marfatia | Stars: Jessica Alexander, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lola Créton, Haile Gerima
Votes: 395
30. New York, I Love You (2008)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.
Directors: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper, Hayden Christensen
Votes: 47,781 | Gross: $1.59M
31. The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Baki Davrak, Gürsoy Gemec, Cengiz Daner, Tuncel Kurtiz
Votes: 33,500 | Gross: $0.74M
33. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History, Music
Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant ... See full summary »
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Alexander Hacke, Ahmed Ulug, Cem Yegul, Mehmed Ulug
Votes: 6,495 | Gross: $0.07M
34. Visions of Europe (2004)
140 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology film is a collection of short film projects by different directors for a common aim. Usually they are unified by a common theme - in this case, the European Union.
Directors: Fatih Akin, Barbara Albert, Sharunas Bartas, Andy Bausch, Christoffer Boe, Francesca Comencini, Stijn Coninx, Tony Gatlif, Sasa Gedeon, Christos Georgiou, Constantine Giannaris, Peter Greenaway, Miguel Hermoso, Arvo Iho, Aki Kaurismäki, Damjan Kozole, Laila Pakalnina, Kenneth Scicluna, Martin Sulík, Malgorzata Szumowska, Béla Tarr, Jan Troell, Theo van Gogh, Teresa Villaverde, Aisling Walsh, Ágnes Hranitzky | Stars: Alan Rees, Yohanna Troell, Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell, Johan Arnesson
Votes: 962
35. Solino (2002)
124 min | Drama, Comedy
In the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first Pizza restaurant in town.... See full summary »
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Barnaby Metschurat, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Tasche, Tiziana Lodato
Votes: 5,734
36. Denk ich an Deutschland - Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren (2003)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Fatih Akin, Mustafa Enver Akin, Cem Akin, Adam Bousdoukos
Votes: 123
37. In July (2000)
99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A young, insecure teacher embarks on a journey through Europe to Turkey, where he wants to see a woman again whom he believes to be his fate.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus, Idil Üner
Votes: 22,829
38. Short Sharp Shock (1998)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Gabriel (Mehmet Kurtulus) gets out of jail and is determined to put his criminal past behind him. Yet with his two friends Bobby (Aleksandar Jovanovic) and Costa (Adam Bousdoukos) drawn to crime, will he be dragged back in?
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Mehmet Kurtulus, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Adam Bousdoukos, Regula Grauwiller
Votes: 5,367
39. Heaven Knows What (2014)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A young woman struggles to reconcile her love for her boyfriend and for heroin, as she finds out that suicide is the only way for her boyfriend to forgive her for her misdeed.
Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | Stars: Arielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones, Buddy Duress, Necro
Votes: 9,234 | Gross: $0.08M
40. Lenny Cooke (2013)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Lenny Cooke was the number-one ranked high school basketball player in America, but his inevitable fall from grace will forever be remembered.
Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | Stars: Lenny Cooke, Tom Konchalski, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony
Votes: 934
41. Straight Hustle (2011)
Not Rated | 7 min | Documentary, Short
Hustle, hustle, hustle... hard. These two got a cold hustle going on in downtown Seattle. Commissioned and produced by the Northwest Film Forum for their One-Shot program.
Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | Star: Daniel L. White
Votes: 23
42. Buttons (2011)
91 min | Documentary
A collage of a movie by three directors, Alex Kalman, Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie. Jerkily filmed vignettes, home-video poetry, most from the streets and subways of New York.
Directors: Alex Kalman, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Votes: 46
43. Daddy Longlegs (2009)
TV-14 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A father juggling his kids with the rest of his responsibilities is ultimately faced with the choice of being their father or their friend.
Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | Stars: Ronald Bronstein, Alex Greenblatt, Sage Ranaldo, Frey Ranaldo
Votes: 2,877 | Gross: $0.02M
44. The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama
A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.
Director: Josh Safdie | Stars: Bat 'Batman' Baxter, Alex Billig, Wayne Chin, Jerry Damons
Votes: 2,053 | Gross: $0.01M
45. Amour (2012)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Votes: 105,612 | Gross: $6.74M
46. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,577 | Gross: $2.22M
47. Funny Games (2007)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two psychopathic young men take a family hostage in their cabin.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet
Votes: 103,761 | Gross: $1.29M
48. Caché (2005)
R | 117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Votes: 85,132 | Gross: $3.63M
49. Time of the Wolf (2003)
R | 114 min | Drama
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Béatrice Dalle, Patrice Chéreau
Votes: 11,471 | Gross: $0.06M
50. The Piano Teacher (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 71,663 | Gross: $1.90M
51. Code Unknown (2000)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi
Votes: 15,139 | Gross: $0.10M
52. Funny Games (1997)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering
Votes: 83,926
53. The Castle (1997 TV Movie)
123 min | Drama, Mystery
When a land surveyor arrives at a small snowy village, local authorities refuse to allow him to advance to the nearby castle. Increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles arise.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Susanne Lothar, Nikolaus Paryla, André Eisermann
Votes: 3,567
54. Lumière and Company (1995)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallström, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yoshishige Yoshida, Yimou Zhang, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, Michael Haneke, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette | Stars: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Merzak Allouache, Jeffe Alperi
Votes: 3,347
55. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent
Votes: 8,694
56. Benny's Video (1992)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama
A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner
Votes: 18,573
57. The Seventh Continent (1989)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel
Votes: 16,945
58. Sweet Bean (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno
Votes: 12,689 | Gross: $0.12M
59. Still the Water (2014)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, Romance
On a subtropical island, a teenage couple deal with the interwoven cycle of life, death and love.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Nijirô Murakami, Junko Abe, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto
Votes: 3,063
60. Chiri (2012)
45 min | Documentary
Naomi Kawase was born into a world where her parents, and most family, were absent. Chiri is the close observation of the end of the life of her foster mother, after she had turned 95. ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Uno Kawase, Naomi Kawase, Mitsuki Kawase
Votes: 49
61. 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
60 min | Drama
The film is a collection of one-minute short films created by 60 filmmakers from around the world on the theme of the death of cinema.
Directors: Phie Ambo, Shinji Aoyama, Jes Benstock, Mark Boswell, Park Chan-wook, Mark Cousins, Dalpalan, Maximilien Dejoie, Gustav Deutsch, Bradley Eros, Feyyaz, Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Michael Glawogger, Jorge Michel Grau, Jan Ijäs, Gakuryû Ishii, Jussi Jaakola, Ken Jacobs, Vimukthi Jayasundara, Viktor Kaganovich, Manuela Kaufmann, Aki Kaurismäki, Naomi Kawase, Ville Kerimaa, Eric Khoo, Jeon Kyu-hwan, Malcolm le Grice, Aku Louhimies, Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon, Marina Manushenko, Bruce McClure, Brillante Mendoza, Kyungwon Moon, Amir Naderi, Rafi Pitts, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Jussi Reittu, Simon Rumley, Albert Serra, Ronni Shendar, Norbert Shieh, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Auraeus Solito, Mika Taanila, Mart Taniel, Andres Tenusaar, Tom Tykwer, Gillian Wearing, Gereon Wetzel, Ollie Whitehead, Adam Wingard, Michael Winterbottom, Ming Jin Woo, Edmund Yeo, Kari Yli-Annala, Brian Yuzna, Veiko Õunpuu
Votes: 207
62. 3.11 Sense of Home (2011)
75 min | Documentary, Animation, Drama
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.
Directors: Catherine Cadou, Shunji Dodo, Víctor Erice, Pedro González-Rubio, Zhangke Jia, Naomi Kawase, Leslie Kee, So Yong Kim, Isaki Lacuesta, Jonas Mekas, Kaori Momoi, Takushi Nishinaka, Wisut Ponnimit, Mohd Naguib Razak, Ariel Rotter, Steven Sebring, Patti Smith, Kazuhiro Sôda, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Toyoko Yamasaki, Ye Zhao | Stars: Ana Torrent, Kaori Momoi, Tao Zhao
Votes: 48
63. Hanezu (2011)
91 min | Drama
Woodwork artist Takumi moves to a small village Asuka.He then meets Kayoko,a woman who went to the same school as Takumi.Kayoko is fascinated with the color hanezu(crimson); lives with boyfriend Tetsuya.Soon,she falls in love with Takumi.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Tôta Komizu, Hako Ohshima, Durian Sukegawa, Akaji Maro
Votes: 1,003
64. Genpin (2010)
92 min | Documentary
About Tadashi Yoshimura's maternity clinic where he practice "natural births" deep in the forest of Okazaki (Japan).
Director: Naomi Kawase | Star: Tadashi Yoshimura
Votes: 401
65. Visitors (2009)
108 min | Drama
Part of the Jeonju Digital Project, Visitors consists of three films from three different directors. "Lost in the Mountains," by Hong Sang Soo. "Koma" by Naomi Kawase, and "Butterflies have no Memories" by Lav Diaz.
Directors: Lav Diaz, Naomi Kawase, Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kazuki Kitamura, Yûko Nakamura, Dante Perez, Lee Sun-Kyun
Votes: 230
66. Nanayomachi (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A young woman leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kyoko Hasegawa, Grégoire Colin, Jun Murakami, Anthony Donelly
Votes: 656
67. The Mourning Forest (2007)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A care-giver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Shigeki Uda, Machiko Ono, Kanako Masuda, Yôichirô Saitô
Votes: 2,897
68. Birth/Mother (2006)
39 min | Documentary, Short
Naomi Kawase raises her voice in anger, blaming her foster mother for threatening to abandon her as a young girl. The camera reveals Kawase's impatience when coming to terms with her foster... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Uno Kawase, Naomi Kawase, Mitsuki Kawase
Votes: 156
69. Shadow (2004)
26 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Thirty-year-old Hako unexpectedly discovers she has a father that she never met, while he records the moment live on camera. Unexpected emotions, bitterness, and forgiveness rise to the surface in the unscripted scenes between them.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Hako Ohshima, Yutaka Yamazaki
Votes: 7
70. Sharasôju (2003)
100 min | Drama
The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kohei Fukungaga, Yuka Hyyoudo, Naomi Kawase, Katsuhisa Namase
Votes: 1,816
71. Tsuioku no dansu (2002)
65 min | Documentary, Biography
The director agrees to film the last days of her chronically ill friend, the photographer and film critic Kazuo Nishii.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kazuo Nishii, Naomi Kawase, Chizuko Nishii
Votes: 96
72. Kya ka ra ba a (2001)
50 min | Documentary, Biography
Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase, Kiyonobu Yamashiro
Votes: 126
73. Hotaru (2000)
164 min | Drama
A stripper, referred to as a fire fly be a use of her attractive beauty, falls in love. She finds inner piece as love is what her life was missing.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Yûko Nakamura, Toshiya Nagasawa, Miyako Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Kitami
Votes: 116
74. Mangekyô (1999)
90 min | Documentary
A photographer (Machiko Ono) and a filmmaker (Naomi Kawase) challenge each other to shoot--one to photograph the other to film--two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other from the ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Shinya Arimoto, Naomi Kawase, Mika Mifune, Machiko Ono
Votes: 39
75. The Weald (1997)
73 min | Documentary
The elderly people living in the forest areas of the Yoshino Mountains and the village of Nishi-Yoshino are resilient loners. Kawase records them in their daily activities, revealing their ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Masayuki Hatakeyama, Hirotsugu Inji, Hidemitsu Ishiyama, Masaharu Izumi
Votes: 36
76. Suzaku (1997)
95 min | Drama
Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Sachiko Izumi, Kôtarô Shibata
Votes: 1,479
77. Sun on the Horizon (1996)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
Votes: 54
78. Ten, mitake (1995)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Impressions of the director's mother waving, burning trash, slideshow of mom gardening, slow motion of mom pointing skyward until Naomi jumps over her. No real time sound - but foley noises... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
Votes: 99
79. Katatsumori (1994)
40 min | Documentary, Short
Filmmaker Naomi Kawase captures the love, loss, and loneliness felt as she prepares to move out of her foster mother's home.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
Votes: 209
80. Ni tsutsumarete (1992)
40 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
In this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase, Kiyonobu Yamashiro
Votes: 238
81. White God (2014)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Thirteen-year-old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen. She is devastated when her father eventually sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to find her dog and save him.
Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horvát, Szabolcs Thuróczy
Votes: 17,061 | Gross: $0.28M
82. Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (2010)
109 min | Drama
A boy returns home from the institution where he grew up, but finds he is not welcome there. He fights to win the love of his family until matters escalate shockingly.
Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Rudolf Frecska, Lili Monori, Kornél Mundruczó, Kitty Csíkos
Votes: 618
83. Delta (2008)
92 min | Drama
A man comes home to meet his mother and sister after many years away. He finds his mother living with a new boyfriend, and his sister to be grown-up. He begins to settle down in this new ... See full summary »
Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Félix Lajkó, Orsolya Tóth, Lili Monori, Sándor Gáspár
Votes: 1,747
84. Johanna (2005)
86 min | Drama, Musical
Johanna, a young drug addict, falls into a deep coma after an accident. Doctors miraculously manage to save her from death's doorstep. Touched by grace, Johanna cures patients by offering ... See full summary »
Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Orsolya Tóth, Eszter Wierdl, Zsolt Trill, Tamás Kóbor
Votes: 526
85. Lost and Found (I) (2005)
99 min | Animation, Drama
"Lost and Found" is a film project for which six young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe have each developed a short film on the theme of "generation". Together, these six short ... See full summary »
Directors: Stefan Arsenijevic, Nadejda Koseva, Mait Laas, Kornél Mundruczó, Cristian Mungiu, Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Ana Ularu, Valentin Popescu, Zsolt Trill, Milena Dravic
Votes: 252
86. Jött egy busz... (2003)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Five episodes connects on a magic bus in the center of Budapest.
Directors: Viktor Bodó, Kornél Mundruczó, György Pálfi, Árpád Schilling, Ferenc Török | Stars: Imre Csuja, Zsolt Anger, Viktor Nagy, Michelle Wild
Votes: 214
87. Pleasant Days (2002)
99 min | Drama
Peter returned from prison in his native city, in the hope that it will begin happy days. With surprise he learns that his sister became a foster mother to the newborn boy, but a real ... See full summary »
Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Tamás Polgár, Orsolya Tóth, Kata Wéber, Lajos Ottó Horváth
Votes: 685
88. This I Wish and Nothing More (2000)
80 min | Drama
A young man lives in rural Hungary with his girlfriend Mari. Also on the scene is her homosexual brother. Mari doesn't know that when the two men go to work in the city they raise cash by ... See full summary »
Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Ervin Nagy, Roland Rába, Martina Kovács, Imre Csuja
Votes: 207
89. Austerlitz (2016)
94 min | Documentary
There are places in Europe that have remained as painful memories of the past - factories where humans were turned into ash. These places are now memorial sites that are open to the public ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Star: Jean-Luc Julien
Votes: 544
90. The Event (2015)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, History
In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 613
91. The Old Jewish Cemetery (2015)
20 min | Documentary, Short
The first Jewish cemetery in Riga was opened in 1725 and burials continued there until the late 1930s. After German forces occupied Riga in 1941, the cemetery became a mass burial site for ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 32
92. Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
13 European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo and what this city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe. From ... See full summary »
Directors: Aida Begic, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergey Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde | Stars: Bogdan Ninkovic, Fedja Stamenkovic, Andrej Ivancic, Nikola Brkovic
Votes: 394
93. Maidan (2014)
134 min | Documentary
A look at the 2013 and 2014 civil unrest in the Ukrainian capital's central square.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 1,209
94. Letter (2013)
Not Rated | 21 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
A remote village in the North-West of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 194
95. The Miracle of Saint Anthony (2012)
40 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 37
96. In the Fog (2012)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, History, War
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov, Nikita Peremotov
Votes: 3,335 | Gross: $0.01M
97. My Joy (2010)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A few days in the life of truck driver Georgi, which seems to be a never-ending nightmare, a spiral of violence and abuses of power.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Viktor Nemets, Vladimir Golovin, Aleksey Vertkov, Dmitriy Gotsdiner
Votes: 2,621 | Gross: $0.01M
100. Predstavlenie (2008)
82 min | Documentary
Excerpts from newsreels, propaganda films, TV shows and feature films that present a evocative portrait of Soviet life during the 1950s and the 1960s.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 219
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