Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 52nd Academy Awards held in 1980 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
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1. La isla (1979)
106 min | Drama
The lives of several patients at an isolated psychiatric ward. A relationship develops between a young man who comes out of a catatonic state and a young woman who is terrified of the outside world.
Director: Alejandro Doria | Stars: Selva Alemán, Hugo Arana, Aldo Barbero, Héctor Bidonde
Votes: 51
ARGENTINA | Status: submitted
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2. Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
90 min | Drama
In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.
Director: Maximilian Schell | Stars: Birgit Doll, Hanno Pöschl, Helmut Qualtinger, Jane Tilden
Votes: 166
AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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3. Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf (1979)
111 min | Drama, Romance, War
The story of a woman's love for two young men. Antwerp, Belgium, 1940. Lieve (Marie-Christine Barrault) marries Adriaan (Rutger Hauer), a Flemish idealist, who is drawn towards Germany by ... See full summary »
Director: André Delvaux | Stars: Marie-Christine Barrault, Rutger Hauer, Roger Van Hool, Senne Rouffaer
Votes: 328
BELGIUM | Status: submitted
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4. Bye Bye Brazil (1980)
R | 110 min | Drama
The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: José Wilker, Betty Faria, Fábio Jr., Zaira Zambelli
Votes: 1,951
BRAZIL | Status: submitted
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5. Barierata (1979)
114 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In this picture, the barrier epitomizes the line between reality and dreams, the pattern of harmony and happiness. The delicate, pretty, sensitive Dorotea and the sedate middle-aged ... See full summary »
Director: Christo Christov | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Vania Tzvetkova, Yevgeniya Barakova, Maria Dimcheva
Votes: 238
BULGARIA | Status: submitted
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6. A Scream from Silence (1979)
96 min | Drama
A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the way the 'Justice' handle those cases of rape.
Director: Anne Claire Poirier | Stars: Julie Vincent, Germain Houde, Paul Savoie, Monique Miller
Votes: 196
CANADA | Status: submitted
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7. Afanti (1979)
96 min | Drama
Director: Lang Xiao | Stars: Abake, Guzelinuer, Tuhadi, Tuyigong
Votes: 25
CHINA | Status: submitted
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8. Bájecní muzi s klikou (1979)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie (Hana Buresová) to ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Fabiánová, Blazena Holisová, Vladimír Mensík
Votes: 299
CZECHOSLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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9. Johnny Larsen (1979)
100 min | Romance, Drama
The coming of age of a young man in the 1950s.
Director: Morten Arnfred | Stars: Allan Olsen, Frits Helmuth, Hanne Ribens, Berthe Qvistgaard
Votes: 261
DENMARK | Status: submitted
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10. Alexandria... Why? (1979)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama
Yehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Naglaa Fathi, Ahmed Zaki, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud Al Meleji
Votes: 2,043
EGYPT | Status: submitted
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11. A Simple Story (1978)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A simple story about simple people. A 38 year old divorced woman (Marie), who now has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then returns with her ex-husband (Georges... See full summary »
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Romy Schneider, Claude Brasseur, Bruno Cremer, Roger Pigaut
Votes: 1,400
FRANCE | Status: nominated
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12. Raining in the Mountain (1979)
120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In Ming Dynasty China, the abbot of the San Pao Buddhist monastery must choose a successor. Among the high dignitaries invited, there are some who are after the priceless parchment kept in the temple: the Mahayana Sutras.
Director: King Hu | Stars: Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Lin Tung, Feng Tien
Votes: 1,498
HONG KONG | Status: submitted
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13. Angi Vera (1978)
96 min | Drama, Romance
Vera Angi works as a nurse in a hospital after WWII in communist Hungary. Because she speaks up about the terrible conditions in which the nurses and doctors have to work, she's placed in a six-month education course.
Director: Pál Gábor | Stars: Vera Pap, Erzsi Pásztor, Éva Szabó, Tamás Dunai
Votes: 393
HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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14. Moments (1979)
92 min | Drama
Anne, a Parisian, visits her friend Yola in Tel Aviv, where Yola lives with her husband Avi and their son. There's tension in the air and the attraction between the two women is palpable. ... See full summary »
Director: Michal Bat-Adam | Stars: Michal Bat-Adam, Brigitte Catillon, Assi Dayan, Avi Pnini
Votes: 79
ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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15. To Forget Venice (1979)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A gay brother visits his childhood home where his sister still lives with her lesbian niece and her girlfriend. They reminisce about the better past and their parents.
Director: Franco Brusati | Stars: Mariangela Melato, Eleonora Giorgi, Erland Josephson, Nerina Montagnani
Votes: 389
ITALY | Status: nominated
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16. Gassan (1979)
103 min | Drama
Director: Tetsutaro Murano | Stars: Hisashi Igawa, Yuko Katagiri, Atsuko Kawaguchi, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
JAPAN | Status: submitted
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17. A Woman Like Eve (1979)
113 min | Drama
Young mother of two Eva is send on holiday to France by her husband to relief her stress. There she meets lesbian Liliane who lives in a commune.
Director: Nouchka van Brakel | Stars: Monique van de Ven, Maria Schneider, Marijke Merckens, Peter Faber
Votes: 509
NETHERLANDS | Status: submitted
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18. The Maids of Wilko (1979)
118 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska, Stanislawa Celinska
Votes: 1,455
POLAND | Status: nominated
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19. Autumn Marathon (1979)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.
Director: Georgiy Daneliya | Stars: Oleg Basilashvili, Natalya Gundareva, Marina Neyolova, Evgeniy Leonov
Votes: 3,658
SOVIET UNION | Status: submitted
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20. Mama Turns 100 (1979)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Ana is alive and married with Antonio; they arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch. In ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Amparo Muñoz, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Norman Briski
Votes: 1,367
SPAIN | Status: nominated
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21. A Respectable Life (1979)
102 min | Documentary
About a couple of friends in Stockholms drug world.
Director: Stefan Jarl | Stars: Kenneth 'Kenta' Gustafsson, Gustav 'Stoffe' Svensson, Eva Blondin, Patric Gustafsson
Votes: 1,231
SWEDEN | Status: submitted
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22. Les petites fugues (1979)
140 min | Comedy, Drama
Pipe, farmhand for 30 years, buys a moped with his old-age insurance allowances. Despite a difficult start, Pipe sets out to discover a reality he did not know.
Director: Yves Yersin | Stars: Michel Robin, Fabienne Barraud, Fred Personne, Dore De Rosa
Votes: 418
SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted
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23. The Tin Drum (1979)
R | 142 min | Drama, War
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 25,763
WEST GERMANY | Status: won
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24. The Man to Kill (1979)
105 min | Fantasy, History, Horror
The plot shows how Šćepan the Little takes over power in Montenegro, but turns away from Satan and begins to rule in the interests of the Montenegrin people, causing the enmity of not only Satan, but also the earthly superpowers.
Director: Veljko Bulajic | Stars: Zvonimir Crnko, Vladimir Popovic, Charles Millot, Ranko Kovacevic
Votes: 329
YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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