Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 49th Academy Awards held in 1977 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category

1. Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic (1976)

110 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

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Mara Ordaz, a former diva who lives in a mansion away from the city and sorrounded by memories together with her husband, her doctor and the person in charge of the administration of her ... See full summary »

Director: José A. Martínez Suárez | Stars: Mecha Ortiz, Arturo García Buhr, Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Mario Soffici

Votes: 221

2. High Street (1976)

94 min | Drama

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David, an American Jewish painter in Brussels for an exhibit, becomes obsessed with Mimi, a mentally ill Belgium woman. As he uncovers the World War II roots of her disturbance, however, he increasingly manifests her symptoms.

Director: André Ernotte | Stars: Annie Cordy, Mort Shuman, Bert Struys, Guy Verda

Votes: 37

3. Xica (1976)

107 min | Drama, Romance

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In18th-century Minas Gerais, the Portuguese mined diamonds and gold. João Fernandes de Oliveira arrives from Lisbon with the Crown's exclusive contract for mining diamonds. He quickly ... See full summary »

Director: Carlos Diegues | Stars: Zezé Motta, Walmor Chagas, Altair Lima, Elke Maravilha

Votes: 607

4. Jeden stribrny (1976)

97 min | Drama

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It is summer 1944. The war is far away from Slovak mountains for the time being. The head of forest management Borodác (Ladislav Chudík) brings a new employee to complete the eight ... See full summary »

Director: Jaroslav Balík | Stars: Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Emil Horváth, Július Vasek, Ferdinand Kruta

5. Olsen-banden ser rødt (1976)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

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Egon Olsen and his 2 friends are hired to stage the theft of a Ming vase. He's double-crossed by the baron and wants revenge by swapping the Ming vase with a cheap copy during a big party at the castle. Will they succeed?

Director: Erik Balling | Stars: Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald, Poul Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther

Votes: 2,438

6. Jacob the Liar (1974)

100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

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A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell

Votes: 1,378

7. Whom Should We Shoot? (1975)

89 min | Crime, Drama

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Mustafa shoots the boss of a governmental company ; The crime is investigated to find out the reasons .

Director: Kamal El-Shaikh | Stars: Suad Husni, Mahmoud Yassine, Mona Abdallah, Fardous Abdel Hamid

Votes: 141

8. Cousin, Cousine (1975)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

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Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.

Director: Jean-Charles Tacchella | Stars: Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand

Votes: 1,782 | Gross: $8.70M

9. The Last Tempest (1976)

118 min | Drama, History

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Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Lung Ti, Yao Hsiao, Lisa Lu, Miao Tien

Votes: 54

10. The Fifth Seal (1976)

116 min | Drama, War

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In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.

Director: Zoltán Fábri | Stars: Lajos Öze, László Márkus, Ferenc Bencze, Sándor Horváth

Votes: 5,911

11. Seven Beauties (1975)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War

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The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.

Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler, Elena Fiore

Votes: 6,488 | Gross: $0.01M

12. Black and White in Color (1976)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, War

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During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel, Jacques Spiesser

Votes: 1,787

13. Longitud de guerra (1976)

142 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

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In 1886 the residents of a town in Chihuahua reject the abuses of the authorities and the army.

Director: Gonzalo Martínez Ortega | Stars: Bruno Rey, Narciso Busquets, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Aarón Hernán

Votes: 53

14. Max Havelaar (1976)

PG-13 | 170 min | Drama

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An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the nineteenth century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people of whom he is in charge.

Director: Fons Rademakers | Stars: Peter Faber, Sacha Bulthuis, Adendu Soesilaningrat, Maruli Sitompul

Votes: 1,020

15. This Is How We Were Before, How Are You Doing Now? (1976)

TV-PG | 136 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

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Set at the turn of the 20th century during the Filipino revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, it follows a naive peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community.

Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Christopher De Leon, Gloria Diaz, Eddie Garcia, Dranreb Belleza

Votes: 468

16. Nights and Days (1975)

245 min | Drama, Romance, War

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An epic saga of the Niechcic family, told from a woman's perspective. In 1914 in the war-torn Kaliniec, Barbara Niechcic remembers her youthful love, marriage hardships, family life in the countryside and finally her husband's death.

Director: Jerzy Antczak | Stars: Jadwiga Baranska, Jerzy Binczycki, Emir Buczacki, Stanislawa Celinska

Votes: 563

17. The Punishment (1976)

112 min | Drama

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In 1919 at the end of WW1 Romanian peasant Manolache Preda returns to his native village where he finds his woman taken by another and his land sold to the local landowner.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Ernest Maftei, Gheorghe Dinica, Ioana Pavelescu

Votes: 729

18. They Fought for Their Country (1975)

158 min | Drama, War

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July 1942. Soviet forces are retreating in the face of a massive German onslaught towards Stalingrad. An infantry platoon is tasked with holding a vital hill in order to give their comrades time to cross the Don River and regroup.

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Georgiy Burkov

Votes: 3,226

19. Cría Cuervos (1976)

PG | 105 min | Drama

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In the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an 8-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt and try their best to acclimatize to a new reality. Can they summon up the courage to grow up?

Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Ana Torrent, Conchita Pérez, Mayte Sanchez, Geraldine Chaplin

Votes: 11,406

20. Mina drömmars stad (1976)

168 min | Drama

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In late 19th century Stockholm, young Henning and his friends are struggling to stay alive while dreaming of freedom in a city where there are those who own and those who are owned. Based ... See full summary »

Director: Ingvar Skogsberg | Stars: Eddie Axberg, Britt-Louise Tillbom, Kjell-Hugo Grandin, Gunilla Larsson

Votes: 210

21. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)

116 min | Drama

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A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.

Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Miou-Miou, Jacques Denis

Votes: 1,188

22. The Longest Bridge (1976)

140 min | Drama, History, War

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A battalion of Chinese soldiers defend the Sihang (4 Bank) warehouse from the invading Japanese army in 1937 at the end of the Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There ... See full summary »

Director: Shan-Hsi Ting | Stars: Chun-Hsiung Ko, Brigitte Lin, Feng Hsu, Sylvia Chang

Votes: 170

23. The Clown (1976)

111 min | Drama

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Hans Schnier has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism.

Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Helmut Griem, Hanna Schygulla, Eva Maria Meineke, Hans Christian Blech

Votes: 158

24. The Rat Savior (1976)

80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

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A poor writer discovers that a species of rats has banded together to impersonate humans and supplant them unnoticed, in a manner reminiscent of the transformations in Eugene Ionesco's ... See full summary »

Director: Krsto Papic | Stars: Ivica Vidovic, Mirjana Majurec, Relja Basic, Fabijan Sovagovic

Votes: 920