Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 70th Academy Awards held in 1998 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
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1. Ashes of Paradise (1997)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who is determined to discover the truth.
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Cecilia Roth, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Daniel Kuzniecka
Votes: 1,790
ARGENTINA | Status: submitted
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2. The Unfish (1997)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish. That causes chaos and hatred in the village.
Director: Robert Dornhelm | Stars: Maria Schrader, Eva Herzig, Andreas Lust, Georges Kern
Votes: 194
AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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3. Ma vie en rose (1997)
R | 88 min | Drama
Ludovic is an innocent seven-year-old child who provokes horror in his community when he dresses in girls clothes and insists he's a girl.
Director: Alain Berliner | Stars: Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent
Votes: 9,026 | Gross: $2.28M
BELGIUM | Status: submitted
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4. Four Days in September (1997)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, History
Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.
Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Luiz Fernando Guimarães
Votes: 5,370 | Gross: $0.31M
BRAZIL | Status: nominated
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5. Cosmos (1996)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
Immigrant cabbie connects nervous filmmaker, lawyer, mystery man, possibly HIV+ gay man. Comedy and tragedy mingle, awash in philosophy.
Directors: Jennifer Alleyn, Manon Briand, Marie-Julie Dallaire, Arto Paragamian, André Turpin, Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Marie-Hélène Montpetit, Pascal Contamine, France Castel, Marie-France Lambert
Votes: 953
CANADA | Status: submitted
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6. La deuda (1997)
90 min | Drama
A usurer nicknamed The Turk is killed. Mysteriously, everyone in the village had problems with him and anyone could have been his killer.
Directors: Nicolás Buenaventura, Manuel José Álvarez | Stars: Nicolás Buenaventura, Manuel José Álvarez, Vicky Hernández, Jairo Camargo
Votes: 76
COLOMBIA | Status: submitted
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7. Cudnovate zgode segrta Hlapica (1997)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.
Director: Milan Blazekovic | Stars: Ivan Gudeljevic, Maja Rozman, Tarik Filipovic, Pero Juricic
Votes: 633
CROATIA | Status: submitted
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8. Vertical Love (1997)
100 min | Comedy
The architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana's housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical... See full synopsis »
Director: Arturo Sotto Díaz | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Sílvia Águila, Susana Pérez, Manuel Porto
Votes: 111
CUBA | Status: submitted
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9. Forgotten Light (1996)
105 min | Drama
Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the... See full summary »
Director: Vladimír Michálek | Stars: Bolek Polívka, Veronika Zilková, Petr Kavan, Jirí Pecha
Votes: 301
CZECH REPUBLIC | Status: submitted
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10. Macadam tribu (1996)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Mike goes out from prison and joins his brother in his wanderings through Bamako, being with their friends in bars and gyms. By other side, their mother feels lonely and became alcoholic.
Director: Zeka Laplaine | Stars: Sidy Camara, André Carvello, Habib Dembélé, Boubacar S. Diarra
Votes: 17
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO | Status: submitted
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11. Barbara (1997)
143 min | Drama
Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the ... See full summary »
Director: Nils Malmros | Stars: Anneke von der Lippe, Helene Egelund, Trond Høvik, Lars Simonsen
Votes: 617
DENMARK | Status: submitted
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12. Destiny (1997)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida, Safia El Emari
Votes: 3,201
EGYPT | Status: submitted
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13. Three Summer Days (1997)
90 min | Drama
Life of refugees from Bosnia in Serbia during the war years.
Director: Mirjana Vukomanovic | Stars: Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac, Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Milena Dravic
Votes: 276
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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14. The Collector (1997)
98 min | Drama, Thriller
Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
Director: Auli Mantila | Stars: Leea Klemola, Elina Hurme, Rea Mauranen, Henriikka Salo
Votes: 493
FINLAND | Status: submitted
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15. Western (1997)
TV-PG | 124 min | Comedy, Romance
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Poirier | Stars: Sergi López, Sacha Bourdo, Élisabeth Vitali, Marie Matheron
Votes: 1,157 | Gross: $0.20M
FRANCE | Status: submitted
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16. Beyond Silence (1996)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Music
Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice... See full summary »
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Tatjana Trieb, Howie Seago, Emmanuelle Laborit
Votes: 4,589 | Gross: $0.17M
GERMANY | Status: nominated
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17. Slaughter of the Cock (1996)
155 min | Drama
Longing for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn enough money to start their own business. When they return home, the pair open a night club. However, their past catches up with them.
Director: Andreas Pantzis | Stars: Georges Corraface, Dimitris Vellios, Valeria Golino, Popi Avraam
Votes: 85
GREECE | Status: submitted
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18. The Witman Boys (1997)
93 min | Drama, Thriller
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
Director: János Szász | Stars: Maia Morgenstern, Alpár Fogarasi, Szabolcs Gergely, Lajos Kovács
Votes: 343
HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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19. Blossi/810551 (1997)
82 min | Drama
Stella, a beauteous 19-year-old, accompanies the stoned Robbi and his more dangerous mate Ulfur when they invade a Reykjavik apartment one night.
Director: Júlíus Kemp | Stars: Páll Banine, Þóra Dungal, Finni Johannsson, Jón Gnarr
Votes: 210
ICELAND | Status: submitted
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20. Guru (1997)
136 min | Drama, Fantasy
Situations turn a man who believes in secularism into an extremist. He plots to bomb a monastery where the survivors of a riot take refuge.
Director: Rajiv Anchal | Stars: Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Madhupal, Kaveri
Votes: 3,507
INDIA | Status: submitted
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21. Gabbeh (1996)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
When an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami, Abbas Sayah
Votes: 3,665 | Gross: $0.27M
IRAN | Status: submitted
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22. Afula Express (1997)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
David is a garage electrician, who dreamt all of his life of becoming a magician, but had no luck in it. His girlfriend Batya wants an ordinary life, but David is still looking for his ... See full summary »
Director: Julie Shles | Stars: Zvika Hadar, Esti Zakheim, Aryeh Moskona, Orli Perl
Votes: 207
ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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23. The Best Man (1997)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her ... See full summary »
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Diego Abatantuono, Inés Sastre, Dario Cantarelli, Cinzia Mascoli
Votes: 448 | Gross: $0.09M
ITALY | Status: submitted
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24. Princess Mononoke (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka, Billy Crudup
Votes: 434,012 | Gross: $2.38M
JAPAN | Status: submitted
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25. Elles (1997)
115 min | Drama, Romance, Comedy
Five women, all near the wrong side of forty, face life's ups and downs together with laughter, tears, and sometimes irony. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more.
Director: Luís Galvão Teles | Stars: Miou-Miou, Carmen Maura, Marthe Keller, Marisa Berenson
Votes: 316
LUXEMBOURG | Status: submitted
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26. Gypsy Magic (1997)
126 min | Comedy, Drama
In a Macedonian gypsy village local man meets an Indian UNPROFOR physician whom he sees as solution to all his troubles.
Director: Stole Popov | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Antony Zaki, Katina Ivanova, Bajram Severdzan
Votes: 590
MACEDONIA | Status: submitted
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27. Deep Crimson (1996)
114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn, Giovani Florido
Votes: 2,082
MEXICO | Status: submitted
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28. Character (1997)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.
Director: Mike van Diem | Stars: Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt, Betty Schuurman
Votes: 11,307 | Gross: $0.71M
NETHERLANDS | Status: won
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29. Junk Mail (1997)
83 min | Comedy, Thriller
A lazy postman puts his nose where it doesn't belong.
Director: Pål Sletaune | Stars: Robert Skjærstad, Andrine Sæther, Per Egil Aske, Eli Anne Linnestad
Votes: 2,126
NORWAY | Status: submitted
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30. Milagros (1997)
130 min | Drama
Milagros is a prostitute who becomes the maid of a family of four men. With them, she finds the family she never had. With her, each man finds the salvation he needs. Together, they begin to tear each other apart.
Director: Marilou Diaz-Abaya | Stars: Sharmaine Arnaiz, Dante Rivero, Joel Torre, Raymond Bagatsing
Votes: 17
PHILIPPINES | Status: submitted
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31. Love Stories (1997)
87 min | Romance, Comedy
Four stories of love: yearned-for, betrayed, found. In the confessional, a priest is confronted for the first time by his eleven-year-old daughter (and seeks advice from his mother); a ... See full summary »
Director: Jerzy Stuhr | Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Dominika Ostalowska, Irina Alfyorova, Karolina Ostrozna
Votes: 561
POLAND | Status: submitted
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32. Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997)
91 min | Biography, Drama
Manoel is an aging film director who travels with his film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose father emigrated from Portugal to France. In the process, he remembers his own youth.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória
Votes: 824
PORTUGAL | Status: submitted
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33. The Thief (1997)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama
A woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her - but she hasn't realised it yet...
Director: Pavel Chukhray | Stars: Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova, Mikhail Filipchuk, Dima Chigaryov
Votes: 5,627 | Gross: $1.13M
RUSSIA | Status: nominated
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34. Orbis Pictus (1997)
107 min | Drama, Fantasy
In Slovakia, the sixteen year-old Terezka is discharged from her school with a letter to her mother. Along her surrealistic journey to find her mother, Terezka entwines reality and fantasy ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Sulík | Stars: Dorota Nvotová, Emília Vásáryová, Frantisek Kovár, Marián Labuda
Votes: 364
SLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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35. Outsider (I) (1997)
100 min | Drama
Yugoslavia before Tito's death. A young guy born to a mixed marriage (Slovenian - Bosnian) trying to find himself and fit in society, falls in love with Slovenian woman.
Director: Andrej Kosak | Stars: Davor Janjic, Zijah Sokolovic, Nina Ivanic, Uros Potocnik
Votes: 1,232
SLOVENIA | Status: submitted
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36. Paljas (1997)
135 min | Drama
A family's life in the Karoo (a semi-desert area in South Africa) is changed when a travelling circus leaves behind a clown.
Director: Katinka Heyns | Stars: Marius Weyers, Aletta Bezuidenhout, Ian Roberts, Ellis Pearson
Votes: 273
SOUTH AFRICA | Status: submitted
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37. Secrets of the Heart (1997)
105 min | Drama
Javi and his friend Carlos snoop around an old house on the way home from school. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is ... See full summary »
Director: Montxo Armendáriz | Stars: Carmelo Gómez, Charo López, Silvia Munt, Vicky Peña
Votes: 2,035
SPAIN | Status: nominated
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38. Tic Tac (II) (1997)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
In a single night the paths of a random few cross, which inevitably seals their respective destinies. By dawn the city of Stockholm, though seemingly unchanged, to some is very different--if they live to see it.
Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Oliver Loftéen, Tuva Novotny, Jacob Nordenson, Tintin Anderzon
Votes: 1,577
SWEDEN | Status: submitted
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39. For Ever Mozart (1996)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Madeleine Assas, Ghalya Lacroix, Bérangère Allaux, Vicky Messica
Votes: 1,161
SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted
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40. Wo de shen jing bing (1997)
114 min | Comedy
This is a four-part anthology comedy. The themes of four parts are: car, house, body and friendship. The central characters are a plastic surgeon Chen, a nurse, an experienced maid, three ... See full summary »
Director: Shaudi Wang | Stars: Shiang-chyi Chen, Chieh-Hui Hsu, Pao-Ming Ku, Cheng-sheng Lin
Votes: 26
TAIWAN | Status: submitted
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41. Sia dai 2 (1996)
90 min | Drama
Director: Chatrichalerm Yukol | Stars: Sorapong Chatree, Arunroj Liamthong, Marisa Anita, Wichuda Monkolket
Votes: 49
THAILAND | Status: submitted
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42. The Bandit (1996)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Baran the Bandit, released from prison after 35 years, searches for vengeance and his lover.
Director: Yavuz Turgul | Stars: Sener Sen, Ugur Yücel, Sermin Hürmeriç, Yesim Salkim
Votes: 72,252
TURKEY | Status: submitted
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43. A Friend of the Deceased (1997)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tolla takes out a contract on himself and then changes his mind.
Directors: Leonid Boyko, Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, Viacheslav Kryshtofovych | Stars: Tetyana Kryvytska Stang Lund, Aleksandr Lazarev, Anzhelika Nevolina, Elena Korikova
Votes: 397 | Gross: $0.15M
UKRAINE | Status: submitted
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44. One Life and Two Trails (1997)
100 min | Drama
The story of Romer, who on his 50th birthday, returns to the Andes where he grew up after he has a premonition that his mother has died. On his journey he comes to a fork in the road, and ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Arvelo | Stars: Germán Mendieta, Jordani Montilla, John Marquez, Nelson Ramírez
Votes: 69
VENEZUELA | Status: submitted
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