Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 68th Academy Awards held in 1996 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category
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1. Dust of Life (1995)
87 min | Drama
Based on a true story, after the US withdrawal and the fall of South Vietnam to the communist forces in 1975, many people are sent to reeducation camps. Several desperate boys in one of the camps begin planing their escape.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Daniel Guyant, Gilles Chitlaphone, Jehan Pagès, Eric Nguyen
Votes: 152
ALGERIA | Status: nominated
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2. Wild Horses (1995)
Unrated | 122 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A road movie that begins when a man tries to rob a bank and the bank's clerk, a yuppie, pretends the thief has kidnapped him to help him run away. While they're running away, they meet a girl who becomes part of the team.
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Dopazo, Fernán Mirás
Votes: 1,794
ARGENTINA | Status: submitted
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3. Ant Street (1995)
87 min | Comedy
In the middle of Vienna stands an old tenement building, and time has left its mark both on the house and its inhabitants. Here, time passes at a strange pace. Floor by floor, the visitor ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Robert Meyer, Bibiane Zeller, Nikolaus Paryla, Monika Tajmar
Votes: 101
AUSTRIA | Status: submitted
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4. Manneken Pis (1995)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man having lost his familiy as a boy in an accident comes to Brussels. There he falls in love with a girl who drives trams.
Director: Frank Van Passel | Stars: Frank Vercruyssen, Antje de Boeck, Ann Petersen, Wim Opbrouck
Votes: 687
BELGIUM | Status: submitted
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5. Jonah and the Pink Whale (1995)
92 min | Drama
A schoolteacher in the small city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra has a passionate affair with his frigid wife's sister--despite the risk of having to confront not only his wife, but also his dubious father-in-law.
Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia | Stars: Dino García, María Renée Prudencio, Claudia Lobo, Julieta Egurrola
Votes: 170
BOLIVIA | Status: submitted
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6. O Quatrilho (1995)
92 min | Romance, Drama
Two Italian-immigrant couples are part of a game that leads to treason and brings serious consequences to those who lose.
Director: Fábio Barreto | Stars: Glória Pires, Patricia Pillar, Alexandre Paternost, Bruno Campos
Votes: 1,552
BRAZIL | Status: nominated
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7. The Confessional (1995)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The year is 1952, in Québec City, Québec. Rachel (Suzanne Clément), sixteen, unmarried, and pregnant, works in the church. Filled with shame, she unburdens her guilt to a young Priest under... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette, Jean-Louis Millette, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 1,634 | Gross: $0.58M
CANADA | Status: submitted
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8. Red Cherry (1995)
120 min | Drama, War
It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the ... See full summary »
Director: Daying Ye | Stars: Ke-Yu Guo, Xiao-Li Xu, Igor Ledogorov, Vyacheslav Butenko
Votes: 748
CHINA | Status: submitted
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9. Washed Out (1995)
87 min | Drama, Romance
Jagoda is young woman who lives in poor section of Zagreb together with her disfunctional family. Mother is dying, father cares only about fishing, brother is an alcoholic and uncle is a ... See full summary »
Director: Zrinko Ogresta | Stars: Katarina Bistrovic-Darvas, Filip Sovagovic, Josip Kuchan, Mustafa Nadarevic
Votes: 227
CROATIA | Status: submitted
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10. Díky za kazdé nové ráno (1994)
100 min | Comedy
This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone from Ukraine to visit this family and ... See full summary »
Director: Milan Steindler | Stars: Ivana Chýlková, Franciszek Pieczka, Alena Vránová, Tereza Brodská
Votes: 290
CZECH REPUBLIC | Status: submitted
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11. Nueba Yol (1995)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
The humble and hardworking Orodoto Balbuena finally gets an opportunity of realizing his lifelong dream of reaching New York and living the "American Dream", but soon finds out that things aren't as pretty as he thought.
Director: Ángel Muñiz | Stars: Luisito Martí, Caridad Ravelo, Raúl Carbonell, Rafael Villalona
Votes: 506 | Gross: $0.98M
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Status: submitted
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12. Underground (1995)
Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac
Votes: 61,237 | Gross: $0.17M
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA | Status: submitted
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13. The Last Wedding (1995)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Pekka returns to his native village to attend a wedding. The village has lost its younger generations, and the movie tells the story of the last wedding in the village.
Director: Markku Pölönen | Stars: Martti Suosalo, Henrika Andersson, Matti Varjo, Tanja Kortelainen
Votes: 987
FINLAND | Status: submitted
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14. French Twist (1995)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
Director: Josiane Balasko | Stars: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat, Ticky Holgado
Votes: 5,364 | Gross: $1.40M
FRANCE | Status: submitted
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15. Brother of Sleep (1995)
R | 127 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker, Jochen Nickel
Votes: 1,678
GERMANY | Status: submitted
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16. Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
Unrated | 176 min | Drama, War
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson, Thanasis Vengos
Votes: 7,441 | Gross: $0.04M
GREECE | Status: submitted
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17. Summer Snow (1995)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
The Suns are a typical Hong Kong family: May, forty something, works for a trading company; her husband, Bing, works as a low-grade civil servant, and Allen, their teenage son, is still at ... See full summary »
Director: Ann Hui | Stars: Josephine Siao, Kar-Ying Law, Allen Ting, Roy Chiao
Votes: 826
HONG KONG | Status: submitted
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18. A részleg (1995)
82 min | Drama
Gizella Weisz is an middle-aged office worker, who gets a promotion one day. Her boss told her that a new outpost is waiting for her. There she would be heading a new section. She travels ... See full summary »
Director: Péter Gothár | Stars: Mari Nagy, József Szarvas, Valentin Teodosiu, Misu Dimvale
Votes: 157
HUNGARY | Status: submitted
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19. Tears of Stone (1995)
110 min | Biography, Drama
About the Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married the daughter of an industrialist, ... See full summary »
Director: Hilmar Oddsson | Stars: Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Ruth Olafsdottir, Winfried Wagner, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 119
ICELAND | Status: submitted
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20. Kuruthipunal (1995)
Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Suave and scintillating, this fast-paced action thriller follows the adventures and investigations of a group of honest police officers, who go undercover to bring down a terror network.
Director: P.C. Sreeram | Stars: Kamal Haasan, Arjun Sarja, Nassar, Gautami
Votes: 4,676
INDIA | Status: submitted
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21. The White Balloon (1995)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama, Family
Several people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Anna Borkowska
Votes: 8,242 | Gross: $0.47M
IRAN | Status: submitted
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22. Love Sick (1995)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
The touching story of Victor, who lives with his mother in the REALLY bad part of town and runs an illegal TV cable station. One day he sees the beautiful Michaela and falls madly in love ... See full summary »
Director: Savi Gabizon | Stars: Avigail Ariely, Asher Atlas, Hanna Azoulay Hasfari, Shmil Ben Ari
Votes: 228
ISRAEL | Status: submitted
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23. The Star Maker (1995)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A photographer and the types of people he encounters.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 5,478 | Gross: $0.12M
ITALY | Status: nominated
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24. Deep River (1995)
130 min | Drama
Three Japanese tourists - a soldier, a divorced woman, and a salaryman - make a pilgrimage to the Ganges River in India, each in hopes of finding some spiritual release or meaning in life.
Director: Kei Kumai | Stars: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Eiji Okuda, Hisashi Igawa, Kyôko Kagawa
Votes: 110
JAPAN | Status: submitted
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25. Midaq Alley (1995)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama, Romance
The lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir
Votes: 3,356
MEXICO | Status: submitted
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26. Antonia's Line (1995)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.
Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jan Decleir, Veerle van Overloop, Els Dottermans
Votes: 9,472 | Gross: $4.82M
NETHERLANDS | Status: won
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27. Kristin Lavransdatter (1995)
180 min | Drama
Kristin is the daughter of a prominent landowner in medieval Norway. She grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. She... See full summary »
Director: Liv Ullmann | Stars: Elisabeth Matheson, Bjørn Skagestad, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Henny Moan
Votes: 1,018
NORWAY | Status: submitted
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28. Inagaw mo ang lahat sa akin (1995)
TV-14 | 103 min | Drama
Director: Carlos Siguion-Reyna | Stars: Maricel Soriano, Snooky Serna, Eric Quizon, Tirso Cruz III
Votes: 66
PHILIPPINES | Status: submitted
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29. Crows (1994)
66 min | Drama
A thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining... See full summary »
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Karolina Ostrozna, Katarzyna Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska, Anna Prucnal
Votes: 700
POLAND | Status: submitted
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30. God's Comedy (1995)
170 min | Comedy, Drama
João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Cláudia Teixeira, João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Raquel Ascensão
Votes: 1,393
PORTUGAL | Status: submitted
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31. Musulmanin (1995)
110 min | Drama
A Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan, returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Khotinenko | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Aleksandr Baluev, Nina Usatova, Ivan Agafonov
Votes: 547
RUSSIA | Status: submitted
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32. The Garden (1995)
99 min | Comedy
A disillusioned 30-something teacher falls out with his father and moves to a derelict house in their family garden. He is then visited by a stunningly beautiful neighbour, famous philosophers, his ex-lover and.
Director: Martin Sulík | Stars: Roman Luknár, Zuzana Sulajová, Jana Svandová, Marián Labuda
Votes: 2,183
SLOVAKIA | Status: submitted
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33. 301, 302 (1995)
Unrated | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two women, a chef and an anorexic writer, are neighbors in an apartment building. The chef.
Directors: Park Chul-Soo, Cheol-su Park | Stars: Pang Eun-jin, Hwang Sin-hye, Chu-Ryun Kim, Park Cheol-ho
Votes: 1,172
SOUTH KOREA | Status: submitted
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34. The Flower of My Secret (1995)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Leo writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonym but as she struggles in her relationship with her husband, she finds her output becoming darker.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carme Elias, Rossy de Palma
Votes: 12,766 | Gross: $1.16M
SPAIN | Status: submitted
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35. All Things Fair (1995)
Unrated | 130 min | Drama, Romance, War
Stig, a 15-year-old student, is attracted to the beauty of Viola, his 37-year-old teacher, and she, drawn to his youth and innocence, feels that he is a God-sent relief for her drunken and miserable husband.
Director: Bo Widerberg | Stars: Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Tomas von Brömssen, Karin Huldt
Votes: 7,552
SWEDEN | Status: nominated
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36. Adultère (mode d'emploi) (1995)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Twenty-four hours in the life of a couple, engulfed in the harsh world of a big city. At the end of these twenty-four hours, Bruno and Fabienne may have touched on the possible solution to ... See full summary »
Director: Christine Pascal | Stars: Richard Berry, Karin Viard, Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Halimi
Votes: 258
SWITZERLAND | Status: submitted
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37. Super Citizen Ko (1995)
121 min | Drama
At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization.
Director: Jen Wan | Stars: Chiu-Yen Chen, I-Chen Ko, Yang Lin, Ming-Ming Su
Votes: 273
TAIWAN | Status: submitted
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38. Once Upon a Time... This Morning (1994)
140 min | Drama
Once upon a time, a group of children venture away from their homes and find a castle. Having no idea the castle is owned by an evil witch, the children are all turned into animals after ... See full summary »
Director: Bhandit Rittakol | Stars: Santisuk Promsiri, Chintara Sukapatana, Ronnarong Buranat, Martang Jantranee
Votes: 122
THAILAND | Status: submitted
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39. Le Magique (1995)
95 min | Drama
A semi-autobiographical story, based on the life of director, in which a young boy is left home alone to watch over the family residence when his impoverished family emigrates to France. ... See full summary »
Director: Azdine Melliti | Stars: Ahmed Chebil, Azdine Melliti, Mehdi Saffar, Kamel Touati
Votes: 38
TUNISIA | Status: submitted
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40. Branwen (1995)
94 min | Drama
A poignant drama set in both the Wales and Northern Ireland of 1990. Loosely based on the story of the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, one of the Welsh myths.
Director: Ceri Sherlock | Stars: Morfudd Hughes, Richard Lynch, J.O. Roberts, Robert Gwyn Davin
Votes: 18
UNITED KINGDOM | Status: submitted
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41. Sicario (1994)
R | 107 min | Drama
Jairo, sick of living on the fringes of society, fed up with poverty and a terrible family life, enters the world of crime as a Hired Assassin. Once he is really deep into the world of killing for money and dying if necessary, he decides to change the course of his life. But it is too late: he is on a road of no return, and there is no way he can escape his fate.
Director: Joseph Novoa | Stars: Laureano Olivares, Herman Gil, Néstor Terán, Melissa Ponce
Votes: 465
VENEZUELA | Status: submitted
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