Around the World in 195 Films or so
by Tricycle003 | created - 21 Mar 2022 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicList of films from each country in which I feel they either represent or showcase something special about it, or are otherwise simply the only films from those countries that I have as yet seen.
Please note - List in progress and nowhere near completion
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1. Sparrows (2015)
99 min | Drama
Ari's teenage lifestyle in the big city is disrupted as he is sent by his mother to live with his uninvolved father and his grandmother in a small fishing village.
Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson | Stars: Rade Serbedzija, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Eva Sigurdardottir, Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir
Votes: 1,697
Iceland
2. The King's Choice (2016)
133 min | Biography, Drama, History
April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the king.
Director: Erik Poppe | Stars: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo, Karl Markovics, Tuva Novotny
Votes: 10,084 | Gross: $0.11M
Norway
3. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
R | 188 min | Drama
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt
Votes: 67,516 | Gross: $4.97M
Sweden
4. The Unknown Soldier (1955)
177 min | Drama, War
The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna's book of the same name.
Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen, Veikko Sinisalo
Votes: 7,817
Finland
5. Goodbye Soviet Union (2020)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
A coming-of-age story of Johannes, who was born prematurely to a prematurely-single mother on the dramatic background of the collapsing Soviet empire.
Director: Lauri Randla | Stars: Niklas Kouzmitchev, Nika Savolainen, Ülle Kaljuste, Tõnu Oja
Votes: 914
Estonia
6. Son of a Rich (2019)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy
An ill-behaved, greedy man wakes up in a 19th century village and finds he is a peasant.
Director: Klim Shipenko | Stars: Milos Bikovic, Vadim Demchog, Ivan Okhlobystin, Aleksandra Bortich
Votes: 5,491
Russia
7. Hellhole (2022)
TV-MA | 91 min | Horror, Mystery
In 1987 Poland, a police officer investigating mysterious disappearances infiltrates a remote monastery and discovers a dark truth about its clergy.
Director: Bartosz M. Kowalski | Stars: Piotr Zurawski, Olaf Lubaszenko, Sebastian Stankiewicz, Lech Dyblik
Votes: 7,877
Poland
8. Go Trabi Go (1991)
92 min | Comedy
Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Timm | Stars: Wolfgang Stumph, Claudia Schmutzler, Marie Gruber, Dieter Hildebrandt
Votes: 1,654
Germany
9. After the Wedding (2006)
R | 120 min | Drama
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård, Neeral Mulchandani
Votes: 37,112 | Gross: $0.41M
Denmark
10. The Quiet Girl (2022)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama
In rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.
Director: Colm Bairéad | Stars: Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Catherine Clinch, Michael Patric
Votes: 22,190
Ireland
11. Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Mcgowan, Katie Proctor
Votes: 25,855
United Kingdom
12. Romy's Salon (2019)
90 min | Drama
Romy has to stay with her grandma Stine after school. It's so boring. Her hairdresser Grandma is strict and in love with her salon. But grandma's memory is not the best, and charming Romy can be at some help with customers and economy.
Director: Mischa Kamp | Stars: Vita Heijmen, Beppie Melissen, Noortje Herlaar, Guido Pollemans
Votes: 728
Holland
13. The Eighth Day (1996)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.
Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Henri Garcin
Votes: 10,082 | Gross: $0.33M
Belgium
14. The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
The socialist mayor of Saint-Juire has set his heart on building a cultural and sports complex in the village meadow. He's a well liked by the local people and has managed to raise the loans needed for the complex thanks to his contacts.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Pascal Greggory, Arielle Dombasle, Fabrice Luchini, Clémentine Amouroux
Votes: 1,727
France
15. Charlatan (2020)
Unrated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of successful Czech healer Jan Mikolasek, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and strong familiarity with plants, set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan, Juraj Loj, Jaroslava Pokorná
Votes: 3,216
Czechia
16. The Interpreter (2018)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
Ali Ungar discovers in his 80s a book written by an SS soldier describing how he killed his parents back in Slovakia. He decides to take revenge, but when he arrives at the soldier's house he finds his son instead.
Director: Martin Sulík | Stars: Peter Simonischek, Jirí Menzel, Zuzana Mauréry, Anita Szvrcsek
Votes: 580
Slovakia
17. A miniszter félrelép (1997)
105 min | Comedy
A Minister and the Secretary of the Opposition party go to a 5 star hotel to conduct a secret affair. Their plans are ruined when they discover a corpse lodged in the window of their room.
Directors: András Kern, Róbert Koltai | Stars: András Kern, Róbert Koltai, Sándor Gáspár, Judit Hernádi
Votes: 2,727
Hungary
18. Oprosti za kung fu (2004)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
Mirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her visa expired, Mirjana is coming back to ... See full summary »
Director: Ognjen Svilicic | Stars: Daria Lorenci Flatz, Filip Rados, Vera Zima, Luka Petrusic
Votes: 849
Croatia
19. Montevideo: Taste of a Dream (2010)
140 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A story about Serbian football team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.
Director: Dragan Bjelogrlic | Stars: Milos Bikovic, Petar Strugar, Nina Jankovic, Danina Jeftic
Votes: 13,020
Serbia
20. 8½ (1963)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 125,238 | Gross: $0.05M
Italy
21. Pájaros de papel (2010)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The lives of a comics and artists group in the hard times after of Spanish Civil War.
Director: Emilio Aragón | Stars: Imanol Arias, Lluís Homar, Roger Príncep, Carmen Machi
Votes: 792
Spain
22. Eternity and a Day (1998)
Unrated | 137 min | Drama
Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ahilleas Skevis
Votes: 14,444 | Gross: $0.11M
Greece
23. My Father and My Son (2005)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Family
The family of a left-wing journalist is torn apart after the military coup of Turkey in 1980.
Director: Çagan Irmak | Stars: Çetin Tekindor, Fikret Kuskan, Hümeyra, Ege Tanman
Votes: 92,643
Turkey
24. La voix des steppes (2014)
93 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
A little boy Anatole lives in 1960s in the steppe in Kazakhstan with his parents-archaeologists. One day he witnesses the accidental death of his brother, this drama traumatizes the boy so ... See full summary »
Directors: Gérard Depardieu, Yermek Shinarbayev | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Berik Aytzhanov, Natalie Dessay
Votes: 26
Kazakhstan
25. Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Lily Franky
Votes: 28,156 | Gross: $0.28M
Japan
26. Stand by Me (2018)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama
Seventy-year-old Grandpa lives with his young grandson. He finds out he only has a short time left to live and decides to prepare for their future and to leave them something special.
Director: Soo-in Bang | Stars: Park Bom, Sung Byoung-sook, Jung Gi-sub, Jang Gwang
Votes: 241
South Korea
27. Looking Up (2019)
147 min | Drama
When his space shuttle flight has an accident, an astronaut remembers the lessons his father taught him growing up.
Directors: Chao Deng, Baimei Yu, Zhuang Jie Qiong | Stars: Chao Deng, Yu Bai, Suxi Ren, Xi Wang
Votes: 573 | Gross: $0.08M
China
28. Captain Abu Raed (2007)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
When an old airport janitor finds a captain's hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.
Director: Amin Matalqa | Stars: Nadim Sawalha, Rana Sultan, Hussein Al-Sous, Odai Qedese
Votes: 1,754
Jordan
29. The Boys of St. Vincent (1992 TV Movie)
93 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Henry Czerny, Johnny Morina, Brian Dooley, Philip Dinn
Votes: 1,980 | Gross: $0.20M
Canada
30. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean
Votes: 160,332 | Gross: $49.53M
United States
31. The Second Mother (2015)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Director: Anna Muylaert | Stars: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila
Votes: 16,721 | Gross: $0.38M
Brazil
32. Spud (2010)
TV-PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school.
Director: Donovan Marsh | Stars: John Cleese, Troye Sivan, Jamie Royal, Sven Ruygrok
Votes: 2,850
South Africa
33. December Boys (2007)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Romance
One summer, four orphans boys who have grown to be the closest of friends find themselves competing for the attention of the same family.
Director: Rod Hardy | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Teresa Palmer, Lee Cormie, Christian Byers
Votes: 12,438 | Gross: $0.05M
Australia
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