San Sebastián: Special Prize of the Jury
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1. Kalak (2023)
120 min | Drama
Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, ... See full summary »
Director: Isabella Eklöf | Stars: Emil Johnsen, Asta Kamma August, Maka Abelsen, Leif Bosold
Votes: 222
2. Runner (III) (2022)
76 min | Drama
An 18-year-old girl dealing with the sudden death of her father and whose life takes an unexpected turn when she carries out his last wish to be buried in his home town along the Mississippi.
Director: Marian Mathias | Stars: Gene Jones, Jonathan Erickson Eisley, Hannah Schiller, Darren Houle
Votes: 131
3. Earwig (2021)
114 min | Drama, Horror
A 50-year-old caretaker is employed to look after 10-year-old girl. His most important task is to maintain her dentures that are made of ice and must be changed several times a day.
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Paul Hilton, Romane Hemelaers, Romola Garai, Alex Lawther
Votes: 1,502
4. Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020)
124 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A look at the life of Irish singer/songwriter and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan.
Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Shane MacGowan, The Pogues, Siobhan MacGowan, Gerry Adams
Votes: 1,997
5. Proxima (2019)
107 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
An astronaut prepares for a one-year mission aboard the International Space Station.
Director: Alice Winocour | Stars: Eva Green, Zélie Boulant, Matt Dillon, Aleksey Fateev
Votes: 8,997
6. Alpha: The Right to Kill (2018)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Set against the backdrop of the Philippines Government's crackdown on illegal drugs, a SWAT-led police force launches an operation to arrest Abel, one of the biggest drug lords in Manila. ... See full summary »
Director: Brillante Mendoza | Stars: Allen Dizon, Elijah Filamor, Apollo Abraham, Eli Alamares
Votes: 348
7. The Giant (2017)
TV-MA | 114 min | Drama, History
A story about the world's tallest man, this is an unsettling Basque-language period drama focused on sibling rivalry.
Directors: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño | Stars: Joseba Usabiaga, Eneko Sagardoy, Iñigo Aranburu, Ramón Agirre
Votes: 4,672
8. The Winter (2016)
95 min | Drama
After years of working on an 'estancia' in Patagonia, the Old Foreman is forced to retire and a younge'r man takes his place. The change is difficult and challenging for both men. Each one must survive the oncoming winter.
Director: Emiliano Torres | Stars: Alejandro Sieveking, Cristian Salguero, Adrián Fondari, Pablo Cedrón
Votes: 275
9. The Giant (2016)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Sport
A severely deformed young man dreams of being reunited with his mother and finds freedom by exploring his imaginative inner life, where he is a 200-foot giant.
Director: Johannes Nyholm | Stars: Christian Andrén, Johan Kylén, Anna Bjelkerud, Linda Faith
Votes: 1,169
10. Evolution (2015)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Mathieu Goldfeld
Votes: 7,608
11. Wild Life (2014)
102 min | Drama
Paco and Nora once were an ideally matched couple. Both loved nature, nomadic or semi-nomadic life and agreed to raise their children far from the corruption of the consumer society. But ... See full summary »
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Céline Sallette, David Gastou, Sofiane Neveu
Votes: 662
12. Wounded (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Ana, 30, is an ambulance driver. Though good at her job, she has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Franco | Stars: Marian Álvarez, Rosana Pastor, Manolo Solo, Andrés Gertrúdix
Votes: 1,344
13. Snow White (2012)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy
A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
Director: Pablo Berger | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina
Votes: 11,641 | Gross: $0.28M
14. Skylab (2011)
114 min | Comedy
In July 1979, during the Summer holidays, in a house somewhere in Brittany, a whole family (parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and other relatives) are gathered to celebrate Granny Amandine's ... See full summary »
Director: Julie Delpy | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Emmanuelle Riva, Eric Elmosnino, Julie Delpy
Votes: 2,112
15. Elisa K (2010)
71 min | Drama
A horrible memory suddenly returns to Elisa, that mortified seeks her mother's help.
Directors: Jordi Cadena, Judith Colell | Stars: Aina Clotet, Clàudia Pons, Lydia Zimmermann, Hans Richter
Votes: 228
16. Hideaway (2009)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling ... See full summary »
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 2,974 | Gross: $0.03M
17. Two-Legged Horse (2008)
101 min | Drama
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf | Stars: Ziya Mirza Mohamad, Haron Ahad, Gol-Ghotai, Khojeh Nader
Votes: 640
18. Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007)
81 min | Drama, War
In Afghanistan, a young girl wants to go to school and learn to read and write, but is met with hostility or indifference.
Director: Hana Makhmalbaf | Stars: Abbas Alijome, Abdolali Hoseinali, Nikbakht Noruz
Votes: 2,358
19. The Road to San Diego (2006)
98 min | Comedy
A young Argentine learns that soccer star Diego Maradona is ailing in a Buenos Aires hospital, and resolves to bring him a tree root he's discovered.
Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Ignacio Benítez, Carlos Wagner La Bella, Paola Rotela, Silvina Fontelles
Votes: 736
20. Iluminados por el fuego (2005)
100 min | Action, Drama, History
The suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man.
Director: Tristán Bauer | Stars: Gastón Pauls, Pablo Ribba, César Albarracín, Víctor Hugo Carrizo
Votes: 1,947
21. Midwinter Night's Dream (2004)
95 min | Drama
A simple story of an ex-convict who comes home after 10 years, only to find two squatters in the form of a woman and her autistic daughter. Though Lazar initially plans to kick out Jasna ... See full summary »
Director: Goran Paskaljevic | Stars: Lazar Ristovski, Jasna Zalica, Jovana Mitic, Slobodan 'Boda' Ninkovic
Votes: 457
22. The Station Agent (2003)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Benjamin
Votes: 73,462 | Gross: $5.74M
23. Intimate Stories (2002)
Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.
Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti, Javiera Bravo, Mariela Díaz
Votes: 5,391 | Gross: $0.10M
24. En construcción (2001)
125 min | Documentary
An author spent a year and a half filming what happened as a new apartment building was built in the El Chino neighborhood of Barcelona. En Construccion focuses less on the practicalities ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Guerín | Stars: Juana Rodríguez Molina, Iván Guzmán Jiménez, Juan López López, Juanma López
Votes: 852
25. Paria (2000)
125 min | Drama
Eighteen year old Victor, who works as a delivery-boy for a video-club, has just fallen in love with Anabelle when his motorbike is stolen, and he is thrown out of his room for not having paid his rent for three months.
Director: Nicolas Klotz | Stars: Cyril Troley, Gérald Thomassin, Didier Berestetsky, Aristide Demonico
Votes: 75 | Gross: $0.44M
26. Jaime (1999)
111 min | Drama
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's ... See full summary »
Director: António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Stars: Saúl Fonseca, Fernanda Serrano, Joaquim Leitão, Sandro Silva
Votes: 1,240
27. À la place du coeur (1998)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Clim and Bébé have grown up together in a blue-collar neighborhood in Marseille. When Bébé is eighteen and Clim is sixteen, they fall in love. She becomes pregnant, and the situation is ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Christine Brücher, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan
Votes: 386
28. Gods and Monsters (1998)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama
The last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich
Votes: 32,775 | Gross: $6.39M
29. Firelight (1997)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.
Director: William Nicholson | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Dominique Belcourt, Kevin Anderson
Votes: 4,811 | Gross: $0.78M
30. Little Angel (1996)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the ... See full summary »
Director: Helke Misselwitz | Stars: Susanne Lothar, Cezary Pazura, Sophie Rois, Herbert Fritsch
Votes: 115
31. Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)
104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she ... See full summary »
Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes | Stars: Victoria Abril, Pilar Bardem, Federico Luppi, Ángel Alcázar
Votes: 2,210
32. The Quality of Mercy (1994)
105 min | Drama, War
It is the beginning of 1945 during World War II in former Austria. 500 Soviet prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Gruber | Stars: Elfriede Irrall, Rainer Egger, Oliver Broumis, Merab Ninidze
Votes: 325
33. Second Best (1994)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
Graham, a lonely Welsh postal worker, adopts James, a troubled ten-year-old boy. Graham always wanted a son, but James loves his biological father too much to give Graham a chance. Will the two be able to accept each other as family?
Director: Chris Menges | Stars: William Hurt, Nathan Yapp, Keith Allen, Chris Cleary Miles
Votes: 1,900 | Gross: $0.09M
34. Golden Balls (1993)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maria de Medeiros, Maribel Verdú, Elisa Tovati
Votes: 3,886
35. Dismissed from Life (1992)
87 min | Drama
Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by ... See full summary »
Director: Waldemar Krzystek | Stars: Wojciech Asinski, Mariusz Benoit, Zygmunt Bielawski, Danuta Borowiecka
Votes: 59
36. Nevozvrashchenets (1991)
117 min | Drama, Thriller
Dark, tormented by civil war, hungry and devoid of any political prospects Moscow of supposed future. The protagonist tries to get out of the sticky web of KGB recruitment. The story focuses on the misgivings of the troubled future 90s.
Director: Sergey Snezhkin | Stars: Yuriy Kuznetsov, Nikolay Yeryomenko, Yuriy Oskin, Viktor Aristov
Votes: 48
37. Red Dawn (1990)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Jorge Fegán, Ademar Arau
Votes: 2,039
38. El mar y el tiempo (1989)
100 min | Drama
Jesús, a Spaniard who went into exile to Argentina after the Civil War, returns to Madrid in 1968 with the illusion of spending his last years in the longed-for settings of his youth. ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Fernán Gómez | Stars: Rafaela Aparicio, Pepe Soriano, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Votes: 264
39. A Short Film About Love (1988)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska, Piotr Machalica
Votes: 26,093
40. A nagy generáció (1986)
109 min | Drama
Things fall apart in Makai's life when his old friend Réb comes back from America with opportunistic intentions.
Director: Ferenc András | Stars: György Cserhalmi, Károly Eperjes, Mari Kiss, Róbert Koltai
Votes: 172
41. Zina (1985)
92 min | Biography, Drama
After Stalin's purges, Zinaida Volkova, daughter of Leon Trotsky, is exiled to Berlin. As the Nazis rise to power, and World War II is approaching, she becomes obsessed with Antigone, the protagonist of a famous Greek tragedy, and loses her mind.
Director: Ken McMullen | Stars: Ian McKellen, Domiziana Giordano, Philip Madoc, Paul Geoffrey
Votes: 128
42. 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
43. The Place Without Limits (1978)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Roberto Cobo, Fernando Soler, Lucha Villa, Ana Martín
Votes: 1,649
44. La question (1977)
112 min | Drama, War
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Director: Laurent Heynemann | Stars: Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Françoise Thuries
Votes: 94
45. Caddie (1976)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Sydney, Australia in the mid-1920's. Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her rich cad husband walks out on her. Despite... See full summary »
Director: Donald Crombie | Stars: Helen Morse, Takis Emmanuel, Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver
Votes: 244
46. Bekötött szemmel (1975)
83 min | Drama
Director: András Kovács | Stars: András Kozák, József Madaras, Sándor Horváth, János Koltai
Votes: 11
47. Boquitas pintadas (1974)
R | 120 min | Drama
The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
Director: Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Stars: Alfredo Alcón, Marta González, Luisina Brando, Raúl Lavié
Votes: 286
48. Paper Moon (1973)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Votes: 52,481 | Gross: $30.93M
49. Lautarii (1972)
140 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. ... See full summary »
Director: Emil Loteanu | Stars: Serghei Lunchevici, Dumitru Hãbãsescu, Jenea Rolko, Galina Vodnyatskaya
Votes: 293
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