#ForeignFilmsMatter: Volume 4
by CAMSECORPS2024 | created - 28 Apr 2022 | updated - 5 months ago | PublicMore non-English-language narrative & documentary feature films that need distribution in the United States and (English) Canada.
Coming soon:
Clementina, (2023, Argentina, Agustín Mendilaharzu and Constanza Feldman)
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D = Documentary
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1. The WORD (2022)
104 min | Drama
The film follows the story of the married couple Václav and Vera, who gave their word to each other that they would always stand by themselves and not cross their moral boundaries. But the ... See full summary »
Director: Beata Parkanová | Stars: Gabriela Mikulková, Martin Finger, Lea Bankó, Anton Frcek
Votes: 88
Czech Republic (Czech dialogue) F
2. O Trio em Mi Bemol (2022)
127 min | Drama
A series of encounters between two ex-lovers who still are very fond of each other.
Director: Rita Azevedo Gomes | Stars: Pierre Léon, Rita Durão, Adolfo Arrieta, Olivia Cábez
Votes: 100
Portugal (Portuguese dialogue) F
3. Horseplay (2022)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of young men at a gathering in a luxury villa test each other's boundaries.
Director: Marco Berger | Stars: Bruno Giganti, Agustín Machta, Franco de la Puente, Iván Masliah
Votes: 799
Argentina (Spanish dialogue) F
4. Stric (2022)
104 min | Drama, Thriller
The film appears to be set in Yugoslavia in the late 1980s, as a family welcomes their beloved uncle, who has returned home from Germany for the holidays.
Directors: David Kapac, Andrija Mardesic | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Goran Bogdan, Ivana Roscic, Roko Sikavica
Votes: 583
Croatia (Croatian dialogue) F
5. Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (2022)
119 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Meltem Kaptan, Alexander Scheer, Charly Hübner, Nazmi Kirik
Votes: 1,292
Germany (German, Turkish and English dialogue) F
6. Working Class Heroes (2022)
85 min | Drama
A group of illegal construction workers, left without money and basic rights, fight their bosses with all they have left, building a hoax "Potemkin's village" to con a development fund. Close to deadline it's a fight for life and death.
Director: Milos Pusic | Stars: Jasna Djuricic, Boris Isakovic, Predrag Momcilovic, Stefan Beronja
Votes: 249
Serbia (Serbian and English dialogue) F
7. Balaye aseman zire ab (2022)
78 min | Drama
About a couple who must learn to adapt when their young son suddenly stops talking.
Director: Dornaz Hajiha | Stars: Sepidar Tari, Ali Ahmadi, Shahdiyar Shakiba
Votes: 36
8. In Broad Daylight (I) (2022)
110 min | Drama
Bébé is born into a dying world. He opens his eyes in a family whose own eyes are closed. He cries out in a house where people stay shushed and sequestered. Bébé brings chaos. He is not ... See full summary »
Director: Emmanuel Tardif | Stars: Gabrielle Forcier, Marianne Fortier, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Xavier Huard
Votes: 9
Canada (French dialogue) F
9. Cuidando al Sol (2021)
90 min | Drama, Family
In the Bolivian Titicaca Lake, Lucía (10) faces a range of new, conflicting emotions when her father leaves. Lucía builds her daily life around the wait for her dad's return.
Director: Catalina Razzini | Stars: Luis Aduviri, Maria Belen Callisaya, Katerine Choque Huanca, Karina Paco
Votes: 36
Bolivia (Spanish and Aymara dialogue) F
10. I Have Electric Dreams (2022)
102 min | Drama
Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.
Director: Valentina Maurel | Stars: Daniela Marín Navarro, Reinaldo Amien, Vivian Rodriguez, Adriana Castro García
Votes: 945
Costa Rica (Spanish dialogue) F
11. How Is Katia? (2022)
101 min | Drama
Anna has just taken on a mortgage in dreams of a better life with her daughter Katia. Instead, a turn of events makes Anna face a dilemma that will change her personal moral borders in a society that hasn't got any.
Director: Christina Tynkevych | Stars: Aleksey Cherevatenko, Yurii Felipenko, Anastasiya Karpenko, Olena Khokhlatkina
Votes: 132
Ukraine (Ukrainian dialogue) F
12. Nossa senhora da loja do chinês (2022)
98 min | Drama
When a chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for his lost friend.
Director: Ery Claver | Stars: Cláudia Púcuta, David Caracol, Willi Ribeiro, Meili Li
Votes: 42
Angola (Portuguese and Mandarin dialogue) F
13. At Night All the Cats Are Black (2022)
Unrated | 110 min | Fantasy
A crew is shooting a libertine costume film when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears. While the local police investigate, the film shoot continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director's lover, follows a promise.
Director: Valentin Merz | Stars: Robin Mognetti, Valentin Merz, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Dogartzi Magunagoicoechea
Votes: 105
Switzerland (French, German, English, Spanish and Swiss German dialogue) F
14. Borders (2017)
90 min | Drama
Four women from different regions develop friendships during a bus journey across West Africa, as they accomplish an everyday journey while facing the universal challenge of being independent women.
Director: Apolline Traoré | Stars: Olayinka Aklo, Eloi Coly, Djibril Dansokho, Nicolas de Bravo
Votes: 85
Burkina Faso (French dialogue) F
15. Sermon to the Fish (2022)
89 min | Drama, War
The story follows a soldier who returns from war and finds everyone in his village has rotted away due to a mysterious illness. The only survivor, his sister, is also slowly rotting, with only a dog to keep her company.
Director: Hilal Baydarov | Stars: Rana Asgarova, Orkhan Iskandarli, Huseyn Nasirov
Votes: 14
Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani dialogue) F
16. Valeria Mithatenet (2022)
76 min | Drama
Two Ukrainian sisters, Valeria and Christina decide to marry Israeli men through online-arranged marriages. One already did it and is now living in Israel and the another is considering moving to Israel too and doing the same thing.
Director: Michal Vinik | Stars: Lena Fraifeld, Yaakov Zada-Daniel, Dasha Tvoronovich, Avraham Shalom Levi
Votes: 230
Israel/Ukraine (Russian, English and Hebrew dialogue) F
17. Red Shoes (2022)
82 min | Drama
Tacho, a farmer, tends to his plot of land as life passes him by. When he receives news of his daughter's death, he travels to the city to bring her body home, and he discovers a world that is alien to him there.
Director: Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser | Stars: Eustacio Ascacio, Natalia Solián, Phanie Molina, Miguel Ángel Valencia
Votes: 65
Mexico (Spanish dialogue) F
18. Amanda (II) (2022)
93 min | Drama
Amanda, 24, lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it's the thing she wants the most. Amanda chooses as her new mission to convince her childhood friend that they are still best friends.
Director: Carolina Cavalli | Stars: Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatéa Bellugi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Michele Bravi
Votes: 1,066
Italy (Italian dialogue) F
19. Anhell69 (2022)
75 min | Documentary, Drama
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts.
Director: Theo Montoya | Stars: Alejandro Hincapié, Camilo Machado, Alejandro Mendigana, Julian David Moncada
Votes: 261
Colombia (Spanish dialogue) F
20. Beating Sun (2022)
85 min | Drama
Max doesn't dream of making green walls for five-star hotels. Tenacious landscaper, committed but cornered, he fights to create a wild garden, without fence, in the heart of downtown ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Petit | Stars: Swann Arlaud, Sarah Adler, Grégoire Oestermann, Pascal Rénéric
Votes: 99
France (French dialogue) F
21. Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2022)
105 min | Comedy
Mykola and Vasya go in search of their father, who left them when they were children, after they come to know that he is dying in Luxembourg. Kolya considers him a hero, while Vasya thinks he is a scoundrel.
Director: Antonio Lukich | Stars: Amil Nasirov, Ramil Nasirov, Nataliya Gnitiy, Lyudmyla Sachenko
Votes: 3,866
Ukraine (Ukrainian dialogue) F
22. Call of God (2022)
81 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
Anticipation of Love has settled in a heart of a young lady. The borders between dream and passion are very elusive. Life is full of physical deprivations and sensual pleasures and the deep... See full summary »
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Karash Zhanyshov, Zhanel Sergazina, Nazbiike Aidarova, Aygerim Akkanat
Votes: 73
Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz, English and Russian dialogue)
F
RIP Kim Ki-duk (1960-2022)
23. Zinder (2021)
85 min | Documentary
Unemployed youths are swelling the ranks of gangs sowing violence in Zinder, Niger. Aicha Macky explores the origins of the radicalization in her hometown and the prospects for escaping it.
Director: Aicha Macky
Votes: 84
Niger (Hausa dialogue) F
24. Father & Soldier (2022)
98 min | Action, Drama, History
During World War I, a father enlists himself in the French Army in order to be with his 17-year-old son who was recruited against his will. Sent to the front, they find themselves facing the war together in the French colony of Senegal.
Director: Mathieu Vadepied | Stars: Omar Sy, Alassane Diong, Jonas Bloquet, Bamar Kane
Votes: 1,359
France/Senegal (French dialogue) F
25. Fiela se Kind (2019)
120 min | Drama
A coloured woman living in the arid Karoo takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of woodcutters who claim that he is theirs.
Director: Brett Michael Innes | Stars: Zenobia Kloppers, Luca Bornman, Wayne Smith, Drikus Volschenk
Votes: 110
South Africa (Afrikaans dialogue) F
26. I Like Movies (2022)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
Lawrence Kweller, a socially inept 17-year old cinephile, gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Director: Chandler Levack | Stars: Isaiah Lehtinen, Percy Hynes White, Anand Rajaram, Eden Cupid
Votes: 2,459
Canada (English dialogue) F
27. Pour la France (2022)
113 min | Drama
It tells the story of a police officer who dies during an initiation process at a French military school.
Director: Rachid Hami | Stars: Karim Leklou, Shaïn Boumedine, Lubna Azabal, Samir Guesmi
Votes: 357
France (French dialogue) F
28. Pornomelancholia (2022)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama
Lalo is a sex-influencer: he posts photos of his naked body and homemade porn videos for his thousands of followers on social networks.
Director: Manuel Abramovich | Stars: Lalo Santos, Adrián Zuki, Chacalito Regio, Diablo
Votes: 283
Mexico (Spanish and English dialogue) D
29. Sublime (2022)
100 min | Drama
Manuel lives in a small coastal town. He plays bass in a band with his best friends. One of them is Felipe, with whom he shares a strong friendship. Unbreakable bond. Until the time comes to put it to test.
Director: Mariano Biasin | Stars: Martín Miller, Teo Inama Chiabrando, Azul Mazzeo, Joaquín Arana
Votes: 1,129
Argentina (Spanish dialogue) F
30. Lullaby (2022)
104 min | Drama
Amaia, who has just become a mother, decides to return for guidance after her partner is temporarily away, to her parents' house along the Basque coast.
Director: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa | Stars: Laia Costa, Susi Sánchez, Ramón Barea, Mikel Bustamante
Votes: 3,659
Spain (Spanish, English and Basque dialogue) F
31. When the Waves Are Gone (2022)
187 min | Drama, Thriller
Lt. Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators of the Philippines, is in a deep moral crossroad, being a witness to his institution's being a party to a murderous anti-drug campaign, ... See full summary »
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: John Lloyd Cruz, Ronnie Lazaro, Shamaine Buencamino, Don Melvin Boongaling
Votes: 205
Philippines F
32. Banu (2022)
90 min | Drama
Accused of being an unfit mother by her influential husband, Banu fights for the custody of her son amid the chaos of the final days of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. She has four days to find a single voice to speak on her behalf.
Director: Tahmina Rafaella | Stars: Melek Abbaszade, Zemfira Abdulsamadova, Nurlan Agayev, Hajar Aghayeva
Votes: 139
Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani and Russian dialogue) F
33. Mountain Onion (2022)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of the growing up of 11-year-old Dzhabai, who sells mountain onions on the highway, who finds his mother with his idol, a truck driver, and goes to China for Viagra for his father that he becomes a strong man.
Director: Eldar Shibanov | Stars: Kuantay Abdimadi, Esil Amantay, Amina Gaziyeva, Zhazira Kaskey
Votes: 63
Kazakhstan (Russian, Kazakh and Mandarin dialogue) F
34. A Noiva (2022)
79 min | Drama
A European teenager ran away from home to marry a Daesh fighter. Three years later, her life has dramatically changed, living in an Iraqi prison camp now she has two children to take care of and is pregnant again.
Director: Sérgio Tréfaut | Stars: Joana Bernardo, Hussein Hassan Ali, Rekish Shahbaz, Saman Mustefa
Votes: 58
Portugal (Arabic, French and Portuguese dialogue) F
35. La Syndicaliste (2022)
121 min | Drama, Thriller
A thriller investigation set in the world of nuclear power and politics.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois, François-Xavier Demaison, Pierre Deladonchamps
Votes: 1,475
France (French dialogue) F
36. Safe Place (2022)
103 min | Drama
Follows Damir, who's trying to take his own life while his family wants to save him. Everything happens over a period of just 24 hours.
Director: Juraj Lerotic | Stars: Juraj Lerotic, Snjezana Sinovcic, Goran Markovic, Damir Klemenic
Votes: 1,467
Croatia (Croatian dialogue) F
37. Diary of a Bride of Christ (2022)
90 min | Documentary
Marta, the film's director, faces her fears and digs into the realm of her estranged sister Nastia, a Greek-Catholic nun, to re-evaluate the world they both were brought up in.
Director: Marta Smerechynska
Votes: 17
Ukraine (Ukrainian, English and Spanish dialogue) F
38. Tree of Eternal Love (2021)
82 min | Comedy
Frustrated with his life, a self-centered car mechanic and his filmmaker friend embark on a crazy, criminal and perhaps even melodic journey of self-discovery to the other side of the country to cut down the Tree of Eternal Love.
Director: Meel Paliale | Stars: Urmet Piiling, Herman Pihlak, Marko Matvere, Jan Uuspõld
Votes: 161
Estonia (Estonian dialogue) F
39. VHS - Kahloucha (2006)
80 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentarian Nejib Belkadhi trails amateur Tunisian filmmaker Moncef Kahloucha as he makes his latest feature, Tarzan of the Arabs.
Director: Néjib Belkadhi | Star: Moncef Kahloucha
Votes: 145
Tunisia (Arabic dialogue) F
40. Thousand and One Nights (2022)
126 min | Drama
Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return. She lives alone in a declining fishing village, and continues to search tirelessly... See full summary »
Director: Nao Kubota | Stars: Yûko Tanaka, Machiko Ono, Duncan, Masanobu Andô
Votes: 22
Japan (Japanese dialogue) F
41. Nayola (2022)
83 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Angola. Three generations of women in a 25-year-long civil war: Lelena (the grandmother), Nayola (the daughter) and Yara (the granddaughter). Past and present interlace. Nayola goes in ... See full summary »
Director: José Miguel Ribeiro | Stars: Feliciana Délcia Guia, Vitória Adelino Dias Soares, Elisângela Rita, Marinela Furtado Veloso
Votes: 254
Portugal (Portuguese dialogue) F (animated)
42. Margini (2022)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Grosseto, 2008. Edoardo, Iacopo and Michele are the three young members of a punk band. Tired of performing in cheap contexts and local festivals, they finally have the opportunity to open ... See full summary »
Director: Niccolò Falsetti | Stars: Valentina Carnelutti, Zerocalcare, Silvia D'Amico, Nicola Rignanese
Votes: 330
Italy (Italian and English dialogue) F
43. Stonewalling (2022)
148 min | Drama
When Lynn discovers that she is pregnant, finishing her studies as a flight attendant is called into question. Not wanting to have an abortion and hide her pregnancy from her absent boyfriend, Lynn hopes to give the child away at birth.
Directors: Ji Huang, Ryûji Otsuka | Stars: Honggui Yao, Xiaoxiong Huang, Long Liu, Zilong Xiao
Votes: 409
China (Mandarin dialogue) F
44. No End (2022)
113 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ayaz is an ordinary man who wishes for his own home. His brother-in-law left Iran for a long time due to his anti-government activities, but the news of his possible return reaches Ayaz. ... See full summary »
Director: Nader Saeivar | Stars: Vahid Mobasseri, Shahin Kazem Nezhad, Fahime Jahani, Narges Delaram
Votes: 35
Iran (Persian dialogue) F
45. The Storyteller (2022)
116 min | Drama
Based on Satyajit Ray's short story "Golpo Boliye Tarini Khuro" about originality versus plagiarism.
Director: Anant Mahadevan | Stars: Paresh Rawal, Adil Hussain, Revathi, Tannishtha Chatterjee
Votes: 20
India (Hindi dialogue) F
46. Wesens (2020)
90 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
WESENS is a first of its kind art-house, found footage, sci-fi, mystery set in South Africa in 1967. On the surface, the film follows four South African Republican Intelligence Agents as ... See full summary »
Director: Derick Muller | Stars: Pietie Beyers, Randy Januarie, Albert Maritz, Pierre Nelson
Votes: 13
South Africa (Afrikaans dialogue) F
47. Pou (2022)
89 min | Horror
The psychosexual journey of a young woman into the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.
Director: Jaco Minnaar | Stars: Tarryn Wyngaard, Johan Botha, Ruan Wessels, Alida Theron
Votes: 13
South Africa (Afrikaans dialogue) F
48. Mutzenbacher (2022)
100 min | Documentary
Setting that permits analysis, emotion, reflection and intimacy in equal measure, opening up insights for us into the cosmos of eroticism and sexuality: both within and beyond the confines of male fantasy.
Director: Ruth Beckermann | Stars: Alexander Diwiak, Alexander Horwath, Raphael Nicholas, Ben Schidla
Votes: 248
Austria D
49. Audrey est revenue (2021– )
Comedy
17-year-old Audrey slips into a coma when she is found unconscious on the road of a small town, in the middle of the night. 16 years later, the impossible happens: she wakes up. Everything ... See full summary »
Stars: Florence Longpré, Josée Deschênes, Denis Bouchard, Martin-David Peters
Votes: 98
Canada (French dialogue) Television miniseries
50. The Goat and Her Three Kids (2022)
83 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer, at all costs.
Director: Victor Canache | Stars: Maia Morgenstern, Marius Bodochi, Razvan Ilina, Antonio Gavrila
Votes: 3,844
Romanian (Romanian dialogue) F
51. Ogre (2021)
103 min | Drama, Fantasy
Terrible events are worrying the inhabitants of the Morvan: a child has disappeared and a wild beast is attacking the livestock. Jules, a child who has recently arrived in the village, senses something sinister near his house.
Director: Arnaud Malherbe | Stars: Ana Girardot, Giovanni Pucci, Samuel Jouy, Albertine Rivière
Votes: 380
Belgium/France (French dialogue) F
52. Sanaa (2022)
119 min | Drama
It follows an ambitious girl who is raging against an internal battle that is rooted in unhealed trauma.
Director: Sudhanshu Saria | Stars: Radhika Madan, Sohum Shah, Pooja Bhatt, Shikha Talsania
Votes: 32
India (Hindi and English dialogue) F
53. Piece of My Heart (2022)
114 min | Drama, Music
While the young dancers Irma and Olga try to stand their ground in the demanding ballet world of 1970s Amsterdam, Olga is launched as the big new star of the Royal Ballet. She soon discovers the dark side of her talent.
Director: Dana Nechushtan | Stars: Elaine Meijerink, Roos Englebert, Jan Kooijman, Daniël Boissevain
Votes: 162
Netherlands (Dutch dialogue) F
54. Mermer soyugu (2022)
88 min | Drama
When a father is unexpectedly released from prison after serving ten years for killing his wife, his son wants to find out why he did it.
Director: Asif Rustamov | Stars: Natavan Abbasli, Elshen Esgerov, Gurban Ismailov
Votes: 21
Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani dialogue) F
55. Amar Colony (2022)
75 min | Drama
A crippled widow demands respect for her beloved pigeon. Caught in a maze of loneliness, a pregnant woman finds escape in a tomato. When paranoia strikes, a religious devotee of Lord Hanuman battles it with a mace.
Director: Siddharth Chauhan | Stars: Sangeeta Agrawal, Nimisha Nair, Usha Chauhan, Sreejith Vijay
Votes: 23
India (Hindi dialogue) F
56. Pelikan (2022)
87 min | Drama
A spa resort way past its finest years, people so relaxed they are on the verge of dying, and one goalkeeper trying to find salvation in a vacuum. Vacuum cleaner, that is.
Director: Filip Herakovic | Stars: Edi Celic, Lucija Barisic, Marko Petric, Tena Nemet Brankov
Votes: 108
Croatia (Croatian and Italian dialogue) F
57. The Other Widow (2022)
83 min | Drama
Ella, 34 a theatre dresser and mistress, experiences the sudden death of her lover. She begins to frequent his Shiva and observes the life that was forbidden to her. eventually she demands her legitimate right to mourn.
Director: Maayan Rypp | Stars: Dana Ivgy, Ania Bukstein, Itamar Rotschild, Yaniv Biton
Votes: 44
Israel (Hebrew dialogue) F
58. Zosaliet (2022)
82 min | Comedy
Idealistic translator Nadia finds new stability with her daughter after a difficult post-divorce period. She manages to buy a flat at a bargain price and hope returns to her life, ... See full summary »
Director: Zuzana Piussi | Stars: Ingrid Hrubanicova, Vladimír Zboron, Jaroslava Sisakova, Daniela Gudabová
Votes: 15
Czech Republic (Czech dialogue) F
59. Sashenka (2022)
134 min | Drama, Thriller
A shocking murder that shook Soviet society in the seventies and exposed the reverse side of Soviet morality.
Director: Alexander Zhovna | Stars: Oksana Burlay-Piterova, Milena Kompaniiets, Dmitry Nizhelsky, Dmitry Orlov
Votes: 21
Ukraine (Ukrainian dialogue) F
60. Servus Papa - See You in Hell (2022)
105 min | Drama, Crime
Jeanne grows up in a large commune in Austria where the offspring of the Nazi generation tries to create a new utopia only to reinvent totalitarian structures. Jeanne is a "soldier" of the ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Roth | Stars: Clemens Schick, Jana McKinnon, Hanns Zischler, Aenne Schwarz
Votes: 62
Germany (German and French dialogue) F
61. Echo (I) (2022)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Harder takes on her first case after surviving a bomb attack during a police training mission in Afghanistan. The remains of a girl are discovered in a moor near the small German ... See full summary »
Director: Mareike Wegener | Stars: Valery Tscheplanowa, Ursula Werner, Andreas Döhler, Felix Römer
Votes: 54
Germany (German dialogue) F
62. Remember to Blink (2022)
109 min | Drama
A french couple adopt 2 lithuanian kids. To help them adapt they hire Gabi, a bilingual student. Cultural differences, mismatched attitudes, disparate values and diverse educational methods soon ignite conflicts between the adults.
Director: Austeja Urbaite | Stars: Ajus Antanavicius, Anne Azoulay, Arthur Igual, Dovile Kundrotaite
Votes: 85
Lithuania (Lithuanian and French dialogue) F
63. Soo (2022)
85 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Young artist Toomas returns from Paris to his cousin's marshland farmstead.
Director: Ergo Kuld | Stars: Franz Malmsten, Hanna-Ly Aavik, Helgur Rosental, Martin Kork
Votes: 293
Estonia (Estonian dialogue) F
64. A Place Called Silence (2022)
104 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Three students from Jing Mu Girls' Middle School go missing and turn up dead. Xiao Tong, a special education student with speech impairment, feels like someone is watching her. During the ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Quah | Stars: Jag Huang, Ivy Yin, Heme Liao, Liang-Chu Chi
Votes: 22
Malaysia (Mandarin dialogue) F
65. Six Characters (2022)
128 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
On a set filled with tension, a nervous director tries to shoot a horror movie. Meanwhile, six strangers suddenly appear who tell their story, explaining that they are the characters of the script left by a dead screenwriter.
Director: M.L. Pundhevanop Dhewakul | Stars: Mario Maurer, Khemanit Jamikorn, Taksaorn Paksukcharern, Sakarat Jumrus
Votes: 145
Thailand (Thai dialogue) F
66. December (IV) (2022)
99 min | Drama
A divorced husband and wife reunite to fight the release of their daughter's murderer.
Director: Anshul Chauhan | Stars: Shingo Fujimori, Takashi Kawaguchi, Tôru Kizu, Ryô Matsuura
Votes: 98
Japan (Japanese dialogue) F
67. A Wild Roomer (2022)
136 min | Drama
Gi Hong is a carpenter who makes his living by taking on small interior work. He has become close to the young landlord and his wife and spends more time hanging out with them. Meanwhile, small but strange things happen to Gi Hong.
Director: Jeong-Hong Lee | Stars: Gi-hong Park, Joomin Ahn, Jeon-gil Kim, Kyung-June Choi
Votes: 54
South Korea (Korean dialogue) F
68. Vlugtig (2021)
96 min | Thriller
Things take a turn for the unexpected when up-and-coming actor, Simon Berg, receives an invitation to be part of the cast of world renowned theatre director Andreas Vog's latest Red Riding Hood reinvention.
Director: Marinus Gubitz | Stars: Arno Greeff, Jane de Wet, Ernst Van Wyk, Simoné Pretorius
Votes: 9
South Africa (Afrikaans dialogue) F
69. A Hundred Flowers (2022)
104 min | Drama
New Year's Eve. Izumi finds his mother Yuriko wandering in a park in the freezing cold. Diagnosed with dementia, her mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son, memories of the mother ... See full summary »
Director: Genki Kawamura | Stars: Mieko Harada, Yuka Itaya, Misuzu Kanno, Yumi Kawai
Votes: 349
Japan (Japanese dialogue) F
70. Xalé (2022)
101 min | Drama
Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Sène Absa boldly inflects contemporary melodrama with traditional storytelling modes in this potent, music-filled tale of one woman's tragedy and transcendence.
Director: Moussa Sene Absa | Stars: Nguissaly Barry, Mabeye Diol, Ibrahima M'Baye, Rokhaya Niang
Votes: 33
Senegal (Wolof and French dialogue) F
71. Tel Aviv/Beirut (2022)
116 min | Drama
"Tel-Aviv/Beirut" is a historical drama set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict in 1982 and 2006. It depicts the journey of two families on each side of the border whose ... See full summary »
Director: Michale Boganim | Stars: Zalfa Seurat, Sarah Adler, Shlomi Elkabetz, Younes Bouab
Votes: 77
Israel (Hebrew dialogue) F
72. Orkester (2021)
111 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A small town orchestra goes on a tour to Austria - an accasion to escape their everyday lives, indulge in heavy partying and try to connect with their true emotions.
Director: Matevz Luzar | Stars: Gregor Zorc, Gregor Cusin, Jernej Kogovsek, Alexander Mitterer
Votes: 146
Slovenia (Slovene and German dialogue) F
73. Zhizn (2022)
175 min | Drama
A tech company that digitizes memories experiences a catastrophic data loss.
Director: Emir Baigazin | Stars: Yerkebulan Tasynov, Karina Huramshina, Yerzhan Burkutbayev, Tamerlan Tulegenov
Votes: 21
Kazakhstan (Kazakh dialogue) F
74. Shimoni (2022)
97 min | Drama
A teacher newly released from prison renegotiates the confines of the physical world while forced to face his nightmare in the flesh.
Director: Angela Wamai | Stars: Justin Mirichii, Muthoni Gathecha, Sam Psenjen, Vivian Wambui
Votes: 27
Kenya (Swahili, Kikuyu and English dialogue) F
75. Unruly (2022)
135 min | Drama
The year is 1933, and society has very specific expectations of how young women should behave. Seventeen-year-old Maren is wild and unruly, so she is sent to the women's institution on Sprogø to adapt. The stay has the opposite effect.
Director: Malou Reymann | Stars: Amalie Drud Abildgaard, Lene Maria Christensen, Danica Curcic, Jessica Dinnage
Votes: 681
Denmark (Danish dialogue) F
76. Driving Mum (2022)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
The death of Jon's mother forces him to take on a journey with her corpse in the backseat to fulfill her last wish. Bresnef the dog comes along and this trip will be the gamechanger Jon never dreamt of.
Director: Hilmar Oddsson | Stars: Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Hera Hilmar, Tómas Lemarquis
Votes: 391
Icelandic (Icelandic dialogue) F
77. Concrete Valley (2022)
90 min | Drama
Rashid, a doctor from Syria, struggles to adjust to his life in Canada after five years in Toronto's Thorncliffe Park with his wife Farah and son Ammar.
Director: Antoine Bourges | Stars: Hussam Douhna, Amani Ibrahim, Abdullah Nadaf, Limar Aswad
Votes: 19
Canada (English and Arabic dialogue) F
78. Heroic (2023)
88 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Luis, an 18-year-old boy with Indigenous roots, enters the Heroic Military College in hopes of ensuring a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to turn him into a perfect soldier
Director: David Zonana | Stars: Santiago Sandoval, Fernando Cuautle, Esteban Caicedo, Isabel Yudice
Votes: 1,236
Mexico (Spanish and Nahuatl dialogue) F
79. Gaga (2022)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
A widely-revered elder of an indigenous community in northeastern Taiwan, Hayung passes away in his sleep, leaving behind a family troubled with a land dispute and financial problems. His ... See full summary »
Director: Laha Mebow | Stars: Kagaw Piling, Wilang Lalin, Ting-li Lin, Gaki Baunky
Votes: 349
Taiwan (Mandarin, Atayal and Taiwanese Hokkien dialogue) F
80. Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim (2016)
98 min | Drama, Fantasy
Ali believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. Ali, his goat and his friend Ibrahim embark on a journey of friendship and self-discovery across Egypt to reverse the curse.
Director: Sherif Elbendary | Stars: Asser Yassin, Nahed El Sebaï, Salwa Mohamed Ali, Dana Abed
Votes: 783
Egypt (Arabic dialogue) F
81. Haruko Azumi Is Missing (2016)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Graffiti featuring Haruko Azumi in spray-painted "Missing Girl" posters appear on walls in town. At the same time, the rise of a gang of vicious high school girls with random attacks on men. Are they connected? The story goes viral.
Director: Daigo Matsui | Stars: Yû Aoi, Mitsuki Takahata, Shôno Hayama, Taiga Nakano
Votes: 334
Japan (Japanese dialogue) F
82. Out (III) (2017)
88 min | Drama
OUT is an odyssey about a 50-year-old family man Agoston wandering through East Europe. After losing his lifelong job in a power plant of a small Slovak village, Agoston takes the shady but... See full summary »
Director: György Kristóf | Stars: Sándor Terhes, Éva Bandor, Judit Bárdos, Ieva Norvele
Votes: 141
Slovakia (Slovak, Hungarian, Russian and Latvian dialogue) F
83. Die Wonderwerker (2012)
119 min | Drama
Die Wonderwerker tells the story of Eugène Marais, a famous Afrikaans writer, poet and researcher. The story focuses on the few months he spends on the Van Rooyen's farm, where he falls in love with the 19-year-old Jane Brayshaw.
Director: Katinka Heyns | Stars: Dawid Minnaar, Elize Cawood, Marius Weyers, Anneke Weidemann
Votes: 143
South Africa (Afrikaans dialogue) F
84. Chiara (2022)
106 min | Biography, History
A biography of St. Clare of Assisi, who left her wealthy family to become a nun after hearing St. Francis preach.
Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli | Stars: Margherita Mazzucco, Luigi Lo Cascio, Paolo Briguglia, Carlotta Natoli
Votes: 241
Italy (Italian and Latin dialogue) F
85. Have You Seen This Woman? (2022)
79 min | Drama
Through three different life possibilities, a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.
Directors: Matija Gluscevic, Dusan Zoric | Stars: Ksenija Marinkovic, Vladimir Jelic, Olga Odanovic, Nenad Ciric
Votes: 285
Serbia (Serbian dialogue) F
86. Circus of Life (2019)
138 min | Drama
Circus of Life provides a calm and detailed picture of challenging issues of a man who live in Lahore.
Director: Sarmad Sultan Khoosat | Stars: Arif Hassan, Samiya Mumtaz, Eman Suleman, Ali Kureshi
Votes: 498
Pakistan (Urdu and Punjabi dialogue) F
87. The Odd-Job Men (2021)
85 min | Comedy
A peculiar team of three handymen has to face a series of eccentric clients. Their everyday job becomes a surrealist and exhilarating experience.
Director: Neus Ballús | Stars: Mohamed Mellali, Valero Escolar, Pep Sarrà, Paqui Becerra
Votes: 599
Spain (Spanish, Catalan and Amazigh dialogue) F
88. Tlamess (2019)
120 min | Drama
S is a young soldier in the southern desert of Tunisia. When he learns about his mother's death, he obtains a week's leave and goes back home. He will never return to the camp.
Director: Alaeddine Slim | Stars: Abdullah Miniawy, Souhir Ben Amara, Khaled Benaissa, Mounir Ouni
Votes: 200
Tunisia (Arabic dialogue) F
89. Timing (II) (2014)
99 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery
Three people with different mysteries abilities want to solve the mystery of a mass suicide in order to prevent another one.
Director: Min Kyung-Jo | Stars: Ji-yoon Park, Sang Hyun Uhm, Seong Wan-Kyeong, Sim Gyoo-Hyeok
Votes: 32
South Korea (Korean dialogue) F
90. Rosie (2022)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
An orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone auntie and her two best friends in 80's Montreal.
Director: Gail Maurice | Stars: Melanie Bray, Keris Hope Hill, Constant Bernard, Alex Trahan
Votes: 74
Canada (French, English and Cree dialogue) F
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