The Etruscan Smile
2018 (Fiction, Drama)

Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. He moves in with his estranged son Ian, as he sees his life getting transformed through a newfound bond with his baby grandson.

Brian Cox, JJ Feild, Thora Birch, Rosanna Arquette

7 wins & 3 nominations

Russian Disco
2012 (Fiction, Comedy)

Following Russian immigrant narrator Wladimir as he and his friends navigate Berlin around the time of German Reunification, Russendisko holds plotlines pertaining to the lives and relationships of himself and those close to him.

Matthias Schweighöfer, Friedrich Mücke, Christian Friedel

1 win & 2 nominations

Feathered Fan and Silken Ribbon
2009 (Documentary Feature)

Portraits of four performers of Beijing opera. Two of them are still students of the Beijing opera school, and two are recent graduates. Through opera the film provides a glance at the past half century of Chinese history.

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The Children of Huang Shi
2008 (Fiction, Drama)

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun Fat

1 win & 3 nominations

The Yellow Handkerchief
2008 (Fiction, Drama)

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart

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The Chorus
2004 (Fiction, Drama)

Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.

Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 12 wins & 24 nominations total

Behind The Sun
2001 (Fiction, Drama)

When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.

José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Rita Assemany

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award and 1 Golden Globe. 9 wins & 22 nominations total

One Day in September
1999 (Documentary Feature)

The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey

Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 7 nominations total

Children of the Night
1999 (Documentary Short)

Black and white images of children, in lines, fill the screen while a woman’s voice challenges us to look at them, some of the one million children who died during the Holocaust. Some look healthy, but more and more images of archival photographs and film show emaciated children, many alone on the street; they are anonymous. The film concludes with a a series of individual children’s photographs with documentation of their deaths; born across Europe, dying in concentration camps, on journeys there, in pogroms, or on city streets of disease or starvation, none older than 12.

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Central Station
1998 (Fiction, Drama)

The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra

Nominated for 2 Oscars, Winner Golden Globe. 44 wins & 26 nominations total

White Lies
1997 (Fiction, Comedy)

A young black man pretends he is an art student in order to pick up girls at the Guggenheim Museum. When the attractive – and white – assistant director of a SoHo gallery overhears him, she assumes he is an artist and offers to exhibit his work. He plays along when she suggests how much he could earn from “his” paintings. Within days he’s living a double life, paying a formally-trained artist junkie for her rejected works, and falling in love with the assistant director. Things very quickly get way out of hand.

Julie Warner, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Terry Kinney

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Two Bits
1995 (Fiction, Drama)

Gennaro lives with his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter. But grandpa’s not ready to die, he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.

Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Jerry Barone

1 nomination total

November Days
1991 (Documentary Feature)

Marcel Ophuls interviews various important Eastern German figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

Anne Blaurock, Bärbel Bohley, Barbara Berg

1 win total.

American Dream
1990 (Documentary Feature)

Recounts the 1985-86 strike against the Hormel Foods Corporation in Minnesota after its employees’ wages and benefits were cut.

Lewie Anderson, R.J. Bergstrom, Ron Bergstrom

Won 1 Oscar. 12 wins & 3 nominations total.

Love on the Ground
1984 (Fiction, Drama)

A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.

Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier

1 nomination total

Dangerous Moves
1984 (Fiction, Drama)

During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites – personal and political.

Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann

Won 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 3 nominations total.

The Final Solution
1981 (Documentary Feature)

With a great archive footage coming from 16 countries, this Oscar nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler’s rise to the power.

Alexander Scourby, Holger Hagen, Helga Mayer-Maynard

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 1 nomination total.

The Adoption
1979 (Fiction, Drama)

A couple takes on a homeless teenager. The trio forms a family-like community that seems to work extremely informally and without many regulations. But then the harmonic situation escalates as the boy falls in love with his “adoptive mother”.

Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier

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Black and White in Color
1976 (Fiction, Comedy)

During World War I, French colonists lost in African desert decide to attack their German neighbors.

Jean Carmet, Jacques Dufilho, Catherine Rouvel

Won 1 Oscar. 1 win & 2 nominations total.

A Brief Vacation
1973 (Fiction, Drama)

Clara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life.

Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud

5 wins & 1 nomination total.

We’ll Call Him Andrew
1972 (Fiction, Comedy)

Paolo and Maria are two primary school teachers and they love each other, but cannot have a child.

Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato, Anna Maria Aragona

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970 (Fiction, Drama)

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy’s 1930s.

Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger

Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 3 nominations total

Sunflower
1970 (Fiction, Drama)

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.

Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 2 nominations total.

Clown
1968 (Live Action Short)

This is a silent short film about a young boy who loses his dog and frantically searches for him until he finds him in a bittersweet reunion.

Gilou Pelletier, Christian Hay, Viviane Landford

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A Place for Lovers
1968 (Fiction, Drama)

Julia, a fashion designer harboring a secret, spends ten days of passion in the Alps with Valerio, a race car driver, in what will be their last vacation together.

Marcello Mastroianni, Faye Dunaway, Enrico Simonetti

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Woman Times Seven
1967 (Fiction, Comedy)

Seven portraits of different types of women.

Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March

1 Golden Globe nomination (Shirley MacLaine, Best Actress) total.

Paris Secret
1965 (Documentary Feature)

A shockumentary about what happens in Paris that even Parisian never see.

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Mit Karl May im Orient
1963 (TV Series)

Kara and his companion Halef are pursuing Hamd el Amasat, the murderer of business man Galingré. When they arrive at the dangerous Salt Lake they meet the droll archaeologist Sir David Lindsay and his beautiful secretary, Nelly.

Jerka Borosch, Harry Walther, Osman Ragheb

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The Sky Above, The Mud Below
1961 (Documentary Feature)

In this Academy Award-winning documentary, six Europeans left Cook’s Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea to trek north to the far side of the island. The journey across unmapped territory took seven months, and the expedition met villagers who invited them to observe rituals and live with them. They climbed above 10,000 feet, built 14 bridges, and fought leeches and malaria.

Gerard Delloye, Tony Saulnier, Herve de Maigret

Won 1 Oscar. 1 win & 1 nomination total.