The Etruscan Smile
2018
Russendisko
2012
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
The Children of Huang Shi
2008
The Yellow Handkerchief
2008
The Chorus
2004
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
One Day in September
1999
Children of the Night
1999
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
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. 44 wins & 26 nominations total
White Lies
1997
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
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
American Dream
1990
Love on the Ground
1984
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
The Final Solution
1981
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
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
N/A
Black and White in Color
1976
A Brief Vacation
1973
We’ll Call Him Andrew
1972
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970
Sunflower
1970
Clown
1968
A Place for Lovers
1968
Woman Times Seven
1967
Paris Secret
1965
The Sky Above, The Mud Below
1961
In September, 1959, six Europeans leave Cook’s Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua or Irian Jaya, to trek north to the far side of the island. The journey (450 miles, as a crow flies) across unmapped territory took seven months; three Muyu porters died. Near both coasts, the expedition met villagers who invited them to observe rituals and live with them. In the interior, all villagers kept them at bay, and they depended on air lifts from Hollandia for food and supplies. They climbed above 10,000 feet, built 14 bridges, and fought leeches and malaria. The narrator focuses on describing Stone Age natives, headhunters, and cannibals.
Gerard Delloye, Tony Saulnier, Herve de Maigret
Won 1 Oscar. 1 win & 1 nomination total.