Golden Bear Prize Winners
by patriciogarzam | created - 14 Sep 2015 | updated - 14 Sep 2015 | PublicThe Golden Bear Prize is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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1. Taxi (III) (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Jafar Panahi, Nasrin Sotoudeh
Votes: 16,532 | Gross: $0.32M
2. Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
Director: Yi'nan Diao | Stars: Fan Liao, Gwei Lun-Mei, Xuebing Wang, Jingchun Wang
Votes: 9,571
3. Child's Pose (2013)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.
Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer | Stars: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia
Votes: 8,853 | Gross: $0.09M
4. Caesar Must Die (2012)
Unrated | 77 min | Drama
Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca
Votes: 6,860
5. A Separation (2011)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini
Votes: 258,448 | Gross: $7.10M
6. Honey (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.
Director: Semih Kaplanoglu | Stars: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen, Ayse Altay
Votes: 7,479
7. The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
94 min | Drama, Music
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. ... See full summary »
Director: Claudia Llosa | Stars: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Marino Ballón
Votes: 7,345 | Gross: $0.01M
8. Elite Squad (2007)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.
Director: José Padilha | Stars: Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira, Milhem Cortaz
Votes: 110,215 | Gross: $0.01M
9. Tuya's Marriage (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Set in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care of her, as well as her disabled husband.
Director: Quan'an Wang | Stars: Nan Yu, Ba'toer, Sen'ge, Bao'lier
Votes: 2,479 | Gross: $0.09M
10. Grbavica (2006)
90 min | Drama
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
Director: Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Kenan Catic
Votes: 6,884 | Gross: $0.04M
11. U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
122 min | Musical, Drama, Romance
A version of Georges Bizet's Carmen, set in a modern-day South African township.
Director: Mark Dornford-May | Stars: Pauline Malefane, Andile Tshoni, Lungelwa Blou, Zweilungile Sidloyi
Votes: 742
12. Head-On (2004)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Güven Kiraç, Zarah Jane McKenzie
Votes: 57,647
13. In This World (2002)
R | 88 min | Drama
A refugee family is trying to reach more peaceful lands illegally inside trucks.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha, Hiddayatullah
Votes: 4,408
14. Bloody Sunday (2002)
R | 111 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Allan Gildea
Votes: 25,750 | Gross: $0.77M
15. Spirited Away (2001)
PG | 125 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi
Votes: 848,846 | Gross: $10.06M
16. Intimacy (2001)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A failed London musician meets once a week with a woman for a series of intense sexual encounters to get away from the realities of life. But when he begins inquiring about her, it puts their relationship at risk.
Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Susannah Harker, Alastair Galbraith
Votes: 13,144 | Gross: $0.10M
17. Magnolia (1999)
R | 188 min | Drama
An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Votes: 330,187 | Gross: $22.46M
18. The Thin Red Line (1998)
R | 170 min | Drama, History, War
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Kirk Acevedo
Votes: 200,654 | Gross: $36.40M
19. Central Station (1998)
R | 110 min | 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.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Soia Lira
Votes: 42,300 | Gross: $5.60M
20. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
PG | 136 min | Drama, Romance
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 125,668 | Gross: $43.18M
21. The Bait (1995)
Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama
Three teenagers plan to steal the necessary funds to open their dream shop in the US, but things get messy.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk, Bruno Putzulu, Richard Berry
Votes: 2,404 | Gross: $0.04M
22. In the Name of the Father (1993)
R | 133 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie, Philip King
Votes: 187,047 | Gross: $25.01M
23. The Wedding Banquet (1993)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung
Votes: 17,131 | Gross: $6.93M
24. Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993)
105 min | Drama
If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. ... See full summary »
Director: Fei Xie | Stars: Siqin Gaowa, Yujuan Wu, Kesheng Lei, Baoguo Chen
Votes: 404
25. Grand Canyon (1991)
R | 134 min | Crime, Drama
The fates of several people are randomly intertwining. Their sympathy of each other faces multiple differences in their lifestyles.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell
Votes: 16,703 | Gross: $33.24M
26. The House of Smiles (1991)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Dado Ruspoli, Enzo Cannavale, Nuccia Fumo
Votes: 307
27. Larks on a String (1969)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská
Votes: 2,183
28. Music Box (1989)
PG-13 | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat
Votes: 8,713 | Gross: $6.26M
29. Rain Man (1988)
R | 133 min | Drama
After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
Votes: 546,408 | Gross: $178.80M
30. Red Sorghum (1988)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, History, Romance
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng, Ji Liu
Votes: 9,870
31. The Theme (1979)
99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A playwright faces writer's block.
Director: Gleb Panfilov | Stars: Mikhail Ulyanov, Inna Churikova, Evgeniy Vesnik, Yevgeniya Nechayeva
Votes: 586
32. Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial (1986)
107 min | Crime, Drama
Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Hans Kremer, Therese Affolter, Ulrich Pleitgen
Votes: 497
33. Wetherby (1985)
R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Director: David Hare | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Marjorie Yates
Votes: 1,763 | Gross: $1.30M
34. The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
98 min | Drama, History
Karl and Richard, two German soldiers captured by the Russians in World War I, become very close friends-so close that Richard shares intimate stories about his wife, Anna. Through these ... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Simon | Stars: Joachim Lätsch, Peter Zimmermann, Kathrin Waligura, Christine Schorn
Votes: 157
35. La colmena (1982)
105 min | Drama
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Camus | Stars: Victoria Abril, Ana Belén, Concha Velasco, Francisco Rabal
Votes: 1,161
36. Ascendancy (1983)
92 min | Drama
Connie is a member of the British landowning "Ascendancy" in Ireland after WWI. Through a chance friendship with a British soldier, she learns how sheltered she has been, and chooses to ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: Julie Covington, Ian Charleson, John Phillips, Susan Engel
Votes: 75
37. Veronika Voss (1982)
R | 104 min | Drama
Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports journalist.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer
Votes: 7,785
38. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Berta Socuéllamos, Jose Antonio Valdelomar González, Jesús Arias, José María Hervás Roldán
Votes: 1,777
39. Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
173 min | Drama
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Ida Di Benedetto, Magdalena Montezuma
Votes: 270
40. Heartland (1979)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Western
A widow with a young daughter travels to a ranch in Wyoming to manage the household of a rancher. After a while the man and woman develop a relationship that leads to a marriage. But life in the harsh place takes its toll.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell, Barry Primus, Megan Folsom
Votes: 1,240
41. David (1979)
125 min | Drama, War
David (Mario Fischel), the son of a local rabbi (Walter Taub), sees the rise in anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany, but it isn't until his father's synagogue is burned down and his mother (... See full summary »
Director: Peter Lilienthal | Stars: Mario Fischel, Walter Taub, Irena Vrkljan, Eva Mattes
Votes: 171
42. What Max Said (1978)
93 min | Drama
A middle-aged man who has reached a crisis point in his domestic life tries to reassemble his past.
Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Stars: Ignacio Fernández de Castro, Myriam De Maeztu, Gracia Querejeta, Cecilia Villarreal
Votes: 105
43. Las truchas (1978)
R | 99 min | Comedy
In a restaurant they're preparing a grand banquet in honor of a sports association of anglers, but several circumstances seem to have conspired to boycott the event.
Director: José Luis García Sánchez | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Juan Amigo, Ofelia Angélica, Carmen Arévalo
Votes: 143
44. The Ascent (1977)
111 min | Drama, War
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Votes: 10,131
45. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
PG | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Harvey Keitel
Votes: 5,290
46. Adoption (1975)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh, Péter Fried, László Szabó
Votes: 1,486
47. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid
Votes: 2,708 | Gross: $0.85M
48. Distant Thunder (1988)
R | 114 min | Drama
John Lithgow stars and Ralph Macchio co-stars as his son. Their uneasy reunion accidentally sparks war-haunted violence, and they share a harrowing fight for survival that will either destroy them or unify them forever.
Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: John Lithgow, Ralph Macchio, Kerrie Keane, Reb Brown
Votes: 832 | Gross: $0.16M
49. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
NC-17 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti
Votes: 8,227
50. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
R | 94 min | Drama, History, War
The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi
Votes: 7,668 | Gross: $0.60M
51. Early Works (1969)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of young persons are going to make a revolution, but in real life everything is not the same as in smart books.
Director: Zelimir Zilnik | Stars: Milja Vujanovic, Bogdan Tirnanic, Cedomir Radovic, Marko Nikolic
Votes: 483
52. Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
110 min | Drama
A weak and tormented teacher is pushed to the limit by his obnoxious students.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Per Oscarsson, Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, Kerstin Tidelius, Bengt Ekerot
Votes: 655
53. The Departure (1967)
93 min | Drama, Romance, Comedy
A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche under him for his nearing debut race.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine-Isabelle Duport, Jacqueline Bir, Paul Roland
Votes: 1,075
54. Cul-de-sac (1966)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
In search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran
Votes: 13,964
55. Alphaville (1965)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Valérie Boisgel
Votes: 27,728 | Gross: $0.05M
56. Dry Summer (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A farmer has a violent dispute with his fellow villagers by claiming ownership of the water that comes out of his land. He is as sexually frustrated as greedy.
Director: Metin Erksan | Stars: Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan, Alaettin Altiok
Votes: 5,688
57. Bushido (1963)
122 min | Action, Drama
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realizes that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
Director: Tadashi Imai | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 505
58. To Bed or Not to Bed (1963)
103 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Sordi gives a deep and touching comic performance as an Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden for the first time to attend the annual fur auctions in Stockholm. The movie depicts the ... See full summary »
Director: Gian Luigi Polidoro | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Gunilla Elm-Tornkvist, Anne-Charlotte Sjöberg, Barbro Wastenson
Votes: 339
59. A Kind of Loving (1962)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Bert Palmer
Votes: 2,690 | Gross: $0.00M
60. La Notte (1961)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki
Votes: 24,150 | Gross: $0.04M
61. Lazarillo (1959)
114 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who must live by his wits after being sold to a series of cruel masters.
Director: César Fernández Ardavín | Stars: Marco Paoletti, Juanjo Menéndez, Carlos Casaravilla, Memmo Carotenuto
Votes: 180
62. The Cousins (1959)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble
Votes: 3,245
63. Wild Strawberries (1957)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand
Votes: 114,930
64. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Votes: 864,539 | Gross: $4.36M
65. Invitation to the Dance (1956)
93 min | Animation, Fantasy, Musical
Three different stories are told through a notably unusual way - no words, just dance.
Directors: Gene Kelly, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Gene Kelly, Igor Youskevitch, Claire Sombert, Tamara Toumanova
Votes: 1,013 | Gross: $0.60M
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