Berlinale Forever!
by dziwnytenswiat | created - 29 Feb 2020 | updated - 17 Feb 2021 | PublicAll films, which I saw at the Berlinale for the first time.
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1. 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: 258,560 | Gross: $7.10M
Winner Golden Berlin Bear; Silver Bear Best Actress; Silver Bear Best Actor; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
2. The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.
Director: Felix van Groeningen | Stars: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert Van Rampelberg
Votes: 43,326 | Gross: $0.18M
Winner Label Europa Cinemas; Winner Panorama Audience Award
3. My Life Without Me (2003)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Mark Ruffalo, Leonor Watling
Votes: 25,843 | Gross: $0.40M
Winner Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
4. Away from Her (2006)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent, Stacey LaBerge
Votes: 23,083 | Gross: $4.57M
5. War Witch (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War
Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
Director: Kim Nguyen | Stars: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Ralph Prosper
Votes: 7,565 | Gross: $0.07M
Silver Bear Best Actress; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention
6. How I Ended This Summer (2010)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama
One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't communicate.
Director: Alexei Popogrebsky | Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich, Artyom Tsukanov
Votes: 6,996 | Gross: $0.01M
Silver Bear Best Actor; Silver Bear Outstanding Artistic Achievement for the Camera
7. Live and Become (2005)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama
A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe
Votes: 6,310
Winner Panorama Audience Award; Winner Label Europa Cinemas; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
8. The Debt (1999)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
Two entrepreneurs become tangled in the web of a Russian thug.
Director: Krzysztof Krauze | Stars: Robert Gonera, Jacek Borcuch, Andrzej Chyra, Cezary Kosinski
Votes: 3,935
9. 1945 (2017)
91 min | Drama
12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.
Director: Ferenc Török | Stars: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Dóra Sztarenki
Votes: 4,292 | Gross: $1.01M
10. Broken Wings (2002)
R | 87 min | Drama
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Director: Nir Bergman | Stars: Orly Silbersatz, Maya Maron, Nitai Gvirtz, Daniel Magon
Votes: 2,493 | Gross: $0.41M
Winner C.I.C.A.E. Award; Winner Panorama Audience Award; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
11. Lichter (2003)
105 min | Drama
This movie reflects on the situation around the border between Poland and Germany. The fate of many single characters creates a picture of life in this region: Some Ukrainians want to cross... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Andrzej Górak, Anna Yanovskaya, Sergey Frolov, Bartek Wójtowicz
Votes: 2,107
Winner FIPRESCI Prize
12. Mug (2018)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
A man undergoes a face transplant and experiences ensuing identity issues.
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Malgorzata Gorol, Roman Gancarczyk
Votes: 2,806
Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix
13. En la ciudad sin límites (2002)
Unrated | 125 min | Drama
Victor is a man who gets to Paris to join his family around their seriously ill father, Max. As the chance of selling the family business begins to disrupt the family relationships, Victor ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Hernández | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Fernández
Votes: 2,093
14. Ana, My Love (2017)
125 min | Drama, Romance
Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty and quickly fall in love.
Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer | Stars: Mircea Postelnicu, Diana Cavallioti, Tania Popa, Igor Caras-Romanov
Votes: 2,426
Silver Bear Outstanding Artistic Contribution - Editor
15. Kabei: Our Mother (2008)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama
Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mayumi Tanaka, Chieko Baishô, Mirai Shida
Votes: 1,518 | Gross: $0.01M
16. Zuo you (2008)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A divorced couple learns that the way to possibly save daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. Problem is: They're both already remarried.
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Weiwei Liu, Jia-yi Zhang, Nan Yu, Taishen Cheng
Votes: 773
Silver Bear Best Screenplay; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention
17. There Is No Evil (2020)
151 min | Drama
The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Zhila Shahi, Baran Rasoulof, Mahtab Servati, Ehsan Mirhosseini
Votes: 6,159
Winner Golden Berlin Bear; Winner Guild Film Prize; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
18. The Kids Are All Right (2010)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko | Stars: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska
Votes: 134,443 | Gross: $20.81M
Winner Teddy Award Best Feature Film
19. About Elly (2009)
TV-PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zare'i
Votes: 57,169 | Gross: $0.11M
Silver Bear Best Director
20. Thesis (1996)
R | 125 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga
Votes: 42,475
21. Paradise Now (2005)
PG-13 | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Hamza Abu-Aiaash
Votes: 24,074 | Gross: $1.45M
Amnesty International Film Prize; Winner Blue Angel
22. Turtles Can Fly (2004)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, War
Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Votes: 20,758 | Gross: $0.26M
Crystal Bear - Special Mention 14plus: Best Feature Film; Peace Film Award
23. Katyn (2007)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, History, War
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka
Votes: 17,415 | Gross: $0.12M
24. I'm Not Scared (2003)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Riccardo Zinna
Votes: 15,553 | Gross: $1.62M
25. 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: 16,542 | Gross: $0.32M
Winner Golden Berlin Bear; Winner FIPRESCI Prize
26. Even the Rain (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, History
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
Director: Icíar Bollaín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri
Votes: 14,222 | Gross: $0.56M
Winner Panorama Audience Award
27. Submarino (2010)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Two brothers meet at their mother's funeral, each in his way on a path of self-destruction, both haunted by a tragedy in their youth.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Gustav Fischer Kjærulff, Sebastian Bull, Mads Broe Andersen, Jakob Cedergren
Votes: 11,590
28. Suicide Room (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
After suffering extreme humiliation at school, Dominik holes himself up in his room and begins spending all his time in a virtual reality chat room.
Director: Jan Komasa | Stars: Jakub Gierszal, Roma Gasiorowska, Agata Kulesza, Christoph Pieczynski
Votes: 11,563
29. Offside (2006)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Mohammad Asarian
Votes: 8,607 | Gross: $0.18M
Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix
30. Innocent Voices (2004)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Xuna Primus, Gustavo Muñoz
Votes: 8,195 | Gross: $0.84M
Winner Crystal Bear 14plus: Best Feature Film
31. Fateless (2005)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance, War
14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.
Director: Lajos Koltai | Stars: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény
Votes: 7,156 | Gross: $0.20M
32. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
PG | 110 min | Drama
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.
Director: Cao Hamburger | Stars: Michel Joelsas, Germano Haiut, Daniela Piepszyk, Paulo Autran
Votes: 6,659 | Gross: $0.76M
33. 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: 6,886 | Gross: $0.04M
Winner Golden Berlin Bear; Winner Peace Film Award; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
34. Circles (2013)
112 min | Drama
The impact of a selfless deed of benevolence and heroism right in the middle of the raging Bosnian war inextricably intertwines the lives of five people who are still affected by its consequences, over a decade later.
Director: Srdan Golubovic | Stars: Aleksandar Bercek, Dejan Cukic, Leon Lucev, Nebojsa Glogovac
Votes: 5,206
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
35. Beijing Bicycle (2001)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Lin Cui, Xun Zhou, Bin Li, Yuanyuan Gao
Votes: 4,744 | Gross: $0.16M
Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix
36. Solas (1999)
R | 101 min | Drama
While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother stays with her estranged daughter, Maria, who fled her parents rural home in Andalusia because she could no longer bear her father's abusiveness and her mother's passivity.
Director: Benito Zambrano | Stars: María Galiana, Ana Fernández, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, Antonio Dechent
Votes: 3,882 | Gross: $0.37M
Winner Panorama Audience Award; Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury; C.I.C.A.E. Award - Recommendation
37. Pan Tadeusz (1999)
Not Rated | 147 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Grazyna Szapolowska, Andrzej Seweryn
Votes: 3,713
38. Piranhas (2019)
111 min | Crime, Drama
A gang of teenage boys stalks the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding.
Director: Claudio Giovannesi | Stars: Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Balzo, Ciro Vecchione
Votes: 5,305 | Gross: $0.02M
Silver Bear Best Screenplay
39. Skirt Day (2008)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
'Skirt Day' is a fascinating psychological study, a socio-critical investigation - and Isabelle Adjani's first film in five years.
Director: Jean-Paul Lilienfeld | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydès, Khalid Berkouz, Yann Ebongé
Votes: 2,709
40. Mr. Jones (2019)
119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 16,247
41. So Long, My Son (2019)
185 min | Drama
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Xi Qi, Roy Wang
Votes: 5,278
Silver Bear Best Actress; Silver Bear Best Actor
42. Body (2015)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A busy attorney, worried that his anorexic daughter Olga might try to harm herself, since she's still grieving over her recently deceased mother, sends her to see a psychiatrist, Anna, who's dealing with her own loss in an unusual way.
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska | Stars: Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala, Ewa Dalkowska
Votes: 2,537 | Gross: $0.00M
Silver Bear Best Director
43. Hostages (2017)
103 min | Crime, Drama, History
The movie describes real events that took place in 1983, when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attempted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The ... See full summary »
Director: Rezo Gigineishvili | Stars: Irakli Kvirikadze, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Avtandil Makharadze, Merab Ninidze
Votes: 2,051
44. Dovlatov (2018)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama
The film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice.
Director: Aleksey German Jr. | Stars: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovskiy, Helena Sujecka, Eva Gerr
Votes: 2,223
Silver Bear Outstanding Artistic Contribution for costume and production design
45. Kan shang qu hen mei (2006)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
A young boy starting school for the first time struggles to fit in to a strictly regimented society in in post-revolutionary China.
Director: Yuan Zhang | Stars: Bowen Dong, Yuanyuan Ning, Manyuan Chen, Rui Zhao
Votes: 1,557
Winner C.I.C.A.E. Award
46. Storm (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosnians. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane, Rolf Lassgård
Votes: 1,389 | Gross: $0.02M
Amnesty International Film Prize; Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
47. Tatarak (2009)
85 min | Drama
In small-town Poland in the late 1950s, an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor meets a young man who makes her feel young again. Framed around this story, lead actress Krystyna Janda discusses the death of her husband from cancer.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Pawel Szajda, Jan Englert, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak
Votes: 1,493
Alfred Bauer Award
48. A Family (2010)
102 min | Drama
A successful Danish family faces agonizing choices when its charismatic patriarch falls ill.
Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen | Stars: Jesper Christensen, Lene Maria Christensen, Pilou Asbæk, Anne Louise Hassing
Votes: 1,333
Winner FIPRESCI Prize
49. Illegitimate (2016)
89 min | Drama
Two siblings and an illegitimate love. A father who's a doctor and several accusations. A family in which no one ever drew a line between what's moral and what's legal. Not even when it comes to abortion.
Director: Adrian Sitaru | Stars: Adrian Titieni, Alina Grigore, Robi Urs, Bogdan Albulescu
Votes: 1,601
Winner C.I.C.A.E. Award
50. Close-Knit (2017)
127 min | Drama
Tomo, an 11-year old girl, discovers her mother has abandoned her. Tomo's uncle and his transgender girlfriend, Rinko, take her in. Together they tackle the task of knitting 108 of Rinko's special hopes and dreams, one stitch at a time.
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Tôma Ikuta, Kenta Kiritani, Mugi Kadowaki, Eiko Koike
Votes: 1,953
Winner Teddy Jury Award - Special Jury Award
51. Jestem (2005)
93 min | Drama
A self-reliable 11-year-old boy runs away from children's home to be with his dysfunctional mother. She doesn't want him back so he starts living on an old barge.
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Piotr Jagielski, Agnieszka Nagórzycka, Edyta Jungowska, Barbara Szkaluba
Votes: 1,053
Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Mention
52. The Other Side of the Street (2004)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A retired woman spends her days snooping everybody in her neighborhood as a police informant. When she thinks she sees a man murder a woman, but the death is seen as natural by the police, she decides to prove she was right.
Director: Marcos Bernstein | Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Raul Cortez, Laura Cardoso, Luiz Carlos Persy
Votes: 997
Winner C.I.C.A.E. Award
53. The Best of All Worlds (2017)
100 min | Biography, Drama
Seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of the Austrian city Salzburg, famous for culture and classical music.
Director: Adrian Goiginger | Stars: Verena Altenberger, Jeremy Miliker, Lukas Miko, Michael Pink
Votes: 1,108
Winner Compass-Perspektive Award
54. Stitches (2019)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
Ana is convinced that she and other Serbian women had their newborn babies stolen, to be given up for illegal adoption for money. Her obsession to find the truth will risk her relationship with her husband and her daughter.
Director: Miroslav Terzic | Stars: Snezana Bogdanovic, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Marko Bacovic, Vesna Trivalic
Votes: 1,241
55. Cold Light (2004)
90 min | Drama
What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. One that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
Director: Hilmar Oddsson | Stars: Ingvar Sigurdsson, Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir, Ruth Olafsdottir, Steinunn Harðardóttir
Votes: 613
56. Chorus (2015)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A separate couple meet again after ten years when we found the body of their missing son. During their forced reunion, they both handle the death of their child in their own way. Amid the ... See full summary »
Director: François Delisle | Stars: Luc Senay, Simon Poitras, Didier Lucien, Sébastien Ricard
Votes: 512
57. Panna Nikt (1996)
98 min | Drama
A devout Catholic peasant girl is corrupted by two new friends when her family moves to the city. An allegory of traditional Polish values under threat from materialism and decadence in the post-Communist era.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Anna Wielgucka, Anna Mucha, Anna Powierza, Stanislawa Celinska
Votes: 489
Special Mention Anna Wielgucka for the promising performance of a young actress
58. Piao liang ma ma (2000)
90 min | Drama
Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces.
Director: Zhou Sun | Stars: Gong Li, Xin Gao, Jingming Shi, Yue Guan
Votes: 478
59. White Deer Plain (2011)
220 min | Drama, History
In the White Deer Village in Shaanxi Province the two most important families - Bai and Lu - and their sons have always lived together in peace. But the turmoil leads to a fierce struggle for land ownership.
Director: Quan'an Wang | Stars: Fengyi Zhang, Yuqi Zhang, Gang Wu, Yihong Duan
Votes: 450
Silver Bear Outstanding Artistic Achievement for Photography
60. Genezis (2018)
120 min | Drama
The three stories within Genesis are rooted in the biblical notion of family: a woman in her late thirties rediscovers the faith she lost as a child; a mother goes to extreme lengths to ... See full summary »
Director: Árpád Bogdán | Stars: Milán Csordás, Anna Marie Cseh, Eniko Anna Illesi, Lídia Danis
Votes: 394
61. Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
118 min | Adventure, Drama
Three young boys, who live on the mean streets of Ukraine, embark on an journey to cross the border into Poland.
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Oleg Ryba, Yevgeniy Ryba, Akhmed Sardalov, Stanislaw Sojka
Votes: 276
Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix; Peace Film Award
62. Nienasycenie (2003)
Unrated | 125 min | Drama
Zypcio is an idealistic heir to a large brewery in Poland. In the face of Chinese invasion threatening Eastern Europe, he is corrupted by the advances of both Princess Irina, who is after ... See full summary »
Director: Wiktor Grodecki | Stars: Cezary Pazura, Michal Lewandowski, Katarzyna Gniewkowska, Weronika Marczuk-Pazura
Votes: 257
63. Layla Fourie (2013)
Not Rated | 107 min | Thriller
Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.
Director: Pia Marais | Stars: Rayna Campbell, August Diehl, Rapule Hendricks, Terry Norton
Votes: 221
Special Mention International Jury
64. A Hot Roof (1995)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
In a suburban apartment on the hottest day of the century, the women are fanning and chatting in one spot and the men are drinking and scratching in another. Soon violence erupts as a ... See full summary »
Director: Min-Yong Lee | Stars: Lee Beom-su, Bo-Suk Chung, Sun-Kyoung Chung, You-Mi Ha
Votes: 122
65. Born in Evin (2019)
95 min | Documentary
Filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, and her quest to find out the circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
Director: Maryam Zaree | Stars: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Maryam Zaree, Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg
Votes: 185
66. Submarine (2010)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: to lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.
Director: Richard Ayoade | Stars: Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Noah Taylor
Votes: 96,540 | Gross: $0.47M
67. Candy (2006)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Director: Neil Armfield | Stars: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge
Votes: 47,747 | Gross: $0.04M
68. Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
R | 110 min | Drama
On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.
Director: Jake Scott | Stars: James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, Melissa Leo, David Jensen
Votes: 25,273 | Gross: $0.15M
69. Ben X (2007)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.
Director: Nic Balthazar | Stars: Marijke Pinoy, Greg Timmermans, Cesar De Sutter, Gilles De Schryver
Votes: 19,380 | Gross: $0.00M
70. Tomboy (2011)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani
Votes: 22,274 | Gross: $0.13M
Winner Teddy Jury Award
71. City of Men (2007)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Director: Paulo Morelli | Stars: Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen, Rodrigo dos Santos
Votes: 16,296 | Gross: $0.31M
72. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Mike Binder, Winona Ryder
Votes: 14,225
73. The Second Mother (2015)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Director: Anna Muylaert | Stars: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila
Votes: 16,712 | Gross: $0.38M
Winner Panorama Audience Award; C.I.C.A.E. Award
74. The Women on the 6th Floor (2010)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy
In 1960s Paris, a conservative couple's lives are turned upside down by a group of Spanish maids that live in the same building.
Director: Philippe Le Guay | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Carmen Maura
Votes: 10,704 | Gross: $0.72M
75. The Trap (2007)
Not Rated | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.
Director: Srdan Golubovic | Stars: Nebojsa Glogovac, Natasa Ninkovic, Anica Dobra, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic
Votes: 10,271
76. My One and Only (2009)
PG-13 | 108 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy
After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.
Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Mark Rendall, Kevin Bacon
Votes: 9,422 | Gross: $2.48M
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention
77. Gloria (II) (2013)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla, Fabiola Zamora
Votes: 9,370 | Gross: $2.11M
Silver Bear Best Actress; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury; Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
78. 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
Winner Golden Berlin Bear; FIPRESCI Prize
79. A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ulrik's released from prison after 12 years for murder. Will he go straight? He gets a room and a job as mechanic. He hooks up with his old gang. His son introduces him as uncle to his pregnant fiancée.
Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Jorunn Kjellsby, Gard B. Eidsvold
Votes: 7,325 | Gross: $0.04M
Winner Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost"
80. Lemon Tree (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, War
The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemontree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down.
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Hiam Abbass, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Ali Suliman, Doron Tavory
Votes: 6,880 | Gross: $0.57M
Winner Panorama Audience Award
81. Summer 1993 (2017)
97 min | Drama, Family
After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.
Director: Carla Simón | Stars: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí, David Verdaguer
Votes: 8,462 | Gross: $0.18M
Winner Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury; Winner Best First Feature Award
82. Sometimes in April (2005 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 140 min | Drama, History, War
When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete, Oris Erhuero
Votes: 6,045
83. Beaufort (2007)
Unrated | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.
Director: Joseph Cedar | Stars: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Ohad Knoller
Votes: 4,840 | Gross: $0.10M
Silver Bear Best Director
84. Spoor (2017)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Janina Duszejko, an elderly woman, lives alone in the Klodzko Valley where a series of mysterious crimes are committed. Duszejko is convinced that she knows who or what is the murderer, but nobody believes her.
Directors: Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik | Stars: Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal, Patricia Volny
Votes: 6,041
Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize
85. Kamchatka (2002)
106 min | Drama
The film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "... See full summary »
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Cecilia Roth, Héctor Alterio, Fernanda Mistral
Votes: 3,715
86. Yes (I) (2004)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working ... See full summary »
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson
Votes: 3,244 | Gross: $0.40M
87. Worlds Apart (2008)
116 min | Drama
The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Rosalinde Mynster, Pilou Asbæk, Jens Jørn Spottag, Sarah Boberg
Votes: 3,471
88. My Happy Family (2017)
120 min | Drama
In a patriarchal society, an ordinary Georgian family lives with three generations under one roof. All are shocked when 52-year-old Manana decides to move out of her parents' home and live ... See full summary »
Directors: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß | Stars: Ia Shugliashvili, Merab Ninidze, Berta Khapava, Tsisia Kumsishvili
Votes: 4,219
89. The Pearl Button (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet's coup d'état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Martín Calderón, Cristina, Patricio Guzmán, Ema Malig
Votes: 2,899
Silver Bear Best Script; Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
90. I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.
Directors: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb | Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká
Votes: 2,721
91. Laskar Pelangi (2008)
TV-G | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In the 1970s, a group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra.
Director: Riri Riza | Stars: Cut Mini Theo, Zulfanny, Ikranagara, Lukman Sardi
Votes: 2,573
92. Jîn (2013)
122 min | Drama
Jin, a guerrilla, lives in a cave and decides to escape from the organization. She finds some civilian clothes and goes down from the mountain to the city. However, the city is no safer than the mountain.
Director: Reha Erdem | Stars: Deniz Hasgüler, Onur Ünsal, Yildirim Simsek, Ayris Alptekin
Votes: 2,055
93. Modest Reception (2012)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
An Iranian couple from the city drive around a remote mountainous region. They hand out bags of money to poor villagers in return for them carrying out unusual requests the couple make of them.
Director: Mani Haghighi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Mani Haghighi, Saeed Changizian, Esmaeel Khalaj
Votes: 2,190
Netpac Award
94. När mörkret faller (2006)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama, Thriller
A gripping and intense thriller about honour, loyalty, and the courage to fight for what you believe.
Director: Anders Nilsson | Stars: Oldoz Javidi, Bahar Pars, Mina Azarian, César Sarachu
Votes: 1,777
Amnesty International Film Prize
95. Komornik (2005)
94 min | Drama
Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.
Director: Feliks Falk | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Kinga Preis, Grzegorz Wojdon
Votes: 2,127
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
96. Man in the Chair (2007)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Flash is a curmudgeon with a hankering for classic movies and booze. Cameron is a volatile teen who commits grand theft auto just because the car is an exact replica from Christine. Their ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Schroeder | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Wagner
Votes: 1,721
97. Road, Movie (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A young man's journey across the mythic Indian landscape becomes a life-changing odyssey.
Director: Dev Benegal | Stars: Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Mohammed Faizal
Votes: 1,755
98. Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Zhou Yu, a beautiful artisan, indulges in a torrid affair with Chen Ching, her poet-lover. United by their passion, he finds in Zhou the ultimate muse, while she believes Chen to be her ideal soul mate.
Director: Zhou Sun | Stars: Gong Li, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Honglei Sun, Zhixiong Li
Votes: 1,586 | Gross: $0.14M
99. 24 Weeks (2016)
103 min | Drama
At work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.
Director: Anne Zohra Berrached | Stars: Julia Jentsch, Bjarne Mädel, Johanna Gastdorf, Emilia Pieske
Votes: 1,786
Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
100. Everybody in Our Family (2012)
107 min | Drama, Thriller
Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter... See full summary »
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Sirbu
Votes: 1,723
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