Chennai International Film Festival 2012
by fazil-lords | created - 05 Dec 2012 | updated - 05 Dec 2012 | PublicThe entire line-up for the year.
Four movies which I couldn't find on IMDB are:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's THE GARDENER
Zhanna Issabayeva's TALGAT
Iskandar Usmonov's THE TELEGRAM
Boonsong Nakphoo's FOUR STATIONS
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1. El taaib (2012)
87 min | Crime, Drama
Thanks to the "civilian agreement" law, an Islamist is pardoned and reinstalled in society. He soon understands law doesn't erase the crimes he committed.
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Nabil Asli, Adila Bendimerad, Khaled Benaïssa, Rokia Abdelali
Votes: 190
2. Un amor (2011)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Childhood friends Bruno and Lalo are inseparable, until Lisa enters their lives. Beautiful and free-spirited, she quickly turns both their heads, igniting a passionate but heartbreaking ... See full summary »
Director: Paula Hernández | Stars: Diego Peretti, Luis Ziembrowski, Elena Roger, Alan Dalca
Votes: 318
3. Chinese Take-Away (2011)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A well-ordered hardware store owner in Buenos Aires will see his life turn upside down when he helps a stranded Chinese man who doesn't speak a word of Spanish find his uncle in the bustling city. But can this coexistence bear fruit?
Director: Sebastián Borensztein | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Ignacio Huang, Carolina Hsu, Muriel Santa Ana
Votes: 19,537
4. Being Venice (2012)
89 min | Drama, Romance
Venice is having trouble with the men in her life: she breaks up with her lover and starts an affair with her best friend. To her chagrin, her ex-hippie dad, camped on her sofa for a week, ignores it at all.
Director: Miro Bilbrough | Stars: Alice McConnell, Garry McDonald, Simon Stone, Katie Wall
Votes: 69
5. Beneath Clouds (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Lena is the daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn is a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport.
Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt, Jenna Lee Connors, Terry Dahlstron
Votes: 1,189
6. Breaker Morant (1980)
PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown
Votes: 14,440 | Gross: $7.14M
7. Gallipoli (1981)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins
Votes: 41,987 | Gross: $5.73M
8. Red Dog (2011)
PG | 92 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Based on the legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
Director: Kriv Stenders | Stars: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Rohan Nichol, Luke Ford
Votes: 19,441
9. Siam Sunset (1999)
Not Rated | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A British man with a peculiar curse goes on a low-rent bus tour in Australia.
Director: John Polson | Stars: Linus Roache, Danielle Cormack, Ian Bliss, Roy Billing
Votes: 1,265
10. Strictly Ballroom (1992)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson
Votes: 29,420 | Gross: $11.74M
11. The Hunter (IV) (2011)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgan Davies, Jacek Koman
Votes: 41,165 | Gross: $0.18M
12. Kuma (2012)
93 min | Drama
Ayse is wed to Hasan, the handsome son of house-proud mother Fatma. Ayse is whisked away to Vienna where she soon finds that the marriage is a sham and she is to be the second wife to Fatma's husband.
Director: Umut Dag | Stars: Nihal G. Koldas, Begüm Akkaya, Vedat Erincin, Murathan Muslu
Votes: 841
13. Amour (2012)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Votes: 105,728 | Gross: $6.74M
14. Paradise: Love (2012)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama
Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz
Votes: 10,038 | Gross: $0.02M
15. Ghetuputra Komola (2012)
101 min | Drama, Musical
Story of a teenage boy who is hired by a colonial era landlord to entertain him until the annual flood is over.
Director: Humayun Ahmed | Stars: Mamun, Tariq Anam Khan, Munmun Ahmed, Jayanto Chattopadhyay
Votes: 1,933
16. Approved for Adoption (2012)
Not Rated | 70 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.
Directors: Laurent Boileau, Jung Henin | Stars: Maxym Anciaux, Mahé Collet, Christelle Cornil, William Coryn
Votes: 628 | Gross: $0.00M
17. Our Children (2012)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama
Happy couple, will marry and have children under the roof of the benevolent Doctor. Little by little, relationships become complex, suffocating the couple and the family, who are unaware of the tragic end towards which they are heading
Director: Joachim Lafosse | Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Claire Bodson, Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim
Votes: 3,135
18. Djeca (2012)
90 min | Drama
Siblings Rahima and Nedim are the Bosnian war orphans. She works as a restaurant chef and earns just enough money to survive.
Director: Aida Begic | Stars: Marija Pikic, Ismir Gagula, Bojan Navojec, Sanela Pepeljak
Votes: 688
19. Antiviral (2012)
Not Rated | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
In a blackly satirical near future, a thriving industry sells celebrity illnesses to their obsessed fans. Employee Syd March's attempts to exploit the system backfire when they involve him in a potentially deadly mystery.
Director: Brandon Cronenberg | Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Lisa Berry, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell
Votes: 15,421
20. Laurence Anyways (2012)
Not Rated | 168 min | Drama, Romance
A drama that charts ten years in a transgender woman's relationship with her lover.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuel Schwartz, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye
Votes: 22,215
21. Nuit #1 (2011)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama
It starts as a one night stand that evolves in a long discussion with infinite subjects between a québécoise and an immigrant.
Director: Anne Émond | Stars: Catherine De Léan, Dimitri Storoge, Véronique Rebizov, Raphaël Boulanger
Votes: 890
22. The Valley of Tears (I) (2012)
95 min | Drama
Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a ... See full summary »
Director: Maryanne Zéhil | Stars: Nathalie Coupal, Joseph Antaki, Wafa Tarabey, Leyla Hakim
Votes: 632
23. 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: 7,566 | Gross: $0.07M
24. La Mujer de Iván (2011)
88 min | Drama
Ivan keeps a 15-year-old Natalia hostage since she was a little girl. The repressive regime seems not to refrain them from forming a sort of family bond. They begin struggling with each ... See full summary »
Director: Francisca Silva | Stars: Marcelo Alonso, María de Los Ángeles García, Aldo Parodi, Jaime Lorca
Votes: 48
25. Violeta Went to Heaven (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, filled with her musical work, her memories, her loves, and her hopes.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Francisco Acuña, Juan Alfaro, Orlando Alfaro, Almendra Andrade
Votes: 2,412 | Gross: $0.02M
26. Mystery (2012)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
Lu Jie is having coffee with her desperate friend Sang Qi, who believes her husband is cheating on her. At the same time at a hotel across the road from the coffee shop, Lu Jie sees her ... See full summary »
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Lei Hao, Hao Qin, Xi Qi, Feng Zu
Votes: 1,338
27. Not One Less (1999)
G | 106 min | Drama
13-year old Wei Minzhi is the new substitute teacher of a mountain village school. She is told not to lose any of her pupils under any circumstances.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian, Enman Gao
Votes: 9,363 | Gross: $0.59M
28. Apaporis: In Search of One River (2010)
72 min | Documentary, Biography
This mystical journey takes us through the untrodden, war-locked Northwest Amazon, where we discover the secret knowledge of of Cabiyari and Cubeo indigenous cultures and their insight into... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Dorado
Votes: 60
29. Fat, Bald, Short Man (2011)
91 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Antonio Farfan is a 46 year old man working in a notary's office who has always believed that his personal and professional failure is the inevitable result of his looks: he is bald, short ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Osuna | Stars: Álvaro Bayona, Fernando Arévalo, Jairo Camargo, Julio Medina
Votes: 189
30. Porfirio (2011)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Living between his bed and his wheelchair, Porfirio - a man who lives in a town on the edge of the Amazon - dreams of being able to fly.
Director: Alejandro Landes | Stars: Porfirio Ramirez Aldana, Jarlinsson Ramirez Reinoso, Yor Jasbleidy Santos Torres
Votes: 312
31. Sofía y el Terco (2012)
74 min | Drama
An old couple living in the Colombian countryside has been planing a trip to sea for years in order to break the monotony of their life. He just wants to live the routine, she wants to see the world and is not able to keep waiting.
Director: Andrés Burgos | Stars: Carmen Maura, Gustavo Angarita, Julián Arango, Sofía Cartio
Votes: 376
32. Melancholia (2011)
R | 135 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård
Votes: 196,021 | Gross: $3.03M
33. After the Battle (2012)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, History
Mahmoud was part of the armed groups coerced by the Egyptian Government which carried out attacks on protestors in Tahir Square the 2nd of February 2011. Since then, Mahmoud has lost his ... See full summary »
Director: Yousry Nasrallah | Stars: Menna Shalabi, Basem Samrah, Nahed El Sebaï, Salah Abdullah
Votes: 604
34. Asmaa (2011)
96 min | Drama
A woman who suffers from AIDS decides not to surrender to the fatal disease. She exerts huge efforts in trying to recover or by helping those who suffer the same disease by giving them glimmers of hope.
Director: Amr Salama | Stars: Hind Sabri, Maged El-Kidwani, Hany Adel, Dana Abed
Votes: 4,834
35. Kaf Alqamar (2011)
120 min | Drama, Family
The film revolves around a mother of five children and she is trying to contain them and seek to resolve their problems, but she decides to leave the house after their problem become beyond her control.
Director: Khaled Youssef | Stars: Amr Abdullatif, Ibrahim Abdulqader, Muhgah Abdulrahman, Abdulrahman Abqarinoo
Votes: 352
36. Chaos, This Is (2007)
124 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Egyptian movie deals with the issue of corruption in Egypt and the Egyptian police excesses, embodies all of this in the character of the police officer, "Hatem".
Directors: Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef | Stars: Khaled Saleh, Menna Shalabi, Youssef El Sherif, Hala Sedki
Votes: 2,556
37. Letters to Angel (2011)
118 min | Drama
Film about a man who was sent to fight in Afghanistan years ago, where he converted to Islam. He now returns home only to find himself facing another kind of war.The front line in the ... See full summary »
Director: Sulev Keedus | Stars: Tõnu Oja, Rain Simmul, Ketter Habakukk, Ragne Pekarev
Votes: 108
38. Mushrooming (2012)
93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
A journalist has gotten wind of corruption rumors involving a politician. On the day the journalist tries to contact him, he decides to go mushrooming with his wife.
Director: Toomas Hussar | Stars: Raivo E. Tamm, Elina Reinold, Juhan Ulfsak, Üllar Saaremäe
Votes: 1,240
39. Naked Harbour (2012)
123 min | Drama
Naked Harbour tells the story of people who seek love and acceptance at any cost.
Director: Aku Louhimies | Stars: Alma Pöysti, Aino Louhimies, Sean Pertwee, Deogracias Masomi
Votes: 2,790
40. Silence (2011)
110 min | Drama, War
A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These ... See full summary »
Director: Sakari Kirjavainen | Stars: Joonas Saartamo, Lauri Tilkanen, Terhi Suorlahti, Joanna Haartti
Votes: 467
41. Stars Above (2012)
101 min | Drama, History, Romance
A story of a house and three women of different generations who inhabit it through the years.
Director: Saara Cantell | Stars: Elin Petersdottir, Meri Nenonen, Irina Björklund, Senja Mäkiaho
Votes: 263
42. Augustine (2012)
Not Rated | 102 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.
Director: Alice Winocour | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni
Votes: 1,640 | Gross: $0.11M
43. Le paradis des bêtes (2012)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A teenage girl rediscovers the feeling of love towards her father when he is in the midst of an existential crisis.
Director: Estelle Larrivaz | Stars: Stefano Cassetti, Géraldine Pailhas, Muriel Robin, Valentine Klingberg
Votes: 134
44. Calm at Sea (2011)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, War
A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Léo-Paul Salmain, Marc Barbé, Ulrich Matthes, Jean-Marc Roulot
Votes: 822
45. Cosmopolis (2012)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 50,094 | Gross: $0.74M
46. Declaration of War (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
When their young son is diagnosed with a brain tumor, young parents Roméo and Juliette unite in the fight for his survival.
Director: Valérie Donzelli | Stars: Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix, Gabriel Elkaïm
Votes: 5,323 | Gross: $0.05M
47. Holy Motors (2012)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy
A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Votes: 48,933
48. Not Dead (2012)
92 min | Comedy
The film tells the story of 2 brothers. One punk, one salesman. The salesman get laid off, and slowly becomes a punk like his brother.
Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Albert Dupontel, Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem
Votes: 2,095
49. Noor (I) (2012)
78 min | Drama
Noor wants to be a man. He doesn't belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan's transgender community. And he is definitely done with the love story he had with one of them, that had ... See full summary »
Directors: Guillaume Giovanetti, Çagla Zencirci | Stars: Uzma Ali, Baba Hussain, Noor, Gunga Sain
Votes: 85
50. Hold Back (2012)
78 min | Drama
Black Christian boy and North African Muslim girl fall in love, but her family is against this union.
Director: Rachid Djaidani | Stars: Slimane Dazi, Sabrina Hamida, Stéphane Soo Mongo, Nina Morato
Votes: 236
51. Rust and Bone (2012)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette
Votes: 70,323 | Gross: $2.06M
52. Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three generations of a French family open up about their sexual experiences and desires after young Romain is caught masturbating in his biology class.
Directors: Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr | Stars: Mathias Melloul, Valérie Maës, Stephan Hersoen, Leïla Denio
Votes: 4,762
53. Thérèse (2012)
110 min | Drama
An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures.
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi
Votes: 3,900
54. Betty (1992)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
A drunken self-destructive woman called Betty wanders through bars and meets a man that drives her to a restaurant outside Paris called Le Trou (The Hole). She meets the middle-aged ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Marie Trintignant, Stéphane Audran, Jean-François Garreaud, Yves Lambrecht
Votes: 1,745
55. Inspector Lavardin (1986)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Inspector Lavardin investigates on the murder of a famous writer, whose widow happens to be Helen, a woman Lavardin once loved. She has a daughter from a first marriage, who actually killed her stepfather, as he was trying to abuse her.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jean Poiret, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Luc Bideau
Votes: 1,599
56. Hell (1994)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Paul and Nelly have everything to be happy: a dream wedding and a hotel. Until Paul starts to doubt Nelly.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, François Cluzet, Nathalie Cardone, André Wilms
Votes: 6,441 | Gross: $0.19M
57. Le Beau Serge (1958)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michèle Méritz, Bernadette Lafont
Votes: 3,768
58. The Flower of Evil (2003)
R | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon, Mélanie Doutey
Votes: 3,580 | Gross: $0.18M
59. Before the Fall (2004)
110 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
Friedrich's boxing skills gets him in an elite Nazi high school in a castle in 1942. He enrolls against his dad's wish as it promises a brighter future. It's not what he expected.
Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling, Devid Striesow, Jonas Jägermeyr
Votes: 17,138 | Gross: $0.14M
60. Bliss (2012)
112 min | Drama
Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
Director: Doris Dörrie | Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Vinzenz Kiefer, Matthias Brandt, Oliver Nägele
Votes: 683
61. Dr. Ketel (2011)
Not Rated | 80 min | Thriller
Berlin's notorious Neukoelln district. The near future, a time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without licence as a doctor. He treats people in the ... See full summary »
Director: Linus de Paoli | Stars: Ketel Weber, Amanda Plummer, Burak Yigit, Pit Bukowski
Votes: 118
62. I, Anna (2012)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.
Director: Barnaby Southcombe | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Eddie Marsan, Jodhi May
Votes: 2,321
63. Töte mich (2012)
91 min | Drama
Fifteen-year-old Adele wants to die. She's felt alienated by everything around her since the death of her brother. All that remains in her dull, hard-working life is profound sadness. Timo ... See full summary »
Director: Emily Atef | Stars: Maria Dragus, Anne Bennent, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Roeland Wiesnekker
Votes: 251
64. Lore (2012)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Romance, War
As the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
Director: Cate Shortland | Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi
Votes: 15,938 | Gross: $0.97M
65. More Than Honey (2012)
Unrated | 95 min | Documentary
An in-depth look at honeybee colonies in California, Switzerland, China and Australia.
Director: Markus Imhoof | Stars: Fred Jaggi, Randolf Menzel, John Miller, Liane Singer
Votes: 4,320 | Gross: $0.07M
66. Shores of Hope (2012)
116 min | Drama
The dream of two young men to become sailors collides with the harsh realities of life in East Germany.
Director: Toke Constantin Hebbeln | Stars: Alexander Fehling, August Diehl, Ronald Zehrfeld, Thao Vu
Votes: 563
67. The River Used to Be a Man (2011)
80 min | Drama
A drama centered on a white man lost in the Botswana marshlands.
Director: Jan Zabeil | Stars: Alexander Fehling, Obusentswe Dreamar Manyim, Nx'apa Motswai, Sariqo Sakega
Votes: 293
68. Electra (I) (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli, Theano Ioannidou
Votes: 1,813
69. Zorba the Greek (1964)
Not Rated | 142 min | Comedy, Drama
An uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 24,122
70. Beautiful 2012 (2012)
90 min | Drama
Directors: Changwei Gu, Ann Hui, Tsai Ming-liang, Kim Tae-yong | Stars: Kong Hyo-jin, Kang-sheng Lee, Yan Lianke, Francis Ng
Votes: 61
71. Kaland (2011)
84 min | Drama, Romance
Budapest in 1940. Professor Péter Kadar's life seems perfect: his career is at its peak and he has married a pretty young woman. But everything falls apart the very day he is appointed head... See full summary »
Director: József Sipos | Stars: Gerd Böckmann, Károly Mécs, Erika Marozsán, Sándor Csányi
Votes: 133
72. A zöld sárkány gyermekei (2010)
89 min | Drama
Mate, a lonely, divorced real estate agent is put in charge by his boss to sell a suburban storage building. The storage is rented by the Chinese, who keep their semi-legal goods here ... See full summary »
Director: Bence Miklauzic | Stars: Zoltán Rátóti, Yu Debin, Eszter Bánfalvi, Ferenc Lengyel
Votes: 147
73. Halálkeringö (2010)
103 min | Drama, Thriller
A long-lost retired father comes for a visit to his daughter and as both of them are detectives they begin to investigate each-other. Dark secrets come to surface mixed with life-threatening love triangle.
Director: Kris Kaspar | Stars: Kata Dobó, Béla Mészáros, Tamás Lengyel, András Kern
Votes: 415
74. Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A simple yet timeless love story between a man and a woman, told using scenes edited together from hundreds of other films.
Director: György Pálfi | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Anouk Aimée, Woody Allen, Agustín Almodóvar
Votes: 2,803
75. The Exam (2011)
R | 89 min | Drama, History, Thriller
1957, Budapest. A young defense officer's loyalty is tested by his mentor in a highly deceptive spy game.
Director: Péter Bergendy | Stars: János Kulka, Zsolt Nagy, Péter Scherer, Gabriella Hámori
Votes: 2,331
76. The Maiden Danced to Death (2011)
100 min | Drama
There were two brothers - two dancers - in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.
Director: Endre Hules | Stars: Endre Hules, Zsolt László, Bea Melkvi, Emöke Zsigmond
Votes: 144
77. Nyugalom (2008)
108 min | Drama
Director: Róbert Alföldi | Stars: Dorottya Udvaros, Zalán Makranczi, Dorka Gryllus, Márk Elliot
Votes: 249
78. Nói albinói (2003)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
Is he the village idiot or a genius in disguise? 17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in the north of Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, ... See full summary »
Director: Dagur Kári | Stars: Tómas Lemarquis, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Elín Hansdóttir, Anna Friðriksdóttir
Votes: 9,618 | Gross: $0.06M
79. Stormland (2011)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
The tragicomic story of lone rebel Boddi Steingrimsson who lives in a small town in Northern Iceland. Boddi hates materialistic modern society in its entirety and on his blog-page he ... See full summary »
Director: Marteinn Thorsson | Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir
Votes: 427
80. Mr. Yousef (2011)
96 min | Drama, Family
A man is living with his only daughter and does everything he can for a living and for his daughter's sake hoping she is his forever. But a misunderstanding makes everything really complicated for him.
Director: Ali Rafie | Stars: Mehdi Hashemi, Hanieh Tavassoli, Shahrokh Foroutanian, Ladan Mostofi
Votes: 885
81. Here Without Me (2011)
100 min | Drama
The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.
Director: Bahram Tavakoli | Stars: Fatemah Motamed-Aria, Saber Abar, Negar Javaherian, Parsa Pirouzfar
Votes: 4,626
82. No Men Allowed (2011)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
This movie is about a strict girls high school whose faculties are all female. After the maternity leave of a chemistry teacher, the principal has to bent the rules for the presence of a male teacher in the girls high school.
Director: Rambod Javan | Stars: Reza Attaran, Vishka Asayesh, Pegah Ahangarani, Mani Haghighi
Votes: 7,832
83. Epilogue (2012)
90 min | Drama
Hayuta and Berl, an elderly couple, find it hard to adjust to today's Israel and to the social changes surrounding them.
Director: Amir Manor | Stars: Yosef Carmon, Rivka Gur, Efrat Ben-Zur, Itay Turgeman
Votes: 198
84. Infiltration (2010)
120 min | Drama
The 1956, a few years after the War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel. Immigration is at its peak, transit camps are scattered throughout the country. This is the... See full summary »
Director: Dover Koshashvili | Stars: Guy Adler, Oz Zehavi, Michael Aloni, Liel Danir
Votes: 191
85. Intimate Grammar (2010)
110 min | Drama
A young boy with growth disorders lives through his daily life's tragedies and comedies, while struggling to come to terms with his own personal problems.
Director: Nir Bergman | Stars: Orly Silbersatz, Yehuda Almagor, Roee Elsberg, Rivka Gur
Votes: 229
86. Out in the Dark (2012)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.
Director: Michael Mayer | Stars: Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Jameel Khoury, Alon Pdut
Votes: 9,239
87. Policeman (2011)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
A member of an Israeli anti-terrorist unit clashes with a group of young radicals.
Director: Nadav Lapid | Stars: Yiftach Klein, Yaara Pelzig, Michael Moshonov, Menashe Noy
Votes: 1,108 | Gross: $0.01M
88. The Flood (2010)
100 min | Drama
Everything is complicated in Yoni's life. He's almost 13, real gifted, but physically undeveloped and struggles daily to grow up before his threatening up-coming Bar Mitzva.
Director: Guy Nattiv | Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Tzahi Grad, Michael Moshonov, Yoav Rotman
Votes: 255
89. The Human Resources Manager (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
A tragi-comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
Director: Eran Riklis | Stars: Mark Ivanir, Guri Alfi, Noah Silver, Rozina Cambos
Votes: 1,497 | Gross: $0.06M
90. The Matchmaker (2010)
112 min | Drama
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dror Keren, Tuval Shafir
Votes: 866
91. Reality (II) (2012)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
Luciano is a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Aniello Arena, Paola Minaccioni, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone
Votes: 5,772 | Gross: $0.06M
92. This Must Be the Place (2011)
R | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Cheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during W.W.II.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson
Votes: 36,985 | Gross: $0.14M
93. The Passenger (1975)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Votes: 26,203 | Gross: $0.62M
94. The Ages of Love (2011)
125 min | Comedy, Romance
In Italy three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a retired man (Robert DeNiro) falls in love with his friend's daughter (Monica Bellucci).
Director: Giovanni Veronesi | Stars: Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Michele Placido
Votes: 4,486
95. The Immature (2011)
108 min | Comedy
Twenty years ago, while they were 12th grade students, Giorgio, Lorenzo, Piero, Luisa, Virgilio and Francesca were a high-spirited band. Then they graduated, integrated themselves into ... See full summary »
Director: Paolo Genovese | Stars: Raoul Bova, Barbora Bobulova, Ambra Angiolini, Luca Bizzarri
Votes: 3,622
96. Departures (2008)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama
Soon after buying an expensive cello, Daigo learns that his orchestra is disbanding. He moves back to his hometown with his wife, where he answers an ad for what Daigo thinks is a travel agency but is, in actuality, a mortuary.
Director: Yôjirô Takita | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
Votes: 55,004 | Gross: $1.50M
97. Like Someone in Love (2012)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama
In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.
Directors: Abbas Kiarostami, Banafsheh Modaressi | Stars: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryô Kase, Denden
Votes: 13,092 | Gross: $0.22M
98. Beyond Outrage (2012)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.
Director: Takeshi Kitano | Stars: Toshiyuki Nishida, Tomokazu Miura, Takeshi Kitano, Ryô Kase
Votes: 7,266
99. Paprika (2006)
R | 90 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
Director: Satoshi Kon | Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tôru Furuya
Votes: 97,016 | Gross: $0.88M
100. The Terminal Trust (2012)
144 min | Drama
Shinzo Egi is an asthma sufferer who does not want to be place on life support. As a last request, Shinzo Egi asks his doctor Ayano Orii if she could follow his wish. Doctor Ayano Orii is ... See full summary »
Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Tamiyo Kusakari, Koji Yakusho, Takao Osawa, Tadanobu Asano
Votes: 147
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