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Vals Im Bashir aka Waltz with Bashir

4:46 PM  , , ,  

Ratings - IMDB - 8.0 | Metacritic - 91
Release Year - 2008
Country - Israel
Genres - Animation | Biography | Drama
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 Synopsis: An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

Best Film Awards - Best Foreign Language Film (Golden Globe - 2009) ; Best Film ( Ophir Awards) ; Best Animated Feature Film (Asia Pacific Screen Award - 2008) ; Best Film (Award of the Israeli Film Academy - 2008) ; Best Non-American Film (Bodil Awards - 2010) ; Best Foreign Independent Film (British Independent Film Award - 2008) ; Best Foreign Language Film (Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - 2009) ; Best Foreign Language Film (COFCA Award - 2010) ; Best Animated Feature (CFCA Award - 2008) ; Best Foreign Film (César - 2009) ; Best Film (Israel Award - 2008) ; Best Animation (LAFCA Award - 2008) ; Best Film (NSFC Award - 2009) ; Audience Award (Warsaw International Film Festival - 2008)

Lists - Ranked #34 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010 ; The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008




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Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom aka Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

11:38 AM  ,  

Ratings - IMDB - 8.2 | Metacritic - 85
Release Year - 2003
Country - South Korea
Genres - Drama
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Synopsis:The film is divided into five segments (the five seasons of the title), each segment depicting a different stage in the life of a Buddhist monk (each segment is roughly ten to twenty years apart, and is physically in the middle of its titular season).
Best Film Awards - Best Film (Grand Bell Award - 2004) ; Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards - 2005) ; Best Film (Blue Dragon Awards - 2003) ; Best Movie (Chlotrudis Awards - 2005) ; Audience Award (San Sebastián International Film Festival - 2003) ; Awards at Sofia International Film Festival and Locarno International Film Festival

Lists - IMDB Top 250 #249



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Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi aka Spirited Away

10:13 AM  , , , , ,  

Ratings - IMDB - 8.6 | Metacritic - 94
Release Year - 2001
Country - Japan
Genres - Animation | Adventure | Family
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Synopsis: In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where humans are changed into animals; and a bathhouse for these creatures.

Best Film Awards - Best Animated Feature (Oscar - 2003) ; Golden Berlin Bear (Berlin International Film Festival - 2002) ; Best Animated Film (Saturn Award,Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - 2003) ; Best Film (Award of the Japanese Academy - 2002) ; Best Film (Blue Ribbon Award - 2002) ; Best Animated Feature (Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards - 2003) ; Best Film - Audience Award(Cambridge Film Festival - 2003) ; Cinekid Film Award -2002 ; Best Animated Film (DFWFCA Award - 2003) ; Best Film (Durban International Film Festival - 2002) ; Best Foreign-Language Film (FCCA Award - 2003) ; Best Animation (FFCC Award - 2003) ; Best Asian Film(Hong Kong Film Award - 2002) ; Best Film, Readers' Choice Award (Kinema Junpo Awards - 2002) ; Best Animation (LAFCA Award - 2002) ; Best Animated Film(Mainichi Film Concours - 2002) ; Best Animated Feature (NBR Award - 2002) ; Best Animated Film(NYFCC Award - 2002) ; Best Film(Nikkan Sports Film Award - 2001)


Lists - Ranks as the 13th-best animated film on Rotten Tomatoes; Ranked as the 12th-best animated film of all time by IGN ; Ranked #9 of the highest-rated movies of all time on Metacritic ; Ranked #10 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010 ; IMDB Top 250 #47


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Ikiru aka To Live (Japan , 1952)

12:11 AM  , ,  

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4 | 100% positive rating on  Rotten Tomatoes
Release Year - 1952
Country - Japan
Genres - Drama
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Synopsis: A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.



Awards
  • Won Kinema Junpo Award - Best Film 1953
  • Won Mainichi Film Concours - Best Film 1953
  • Won  Golden Wolf  : Bucharest Film Festival
  • Won  Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin : Berlin International Film Festival
  • Nominated for Golden Bear at  Berlin International Film Festival
Lists
  • Ranked #44 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
  • Ranked 459th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time
  • IMDB Top 250 #141
Special Mention
  • 100% positive rating based on 30 reviews from critics at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes
  • Roger Ebert Top 100 List
  • Rated by more ~21k users on IMDb

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