Vals Im Bashir aka Waltz with Bashir

Ratings - IMDB - 8.0 | Metacritic - 91 Release Year - 2008 Country - Israel Genres - Animation | Biography | Drama IMDB page | Metacritic page  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...

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

Ratings - IMDB - 8.2 | Metacritic - 85 Release Year - 2003 Country - South Korea Genres - Drama IMDB page | Metacritic page 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...

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Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi aka Spirited Away

Ratings - IMDB - 8.6 | Metacritic - 94 Release Year - 2001 Country - Japan Genres - Animation | Adventure | Family IMDB page | Metacritic page 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...

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Ikiru aka To Live (Japan , 1952)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4 | 100% positive rating on  Rotten Tomatoes Release Year - 1952 Country - Japan Genres - Drama IMDB page 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,...

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