Best of 2011

A Separation , Elite Squad : The Enemy Within , Once upon a time in Anatolia ....

Tropa de Elite 2 - O Inimigo Agora É Outro aka Elite Squad : The Enemy Within (Brazil , 2010)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.2 Release Year - 2010 Country - Brazil Genres - Action | Crime | Drama IMDB page Synopsis: Second part of two independent films Elite Squad and Elite Squad : The Enemy Within Sequel of Elite Squad After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.  Awards...

Tropa de Elite aka Elite Squad (Brazil , 2007)

Ratings - IMDB - 8 | Metacritic - 33 Release Year - 2007 Country - Brazil Genres – Action | Crime | Drama IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: 1997, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his occupation while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope comes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Awards & Lists - 30 wins Download Links (w English Subs) Elite_Squad.part1.rar.html Elite_Squad.part...

El secreto de sus ojos aka The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina , 2009)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.3 | Metacritic - 81 Release Year - 2009 Country - Argentina Genres – Drama | Mystery | Romance IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later. Awards & Lists –IMDB Top 250 #162 | Won Oscar. Another 48 wins Download...

Der Untergang aka Downfall (Germany , 2004)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4 | Metacritic - 82 Release Year - 2004 Country - Germany Genres - Biography | Drama | History IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. Awards & Lists –IMDB Top 250 #95 | Nominated for Oscar. Another 15 wins Download Links (w English Subs) The_Downfall.part1.ra...

C.R.A.Z.Y. (Canada , 2005)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.0 | Metacritic - 81 Release Year - 2005 Country - Canada Genres - Drama IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: The story of a special little boy who grows into young manhood and ends up even denying his inner self to attract his father's attention. A portrait of a family that depicts the often-extraordinary lives of ordinary people in search of happiness. Awards & Lists - 37 wins    Download...

Lilja 4-ever aka Lilya 4-Ever (Sweden , 2002)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.0 | Metacritic - 82 Release Year - 2002 Country - Sweden Genres - Crime | Drama IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: Lilja is 16 years old. Her only friend is the young boy Volodja. They live in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej. He is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life. Awards & Lists - 12 wins Download Links...

Hotaru no haka aka Grave of the Fireflies (Japan , 1988)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.3 Release Year - 1988 Country - Japan Genres - Animation | Drama | War IMDB page Synopsis: Setsuko and Seita are brother and sister living in wartime Japan. After their mother is killed in an air raid they find a temporary home with relatives. Having quarreled with their aunt they leave the city and make their home in an abandoned shelter. While their soldier father's destiny is unknown, the two must depend on each other...

Amores perros aka Love’s A Bitch

Ratings - IMDB - 8.2 | Metacritic - 83Release Year - 2000Country - MexicoGenres – Drama | ThrillerIMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love. Awards & Lists – Top 250 #163 | Nominated for Oscar. Another 52 wins Download Links (w English Subs) –Amores_Perros.part1.rar.htmlAmores_Perros.part2.ra...

Låt den rätte komma in aka Let the Right One In

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 82Release Year - 2008Country - SwedenGenres – Drama | Fantasy | Romance | HorrorIMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire. Awards & Lists –Top 250 #218 | Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 60 wins Download Links (w Encoded English Subs) –Let_The_Right_One_In.part1.rar.h...

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain aka Amelie

Ratings - IMDB - 8.6 | Metacritic - 69Release Year - 2001Country - FranceGenres - Comedy | Fantasy | RomanceIMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love. Awards & Lists – Top 250 #46 | Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 51 wins Download Links (w Encoded English Subs) –Amelie.part1.rar.htmlAmelie.part2.rar.h...

Un prophète aka A Prophet

Ratings - IMDB - 8 | Metacritic - 90Release Year - 2009Country - FranceGenres – Drama | CrimeIMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: Nineteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik El Djebena is just starting his six year prison sentence in Brécourt. Although he has spent the better part of his life in juvenile detention, this stint is his first in an adult prison. Beyond the division of Corsicans and Muslims in the prison (the Corsicans who with their guard connections...

Un amour à taire aka A Love to Hide

Ratings - IMDB - 8.4Release Year - 2005Country - FranceGenres - DramaIMDB page Synopsis: A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrays them while attempting their way to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual living a clandestine love affair with his lover, Philippe. They are safe for the moment,...

Mar adentro aka The Sea Inside

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 74 Release Year - 2004 Country - Spain Genres - Biography | DramaIMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: True story of a ship fisherman from Spain Ramon Sampedro who became a quadriplegic in a diving accident at the age of 25 and fought for his right to an assisted suicide for the next 29 years. The film explores Ramón's relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer suffering from Cadasil syndrome, who supports...

Le scaphandre et le papillon aka The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 92 Release Year - 2007 Country - France Genres - Biography | DramaIMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: True story of the ELLE magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffered a massive stroke in 1995, at the age of 43 that paralyzed his whole body except his left eye. Despite his condition, he wrote the book "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly...

Babam Ve Oglum aka My Father and My Son

Ratings - IMDB - 8.7 Release Year - 2005 Country - Turkey Genres - DramaIMDB page Synopsis: My Father and My Son tell the story of an estranged son (Sadik) who had been politically active as a university student and became a journalist against his father’s (Huseyin’s) will. When military coup hits the country Deniz’s mother dies giving birth to him and Sadik is taken into custody and undergoes a series of tortures, trials and jail time. After his...

Bacheha-Ye aseman aka Children of Heaven

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 Release Year - 1997 Country - Iran Genres - Adventure | Comedy | DramaIMDB page Synopsis: Children of Heaven deals with the adventures of a brother (Ali) and his sister (Zahra) over a lost pair of shoes. Ali loses Zahra’s shoes when he takes them for repairing. Born into a poor family trying hard to make ends meet the kids decide to share their shoes to the school. Zahra will wear the shoes in the morning and then race back...

Vozvrashchenie aka The Return

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 82 Release Year - 2003 Country - Russia Genres - Drama IMDB page | Metacritic page Synopsis: Two teenage Russian boys have their father return home suddenly after being absent for 12 years. The father takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake in the north of Russia that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.  At once a powerful psychological thriller and a haunting allegory,...