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Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Taiwan , 2000)

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Ratings - IMDB - 7.9 | Matacritic - 92 | Rotten Tomatoes - 96% fresh
Release Year - 2000
Country - Taiwan
Genres - Drama | Music | Romance
IMDB page | Metacritic page | Rotten Tomatoes

"When it's over, you'll wish it were't. You'll also feel better about being alive. 
Do yourself a favor. Don't miss this one" - John Leonard, CBS News Sunday Morning

"A marvel of delicacy and humor!" - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"A delicate confident look at the wonder of humanity. Masterful!" - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

"Rich, funny, enormously humane ... Yang is a world class talent!" - David Ansen, Newsweek

Synopsis : Yi yi is a Taiwanese film about the emotional struggles of a businessman and the lives of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei seen through three generations.

Yi Yi is an epic story about the Taipei Jian family seen through three different perspectives: the middle-aged father NJ (Nien-Jen Wu), the young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang), and the teenage daughter, Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee). The three-hour piece starts with a wedding, concludes with a funeral, and contemplates areas of human life in between. The father, NJ, is unsatisfied with his work and the desire of his business partners to enter into a deal with a well-known Japanese videogame company. While his partners are only concerned about making money, NJ finds that his honest nature is unappreciated in the commercial realm. To his surprise, he finds a connection with the Japanese software mogul, Ota. A former old flame, Sherry, tries to walk into his life after a chance reunion. His youngest son has troubles at school with his teachers, while his daughter has to handle a love triangle involving her friend next door and her troubled boyfriend. All three try to deal with their problems while also caring for NJ's aged mother-in-law, who is in a coma, and in the absence of NJ's wife, who has left for a Buddhist retreat after facing a midlife crisis. In addition, A-Di, NJ's overweight brother-in-law who marries a starlet at the start of the film, has to wrestle with his demanding wife and a former love, complicating matters within this extended family.

Awards
  • Won Best Director at Cannes Film Festival
  • Nominated for Palme d'Or
  • Won Best Foreign Film
    • Los Angeles Film Critics Association
    • National Society of Film Critics
    • New York Film Critics Circle Awards
  • Other Awards
    • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's Netpac Award
    • Vancouver International Film Festival's Chief Dan George Humanitarian Award
    • Sarajevo Film Festival's Panorama Jury Award
Lists
  • Selected by the British film magazine Sight and Sound as one of the ten greatest films of the past 25 years
  • Ranked as the 3rd most critically acclaimed film of the 21st century by website They Shoot Pictures Don't They?
Special Mention
  • Named Best Film of the Year by prominent publications and intellectuals
    • A.O.Scott, New York Times
    • Susan Sontag, Artforum
    • Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
    • Steven Rosen, Denver Post
    • Stephen Garrett, Nicole Keeter , Time Out NY
    • John Anderson, Jan Stuart, Gene Seymour, Newsday

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Un long dimanche de fiançailles aka A Very Long Engagement (France , 2004)

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Ratings - IMDB - 7.8 | Metacritic - 76 
Release Year - 2004
Country - France
Genres - Drama | Mystery | Romance

A movie About the Beauty of Hope , The Absurdity of War and the
Enduring Power ... of the Human Heart

Synopsis : Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

Five soldiers are convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines. It appears that all of them were killed in a subsequent battle, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She is all the while driven by the constant reminder of what her fiancé had carved into one of the bells of the church near their home, MMM for Manech Aime Mathilde (Manech Loves Mathilde; a pun on the French word aime, which is pronounced like the letter "M". In the English-language version, this is changed to "Manech's Marrying Mathilde").

Films Basis - Based on a novel of the same name, written by Sebastien Japrisot, first published in 1991

Tagline - Never let go

Awards
  • Nominated for 2 Oscars in Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography
  • Won 5 Cesar Awards(National film award of France) - including Best Actress - Supporting role, Cinematography , Costume Design ...
  • Nominated for Best Actress , Director, Film among other categories at Cesar Awards
  • Nominated for BAFTA Awards in Best Film not in the English Language category
  • Nominated for Golden Globe in Best Foreign Language Film
  • Total 16 wins and 21 nominations
Special Mention - Rated by more than 38k users on IMDb


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La jetée (France , 1962)

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.3
Release Year - 1962
Country - France
Genres - Short | Drama | Romance
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Synopsis : Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel. The film runs for 28 minutes and is in black and white.


Time travel, still images, a past, present and future and the aftermath of World War III. The tale of a man, a slave, sent back and forth, in and out of time, to find a solution to the world's fate. To replenish its decreasing stocks of food, medicine and energies, and in doing so, resulting in a perpetual memory of a lone female, life, death and past events that are recreated on an airports jetée.


Awards - Prix Jean Vigo for short film


Lists - In 2010, Time ranked La Jetée first in its list of "Top 10 time-travel movies"


Special Mention - The 1995 science fiction film 12 Monkeys was inspired by, and takes several concepts directly from, La jetée.
Rated by ~10k users on IMDb


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Der Himmel über Berlin aka Wings of Desire (Germany , 1987)

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.0 | Metacritic - 79
Release Year - 1987
Country - Germany
Genres - Fantasy | Drama | Romance
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Synopsis : An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.

This Wim Wenders film centers around the story of two angels wandering in a mixture of post-war and modern Berlin. Invisible to humans, they nevertheless give their help and comfort to all the lonely and depressed souls they meet. Finally, after many centuries, one of the angels becomes unhappy with his immortal state and wishes to become human in order to experience the joys of everyday life. He meets a circus acrobat and finds in her the fufillment of all his mortal desires. He also discovers that he is not alone in making this cross over, and that a purely spiritual experience is not enough to satisfy anyone.

Tagline - There are angels on the streets of Berlin.

Awards - Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. 
Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival - 1987
Another 15 wins

Lists - Ranked #64 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
Roger Ebert Top 100

Special Mention - Rotten Tomatoes records that 98% of its cited critics gave the film a positive review
Rated by more than 24k users on IMDb



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Trois couleurs: Rouge aka Three Colors: Red (France , 1994)

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Ratings - IMDB – 8.1
Release Year - 1994
Country - France
Genres – Drama | Mystery | Romance

Synopsis - Third and final part of "The Three Colors Trilogy" trilogy

Final entry in a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns a model who discovers her neighbour is keen on invading people's privacy.

Red is about fraternity, which it examines by showing characters whose lives gradually become closely interconnected, with bonds forming between two characters who appear to have little in common.

Awards - Nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Director, Cinematography & Original Screenplay)
Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or (nominated)
National Board of Review, Best Foreign Language Film
New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Foreign Language Film
National Society of Film Critics Awards, Best Foreign Language Film
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Best Foreign Film
César Award nominations: Best Film , Best Actor,Best Actress , Best Director , Best Writing

Lists - Selected by the New York Times as one of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made."
Roger Ebert Top 100
IMDb Top 250 #246

Special Mention - Holds a 100% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 40 reviews
Rated by ~ 31k users on IMDb



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Fa yeung nin wa aka In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong , 2000)

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Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 85
Release Year - 2000
Country - Hong Kong
Genres - Drama | Romance
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Synopsis: Second part of "Days of Being Wild - In the Mood for Love - 2046" trilogy

A man and a woman move in to neighboring Hong Kong apartments and form a bond when they both suspect their spouses of extra-marital activities.

Set in Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-Wan is a newspaper editor who moves into a new building with his wife. At approximately the same time, Su Li-zhen, a beautiful secretary and her executive husband also move in to the crowded building. With their spouses often away, Chow and Li-zhen spend most of their time together as friends. They have everything in common from noodle shops to martial arts. Soon, they are shocked to discover that their spouses are having an affair. Hurt and angry, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates.

Awards - Nominated for BAFTA Film Award | Another 31 awards
Special Mention - Rated by more than 31k users on IMDb







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2046 (Hong Kong , 2004)

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Ratings - IMDB – 7.5 | Metacritic - 78
Release Year - 2004
Country - Hong Kong
Genres – Drama | Fantasy | Romance

Synopsis - Third and final part of "Days of Being Wild - In the Mood for Love - 2046" trilogy

He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back- except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change.

Awards - 25 wins
Special Mention - Rated by more than users on IMDb





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A Fei jingjyuhn aka Days of Being Wild (Hong Kong , 1990)

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Ratings - IMDB – 7.6 | Metacritic - 96
Release Year -1990
Country - Hong Kong
Genres – Crime | Drama | Romance

Synopsis - First part of "Days of Being Wild - In the Mood for Love - 2046" trilogy

Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass named Su Lizhen who works at a sports arena, while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi. Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide, he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy's friend Zeb, who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother's whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines.





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Viskningar och rop aka Cries and Whispers (Sweden , 1972)

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Ratings - IMDB – 8.0
Release Year -1972
Country - Sweden
Genres – Drama | Romance

Synopsis : In turn-of-the-century Sweden, cancer-stricken, dying Agnes is visited in her isolated rural mansion by her sisters Karin and Maria. As Agnes' condition deteriorates and pain management becomes increasingly more difficult, fear and revulsion grip the sisters, who seem incapable of empathy, and Agnes' only comfort and solace comes from her maid Anna. As the end draws closer, long repressed feelings of grudging resentment and mistrust cause jealousy, selfishness, and bitterness between the siblings to surface.



Awards & Lists : Won Oscar | Another 19 Wins
Special Mention : Rated by more than 10k users on IMDb







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Angst essen Seele auf aka Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Germany , 1974)

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Ratings - IMDB – 8.1
Release Year -1974
Country - Germany
Genres – Drama | Romance

Synopsis: Emmi, a woman truly in the second half of life, falls in love with Ali, a Berber guest worker more than ten years younger. When they both decide to marry, everybody seems to be against them. When the folks calm down a bit, Emmi and Ali get deeply unsure about their relationship.







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Tini zabutykh predkiv aka Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Russia , 1965)

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Ratings - IMDB – 8.0
Release Year - 1965
Country - Russia
Genres – Drama | History | Romance
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Synopsis: In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind stays on his lost love. To recapture his attention, Palagna tries sorcery, and in the process comes under the spell of the sorcerer, publicly humiliating Ivan, who then fights the sorcerer. The lively rhythms of village life, the work and the holidays, the pageant and revelry of weddings and funerals, the change of seasons, and nature's beauty give proportion to Ivan's tragedy.




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Tasogare Seibei aka The Twilight Samurai (Japan , 2002)

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Ratings - IMDB – 8.1 | Metascore - 82
Release Year - 2002
Country - Japan
Genres – Drama | Romance
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Synopsis: Seibei Iguchi, a low-ranking samurai, leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-XIX century Japan. A widower, he has charge of two daughters (whom he adores) and a senile mother; he must therefore work in the fields and accept piecework to make ends meet. New prospects seem to open up when Tomoe, his long-time love, divorces a brutal husband. However, even as the Japanese feudal system is unraveling, Seibei remains bound by the code of honour of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedences. The consequences are cruel.
Awards & Lists - Nominated for Oscar. Another 37 wins
 
 
 
 
 
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