Aruitemo aruitemo aka Still Walking (Japan , 2008)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.9 | Matacritic - 89 | Rotten Tomatoes - 100% fresh

Release Year - 2008
Country - Japan
Genres - Drama

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Only watch if you want to see something emotional
A Family Apart ... Will Come Together

"Transcendent ... completely absorbing , so sure of its own scale and scope that while you're watching it the rest of the world fades into irrelevance" - A.O. Scott , The New York Times

"The closest thing to a masterpiece ... A universal, deeply felt portrait of middle-class family life ... Comparable to Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 masterpiece, 'TOKYO STORY.' " - Stephen Holden, The New York Times

"Painful family issues are more likely to stay beneath the surface, known to everyone but not spoken of. Still Walking, a magnificent new film from Japan, is very wise about that, and very true." - Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times

Synopsis : The film is a portrait of a family over roughly 24 hours as they commemorate the death of one member.

The lyrical, profoundly moving Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo) is contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda’s most personal work to date. Created as a tribute to his late mother, the film depicts one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, gathered together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear. Rather than focus on big dramatic moments, Kore-eda relies on simple gestures and domestic routines (especially cooking) to evoke a family’s entire life, its deep regrets and its daily joys. Featuring vivid, heartrending performances and a gentle naturalism that harks back to the director’s earlier, documentary work, Still Walking is an extraordinary portrayal of the ties that bind us.

Awards

• Won Best Director
• Asian Film Award
• Blue Ribbon Award
• Chlotrudis Award

Special Mention

• Official Selection at
• Toronto Film Festival
• Tribeca Film Festival
• San Francisco Film Festival

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Z (France , 1969)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.2

Release Year - 1969
Country - Algeria
Genres - Crime | Drama | History

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First movie to be nominated for Oscars in both the best foreign-language category and the regular best picture category

"An Extraordinary Thriller! One of the fastest, most exciting melodramas ever made" - Pauline Kael

"Unbearably Exciting! Z is at the same time a political cry of rage and a brilliant suspense thriller!" - Roger Ebert

Synopsis : Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.

The story of Z began on May 22, 1963, when a Greek politician named Gregoris Lambrakis served as keynote speaker at an anti-war meeting in Thessaloniki and was immediately thereafter whacked on the head by a couple of right-wing extremists. He died a few days later. Greece’s right-wing government was suspected of supporting the assassination, and subsequent investigation revealed that the military and the police force had connections to the extremists. The country’s leftist movement, long marginalized by the authoritarian government, had had enough of these shenanigans. Lambrakis became a symbol for their cause, which proved to be significant in Greece’s political history over the next several years.

The name Z came from the Greek protest slogan “ZEI,” meaning “he [Lambrakis] lives!”

Films Basis - Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos

Interesting Facts 

• The movie starts with onscreen titles that say, in translation, "Any similarity to real persons and events is not coincidental. It is INTENTIONAL."
• Costa-Gavras even set the action on May 22, the same date of the Lambrakis attack.
• The investigating magistrate in the movie (actor Jean-Louis Trintignant) is an analogue of Christos Sartzetakis, who was 22 years later appointed President of Greece by democratically-elected parliamentarians.
• Made by a Greek-born director and based on events in Greek politics, it was filmed mostly in Algeria and all the characters speak French. The movie never explicitly names which country it takes place in.

Awards

• Won 2 Oscars - Best Foreign Film and Best Editing
• Nominated for 3 more Oscars - Best Director, Best Picture, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
• Won 2 Cannes Film Festival Awards - Best Actor, Jury Prize
• Won Golden Globe - Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film
• Won Best Film of the Year
• New York Film Critics Circle
• National Society of Film Critics
• Kansas City Film Critics Circle
• Won  Best Director  - New York Film Critics Circle
• Won BAFTA - Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music
• Nominations
• Cannes Film Festival - Golden Palm
• BAFTA - Best Film; Best Film Editing, Best Screenplay, UN Award

Special Mention

• Costa-Gavras was the master of the political thriller for a couple decades, with Z as a prime example of how to do it right. Films like The French Connection (1971) and The Conversation (1974) were clearly influenced by Z‘s visual style; hand-held cameras, suggesting a documentary feel, became the norm for this genre.
• Rated by more than 10k users on IMDb

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Les diaboliques aka Diabolique (France , 1955)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.3 | Rotten Tomatoes - 97%

Release Year - 2004
Country - China
Genres - Film-Noir | Horror | Mystery

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The Great Suspense Film That Shocked the World... And Became A Classic. Before Psycho, Peeping Tom, and Repulsion, there was Diabolique.

"The Best Foreign Film of the Year" - New York Film Critics

"A masterly thriller ... A shocker of a conclusion that no moviegoer should learn in advance" - TIME magazine

"One of the dandiest mystery dramas ... The surprises explode like shotgun blasts!" - Bosley Crowther, N.Y. Times

Synopsis : This thriller from Henri‑Georges Clouzot, which shocked audiences in Europe and the U.S., is the story of two women—the fragile wife and the willful mistress of the sadistic headmaster of a boys' boarding school—who hatch a daring revenge plot. With its unprecedented narrative twists and terrifying images, Diabolique is a heart-grabbing benchmark in horror filmmaking, featuring outstanding performances by Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, and Paul Meurisse.

The wife and mistress of a sadistic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'killers' (and the audience) up the wall with almost unbearable suspense...

Films Basis - Based on the novel Celle qui n'était plus (She Who Was No More) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

Tagline : A bathtub .. Diabolical? A man's suit .. Diabolical? A wicker trunk .. Diabolical? A swimming pool ......

Awards

• Won the Louis Delluc Prize (French film award since 1937)
• Won Best foreign film at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Lists

• Time's 2007 list of Top 25 Horror films
• Ranked #49 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments
• IMDb Top 250 #170

Special Mention

• This movie helped inspire Hitchcock's Psycho
• Rated by more than 20k users on IMDb

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Shi mian mai fu aka House of Flying Daggers (China , 2004)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.6 | Metacritic - 89

Release Year - 2004
Country - China
Genres - Action | Adventure | Drama

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Watch this one for a visual treat

"Sublime, Gorgeous and Action- Packed" - Jamie Bernard, New York Daily News

"Wild riot of color, music, passion, action, mystery, pure old-fashioned thrills and even dancing" - Phil Hall, Film Threat

"A Gorgeous Entertainment, A Feast of Blood, Passion and Silk Brocade" - A.O.Scott, The New York Times

"Forget about the plot, the characters, the intrigue, which are all splendid in House of Flying Daggers, and focus just on the visuals. The film is so good to look at and listen to that, as with some operas, the story is almost beside the point, serving primarily to get us from one spectacular scene to another." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

Synopsis : House of Flying Daggers is a 2004 wuxia film directed by Zhang Yimou. It differs from other wuxia films in that it is more of a love story than a straight martial arts film.

The film is set in 859 AD. The once great Tang Dynasty is now in decline. Numerous rebel groups have formed, the largest of which is the House of Flying Daggers, based in Feng Tian county. The Flying Daggers steal from the rich and give to the poor, gaining the support of the locals. A police officer called Leo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) sends officer Jin (Andy Lau) to investigate a young dancer named Mei (Zhang Ziyi), claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers". Leo arrests Mei, only to have Jin breaking her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But things are far more complicated than they seem...

Awards

• Nominated for Oscar - Best Cinematography
• Won Best  Cinematography at - Boston Film Critics , National Society of Film Critics , Satellite Awards
• Nominated for 9 BAFTA including Best Actress, Film, Cinematography, Visual Effects
• Nominated at Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Asian film
• Nominated for European Film Awards - Best Non-European Film

Lists

• Ranked #77 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010
• Placed at 93 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s

Special Mention

• At Rotten Tomatoes, the site reported that 88% of critics had given the film positive reviews, based on 160 reviews; with "top critics" given the film a 95% rating
• Rated by more than 51k users on IMDb

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

Ratings - IMDB - 7.8 | Metacritic - 76 

Release Year - 2004
Country - France
Genres - Drama | Mystery | Romance

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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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Volver (Spain , 2006)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.6 | Metacritic - 84 | Rotten Tomatoes - 92%

Release Year - 2006
Country - Spain
Genres - Comedy | Crime | Drama

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Synopsis : After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz plays Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up loose ends.

Drawing inspiration from the Italian neorealism of the late 1940s to early 1950s and the work of pioneering directors such as Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Volver addresses themes like sexual abuse, loneliness and death, mixing the genres of farce, tragedy, melodrama, and magic realism.

Awards

• Total of 51 wins and 53 nominations including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress categories 
• Nomination for Oscar - Best Actress category
• Nominated for 2 BAFTA awards - Best Film, Best Actress
• Nominated for 2 Golden Globes - Best Film, Best Actress
• Won 5 Goya Awards (Spain's national film awards) - including Best Actress, Best Director and Best Film
• Won 5 European Film Awards including Best Actress and Best Director
• Won Best Foreign Language Film at National Board of Review , Satellite Awards , Vancouver Film Critics

Lists - The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2006

• 2nd - Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
• 3rd - Glenn Kenny, Premiere ,  Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times ,  Richard Corliss, TIME magazine ,  Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
• 4th - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon ,  Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ,  Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter
• 5th - Desson Thomson, The Washington Post
• 6th - Claudia Puig, USA Today ,  Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
• 7th - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
• 8th - A. O. Scott, The New York Times ,  Keith Phipps, The A.V. Club ,  Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter ,  Stephen Holden, The New York Times
• 9th - Shawn Levy, The Oregonian
• 10th - David Ansen, Newsweek ,  Lou Lumenick, New York Post

Special Mention

• Rated by more than 42k users on IMDb
• Roger Ebert gave it his top rating of four stars out of 4
• As of 2012 , The film has a Certified Fresh rating from critics at Rotten Tomatoes, scoring a 92% based on 147 "fresh" reviews out of 160 critics

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Zerkalo aka The Mirror (Russia , 1975)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.0

Release Year - 1975
Country - Russia
Genres - Biography | Drama | History

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Synopsis : A man in his forties is going to die and remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments but things that also tell the story of all the Russian nation...

The director mixes flashbacks, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.

Special Mention

• Rated by more than 9k users on IMDb

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Huozhe aka To Live (China , 1994)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1

Release Year - 1994
Country - China
Genres - Drama | War

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Synopsis : Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work. They raise a family and survive, managing "to live" from the 40's to the 70's in this epic, but personal, story of life through an amazing period.

Films Basis - Based on the novel of the same name by Yu Hua

Awards

• Won BAFTA award for Best Film Not in the English Language
• Won Grand Jury Prize at 1994 Cannes Film Festival
• Nominated for  Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
• Nominated for Golden Globe in Best Foreign language film category

Special Mention

• The film was banned in mainland China due to its critical portrayal of various policies and campaigns of the Communist government. Zhang Yimou was also banned from filmmaking for two years.
• Rated by more than 7k users on IMDb

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Kaidan aka Kwaidan (Japan , 1964)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.0

Release Year - 1964
Country - Japan
Genres - Fantasy | Horror

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Synopsis : Kwaidan is a 1964 Japanese portmanteau film directed by Masaki Kobayashi; the title means 'ghost story'. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk tales. The film consists of four separate and unrelated stories.

"Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": Stranded in a snowstorm, a woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise. "Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life, and the monks set out to protect him by writing a holy mantra over his body to make him invisible to the ghosts. But they've forgotten something. "In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea.

Awards

• Won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival
• Nominated for Oscar in Best Foreign Language Film category

Special Mention

• Rated by more than 5k users on IMDb

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Ônibus 174 aka Bus 174 (Brazil , 2002)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.9 | Metacritic - 83

Release Year - 2002
Country - Brazil
Genres - Documentary | Crime

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Synopsis : Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

On June 12th, 2000, a bus full of passengers was kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro in broad daylight. The kidnapper, Sandro do Nascimento, terrorized his victims and when he finally agreed to surrender and the episode was close to an end, a policeman tried to shoot him, killing one of the hostages instead, a young woman. The whole episode was broadcast live, causing revolt among the population. The documentary is about the incident, with interviews, focusing on Sandro do Nascimento, his childhood, and how unavoidably he was doomed to become a bandit.

Awards

• Won over 23 prizes worldwide, including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural & Artistic Programming in 2005 (after being shown on HBO/Cinemax with great success), and the Amnesty Award in the Netherlands.

Special Mention

• Bus 174 was voted "one of the ten best films of the year" by The New York Times
• With 73 reviews written, Bus 174 achieved a rare 100% critics rating at Rotten Tomatoes

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