Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in foreign language film category

Omar(2013)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.



In Darkness(2011)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.



Elling(2001)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 63

When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and...



Ajami(2009)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.



Tristana(1970)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 66

When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable ...



Amélie(2001)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 35

Amélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.



Salaam Bombay!(1988)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 57

The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he ...



Zelary(2003)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life ...



Katyn(2007)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 41

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.



12(2007)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.



El crimen del Padre Amaro(2002)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.



Z(1969)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 25

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



Before the Rain(1994)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In the republic of Macedonia, amid war in Bosnia, an Albanian girl being hunted by Christians is offered protection by a monk who has taken a vow of silence.



Solomon and Gaenor(1999)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish



Dersu Uzala(1975)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.



Beaufort(2007)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 26

The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.



Mephisto(1981)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...



Mediterraneo(1991)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.



Indochine(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 13

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ...



Cyrano de Bergerac(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.




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