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

Actors : Judith Godrèche, Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Actors : Li Gong, Wei Li, Ma Chong, Baotian Li,

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without ...

Actors : Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner,

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that ...

Actors : Michael Pas, Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck,
Directors : Stijn Coninx,

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ...

Actors : Pina Pellicer, Ignacio López Tarso, Mario Alberto Rodríguez, Enrique Lucero,
Directors : Roberto Gavaldón,

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him...

Actors : Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Antonio Gades, Marisol,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then ...

Actors : Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova, Juan Carlos Copes, Mía Maestro,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.

Actors : Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Khambula, Harriet Lenabe,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Actors : Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (...

Actors : Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey,
Directors : Henri-Georges Clouzot,

Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ...

Actors : Manuel Alexandre, José Luis López Vázquez, Cassen, Elvira Quintillá,
Directors : Luis García Berlanga,

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...

Actors : Didi Perego, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Erland Josephson,
Directors : István Szabó,

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...

Actors : Alexandre Paternost, Bruno Campos, Patricia Pillar, Glória Pires,
Directors : Fábio Barreto,

Two couples of Italian immigrants are part of a game that leads to treason and brings serious consequences to those who lose.

Actors : Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Elena Tasisto, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : María Luisa Bemberg,

In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ...

Actors : Jean-Luc Bideau, François Simon, Corinne Coderey, Jean Champion,
Directors : Claude Goretta,

After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center ...

Actors : Norma Angélica, Andrés Soler, Anita Blanch, Julio Aldama,
Directors : Luis Alcoriza,

A man becomes a thief out of desperation. If his identity becomes known, his neighbors might lynch him. The only friendly face in town is the local priest.

Actors : Carmen Amaya, Daniel Martín, Sara Lezana, Antonio Gades,
Directors : Francisco Rovira Beleta,

A boy and a girl from two rival Gypsy families fall in love.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Bianca Roe, Tania Raymonde, Shane Brolly,
Directors : Fabien Pruvot,

Code name "Japan" is a contract killer on a job. Accustom to staying in hotels, Japan find himself jet-lagged in the middle of the night and forced to eat in the hotel restaurant, room ...

Actors : La Polaca, Rafael de Córdoba, Morucha, Antonio Gades,
Directors : Francisco Rovira Beleta,

A violent man and a passionate man are dueling for the heart of the pretty young country girl.