Tier 1 Critically Acclaimed Foreign Movies, a list by dave Miller

7.7

/16571/

75

/318/

74

/220/

3.6

/5688/

49

/67/

88

/719/

59

/23/

3.0

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.

77

7.8

/8568/

76

/132/

82

/508/

3.9

/9452/

74

/50/

93

/444/

66

/24/

3.0

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

73

7.5

/16281/

73

/347/

72

/238/

3.9

/14648/

80

/70/

86

/156/

64

/28/

2.5

After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not.

75

71

7.6

/7979/

77

/294/

73

/152/

3.8

/6957/

A young aspiring violinist unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang.

82

7.6

/26593/

74

/539/

72

/331/

3.9

/10996/

92

/105/

90

/532/

90

/31/

3.5

age 17+

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

80

8.1

/71019/

76

/708/

73

/292/

3.8

/24093/

92

/12/

85

/95/

age 14+

Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

83

7.8

/16748/

73

/250/

73

/187/

4.1

/13039/

93

/74/

82

/329/

87

/34/

4.0

After suffering terrible headaches and stomach cramps, Mr. Lăzărescu, a lonely 63 year-old man, calls for an ambulance, beginning one man’s hellish journey through Bucharest hospitals in search of proper medical care. As the night unfolds, his health starts to deteriorate fast.

83

7.7

/104960/

75

/2427/

75

/3250/

4.1

/147823/

91

/135/

81

/657/

86

/34/

4.0

age 17+

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

75

72

7.5

/11304/

76

/352/

75

/220/

3.7

/6960/

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sitting around doing nothing after he just lost all their money. A fast paced comedy from German director Peter Thorwarth.

79

7.6

/10504/

76

/307/

73

/240/

3.8

/22072/

96

/25/

91

/219/

69

/23/

3.0

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

79

75

8.2

/26943/

79

/267/

72

/109/

3.8

/5340/

90

/128/

Recent retiree Kamal Khosla's land is grabbed by a land shark named Khurana. In a bid to retrieve their land, Khosla's elder son hatches a clever plan to con the crook and enlists the help of his friends and his dysfunctional family.

80

7.6

/34621/

76

/2227/

76

/941/

4.1

/137965/

100

/98/

84

/155/

86

/14/

2.5

Real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew of a zombie film being shot in an abandoned warehouse, said to be the site of military experiments on humans.

77

74

7.6

/22249/

74

/400/

71

/144/

3.6

/8703/

94

/18/

79

/30/

A government clerk on election duty in a conflict-ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.

82

7.5

/37373/

71

/654/

69

/700/

3.7

/25169/

95

/158/

82

/1385/

92

/31/

4.0

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

86

8.2

/396894/

80

/7278/

78

/4150/

4.1

/149519/

90

/137/

94

/5141/

82

/35/

4.0

age 17+

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

82

78

7.8

/7969/

76

/232/

77

/155/

3.7

/5737/

100

/9/

89

/56/

Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

72

9.2

/8770/

64

/13/

80

/1/

3.4

/1633/

72

/18/

82

/63/

2.0

A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.

76

7.6

/4880/

76

/535/

72

/80/

3.9

/13019/

93

/29/

66

/62/

Hannah Gadsby returns for her second special and digs deep into the complexities of popularity, identity, and her most unusual dog park encounter.

78

7.6

/28180/

73

/435/

71

/279/

3.9

/11862/

82

/65/

89

/628/

72

/25/

3.5

A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks, and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale about love.

77

7.7

/17672/

79

/989/

80

/1473/

4.1

/114854/

89

/38/

91

/44/

59

/5/

2.5

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life.

80

7.8

/48777/

77

/1862/

78

/1437/

4.0

/32116/

91

/105/

89

/114/

75

/26/

3.0

In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

85

7.9

/60504/

76

/779/

74

/532/

4.1

/44107/

99

/72/

84

/217/

87

/29/

4.0

The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

71

7.9

/62841/

72

/474/

67

/184/

3.3

/8055/

75

/54/

A nascent elite team of the Indian intelligence system perpetually strives to detect and eliminate terrorists and their plots. Officer Ajay leads his team to destroy one such potentially lethal ploy in their biggest operation yet.

80

75

7.7

/13106/

77

/187/

78

/208/

3.8

/19575/

87

/38/

91

/351/

76

/19/

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

74

8.2

/80497/

76

/843/

70

/455/

3.4

/13100/

57

/14/

92

/91/

Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.

84

8.2

/114308/

79

/1884/

76

/589/

3.9

/46572/

100

/15/

90

/111/

A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.

83

7.8

/18990/

81

/1008/

80

/765/

4.2

/128868/

98

/91/

90

/83/

82

/26/

3.0

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

81

8.1

/69441/

76

/658/

72

/329/

3.8

/16758/

100

/7/

87

/254/

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

76

7.6

/178476/

75

/5030/

74

/4502/

3.8

/333947/

81

/177/

84

/2021/

70

/37/

3.0

age 18+

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

81

72

8.3

/10673/

77

/90/

76

/48/

4.1

/7920/

80

/5/

93

/90/

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.

73

70

8.3

/135515/

75

/485/

73

/112/

3.4

/13795/

50

/14/

89

/33/

Inspired by the life of Captain Vikram Batra (PVC), the film celebrates his bravery, valiant spirit and honors his invaluable sacrifice during the Kargil War of 1999, at the age of 24.

85

IMDb 72

7.5

/15646/

74

/459/

72

/266/

4.0

/153479/

98

/189/

92

/7/

91

/41/

4.0

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.

83

7.7

/23708/

75

/1057/

76

/583/

4.1

/50159/

98

/105/

93

/51/

77

/20/

3.5

A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.

71

7.5

/18589/

74

/444/

73

/702/

3.6

/8564/

72

/113/

82

/624/

59

/30/

2.5

age 14+

On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.

81

79

7.7

/12371/

76

/311/

74

/229/

4.0

/6596/

92

/53/

86

/275/

85

/13/

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

84

7.8

/7469/

79

/511/

83

/485/

4.0

/30264/

96

/75/

99

/113/

70

/17/

3.5

age 13+

In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential... and perhaps even their genius.

76

7.7

/83401/

74

/1833/

74

/1219/

3.8

/29099/

77

/158/

87

/3452/

71

/34/

age 18+

In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.

75

7.6

/91988/

78

/2850/

79

/2363/

3.7

/196882/

69

/124/

87

/14587/

64

/29/

age 13+

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

82

8.1

/25831/

82

/863/

78

/477/

4.0

/37214/

89

/75/

A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.

83

7.6

/42636/

75

/1465/

77

/1426/

4.2

/116352/

97

/156/

88

/159/

83

/29/

3.5

age 14+

In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

77

7.7

/108313/

75

/1822/

74

/1384/

3.9

/75702/

83

/159/

92

/4665/

75

/37/

2.5

age 16+

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

73

7.5

/33131/

72

/1746/

70

/760/

3.1

/18769/

80

/5/

83

/1562/

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

78

7.5

/30828/

73

/471/

70

/388/

3.7

/11530/

81

/132/

88

/744/

70

/34/

4.0

In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.

76

7.5

/16571/

72

/209/

71

/184/

3.7

/6084/

85

/59/

91

/358/

70

/21/

3.0

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

80

7.6

/299534/

78

/18569/

77

/8103/

4.0

/1065524/

95

/128/

89

/1380/

73

/17/

3.0

age 15+

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

74

72

7.6

/23591/

73

/312/

70

/135/

3.6

/12189/