Tier 2 Best Foreign Movies, a list by dave Miller

7.1

/1597/

74

/92/

75

/28/

3.8

/18146/

95

/37/

70

/7/

In the conservative northwestern region of Argentina, Julieta finds herself accused of infanticide after a medical emergency. Facing a miscarriage of justice that lands her in prison for a crime she didn’t commit, her only hope is getting the chance to challenge her conviction in a courtroom battle with the help of Soledad, a fearless lawyer who risks everything to defend her. Their fight for justice will slowly begin to fuel a growing movement for solidarity and women’s rights.

69

63

6.7

/7639/

66

/123/

63

/99/

3.7

/8327/

78

/41/

69

/230/

68

/10/

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother's footsteps.

67

58

6.7

/23144/

66

/361/

70

/66/

3.4

/19770/

70

/20/

62

/9/

age 14+

Badru hopes her volatile husband will reform if he stops drinking. But when his rage goes too far, she and her mom boldly, albeit clumsily, seek revenge.

62

6.2

/879/

44

/12/

61

/15/

3.3

/308/

74

/31/

43

/8/

60

/15/

3.5

Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of gossip such as an affair with his boss’ wife, a love scandal with a secretary younger than his daughter, and the suicide of his wife. However, he continues to fight a one man battle against Hitler and the Nazi regime until his death, throwing the question “Can one person really change history?” to the audience.

68

6.4

/4305/

61

/225/

61

/234/

3.4

/28216/

87

/82/

60

/8/

75

/21/

3.0

One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.

72

57

6.8

/12265/

67

/135/

62

/28/

3.5

/2936/

100

/14/

65

/16/

A jaded forest officer leads a team of trackers and locals intending to capture an unsettled tigress while battling intense obstacles and pressures, both natural and man-made.

70

60

7.1

/3826/

69

/64/

65

/75/

3.5

/2636/

67

/15/

79

/89/

The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.

70

6.2

/14344/

64

/1359/

65

/546/

3.2

/76755/

95

/66/

59

/83/

70

/10/

3.5

age 15+

Residents of a rundown French apartment building battle against an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders.

80

60

7.3

/3299/

68

/124/

68

/72/

3.7

/6996/

100

/12/

100

/3/

82

/5/

Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.

71

57

6.8

/4023/

74

/118/

80

/39/

3.2

/2888/

Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.

60

6.0

/5561/

67

/1216/

64

/165/

2.6

/10196/

age 15+

After shrewdly seizing his chance to join a money-laundering scheme, a modest valet dives into a world of fast cash, fast cars — and an inevitable crash.

66

6.3

/755/

61

/39/

65

/75/

3.3

/374/

83

/18/

61

/12/

59

/9/

3.0

When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".

68

6.9

/2816/

68

/110/

68

/159/

3.5

/6311/

79

/57/

83

60

/15/

2.0

Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry travelling between Ouistreham and Portsmouth, recording the drudgery of the work she and her colleagues are required to do.

73

70

6.7

/8215/

68

/475/

68

/317/

3.5

/8012/

95

/19/

72

/26/

Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.

69

64

6.4

/3670/

63

/268/

62

/193/

3.2

/16448/

93

/30/

Vincent finds himself under attack for no apparent reason overnight. When the phenomenon intensifies, he must run and change his way of life completely.

67

58

7.3

/11744/

70

/191/

67

/27/

3.1

/9468/

67

/6/

age 12+

An assistant maths teacher takes up a tedious task of transforming underprivileged students despite the politics around education in the 90s.

71

59

7.1

/4045/

67

/98/

65

/54/

3.5

/6884/

84

/33/

When two neighbours clash, their argument becomes less about proposed building alterations and more about the wider battle between class and social status. The hugely impressive building in question is the only example of a Le Corbusier residential home in all of Latin America, adding to the poignancy of their argument.

58

6.3

/1150/

66

/40/

56

/36/

3.2

/810/

63

/30/

59

/4/

50

/8/

2.0

Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa.

77

63

7.1

/4030/

75

/351/

71

/127/

3.6

/9340/

100

/10/

74

/1/

In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), where he is serving his sentence after breaking ties with the terrorist group. Despite her reservations and her immense pain, Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet face to face with those who ended the life of the person who had been her companion since she was 16 years old. ‘Everyone deserves a second chance’, she said, when asked why she was willing to confront the man who killed her husband.

69

61

7.2

/4340/

72

/117/

65

/188/

3.6

/2413/

70

/10/

67

/39/

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.

64

6.2

/3913/

60

/51/

59

/81/

3.2

/1673/

73

/86/

37

/239/

73

/21/

3.5

A TV weather girl is torn between an older man, a famous married author whom she loves but who won't leave his wife, and a semi-deranged young heir to an industrial fortune who loves her.

68

6.2

/1671/

62

/205/

64

/119/

3.2

/3196/

Popcorn

84

/18/

3.0

Taishi Wen Zhong led the army of Shang Dynasty including Deng Chanyu and four generals of the Mo Family to Xiqi. With the help of Kunlun immortals such as Jiang Ziya, Ji Fa led the army and civilians of Xiqi to defend their homeland.

68

61

6.8

/5868/

67

/412/

70

/298/

3.2

/4206/

73

/19/

Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat murders'. High school student Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.

79

64

7.2

/2251/

74

/67/

72

/41/

3.7

/32776/

100

/25/

83

/7/

In the name of economic recovery, the Brazilian Government created a perennial system of compulsory vertical isolation for seniors over 80 to be confined in a colony. Teca is 77 and lives in the village of Muriti, in the Amazon, when she is surprised by the announcement of the age reduction, including her age group. Cornered, Teca makes an intriguing journey hidden from the officers amidst rivers, boats and the underworld to clandestinely try to fulfill her last dream, to take a plane ride.

74

57

7.0

/1868/

72

/68/

69

/47/

3.8

/3175/

87

/51/

The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.

67

56

6.9

/34150/

73

/1787/

70

/1740/

3.1

/35021/

64

/4/

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.

78

65

6.9

/4797/

71

/485/

71

/178/

3.7

/12037/

100

/7/

83

/3/

Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. Manuel, a young accountant, imprisoned and awaiting trial for embezzlement, faces a sentence of 6 to 8 years, a disproportionate punishment for the crime committed. Together with his cellmate Pino, he joins forces with COPEL, a collective fighting for the rights of ordinary prisoners and amnesty. A war for freedom breaks out that will bring the Spanish prison system to its knees. If things are changing outside, they’ll have to do the same inside. A tale of friendship, solidarity and freedom, inspired in true events.

70

7.1

/5782/

70

/82/

70

/112/

3.5

/3265/

83

/60/

75

/29/

64

/22/

2.5

In a war-ridden country, a woman watches over her husband, comatose from a bullet in the neck and abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.

68

6.3

/1629/

60

/32/

66

/33/

3.4

/5079/

74

/69/

50

/3/

79

/18/

3.5

An Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom in his country, the other against the death of his mother.

71

61

7.5

/7993/

69

/71/

69

/59/

3.5

/1391/

63

/24/

86

/118/

71

/7/

A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's customs call for her to be killed to restore honor and dignity to her family and village. The eldest son of the village leader, Cemal (Murat Han), is ordered to take Meryem to Istanbul and kill her, but at the last minute he cannot complete the task.

70

6.4

/5638/

67

/286/

64

/242/

3.6

/18972/

82

/51/

58

/19/

71

/15/

3.5

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

63

6.1

/9553/

62

/557/

60

/367/

3.0

/3479/

90

/10/

50

/51/

A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet. Humanity develops an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. Soon, the world population is trapped inside buildings. As Barcelona descends into chaos, Marc sets off on a quest to find Julia, his missing girlfriend, without ever going outside.

60

6.7

/21495/

67

/910/

69

/619/

3.3

/51171/

54

/35/

69

/26/

38

/15/

2.0

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

66

6.5

/1485/

64

/52/

68

/21/

3.4

/1465/

70

/20/

55

/5/

65

/10/

3.0

A troubled teenager attempts to conquer the girl he's in love with, who seems out of reach. He's lured into criminal activities and becomes alienated from family and friends.

75

70

7.1

/5245/

72

/188/

70

/168/

4.0

/23564/

100

/21/

71

/36/

66

/9/

After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.

65

6.8

/2536/

68

/109/

70

/62/

3.5

/5211/

70

/27/

66

/7/

51

/10/

2.5

Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement, falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith.

68

6.7

/3288/

67

/124/

61

/74/

3.4

/11407/

74

/58/

71

/8/

68

/17/

3.0

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

75

70

7.3

/7971/

73

/267/

68

/173/

3.6

/1933/

88

/8/

81

/34/

Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the fact that the first guy is blind, the second is in a wheelchair and the third is completely paralyzed.

65

64

7.0

/47911/

70

/2635/

66

/3475/

3.0

/59396/

62

/36/

A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.

70

6.8

/18713/

69

/853/

69

/394/

3.6

/78969/

74

/155/

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

68

6.4

/3533/

61

/199/

66

/205/

3.3

/1903/

71

/17/

65

/21/

3.5

Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.

70

64

6.8

/6917/

63

/109/

64

/132/

3.7

/9379/

71

/21/

75

/242/

78

/13/

At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.

76

64

7.1

/4007/

72

/83/

64

/131/

3.5

/1500/

100

/15/

80

/169/

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

68

6.9

/4060/

72

/188/

72

/480/

3.5

/6256/

81

/37/

76

/5/

59

/19/

2.0

The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.

64

6.2

/2579/

64

/88/

60

/54/

3.2

/719/

70

/23/

49

/39/

57

/11/

3.5

For generations the Zhao family has wielded power, until their mortal enemy TU’AN GU slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. But one Zhao baby survives hidden by CHENG YING the doctor who delivered him. When Tu’an Gu learns of the baby’s escape he seizes every infant in the city, vowing to kill them all unless the Zhao baby is surrendered. As the tyrant’s soldiers arrive at Cheng Ying’s home the frantic doctor hides his wife with their own baby whilst surrendering the Zhao child as his own. But his family is discovered; his baby is presumed to be the Zhao heir and murdered along with his wife for harboring the infant. Now set on revenge Cheng Ying enrolls the Zhao orphan into the service of the Tu’an Gu household, plotting to use him as an instrument of vengeance when he comes of age.

60

6.0

/4543/

62

/166/

57

/143/

3.2

/2924/

72

/67/

50

/25/

55

/26/