These films showcase the depth and variety of cinematic storytelling from around the world. From the intense fantasy of Troll to the thrilling action of Klienten, these movies offer something for everyone (not English language or US movies).
30 Before we say goodbye (Prima di andare via)
Andrea is a young man who lives with the surprises and hardships of life. He lives with his best friend, seeks to complete his studies and has an ex-girlfriend who plays with him like cat and mouse. When he discovers that he has an incurable disease, the world collapses on him. Can an illness change a person’s life… for the better? Thanks to Giulia, Andrea will understand that the time has come to assume what remains of her own existence.
Director: Massimo Cappelli
Writers: Gianluca Ansanelli, Tito Buffulini
Starring: Riccardo Maria Manera, Jenny De Nucci, Pino Quartullo
Country: Italy
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29 Troll
Deep inside the mountain of Dovre, something gigantic awakens after being trapped for a thousand years. Destroying everything in its path, the creature is fast approaching the capital of Norway. But how do you stop something you thought only existed in Norwegian folklore?
Director: Roar Uthaug
Writers: Espen Aukan, Roar Uthaug
Starring: Ine Marie Wilmann, Kim Falck, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen
Country: Norway
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28 Corsage
Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, ‘Sissi’ celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by lacing her corset tighter and tighter. While Elizabeth’s role has been reduced against her wishes to purely performative, her hunger for knowledge and zest for life makes her more and more restless in Vienna. She travels to England and Bavaria, visiting former lovers and old friends, seeking the excitement and purpose of her youth. With a future of strictly ceremonial duties laid out in front of her, Elizabeth rebels against the hyperbolized image of herself and comes up with a plan to protect her legacy.
Director: Marie Kreutzer
Writer: Marie Kreutzer
Starring: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, France
Box office: $3 073 000
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27 Final Cut (Coupez !)
In a disused factory, a Z-grade horror film shoot is in full swing. Jaded technicians, uninvolved actors… only the director seems to possess the necessary energy to give life to this umpteenth low-budget zombie movie. During the preparation of a particularly difficult shot, filming is disrupted by an eruption of the real living dead. In front of the camera, everything looks more-or-less normal. Behind it, the crew is freewheeling to save the film while following their one and only watchword: DON’T CUT!
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Writers: Michel Hazanavicius, Shinichiro Ueda, Ryoichi Wada
Starring: Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois
Country: France, USA, United Kingdom, Japan
Box office: $2 062 000
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26 How I Fell In Love With A Gangster (Jak pokochalam gangstera)
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem “Nikoś” Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland’s history.
Director: Maciej Kawulski
Writers: Krzysztof Gureczny, Maciej Kawulski
Starring: Tomasz Wlosok, Aleks Kurdzielewicz, Antoni Królikowski
Country: Poland
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25 November (Novembre)
In November 2015, a series of unprecedented and deadly attacks hits Paris. The anti-terrorist police led by Heloise and her chief commander Fred face an unprecedented level of pressure: in a race against the clock, they must find the perpetrators of the attacks as quickly as possible before they can strike again, travelling across Europe and beyond in one of the biggest manhunts in history.
Director: Cédric Jimenez
Writers: Olivier Demangel, Cédric Jimenez
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Anaïs Demoustier, Sandrine Kiberlain
Country: France
Box office: $18 114 000
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24 Loving Adults (Kærlighed for voksne)
The thin line between love and hate turns deadly when a wife discovers her husband’s affair and they both take extreme measures to get what they want.
Director: Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg
Writers: Anders Rønnow Klarlund, Jacob Weinreich, Anna Ekberg
Starring: Dar Salim, Sonja Richter, Sus Noreen Jondahl Wilkins
Country: Denmark
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23 The Man Who Drew God (L’uomo che disegnò Dio)
The rise and fall of a blind artist who has the extraordinary gift of making true-to-life portraits just by listening to human voices, and of becoming a TV-junk star. A fable on the need to rediscover the miraculous power of dignity in a world where media’s noise has solved the problem of man’s imperfection simply by removing the problem itself.
Director: Franco Nero
Writers: Lorenzo De Luca, Eugenio Masciari
Starring: Franco Nero, Stefania Rocca, Robert Davi
Country: Italy
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22 One Fine Morning (Un beau matin)
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud
Country: France, United Kingdom, Germany
Box office: $1 380 000
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21 Eo
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Writers: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring: Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Isabelle Huppert
Country: Poland, Italy
Box office: $2 330 000
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