Foreign Language Film Submissions to the 66th Academy Awards held in 1994 to get an Oscar Nomination in the Best Non-English Movie Category

1. Gatica, the Monkey (1993)

136 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

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An Argentina film, which narrates the life of Argentine boxer José María Gatica, from his childhood until his tragic death in Buenos Aires in 1963.

Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Edgardo Nieva, Horacio Taicher, Juan Costa, María Eva Gatica

Votes: 613

2. India (1993)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

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Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Harather | Stars: Josef Hader, Alfred Dorfer, Maria Hofstätter, Roger Murbach

Votes: 3,088

3. Just Friends (1993)

95 min | Drama, Music

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Jack has a tenor saxophone and he plays jazz. In the 1950s, in the Belgian harbor town Antwerp, there is not a lot off future for a jazz musician. Jack and his band try to earn a living by ... See full summary »

Director: Marc-Henri Wajnberg | Stars: Josse De Pauw, Ann-Gisel Glass, Sylvie Milhaud, Charles Berling

Votes: 78

4. Sezonat na kanarchetata (1993)

Unrated | 128 min | Drama

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Mother (Lily), son (Malín) and stepfather, and a poor relation between the latter two. Lily always refused to tell who was Malín's real father. But Malín gradually uncovered the secret. ... See full summary »

Director: Evgeni Mihailov | Stars: Paraskeva Djukelova, Plamena Getova, Mikhael Dontchev, Petar Popyordanov

Votes: 177

5. Le sexe des étoiles (1993)

104 min | Drama

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Camille don't like the man her mother is seeing. She still dreams about her father, who's living in New York. One day, she sees her mother arguing with a woman for some time. Camille ... See full summary »

Director: Paule Baillargeon | Stars: Marianne Coquelicot Mercier, Denis Mercier, Tobie Pelletier, Sylvie Drapeau

Votes: 241

6. Johnny One Hundred Pesos (1993)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

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A young low-class student gets involved with the wrong people and takes part in a non successful video rental robbery.

Director: Gustavo Graef Marino | Stars: Armando Araiza, Patricia Rivera, Willy Semler, Aldo Parodi

Votes: 658

7. Feng huang qin (1993)

90 min | Drama

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A heart-warming but yet funny story of a hi-school where boys and girls are merged to study in the same class for the first time.

Director: Qun He | Stars: Baotian Li, Xue Ju, Xueqi Wang, Zongdi Xiu

Votes: 117

8. Kontesa Dora (1993)

117 min | Biography, Drama, History

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A pseudo biography of Dora Pejacevic (10 September 1885 - 5 March 1923), a Croatian composer.

Director: Zvonimir Berkovic | Stars: Alma Prica, Rade Serbedzija, Irina Alfyorova, Relja Basic

Votes: 105

9. Black Harvest (1993)

120 min | Drama

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This picture reveals late-19th-century Denmark in the way the literature of that period (the so-called critical realism) does. An aristocratic family bears the brunt of the tyranny of its ... See full summary »

Director: Anders Refn | Stars: Ole Ernst, Sofie Gråbøl, Marika Lagercrantz, Philip Zandén

Votes: 206

10. Ripa Hits the Skids (1993)

80 min | Comedy, Drama

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A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a wannabe filmmaker whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. ... See full summary »

Director: Christian Lindblad | Stars: Sam Huber, Mari Vainio, Merja Larivaara, Leena Uotila

Votes: 343

11. Germinal (1993)

R | 160 min | Drama, Romance

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In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet

Votes: 5,744 | Gross: $0.38M

12. Justiz (1993)

106 min | Drama

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Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and... See full summary »

Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Thomas Heinze, Anna Thalbach, Mathias Gnädinger

Votes: 227

13. Farewell My Concubine (1993)

R | 171 min | Drama, Music, Romance

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Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li, You Ge

Votes: 33,120 | Gross: $5.22M

14. Sose halunk meg (1993)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

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Set in '60s socialist Hungary, an introverted and somewhat inhibited teenage boy has a life-changing experience as he spends a few days with his uncle full of zest, a love for earthly pleasures, and a weakness for horse racing and betting.

Director: Róbert Koltai | Stars: Róbert Koltai, Mihály Szabados, Gábor Máté, Tamás Jordán

Votes: 1,995

15. The Sacred Mound (1993)

84 min | Drama

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On a small island in the west of Island, Gestur, only seven years old, falls in love with 20 years old Helga. When she introduces him her fiancée one day, he decides to fight the competitor with traditional Wicking weapons.

Director: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Stars: Steinþór Rafn Matthíasson, Alda Sigurðardóttir, Helgi Skúlason, Tinna Finnbogadóttir

Votes: 174

16. Rudaali (1993)

128 min | Drama

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In a small village in Rajasthan, India, a woman named Shanichari was born - so named, as shortly after her birth her father died; & her mother, Peewli, ran away with a rich lover, the owner... See full summary »

Director: Kalpana Lajmi | Stars: Rakhee Gulzar, Dimple Kapadia, Raj Babbar, Raghubir Yadav

Votes: 586

17. The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein (1993)

83 min | Comedy, Fantasy

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Itzik, a keychains importer living with his mother, is convinced by a Ghost Monk to take revenge on those who are responsible for his pathetic situation. Surprisingly, the collaboration with the monk improves Itzik's life.

Director: Enrique Rottenberg | Stars: Moshe Ivgy, Esteban Gottfried, Dvora Kedar, Alexander H. Cohen

Votes: 46

18. Il grande cocomero (1993)

95 min | Drama, Family

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An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.

Director: Francesca Archibugi | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Anna Galiena, Alessia Fugardi, Silvio Vannucci

Votes: 558

19. Madadayo (1993)

134 min | Drama

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Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.

Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Tatsuo Matsumura, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui

Votes: 6,152 | Gross: $0.05M

20. Cronos (1992)

R | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

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A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel

Votes: 33,117 | Gross: $0.62M

21. The Little Blonde Dead (1993)

95 min | Drama

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Poet Valentijn comes in contact with his former teacher Mieke. After a brief relationship Valentijn leaves her. But when he later gets to know his son, a bond develops between the two.

Director: Jean van de Velde | Stars: Antonie Kamerling, Olivier Tuinier, Loes Wouterson, Gees Linnebank

Votes: 1,107

22. Telegrafisten (1993)

102 min | Comedy, Drama

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Mack is the most important man in a little society in North Western Norway around 1900. Telegrapher Rolandsen is a smart, funny and charming the ladies, even Mack's daughter.

Director: Erik Gustavson | Stars: Bjørn Floberg, Marie Richardson, Jarl Kulle, Ole Ernst

Votes: 672

23. Reportaje a la muerte (1993)

95 min | Action, Drama

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Director: Danny Gavidia | Stars: Diego Bertie, Marisol Palacios, Carlos Cano de la Fuente, Carlos Gassols

Votes: 59

24. Szwadron (1992)

100 min | Drama, History, Romance

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A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in ... See full summary »

Director: Juliusz Machulski | Stars: Aleksander Bednarz, Grzegorz Damiecki, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Janusz Gajos

Votes: 242

25. Abraham's Valley (1993)

187 min | Drama

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Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to ... See full summary »

Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho

Votes: 1,538

26. Intimate Bed (1993)

102 min | Comedy

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In post-Ceausescu Bucharest, everybody is struggling to make a living. Vasile Potop, a movie theatre manager, tries to find money for an abortion for his wife Carolina, because he cannot ... See full summary »

Director: Mircea Daneliuc | Stars: Gheorghe Dinica, Coca Bloos, Valentin Teodosiu, Lia Bugnar

Votes: 371

27. Vsetko co mam rad (1993)

90 min | Drama

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At 38, Thomas is at a crossroads in his life. His parents are nonstop guilt-inducers, his ex-wife is always on his back, and his son is far from inspirational. Thomas himself is almost too ... See full summary »

Director: Martin Sulík | Stars: Juraj Nvota, Gina Bellman, Zdena Studenková, Jirí Menzel

Votes: 218

28. Ko zaprem oci (1993)

99 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller

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A young girl finds scattered envelops in a field, then a postman's satchel, then a hanged man. Jump 20 years: the girl, now grown, lives with her aunt and has a job with the post office ... See full summary »

Director: Franci Slak | Stars: Petra Rehar, Petra Govc, Dusan Sandak, Ludvik Bagari

Votes: 88

29. Belle Epoque (1992)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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A 1931 Spanish military deserter finds himself on a lonely farm until the farmer's four daughters pay a visit and he falls for all of them.

Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Jorge Sanz, Penélope Cruz, Miriam Díaz-Aroca

Votes: 11,394 | Gross: $5.97M

30. The Slingshot (1993)

R | 102 min | Drama

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In 1920s Stockholm, young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother, and boxer brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them Roland makes slingshots, which he sells... See full summary »

Director: Åke Sandgren | Stars: Jesper Salén, Stellan Skarsgård, Basia Frydman, Niklas Olund

Votes: 2,204 | Gross: $0.31M

31. The Diary of Lady M (1993)

113 min | Drama

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Lady M. gives up everything to follow Diego on an aimless journey. On the way, she learns that he is married to a woman of color and has a child.

Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Myriam Mézières, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Félicité Wouassi, Nanou

Votes: 232

32. The Wedding Banquet (1993)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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To satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua, Sihung Lung

Votes: 17,132 | Gross: $6.93M

33. The Blue Exile (1993)

108 min | Biography, Drama