46th Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear and Silver Bear competitors (1996)
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- DirectorAng LeeStarsEmma ThompsonKate WinsletJames FleetRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
- DirectorTim RobbinsStarsSusan SarandonSean PennRobert ProskyA nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.
- DirectorYôichi HigashiStarsMieko HaradaKeigo MatsuyamaShogo MatsuyamaTells of the childhood of nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys' relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.
- DirectorMariano BarrosoStarsJavier BardemFederico LuppiSilvia MuntThree friends, two young men and a young woman, are bored by the normal world of their parents and want to flee in order to start living somewhere else. Thus they make a pervert plan: rob their own families. After that they flee without any destination and without having really planned where to go to.
- DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsCherChazz PalminteriRyan O'NealA depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
- DirectorBarry SonnenfeldStarsGene HackmanRene RussoDanny DeVitoA mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.
- DirectorPark Kwang-suPark Kwang SooStarsKim Bo-KyeongKim Bo-kyungYoo Byeong-SeokThe film intercuts two stories, one in black and white, one in color. From 1965 to 1970.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsJohan WiderbergMarika LagercrantzTomas von BrömssenStig, a 15-year-old student, is attracted to the beauty of Viola, his 37-year-old teacher, and she, drawn to his youth and innocence, feels that he is a God-sent relief for her drunken and miserable husband.
- DirectorEdward YangStarsTsung Sheng TangChang ChenLawrence KoWhen a well known businessman goes missing, owing $100m to Taipei's underworld, two hoods decide to follow his son, the leader of a youth gang. A small group of trendy foreigners gets caught up in the action.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsJulia RobertsJohn MalkovichGeorge ColeA housemaid falls in love with Dr. Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Edward Hyde.
- DirectorÉlie ChouraquiStarsJean-Hugues AngladeValeria Bruni TedeschiLorraine BraccoDaisy uses 'All About Eve' tactics to lie her way into the circle of friends of director Zac. But Zac has been missing for months. When he finally resurfaces, he and Daisy start writing a script based on his experiences. But the story keeps changing.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsAnouk GrinbergGérard LanvinValeria Bruni TedeschiIn Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsAnders W. BerthelsenMichael MullerUlrich ThomsenThis gritty crime drama is a poignant tale of a family that failed and follows two brothers - violent drug criminals.
- DirectorMichael HoffmanStarsRobert Downey Jr.Sam NeillDavid ThewlisThe exiled royal doctor to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.
- DirectorPing HeStarsFengyi ZhangXueqi WangKuei-Mei YangThe Avenger, a brooding swordsman armed with a blade marked "Slayer of 1000 Armies" claims he's waiting for a long-missing friend, at an outpost in Northwest China's Sun Valley. The Avenger suffers an intense fear of blood, from being the only survivor of his clan's massacre. The sight of blood propels him into a killing fury. Winter is setting in, so the local horse trader Black Bull, and most of the valley's men, prepare to drive a herd to market, leaving behind Black Bull's girlfriend, a feisty innkeeper.
- DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsIan McKellenAnnette BeningChristopher BowenThe classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
- DirectorDani LevyStarsMaria SchraderMark SchlichterJürgen VogelSensing that their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris. Alone in their Berlin flat, Julia decides that this is the time to drop her lover Frank, so she invites him to dinner. Deciding between the two men grows harder as Frank keeps impressing Julia with his wit and sex appeal, while Christian annoys her with a series of desperate calls from his refuge.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsBruce WillisMadeleine StoweBrad PittIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSonia MankaïAva Cohen-JonathanSarah ParienteSummer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.
- DirectorRicky TognazziStarsVincent LindonSabrina FerilliLuca ZingarettiFrancesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. Francesco wins the deal, but soon he discovers that Claudio is not what he says.
- DirectorJohn HughesStarsMartin JacobsGillian JonesJacek KomanTruth and fiction collide when sexual obsession leads to betrayal. A voyage of discovery realigns subject, object and victim - things are not always as they seem.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsBeata FudalejWojciech MalajkatJakub PrzebindowskiAn investigation of the history of anti Semitism in Poland.