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35 Shots of Rum
35 Shots of Rum (35 Rhums) is a 2008 France/Germany drama by Claire Denis, an homage to Ozu's Late Spring inspired by her mother and grandfather, starring Alex Descas and Mati Diop as a widowed train engineer and his daughter in Paris.
About Elly (درباره الی)
About Elly (Darbareye Elly, درباره الی) is Asghar Farhadi's 2009 Iranian drama about a Caspian Sea weekend that unravels when teacher Elly disappears; it won the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin 2009 and Best Film at Tribeca.
After the Wedding (2006 film)
After the Wedding (Efter brylluppet) is a 2006 Danish drama by Susanne Bier starring Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf Lassgård, and Sidse Babett Knudsen; an orphanage director's $4 million donation offer leads to an Oscar-nominated family drama.
Angel (2007 film)
Angel (2007) is François Ozon's first English-language period drama, adapted from Elizabeth Taylor's 1957 novel, starring Romola Garai as romance novelist Angel Deverell; it closed the 2007 Berlinale competition and divided critics.
Arráncame la Vida
Arráncame la Vida is a 2008 Mexican period drama directed by Roberto Sneider, following a young woman who marries a powerful, corrupt general in 1930s Puebla.
Azuloscurocasinegro
Azuloscurocasinegro (DarkBlueAlmostBlack) is Daniel Sánchez Arévalo's 2006 Spanish debut feature, a tragicomedy about Jorge, a doorman caring for his stroke-stricken father; it won three Goya Awards in 2007.
Bamako (2006 film)
Bamako (2006) is a drama by Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, premiered out of competition at Cannes, in which a courtyard tribunal in Mali's capital puts the World Bank and IMF on trial for Africa's poverty.
Becoming Jane
Becoming Jane is a 2007 biographical romantic drama directed by Julian Jarrold, starring Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen and James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy, loosely based on Jon Spence's biography Becoming Jane Austen.
Blind Mountain
Blind Mountain (盲山, aka 回家路) is Li Yang's 2007 Chinese drama about college graduate Bai Xuemei, sold as a wife to a remote village; it played Cannes Un Certain Regard and has domestic and original endings.
Bobby (2006 film)
Bobby is a 2006 American ensemble drama written and directed by Emilio Estevez, following 22 fictional characters at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on the day of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination; Kennedy appears only in archival footage.
Bottle Shock
Bottle Shock (2008), also known as 와인 미라클, is Randall Miller's comedy-drama starring Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, and Bill Pullman, loosely dramatizing the 1976 Judgment of Paris wine tasting won by Chateau Montelena.
Bright Star (film)
Bright Star (2009) is Jane Campion's romantic drama about poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), based on Andrew Motion's Keats biography; Cannes 2009 selection, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not the Steve Martin musical.
Bronson (film)
Bronson (2008) is Nicolas Winding Refn's British biographical drama starring Tom Hardy as prisoner Michael Peterson, aka Charles Bronson; a $230,000 cult film that earned Hardy a British Independent Film Award and 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Camino
Camino (2008) is a Spanish drama by Javier Fesser, inspired by Alexia González-Barros, an Opus Dei family's dying 14-year-old; it won six Goya Awards including Best Film and sparked controversy with Opus Dei.
Dear Doctor (ディア・ドクター)
Dear Doctor (ディア・ドクター) is Miwa Nishikawa's 2009 Japanese drama starring Shofukutei Tsurubei in his film lead debut as a beloved rural village doctor who vanishes, exposing that he held no medical license; it won the Japan Academy Best Screenplay and Blue Ribbon Best Director awards.
Dream (비몽) (2008 film)
Dream (비몽, Bi-mong) is Kim Ki-duk's 2008 South Korean-Japan co-production drama-fantasy, his 15th film, starring Joe Odagiri and Lee Na-young as strangers linked by dreams acted out in sleepwalking; 95 minutes, 89,858 admissions, Best Director from Korean film critics.
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Elizabeth: The Golden Age is Shekhar Kapur's 2007 sequel to Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I, covering the Babington plot, Mary Queen of Scots' execution, and the 1588 Spanish Armada.
Flight of the Red Balloon
Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge, 红气球) is Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 2007 France-Taiwan drama starring Juliette Binoche, inspired by Lamorisse's 1956 short and commissioned for the Musée d'Orsay's 20th anniversary.
Fujian Blue
Fujian Blue (金碧辉煌, Jin Bi Hui Huang) is a 2007 Chinese independent drama, Robin Weng's (Weng Shouming) feature debut, set in Fujian province; two linked stories about youth crime, blackmail, and illegal emigration; Dragons and Tigers Award co-winner, Vancouver 2007.
Garage
Garage (2007) is an Irish drama by Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O'Halloran, starring Pat Shortt as lonely petrol station attendant Josie; Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Torino Best Film, four IFTAs.
Genova
Genova (2008), also released as A Summer in Genoa, is a Michael Winterbottom drama with Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, and Willa Holland about a widowed professor raising two daughters in Genoa; it won Best Director at San Sebastián 2008.
Hadewijch
Hadewijch: 13th-century beguine mystic and poet near Antwerp, author of Middle Dutch Poems in Stanzas, Visions, and letters on Minne; also the title of Bruno Dumont's 2009 film.
Help Me Eros (帮帮我爱神)
Help Me Eros (幫幫我愛神, Bangbang wo aishen) is a 2007 Taiwanese drama by Lee Kang-sheng, his second feature, about a ruined stockbroker, a suicide hotline, and a betel-nut seller; Golden Lion nominee at Venice 2007.
Historias Extraordinarias
Historias Extraordinarias (Extraordinary Stories) is a 2008 Argentine film by Mariano Llinás: 245 minutes, three never-crossing stories of men X, Z, and H, 18 chapters, BAFICI 2008 awards, El Pampero Cine, about 30,000-dollar budget.
Hwang Jin Yi (film)
Hwang Jin Yi (황진이) is a 2007 South Korean period romance film directed by Chang Yoon-hyun, starring Song Hye-kyo and Yoo Ji-tae, adapted from North Korean writer Hong Seok-jung's novel under the first South-North film copyright contract, released June 6, 2007.
Import Export (Импорт-экспорт)
Import Export (Импорт-экспорт), also styled Import/Export, is Ulrich Seidl's 2007 Austrian-French-German drama, in Cannes competition, about Ukrainian nurse Olga migrating to Austria and Viennese Pauli traveling to Ukraine.
Isabella (伊莎贝拉) (2006 film)
Isabella (伊莎貝拉, Yi sa bui lai) is Pang Ho-cheung's 2006 Hong Kong drama starring Chapman To and Isabella Leong, set in pre-handover Macau; it won the Berlin Silver Bear for Peter Kam's score and the Bangkok festival's Best Film.
Island Etude (练习曲)
Island Etude (練習曲) is a 2007 Taiwanese drama directed by Chen Huai-en about a hearing-impaired student cycling around Taiwan's coast for seven days; it topped 2007 Taiwanese box office and sparked a bicycle touring boom.
Julie & Julia
Julie & Julia is a 2009 American comedy-drama directed by Nora Ephron, starring Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Amy Adams as blogger Julie Powell.
Lion's Den
Lion's Den (Leonera) is Pablo Trapero's 2008 Argentine prison drama, premiered in Competition at Cannes, starring Martina Gusman as Julia, an inmate raising her son behind bars; shot in real prisons with inmates as extras.