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Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus) is Marcelo Gomes's 2005 Brazilian debut feature, a road movie set in 1942 in the northeastern sertão, where a German aspirin salesman and a drought refugee screen films to sell medicine; it won prizes at Cannes and the São Paulo Mostra.
Code Unknown (رمز غير معروف)
Code Unknown (رمز غير معروف; Code inconnu) is Michael Haneke's 2000 French drama, his first French film, starring Juliette Binoche. Single-take vignettes linked by a Paris street incident; Cannes 2000 competition, Ecumenical Jury Prize.
Crazy N' the City
Crazy N' the City (神經俠侶, San Ging Hap Lui) is a 2005 Hong Kong comedy-drama directed by James Yuen, starring Eason Chan, Joey Yung, and Francis Ng as Wan Chai beat cops and a mentally ill man facing a serial killer; it grossed $877,803 in Hong Kong.
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.
Distance (DISTANCE) (2001 film)
Distance (ディスタンス) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2001 Japanese drama about relatives of cult mass-murderers, In Competition at Cannes 2001, 132 minutes, starring ARATA, Iseya, Terajima, Natsukawa, and Asano.
Dog Days (2001 film)
Dog Days (Hundstage) is Ulrich Seidl's 2001 Austrian debut feature, six interwoven stories of loneliness and aggression in a Vienna suburb during a heat wave; it won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice 2001 and was Austria's most successful film of 2001/2002.
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.
Durian Durian (榴梿飘飘)
Durian Durian (榴槤飄飄, Liulian Piao Piao) is Fruit Chan's 2000 Hong Kong-China drama about a mainland sex worker in Mong Kok; Golden Lion nominee, 2001 Golden Horse Best Picture, first of his prostitute trilogy.
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.
Everything Is Illuminated (film)
Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 American comedy-drama directed by Liev Schreiber in his debut, adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 novel and starring Elijah Wood.
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.
Gangs of New York
Gangs of New York is Martin Scorsese's 2002 historical drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz, set in Manhattan's Five Points and ending in the 1863 Draft Riots; based on Herbert Asbury's 1927 book, it earned ten Oscar nominations.
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.
Ghosts of the Abyss
Ghosts of the Abyss is James Cameron's 2003 IMAX 3D documentary about his 2001 return to the Titanic wreck aboard the Keldysh, with Bill Paxton, Sony-Pace 3D cameras, and the ROVs Jake and Elwood.
Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) is Peter Webber's feature debut drama, adapted from Tracy Chevalier's novel, starring Scarlett Johansson as maid Griet and Colin Firth as Vermeer in 17th-century Delft.
Good Night, and Good Luck
Good Night, and Good Luck. is George Clooney's 2005 black-and-white drama, co-written with Grant Heslov, about Edward R. Murrow's CBS showdown with Senator Joseph McCarthy; six Oscar nominations, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 2025 five-time Tony-nominated Broadway adaptation.
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.
Hanging Garden (空中庭園)
Hanging Garden (空中庭園, Kūchū Teien) is a 2005 Japanese family drama by director Toshiaki Toyoda, adapted from Mitsuyo Kakuta's award-winning novel, starring Kyoko Koizumi as a mother whose no-secrets family rule collapses.
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.
In America (film)
In America is Jim Sheridan's 2002 semiautobiographical drama about an Irish family settling in Hell's Kitchen, New York, co-written with his daughters Naomi and Kirsten Sheridan, starring Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, and Djimon Hounsou, with three Oscar nominations.
Iris (2001 film)
Iris (2001) is Richard Eyre's biographical drama about novelist Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, starring Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Bonneville; Broadbent won the 2002 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
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.
Juana la Loca (2001 film)
Juana la Loca (Mad Love) is Vicente Aranda's 2001 Spain-Italy-Portugal historical drama starring Pilar López de Ayala as Juana I of Castilla and Daniele Liotti as Felipe el Hermoso; it won her a Silver Shell and a Goya and was Spain's Oscar entry.
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.