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The Milk of Sorrow
The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada, 2009) is Claudia Llosa's Peruvian-Spanish drama starring Magaly Solier as Fausta, who carries trauma transmitted through breast milk from Peru's armed conflict; it won the 2009 Golden Bear and was Oscar-nominated.
The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta), Walter Salles's 2004 Spanish-language road film with Gael García Bernal and Rodrigo de la Serna, dramatizes Che Guevara's 1952 South American journey; it won the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language and an Oscar for 'Al otro lado del río'.
The Notorious Bettie Page
The Notorious Bettie Page is Mary Harron's 2005 biographical drama starring Gretchen Mol as 1950s pin-up model Bettie Page, covering her fetish modeling for the Klaws, the 1955 Kefauver Senate hearings, and her later religious life.
The Orphan of Anyang (安阳婴儿)
The Orphan of Anyang (安阳婴儿, Anyang yinger) is Wang Chao's 2001 debut feature, an unauthorized Chinese independent drama about a laid-off worker raising a prostitute's baby for 200 yuan a month, screened at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
The Other Half
The Other Half (另一半, Ling yi ban) is Ying Liang's 2006 Chinese independent DV film, 111 minutes, about law clerk Xiaofen in Zigong, Sichuan; it won the Tokyo FilmEx Special Jury Prize and Jeonju's Woosuk Award.
The Poker House
The Poker House is Lori Petty's 2008 semiautobiographical directorial debut drama about her Iowa teenage years, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Agnes, Selma Blair as the mother, with Chloë Grace Moretz; premiered at LA Film Festival, released 2009.
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (姨妈的后现代生活)
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (姨妈的后现代生活, Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo) is a 2006 Ann Hui serio-comedy starring Siqin Gaowa and Chow Yun-fat, adapted from Yan Yan's novel, about a retired Shanghai woman swindled out of her savings who returns to Anshan; it won two 2008 Hong Kong Film Awards.
The Quiet American (2002 film)
The Quiet American (2002 film), Phillip Noyce adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel, starring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen; 1952 Saigon love triangle, delayed post-9/11, Metacritic 84, Caine Oscar-nominated.
The Return (Возвращение) (2003 film)
The Return (Возвращение) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2003 Russian debut drama about two brothers and a suddenly returned father; it won the Venice Golden Lion, five festival prizes, and a Golden Globe nomination.
The Secret of the Grain
The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le Mulet) is Abdellatif Kechiche's 2007 French drama about laid-off Sète shipyard worker Slimane Beiji opening a couscous restaurant on a boat; it won the Venice Special Jury Prize and four Césars.
The Son (2002 film)
The Son (Le fils) is a 2002 Belgian-French drama by the Dardenne brothers about a carpenter whose new apprentice killed his son. Olivier Gourmet won Best Actor at Cannes 2002.
The Song of Sparrows (آواز گنجشکها)
The Song of Sparrows (آواز گنجشکها, Avaze gonjeshk-ha) is Majid Majidi's 2008 Iranian drama about Karim, a fired ostrich-farm worker driving a motorcycle taxi in Tehran; it won Reza Naji the Berlin Silver Bear and was Iran's Oscar submission.
The Swamp
The Swamp (La ciénaga, 2001) is Lucrecia Martel's debut feature about two decaying middle-class families in Salta, Argentina; it won Berlin's Alfred Bauer Prize and was voted greatest Argentine film in 2022.
The Way Home (집으로...)
The Way Home (집으로..., Jibeuro) is a 2002 South Korean family drama directed by Lee Jeong-hyang, starring Yoo Seung-ho and non-actor Kim Eul-boon; it drew about 4.09 million admissions and was released internationally by Paramount.
The Way We Are (天水围的日与夜)
The Way We Are (天水圍的日與夜) is Ann Hui's 2008 Cantonese drama set in Tin Shui Wai's public housing estates, following a widowed supermarket worker, her son, and a neighbor; shot on HD digital on a low budget, it won four 2009 Hong Kong Film Awards.
The Willow Tree (بید مجنون)
The Willow Tree (بید مجنون, Bīd-e majnūn) is a 2005 Iranian drama, Majid Majidi's sixth feature, starring Parviz Parastui as a blind professor who regains sight in France. It won four Crystal Simorghs at the 23rd Fajr Film Festival.
The Young Victoria
The Young Victoria (2009) is a historical drama directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, written by Julian Fellowes, starring Emily Blunt as the young Queen Victoria and Rupert Friend as Prince Albert; produced by Scorsese, Graham King, and Sarah Ferguson, it won the Oscar for Best Costume Design.
There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood (2007) is Paul Thomas Anderson's epic period drama, loosely based on Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as oilman Daniel Plainview opposite Paul Dano's preacher Eli Sunday; it won Day-Lewis the Best Actor Oscar and ranks third on the NYT 2025 best-films list.
Time of the Wolf
Time of the Wolf (Le temps du loup, Wolfzeit) is Michael Haneke's 2003 French-Austrian-German post-apocalyptic drama starring Isabelle Huppert, about a family left to survive after an unspecified catastrophe, titled after the Edda's wolf-age.
Time to Leave
Time to Leave (Le Temps qui reste) is François Ozon's 2005 French drama, in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, about Romain, a 30-year-old photographer with terminal cancer, starring Melvil Poupaud, Jeanne Moreau, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Together (2000 film)
Together (Tillsammans) is Lukas Moodysson's 2000 Swedish comedy-drama about a 1975 Stockholm commune, starring Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, and Gustav Hammarsten; a critically acclaimed New Swedish Cinema landmark with a 2023 sequel, Together 99.
Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ)
Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ), 2008 drama by Kiyoshi Kurosawa about a salaryman hiding his unemployment from his family; won Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and 2009 Asian Film Awards Best Film.
Tokyo!
Tokyo! (2008) is a France-Japan-South Korea-Germany anthology film with three Tokyo-set segments, Interior Design, Merde, and Shaking Tokyo, by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho, premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Touching the Void (film)
Touching the Void (2003) is a Kevin Macdonald docudrama, based on Joe Simpson's book, recounting Simpson and Simon Yates's disastrous 1985 Siula Grande descent; it won the 2004 BAFTA for Best British Film.
Under the Sand
Under the Sand (Sous le sable) is a 2000 French drama by François Ozon starring Charlotte Rampling as Marie, whose husband vanishes while swimming; her denial becomes delusional. César and European Film Award nominee, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Unknown Pleasures (2002 film)
Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao) is Jia Zhangke's 2002 drama, his third feature and first digital film, following unemployed youths Xiao Ji and Bin Bin in Datong, Shanxi; third in the trilogy with Xiao Wu and Platform.
Visage (ヴィサージュ) (2009 film)
Visage (臉, ヴィザージュ) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2009 Louvre-commissioned film about a Taiwanese director shooting a Salomé film in Paris, in Cannes competition, the first film in the Louvre's permanent collection; distinct from Kagawa Takayuki's 2009 Japanese action film ヴィサージュ.
Wah-Wah
Wah-Wah (2005) is Richard E. Grant's semi-autobiographical directorial debut drama about a boy's adolescence in 1969 colonial Swaziland amid his parents' divorce, starring Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, and Nicholas Hoult.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák) is Béla Tarr's 2000 black-and-white Hungarian film, adapted from Krasznahorkai's The Melancholy of Resistance, about a circus whale and the unseen Prince inciting a small town; 145 minutes, 39 shots. Not the Wrekmeister Harmonies music project.
What Time Is It There? (你那边几点)
What Time Is It There? (你那邊幾點) is Tsai Ming-liang's 2001 Taiwan-France drama, Cannes Palme d'Or nominee, about a Taipei watch seller who resets clocks to Paris time after selling his dual-time watch to a woman leaving for France.