1999 Foreign Language Films
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- DirectorManuel García FerréStarsPelusa SueroRosario Sánchez AlmadaEnrique ConlazoBased on the popular children's song by María Elena Walsh, a young female turtle goes on an adventure where she becomes a fashion model in Paris while missing home and longing for the love of her best friend.Argentina
- DirectorBarbara AlbertStarsNina ProllEdita MalovcicAstrit AlihajdarajJasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The quintet meets and gets close to one another, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.Austria
- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsÉmilie DequenneFabrizio RongioneAnne YernauxYoung and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.Belgium
- DirectorKhyentse NorbuStarsOrgyen TobgyalNeten ChoklingJamyang LodroWhile the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on television in a nearby village, Orgyen sets out to organize the rental of a TV set for the monastery. The enterprise becomes a test of solidarity, resourcefulness and friendship for the students, while the Lama, head of the monastery, contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of Buddha in a rapidly changing world.Bhutan
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsToni GarridoPatrícia FrançaMurilo BenícioIn a dangerous but human Rio's slum, rises the love affair betwen Orfeu and Eurídice, provoking jealousy and violence in times of carnival.Brazil
- DirectorLéa PoolStarsKarine VanassePascale BussièresPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicIn the year 1963, an awkward thirteen-year-old girl comes of age during her escapism into the world of cinema, with potentially dangerous results.Canada
- DirectorXiaoning FengStarsJing NingPaul KerseyXinjun WangThe film tells the story of a grounded American pilot during the Second World War who learns about the noble spirit of the Chinese poeple when he is rescued by the communist-led Chinese army after an emergency landing near the Great Wall. On the way to the Communist base, the pilot falls in love with a girl soldier whose lingering memory of being raped by the Japanese makes her a determined fighter. Half a century later, the American pilot returns to the Yellow River to pay his respects to the native people who rescued him.China
- DirectorSergio CabreraStarsEmma SuárezNicolás MonteroCésar MoraAn oil company has set up a camp for geological research in a small village in Colombia that has been named New Texas so it becomes the target of the guerrillas. The confrontation is altered in the interest of the sides of continuing the transmission of the World Cup qualifiers of U.S. 94 on the only TV working in the town.Colombia
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsJosip KuchanMarko MatanovicIvo GregurevicWistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's.Croatia
- DirectorSasa GedeonStarsPavel LiskaAnna GeislerováTatiana DykováFrantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a pure person and thus, is regarded as an idiot. He becomes involved in various love and family conflicts. It is because he hasn't experienced much of the "real" life that he is able to perceive human relationships in their genuineness.Czech Republic
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsIben HjejleAnders W. BerthelsenJesper AsholtKresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in and they're a family of 4.Denmark
- DirectorAleksi MäkeläStarsSamuli EdelmannJuha VeijonenTeemu LehtiläHäjyt tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.Finland
- DirectorRégis WargnierStarsOleg MenshikovSandrine BonnaireCatherine DeneuveIn June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Aleksei Golovin, his French wife Marie and their young son. Marie is accused to be a spy, her French passport is torn up and Aleksei accepts to move to Kyiv with his family to save her. They are sent to a room in a communal house and soon Marie befriends the super, an old woman who speaks French. But she is denounced and killed by the government agents. Marie feels guilty and brings her grandson Sasha Vasilyev, who will be evicted, to live in her room with her family. Marie wants to return to her family in France, but Aleksei explains that they are imprisoned in Russia. Marie tries a contact with the leftist French actress Gabrielle Develay to ask for help to leave the USSR. While Marie gets distant from her husband, she gets closer to Sacha, who is a great swimmer and the only chance to Marie contact her family.France
- DirectorZaza UrushadzeStarsZura BegalishviliNino KoberidzeNino LejavaThe head of the security service is faced with a choice: to continue serving the state or to give up everything in order to save his sick son.Georgia
- DirectorMax FärberböckStarsMaria SchraderJuliane KöhlerJohanna WokalekIn 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.Germany
- DirectorConstantine GiannarisStarsStathis PapadopoulosCostas KotsianidisPanagiotis ChartomatsidisA group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city's repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.Greece
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsKang-sheng LeeAnthony Chau-Sang WongKwan-Ho TseOrdinary Heroes is a 1999 Cantonese-language film directed by Ann Hui. It was co-produced by Hong Kong and China. It concerns social reform activists in Hong Kong. The film's Chinese title refers to a popular song by Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng.Hong Kong
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsZoltán MucsiPéter SchererJózsef SzarvasA portrait of the wild capitalism after the regime change in Hungary, in which the characters show with a continuous change of identity how interests override everything. But in the end, everyone ends up in the same place and the same way.Hungary
- DirectorGuðný HalldórsdóttirStarsTinna GunnlaugsdóttirRagnhildur GísladóttirAgneta EkmannerA hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger sister by hiding the shame of her pregnancy.Iceland
- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsAamir KhanNandita DasRahul KhannaIt's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl witnesses tragedy as her ayah (nanny) is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.India
- DirectorMarselli SumarnoStarsRini AriyantiSardono W. KusumoR.M.T. RonosuriptoSri is a village girl married to Hendro, a 70-year old Javanese aristocrat. When Hendro falls ill, she has to nurse him back to health and negotiates with the God of Death not to take him away.Indonesia
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsHossein MahjoubMohsen RamezaniSalameh FeyziThe story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.Iran
- DirectorArik KaplunStarsEvelyn KaplunNir LevyShmil Ben AriThree parallel strories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks.Israel
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsMargherita BuySilvio OrlandoCarolina FreschiThe rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.Italy
- DirectorYasuo FuruhataStarsKen TakakuraShinobu ÔtakeRyôko HirosueThe touching reminiscing of an elderly railroad-station manager is interrupted by the sudden appearance of some good-natured girls.Japan
- DirectorJoana HadjithomasKhalil JoreigeStarsHanane AbboudFadi Abi SamraAnne-Marie AfifLa Maison Rose (The Pink House) is an old mansion in Beirut. It is the place where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War and in which they feel good. Unfortunately for them, their immediate environment is rapidly changing as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are torn down to be replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the Pink House, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial center, the residents of the neighborhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favor of modernity and the families being evicted against the project for sentimental reasons.Lebanon
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsFernando LujánMarisa ParedesSalma HayekEvery Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.Mexico
- DirectorEric ValliMichel DebatsStarsThilen LhondupGurgon KyapLhakpa TsamchoeAn aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes, Tinle blames Karma, his son's friend, refuses to give Karma his blessing as the new chief, and organizes a rival caravan to take the salt to lower Nepal to trade for grain. He, a few old men, his son's widow, his grandson, and his second son, a monk, set out on the arduous journey. Fearing storms, Karma has led his caravan out of the village before the auspicious day ordained by the lamas. Tinle's group catches Karma's before the final pass; the two stubborn men lock wills with Tinle's grandson watching.Nepal
- DirectorIneke HoutmanStarsMadelief VerelstGiulia FleuryRijk de GooyerWhen Madelief's grandmother dies, her mother takes her to the funeral. She then visits her grandfather, but quickly gets bored, until Mischa tells her how much fun a rural summer can be. She investigates her grandmother's "summer house", made curious by the lock on the door. Madelief didn't remember her grandmother, but from her snooping in the summer house she learns a lot about her.Netherlands
- DirectorHilde HeierStarsHege SchøyenSven NordinPhilip ZandénSiv works as a prompter for the Norwegian opera. As the rehearsals for Aida starts, she marries a demanding man, Fred, who still has a strong connection to his ex-wife. Starting at her wedding, Siv must repeatedly take a back seat, both to Fred's children and their mother. But when she meets a man who shares her passion for music, she starts to question the path her life has taken.Norway
- DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsAngie CepedaSalvador del SolarMónica SánchezThe Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.Peru
- DirectorGil PortesStarsRicky DavaoLester LlansangJennifer SevillaThough widowed ex-cop Homer is a kindly father to his ten-year old son Rex, he is considered to be something of a bully in the poor Manila neighborhood that he lives. After mistaking a child retrieving a snarled kite for a burglar, Homer kills the boy and then hurriedly tries to cover up his error. Unbeknownst to his dad, Rex witnessed the event, too. As the two separately wrestle with their consciences, the neighbors find out and chaos soon ensues.Philippines
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsBoguslaw LindaDaniel OlbrychskiGrazyna SzapolowskaIn the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one district, is undermined by two families, feuding since the head of one shot the head of the other twenty years before. There are hopes of a reconciliation through a marriage of Pan Tadeusz, a Soplica, whose father, the murderer, is in hiding somewhere, and Zosia, a teen-aged girl, a Horeszko who lives in the household of Pan's uncle. Other cross-currents - of love, family, politics, village traditions, land reform, and what it means to be Polish - give the film texture. It's an exile's story.Poland
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsAna MoreiraAlexandre PintoNelson VarelaThree homeless teenagers rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.Portugal
- DirectorNicolae MargineanuStarsMarcel IuresMaria PloaeGheorghe DinicaA tabloid photographer is given the assignment to follow a politician suspected to have sexual relations with an underage girl.Romania
- DirectorAleksandr SokurovStarsElena RufanovaEva MattesLeonid MozgovoyIn 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Göbbels and his wife Magda Göbbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.Russia
- DirectorMatej MinacStarsRupert GravesJosef AbrhámJirí BartoskaTold from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War 2 and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power.Slovakia
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCecilia RothMarisa ParedesCandela PeñaA comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, and overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.Spain
- DirectorColin NutleyStarsRolf LassgårdHelena BergströmJohan WiderbergOlof lives alone on a farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik. Olof advertises for a housekeeper, and Ellen arrives. During summer Olof's heart and Erik's desires develops.Sweden
- DirectorDaniel SchmidStarsElena PanovaGeraldine ChaplinMartin BenrathAn innocent Russian call girl believes that she would make use of her influential contacts to get Swiss nationality.Switzerland
- DirectorBakhtyar KhudojnazarovStarsChulpan KhamatovaMoritz BleibtreuAto MukhamedzhanovThe unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother (Bleibtreu) in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a traveling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.Tajikistan
- DirectorCheng-sheng LinStarsGiong LimShu-shen HsiaoLeon Dai1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl's family. Their tragic story is played out in travelling troupes, tea-houses and western-style cafes, with the backdrop of Japanese occupation and the 28 February Incident.Taiwan
- DirectorTomris GiritliogluHakan EserStarsHülya AvsarZuhal OlcayKamran UsluerThe film is set during the period of the Varlik Vergisi where many non-Muslims were forced to pay higher taxes, often in an arbitrary and unrealistic way. Around 2,000 non-Muslims who could not pay the amount demanded for the tax within the 30-day time limit were arrested and sent to a forced-labor camp in Askale in the Erzurum.Turkey
- DirectorPaul MorrisonStarsIoan GruffuddNia RobertsSue Jones-DaviesA tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish.United Kingdom
- DirectorElia K. SchneiderStarsJosé Gregorio RivasAlfredo MedinaLuis Campos PelónOliver, an 11-year-old boy thrown out of his home by his abusive stepfather, joins a gang of street children and is exposed to narcotics, violence and sexual predators, and the world of crime seems to be the only road available.Venezuela
- DirectorTony BuiStarsNgoc Hiep NguyenNgoc MinhPhat Trieu HoangAlthough the hearts and goals and desires are different for everyone in a culturally-shifting Ho Chi Minh City, the stories of four separate individuals paint a vivid picture of the past, present, and future of a city eking into a new era.Vietnam
- DirectorLazar RistovskiStarsLazar RistovskiRadmila ShegolevaDragan NikolicA sergeant officer lives a life of a loner, reads literary classics and dreams about acting. On his journey by train, he madly falls in love with a prostitute, but her pimp - another passenger on a train - is not willing to let her go, which makes their destiny tragic.Yugoslavia