2002 - Best International Film
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1. Nowhere in Africa (2001)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
Due to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.
Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo
Votes: 13,970 | Gross: $6.17M
Germany - Won Academy Award
2. Hero (2002)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang
Votes: 187,711 | Gross: $53.71M
China - Nominated
3. The Man Without a Past (2002)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Annikki Tähti, Juhani Niemelä
Votes: 26,133 | Gross: $0.92M
Finland - Nominated
4. The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.
Director: Carlos Carrera | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia, Angélica Aragón
Votes: 14,430 | Gross: $5.71M
Mexico - Nominated
5. Zus & Zo (2001)
Unrated | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Zus & Zo shows what three sisters are willing to do to stop their would-be sister-in-law from coming into possession of Paraíso, their beloved family summer home on the Portuguese coast.
Director: Paula van der Oest | Stars: Sylvia Poorta, Anneke Blok, Monic Hendrickx, Jacob Derwig
Votes: 1,688 | Gross: $0.03M
Netherlands - Nominated
6. Firedancer (2002)
79 min | Drama
A young Afghan-American on a journey of "self-discovery".
Directors: Ashok Nanda, Jawed Wassel | Stars: Baktash Zaher, Mariam Weiss, Yunis Azizi, Samira Cameron
Votes: 34
Afghanistan
7. Rachida (2002)
100 min | Drama
A look at terrorism in Algeria through the eyes of Rachida, a teacher in one of the school districts.
Director: Yamina Bachir | Stars: Ibtissem Djouadi, Bahia Rachedi, Rachida Messaoudène, Zaki Boulenafed
Votes: 404
Algeria
8. Kamchatka (2002)
106 min | Drama
The film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "... See full summary »
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Cecilia Roth, Héctor Alterio, Fernanda Mistral
Votes: 3,715
Argentina
9. Gebürtig (2002)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Schindel, Lukas Stepanik | Stars: Peter Simonischek, Ruth Rieser, August Zirner, Katja Weitzenböck
Votes: 233
Austria
10. The Clay Bird (2002)
95 min | Drama, History
A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
Director: Tareque Masud | Stars: Nurul Islam Bablu, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachy
Votes: 4,237
Bangladesh
11. The Son (2002)
103 min | Drama, Mystery
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Isabella Soupart, Nassim Hassaïni
Votes: 10,097 | Gross: $0.07M
Belgium
12. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 801,663 | Gross: $7.56M
Brazil
13. Podgryavane na vcherashniya obed (2002)
98 min | Drama
High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient and very famous family. Several former state and ... See full summary »
Director: Kostadin Bonev | Stars: Svetlana Yancheva, Bilyana Kazakova, Mariya Mazneva, Snezhina Petrova
Votes: 91
Bulgaria
14. Soft Shell Man (2001)
102 min | Drama, Romance
An emotionally immature underwater photographer returns home to an affair with his best friend's deaf girlfriend and unresolved issues with the wife he left six months before.
Director: André Turpin | Stars: David La Haye, Isabelle Blais, Emmanuel Bilodeau, Chantal Giroux
Votes: 855
Canada
15. Our Father (2002)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
Tahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa, Hamza Moctar Aguid, Zara Haroun, Mounira Khalil
Votes: 738
Chad
16. Ogú y Mampato en Rapa Nui (2002)
80 min | Animation
Mampato, a little boy with a time-travelling belt, goes with his caveman friend Ogú to the ancient land of Rapa Nui on Easter Island. There they will meet a little girl name Marama and discover the old traditions of the natives.
Director: Alejandro Rojas | Stars: Mario Castañeda, Carlos del Campo, Adrián Fogarty, Miguel Ángel Ghigliazza
Votes: 203
Chile
17. Los niños invisibles (2001)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A young boy and his friends attempt to become invisible to get closer to the girls they desire. They must steal the magic recipe and its ingredients without getting caught to perform the ritual.
Director: Lisandro Duque Naranjo | Stars: Guillermo Castañeda, Ingrid Cielo Ospina, Gustavo Camacho, Juvenal Camacho
Votes: 284
Colombia
18. Fine mrtve djevojke (2002)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, Thriller
A lesbian couple rents an apartment in a seemingly normal building which happens to be populated with all kinds of freaks. Initially kind but unaware of their secret, a landlady tries to ... See full summary »
Director: Dalibor Matanic | Stars: Olga Pakalovic, Nina Violic, Kresimir Mikic, Inge Appelt
Votes: 2,454
Croatia
19. Nada (2001)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
In Havana, a post office branch is more than a place of bureaucratic rules and regulations to ensure effective public services. This is where Carla Perez works. A young dreamer, this ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti | Stars: Thais Valdés, Nacho Lugo, Daisy Granados, Paula Ali
Votes: 358
Cuba
20. Divoké vcely (2001)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
A portrait of a small Moravian village and its quirky inhabitants.
Director: Bohdan Sláma | Stars: Zdenek Rauser, Tatiana Dyková, Marek Daniel, Vanda Hybnerová
Votes: 613
Czech Republic
21. Open Hearts (2002)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.
Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Paprika Steen
Votes: 10,952 | Gross: $0.12M
Denmark
22. Asrar el-banaat (2001)
91 min | Drama
Graphic portrayal of society's struggle to balance tradition and modernity in modern-day Egypt. "A Girl's Secret" tells the story of sixteen-year-old Yasmeen, whose out-of-wedlock pregnancy... See full summary »
Director: Magdi Ahmed Ali | Stars: Dalal Abdulaziz, Ezzat Abu Ouf, Maya Shiha, Sawsan Badr
Votes: 281
Egypt
23. 8 Women (2002)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
A man is murdered in an isolated chalet, and the eight female residents are all suspects; their secrets are revealed as they try to determine who is guilty.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve
Votes: 34,352 | Gross: $3.08M
France
24. To monon tis zois tou taxeidion (2001)
85 min | Biography, Drama
As Georgios Vizneyos, one of Greece's greatest authors, degenerates in an Athens mental asylum, the tale of another story-teller, his grandfather, begins to emerge through his mad ramblings... See full summary »
Director: Lakis Papastathis | Stars: Ilias Logothetis, Fragiski Moustaki, Lazaros Andreou, Ali Emre Ates
Votes: 176
Greece
25. Hukkle (2002)
Unrated | 78 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old... See full summary »
Director: György Pálfi | Stars: Ferenc Bandi, Józsefné Rácz, József Farkas, Ferenc Nagy
Votes: 3,884 | Gross: $0.05M
Hungary
26. The Sea (2002)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
A rich father in a fisher village plans to take on the project of writing his life story. But first he has to take on his own family, and everybody wants something...
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Hélène de Fougerolles, Kristbjörg Kjeld
Votes: 1,749 | Gross: $0.06M
Iceland
27. Devdas (I) (2002)
Not Rated | 185 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
After his wealthy family prohibits him from marrying the woman he is in love with, Devdas Mukherjee's life spirals further and further out of control as he takes up alcohol and a life of vice to numb the pain.
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jackie Shroff
Votes: 46,983 | Gross: $3.50M
India
28. Ca-bau-kan (2002)
120 min | Drama, History, Romance
A woman, given up for adoption when she was young, returns from Holland to Indonesia to find out about her parents. She is about to discover a shocking truth...
Director: Nia Di Nata | Stars: Ferry Salim, Lola Amaria, Niniek L. Karim, Irgi Fahrezi
Votes: 116
Indonesia
29. I'm Taraneh, 15 (2002)
110 min | Drama
Fifteen year old Taraneh, whose widowed father is in jail, refuses the unwanted attentions of carpet salesman Amir - until Amir's mother talks Taraneh into accepting Amir's marriage ... See full summary »
Director: Rasoul Sadrameli | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Negar Javaherian, Hossein Mahjoub, Mahtab Nasirpour
Votes: 3,814
Iran
30. Broken Wings (2002)
R | 87 min | Drama
Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Director: Nir Bergman | Stars: Orly Silbersatz, Maya Maron, Nitai Gvirtz, Daniel Magon
Votes: 2,493 | Gross: $0.41M
Israel
31. Pinocchio (2002)
G | 108 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Despite guidance from the Blue Fairy and the love of his father, a wooden puppet's curious spirit leads him into one wild adventure after another.
Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Carlo Giuffrè, Mino Bellei
Votes: 8,640 | Gross: $3.68M
Italy
32. Out (2002)
119 min | Comedy, Thriller
Four down on their luck housewives murder their husbands and find whacky ways to hide the bodies!
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baishô, Shigeru Muroi, Naomi Nishida
Votes: 103
Japan
33. Oasis (2002)
133 min | Drama, Romance
An irresponsible and childish ex-con befriends a girl with cerebral palsy and develops a progressively stronger bond with her.
Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Sol Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Ahn Nae-sang, Ryu Seung-wan
Votes: 10,410
South Korea
34. When Maryam Spoke Out (2001)
98 min | Drama
Ziyad and Maryam are a happy young couple in Lebanon, yet after three years of marriage they remain childless. Due to intense family pressure, they try everything they can but eventually ... See full summary »
Director: Assad Fouladkar | Stars: Bernadette Hodeib, Talal Jurdi, Renée Dick, Umaya Lahoud
Votes: 102
Lebanon
35. Dead Man's Hand (2002)
77 min | Drama, Comedy
Jean V., bailiff of forty, plies his trade with talent but without showing humanity. He is married to Nicole, 35 years and consumer crisis. Regularly, Jean George uses the services, chronic... See full summary »
Directors: Philippe Boon, Laurent Brandenbourger | Stars: Albert Dupontel, Marie Trintignant, Serge Larivière, Bouli Lanners
Votes: 136
Luxembourg
36. Tyven, tyven (2002)
92 min | Drama
A young father kidnaps his daughter Lisa, but her mother, the police, the media, and Lisa ruin his plan. On a trip across the country, everyone must realize that they have a fault in this.
Director: Trygve Allister Diesen | Stars: Jørgen Langhelle, Vera Rudi, Andrea Bræin Hovig, Kari Simonsen
Votes: 241
Norway
37. Mga munting tinig (2002)
109 min | Drama
A young idealistic teacher enters her kids in a city choral competition. A victory there would not only gain funds for the school, but prove to these children of poverty how even they can afford to hope.
Director: Gil Portes | Stars: Alessandra De Rossi, Dexter Doria, Gina Alajar, Amy Austria
Votes: 134
Philippines
38. Edi (2002)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
The film tells a story of two scrap pickers - the title hero Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is wrongly accused of having raped the girl whose brothers have got the control over one of the... See full summary »
Director: Piotr Trzaskalski | Stars: Henryk Golebiewski, Jacek Braciak, Jacek Lenartowicz, Grzegorz Stelmaszewski
Votes: 2,197
Poland
39. O Delfim (2002)
88 min | Drama
Based on José Cardoso Pires' novel, O Delfim shows a rotten country, full of feudal lords who dominate its territory with dictatorship. One of them is Tomás da Palma Bravo, also known as O Delfim.
Director: Fernando Lopes | Stars: Rogério Samora, Alexandra Lencastre, Rui Morisson, Isabel Ruth
Votes: 371
Portugal
40. Filantropica (2002)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money.
Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Mircea Diaconu, Gheorghe Dinica, Mara Nicolescu, Viorica Voda
Votes: 13,860
Romania
41. House of Fools (2002)
R | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Sultan Islamov, Bryan Adams, Evgeniy Mironov
Votes: 2,901 | Gross: $0.06M
Russia
42. Labyrinth (2002)
115 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
An aging gambler and womanizer returns home after 20 years, haunted by the suicide of his friend.
Director: Miroslav Lekic | Stars: Dragan Nikolic, Maja Sabljic, Branislav Lecic, Katarina Radivojevic
Votes: 2,343
Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro)
43. Kruté radosti (2002)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
This simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of the last century, the story teems with ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Nvota | Stars: Tatiana Pauhofová, Ondrej Vetchý, Lukás Latinák, Emília Doseková
Votes: 99
Slovakia
44. Zvenenje v glavi (2002)
90 min | Thriller
In Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let them watch the televised Olympic final basketball game between the home country and the U.S... See full summary »
Director: Andrej Kosak | Stars: Jernej Sugman, Ksenija Misic, Uros Potocnik, Radko Polic
Votes: 154
Slovenia
45. Mondays in the Sun (2002)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
This is the story of those who live as if every day was a constant Sunday, those who spend their Mondays in the sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but are now unemployed.
Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido, Nieve de Medina
Votes: 15,410 | Gross: $0.15M
Spain
46. Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov, Lyubov Agapova
Votes: 49,424 | Gross: $0.18M
Sweden
47. A Loving Father (2002)
103 min | Drama
While the whole world thinks writer Léo Shepherd is dead, he is kidnapped by his son Paul.
Director: Jacob Berger | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu, Sylvie Testud, Julien Boisselier
Votes: 638
Switzerland
48. The Best of Times (2001)
109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Although their characters and temperaments couldn't be less alike, 19-year olds Wei and Jie are best friends. They're also neighbours, living with widower fathers and problem siblings in ... See full summary »
Director: Tso-chi Chang | Stars: Wing Fan, Meng-Chieh Kao, Wan-mei Yu, Mao-ying Tien
Votes: 398
Taiwan
49. Monrak Transistor (2001)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Phaen is a suburban young man with a great love for music. He never misses a chance to show off his voice at temple fairs in his village. It is at one of the fairs that he meets and falls ... See full summary »
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang | Stars: Supakorn Kitsuwon, Siriyakorn Pukkavesh, Black Phomtong, Somlek Sakdikul
Votes: 1,021
Thailand
50. La boîte magique (2002)
94 min | Drama
Tunisia today - Raouf, a well known filmmaker, is deeply unhappy about his disintegrating relationship with his French wife. She rejects the confinement in which she feels she's been ... See full summary »
Director: Ridha Behi | Stars: Marianne Basler, Abdellatif Kechiche, Hichem Rostom, Lotfi Bouchnak
Votes: 63
Tunisia
51. 9 (2002)
91 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
Cops question six people about the rape and murder of a beautiful vagrant
Director: Ümit Ünal | Stars: Ali Poyrazoglu, Cezmi Baskin, Serra Yilmaz, Fikret Kuskan
Votes: 2,121
Turkey
52. Eldra (2002)
80 min | Drama
A gypsy girl arrives in Bethesda to stay with her grandparents.
Director: Timothy Lyn | Stars: Iona Jones, Rhys Richards, Leisa Mererid, John Ogwen
Votes: 28
United Kingdom
53. El último tren (2002)
94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Action
Three old man, a little boy training to protect an old patrimony, La "33", the last train.
Director: Diego Arsuaga | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Federico Luppi, Pepe Soriano, Gastón Pauls
Votes: 726
Uruguay
54. The Archangel's Feather (2002)
92 min | Drama
In a tiny town in an unnamed Latin American country in the 1930s, a young telegraph operator helps link the small, repressed community to the outside world, against the will of the powerful colonel who rules the village like a dictator.
Director: Luis Manzo | Stars: Iván Tamayo, Roque Valero, Elaiza Gil, Alejo Felipe
Votes: 49
Venezuela
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