Genre: Foreign Dramas
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Love (2012)
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert …
Directed by: Michael Haneke
In this 2012 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner, Georges and Anne, retired music teachers in their eighties, have a time-tested love. But as Anne's health fails, Georges becomes…
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Neighboring Sounds (2012)
Cast: Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings …
Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho
A disparate group of upper-middle-class neighbors, including a lonely housewife and a proud grandfather, fear that their apartment building will be overrun by criminals and hire a private…
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After Lucia (2012)
Cast: Tessa Ia, Gonzalo Vega Jr., Tamara Yazbek …
Directed by: Michel Franco
Teenager Alejandra moves with her father from Puerto Vallarta to Mexico City to start life anew following her mother's accidental death. However, Alejandra's classmates at her new…
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Pieta (2012)
Cast: Jeong-jin Lee, Cho Min-soo, Woo Gi-hong …
Directed by: Ki-duk Kim
Kang-do, an enforcer for a loan shark in a destitute area of Seoul, is unrelentingly brutal in his collection of debts. But when a mysterious woman appears and claims that she is his mother,…
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Holy Motors (2012)
Cast: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes …
Directed by: Leos Carax
This surreal drama from France follows DL, who becomes many different individuals living very different lives over a 24-hour period -- switching effortlessly from man to woman, impoverished…
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As One (2012)
Cast: Doona Bae, Yoon Yeong Choi, Ji-won Ha …
Directed by: Moon Hyeon-seong
With the 1991 Chiba International Table Tennis Championships just weeks away, players on Korea's first united team struggle with their differences. But to defeat their toughest rival,…
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Caesar Must Die (2012)
Cast: Cosimo Raga, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri …
Directed by: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani take their cameras inside Rome's Rebbibia Prison as its inmates stage a production of Shakespeare's &NFi;Julius Caesar&NFi_;. The film reveals…
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A Royal Affair (2012)
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Alicia Vikander …
Directed by: Nikolaj Arcel
In 18th-century Denmark, the unstable King Christian IV neglects his young queen, Mathilde, who falls in love with his German physician, Struensee, an intellectual whose advocation of reform…
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White Elephant (2012)
Cast: Riccardo Darrin, Jérémie Renier, Martina Gusman …
Directed by: Pablo Trapero
Two fellow priests and friends, Julian and Nicolas, join together on a project to complete construction of a hospital in the slums of Buenos Aires. The unfinished "White Elephant" challenges…
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Barbara (2012)
Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock …
Directed by: Christian Petzold
In 1980 East Germany, Barbara, a doctor, is reassigned to a small rural hospital as punishment for trying to find work in the West. Biding time until her lover can help her defect, Barbara…
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Beyond the Hills (2012)
Cast: Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta …
Directed by: Cristian Mungiu
After growing up together in an orphanage, close friends Alina and Viochita drift apart as Alina moves to Germany and Voichita becomes a nun. But when Alina returns and tries to rekindle…
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7 Days in Havana (2012)
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Daniel Brühl, Emir Kusturica …
Directed by: Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem …
This cinematic collage of seven short films, each from a different director, seeks to capture the changing atmosphere and social milieu of Havana. Directors include Benicio Del Toro and…
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A Respectable Family (2012)
Cast: Babak Hamidian, Mehrdad Sedighian, Mehran Ahmadi …
Directed by: Massoud Bakhshi
When he returns to Iran to teach after working in the West for many years, professor Arash deals with the country's bureaucracy and drama within his own family as he re-experiences the…
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Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (2012)
Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Imran Khan, Boman Irani …
Directed by: Shakun Batra
Bollywood stars Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor pair up to play exceptionally dissimilar lovers in this lighthearted romantic comedy, portraying a buttoned-up architect and the free-spirited…
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The Delay (2012)
Cast: Roxana Blanco, Carlos Vallarino
Directed by: Rodrigo Plá
In addition to three kids, middle-aged single mom Maria cares for her elderly father, a burden that's finally proven overwhelming. Battling her emotions and the system, she finds her…
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Hate Story (2012)
Cast: Paoli Dam, Gulshan Devaiya, Gulshan Devaiah …
Directed by: Vivek Agnihotri
After she's forced to have an abortion, a journalist turns to prostitution in a scheme to seek revenge against the man who wronged her in this steamy erotic thriller from India.…
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Teddy Bear (2012)
Cast: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard …
Directed by: Mads Matthiesen
Physically massive but shy and socially inept, a 38-year-old Danish bodybuilder longs to fall in love -- but finds it impossible under the disapproving eye of his mother. Traveling to…
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Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012)
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Chris Noth, Alessandra Mastronardi …
Directed by: Ciaran Donnelly
Irish immigrant Mark Muir works on construction of the doomed RMS Titanic while hiding his Catholic heritage from the project's Protestant financiers. As the ship is built, Muir falls in…
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For Love's Sake (2012)
Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Emi Takei, Sakura Ando …
Directed by: Takashi Miike
This dramatic adventure adapted from a popular manga series focuses on Makato Taiga, a badly behaved high schooler seeking revenge for a past injury. His plans become more complicated when he…
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Barfi! (2012)
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ileana …
Directed by: Anurag Basu
Years after rejecting Barfii, a hearing and speech impaired young man, for a more "appropriate" suitor, Shruti crosses paths with him once again. Now, the tables are turned as he has a…
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The Man Who Laughs (2012)
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Marc-André Grondin, Christa Theret …
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Améris
Scarred by his kidnappers as a child, Gwynplaine now makes a living from his disfigurement in a traveling show, where his only friend is blind Déa. His loyalty to her is tested when he learns…
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11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Own Fate (2012)
Cast: Arata, Shinobu Terajima, Hideo Nakaizumi …
Directed by: Kôji Wakamatsu
Set in Yukio Mishima's final days, this fact-based drama follows the famed novelist and political activist's brief and failed coup attempt and questions what he was truly trying to…
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Thy Womb (2012)
Cast: Nora Aunor, Bembol Roco, Lovi Po …
Directed by: Brillante Mendoza
Though middle-aged Shaleha Sarail serves her island community as an experienced midwife, she's unable to bear children -- and in an effort to fulfill her mate's dream of having a…
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Eat Sleep Die (2012)
Cast: Nermina Lukac, Milan Dragisic, Jonathan Lampinen …
Directed by: Gabriela Pichler
Rasa Abdulahovic is an immigrant in Sweden who works in a vegetable packing plant and is happy enough with her life until she's laid off from her job. This social drama illuminates the…
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The Interval (2012)
Cast: Francesca Riso, Alessio Gallo, Carmine Paternoster …
Directed by: Leonardo di Costanzo
Chubby teenager Salvatore is tasked by a local mob leader to guard a rebellious girl named Veronica in a huge, abandoned building. While they explore their surroundings and await the…