| Year
| Film
| Director
| Country
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| 2004 | Head On | Fatih Akin
| Germany/ Turkey
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| 2003 | In this World | Michael Winterbottom
| United Kingdom
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| 2002
| Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki
| JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honsh
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| Bloody Sunday
| Paul Greengrass
| UK/ IrelandThe Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hEireann is the common term for a state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of northwest Europe. It is the western-most state of the European Union. The remaining sixt
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| 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap | Intimacy
| Patrice Chéreau | FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents.
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| 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri | MagnoliaMagnolia is a 1999 independent motion picture, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson that tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals during one apparently normal day in the San Fernando Valley, California, interweaving nine
| Paul Thomas Anderson | United States
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| 1999
| The Thin Red Line
| Terrence Malick | United States
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| 1998 | Central Station | Walter Salles
| Brazil
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| 1997 | The People vs. Larry Flynt
| Milos Forman | United States
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| 1996
| Sense and Sensibility
| Ang Lee | United States
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| 1995 | Fresh Bait | Bertrand Tavernier
| France
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| 1994 | In the Name of the Father
| Jim Sheridan
| UK/ Ireland
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| 1993
| The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls
| Xie Fei
| China
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| The Wedding Banquet | Ang Lee
| Taiwan
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| 1992
| Grand Canyon
| Lawrence Kasdan | United States
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| 1991 | La Casa del sorriso | Marco Ferreri
| Italy
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| 1990
| Music Box | Costa-Gavras | United States
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| Larks on a String | Jiri Menzel
| Czechoslovakia
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| 1989 | Rain Man | Barry Levinson
| United States
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| 1988 | Red Sorghum | Yimou Zhang
| China
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| 1987 | Tema | Gleb Panfilov
| Soviet Union
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| 1986 | Stammheim | Reinhard Hauff
| West Germany
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| 1985
| Die Frau und der Fremde | Rainer Simon
| East Germany
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| Wetherby | David Hare
| United Kingdom
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| 1984 | Love Streams | John Cassavetes
| United States
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| 1983
| Ascendancy | Edward Bennett
| United Kingdom
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| The Beehive | Mario Camus | Spain
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| 1982 | Veronika Voss | Rainer Werner Fassbinder
| West Germany
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| 1981 | Faster, Faster | Carlos Saura
| Spain
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| 1980
| Heartland | Richard Pearce | United States
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| Palermo or Wolfsburg | Werner Schroeter
| West Germany
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| 1979 | Daivd | Peter Lilienthal
| West Germany
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| 1978
| Trout | José Luis García Sánchez
| Spain
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| What Max Said | Emilio Martínez Lázaro
| Spain
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| 1977 | Ascent | Larisa Shepitko
| Soviet Union
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| 1976 | Buffalo Bill and the Indians
| Robert Altman | United States
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| 1975 | Adoption
| Márta Mészáros | Hungary
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| 1974
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
| Ted Kotcheff | Canada
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| 1973 | Distant Thunder | Satyajit Ray
| India
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| 1972
| The Canterbury Tales
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy
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| 1971
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
| Vittorio De Sica
| Italy/ W. Germany
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