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The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globes, an American film awards ceremony. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...

Until 1986, it was known as the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film, meaning that any non-American film could be honoured. In 1987, it was changed to Best Foreign Language Film, so that non-American English language films are now considered for the Best Motion Picture awards. Before 1974, the award was given only infrequently, and with several films being jointly honoured per year. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

The most honored country in this category is United Kingdom, with seven films honored. The most honoured countries after 1987 are Spain and France.

Best Foreign Film

Ladri di biciclette (literally translated as Bicycle Thieves) is a 1948 Italian neorealist film known in its US English release as The Bicycle Thief. ... Genevieve (1953) is a British film directed by Henry Cornelius. ... DVD case cover for Ordet Ordet (The Word) is a 1955 Danish film, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. ... Stella was a Greek film featuring Melina Mercouri. ... Richard III is a 1955 British film adaptation of William Shakespeares historical play Richard III, including elements of Henry VI, part 3. ... War and Peace is the first film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. ... Scener ur ett Ã¤ktenskap (roughly translated as Scenes from a Marriage) is a Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. ... Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte in Swedish) is a 1976 movie which tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from her own mental illness. ... A Special Day (or Una Giornata particolare) is a 1977 Italian language film which tells the story of a housewife and her neighbor who stay at home in Rome on the day that Il Duce comes to visit the city. ... Höstsonaten is a 1978 Swedish film which tells the story of a famous pianist who confronts her neglected daughters. ... La Cage aux Folles (tr. ... For other uses, see Tess (disambiguation) Tess is a 1979 English language romance and drama film based on the novel Tess of the dUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy and directed by Roman PolaÅ„ski. ... This article is about the film. ... Gandhi (1982) is an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning British - Indian production, directed by Richard Attenborough, about the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi, Great Soul), leader of the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th... Fanny och Alexander is a 1982 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. ... A Passage to India is a 1984 film directed by David Lean, based on the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster. ... The Official Story (Spanish: La Historia Oficial) is a 1985 Argentinean film directed by Luis Puenzo and written by Puenzo and AÃda Bortnik. ...

Best Foreign Language Film

Categories: Golden Globe Awards | Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe The Assault (Dutch: De Aanslag) is a 1986 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Harry Mulisch. ... My Life as a Dog (Swedish Mitt liv som hund) is a Swedish film from 1985 directed by Lasse HallstrÃ¶m and based on a novel by Reidar JÃ¶nsson. ... Pelle the Conqueror (Danish: ; Swedish: ) is a 1987 film in Danish and Swedish which tells the story of two Swedish immigrants to Denmark, a father and son, who try to build a new life for themselves. ... Categories: Stub | 1989 films | Italian films ... Cyrano de Bergerac is a 1990 film based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand. ... Europa Europa (original title Hitlerjunge Salomon) is a 1990 German motion picture by Agnieszka Holland based on the 1989 autobiography by Solomon Perel, a Jew who pretended not to be one during the Nazi era. ... Indochine (Indochina) is a 1992 film in French and Vietnamese which tells the story of a young Indochinese woman named Camille. ... Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese film directed by Chen Kaige which depicts the effect of the Cultural Revolution on traditional Chinese theatre. ... Les MisÃ©rables, also called Les MisÃ©rables du vingtiÃ¨me siÃ¨cle, is a 1995 movie written and directed by Claude Lelouch. ... Kolya is an award-winning 1996 Czech Republic motion picture drama that demonstrates how lives can be reshaped in unexpected ways. ... Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink) is a 1997 French film that was directed by Alain Berliner and produced by Carole Scotta. ... Central Station (Portuguese: Central do Brasil) is a 1998 drama film set in Brazil about a young boys friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman. ... Poster for Todo sobre mi madre All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999 film written and directed by the Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan and Penélope Cruz. ... UK DVD cover Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; pinyin: ) is a Chinese-language wuxia (chivalric martial arts) film released in 2000. ... No Mans Land (in Bosnian NiÄija Zemlja) is a war drama that is set in the midst of the Bosnian war in 1993. ... Talk to Her (Spanish: Hable con ella) is a 2002 film written and directed by the Spanish director Pedro AlmodÃ³var, starring Javier CÃ¡mara, DarÃo Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin and Rosario Flores. ... Osama is a 2003 film made in Afghanistan. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 2004 films | Biographical films | Drama films | Spanish films ... Paradise Now is a controversial but widely acclaimed 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. ... Letters from Iwo Jima is a 2006 Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated war film directed by Clint Eastwood about the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Japanese soldiers. ...

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