Best International Feature Film Submissions from United Kingdom to the Academy Awards to Compete for an Oscar Nomination or Win in the Foreign Language Film Category

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1. Santosh
20242hR
7.2 (549)
77Metascore
Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband's job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a girl's body is found, she's pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
DirectorSandhya SuriStarsShahana GoswamiSunita RajwarPratibha Awasthy
97th ACADEMY AWARDS (2024) ░░░░ Status: submitted
2. The Zone of Interest
20231h 45mPG-13
7.4 (118K)
92Metascore
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsChristian FriedelSandra HüllerJohann Karthaus
96th ACADEMY AWARDS (2023) ████ Status: won
3. Winners
20221h 25m
7.3 (99)
In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan (Reza Naji) decides to help them find the owner.
DirectorHassan NazerStarsMohammad Amir NajiParsa MaghamiMartine Malalai Zikria
95th ACADEMY AWARDS (2022) ░░░░ Status: submitted
4. Dying to Divorce
20211h 22m
7.8 (212)
Over one in three women in Turkey experience domestic violence. Lawyer Ipek Bozkurt's clients risk their lives while fighting the culture of violence in court
DirectorChloe Fairweather
94th ACADEMY AWARDS (2021) ░░░░ Status: submitted
5. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
20191h 53mTV-PG
7.6 (46K)
68Metascore
Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
DirectorChiwetel EjioforStarsChiwetel EjioforMaxwell SimbaFelix Lemburo
92nd ACADEMY AWARDS (2019) ░░░░ Status: submitted
6. I Am Not a Witch
20171h 33m
6.9 (4.4K)
80Metascore
In a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches' camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.
DirectorRungano NyoniStarsMaggie MulubwaHenry B.J. PhiriNancy Murilo
91st ACADEMY AWARDS (2018) ░░░░ Status: submitted
7. My Pure Land
20171h 32m
6.3 (361)
Three women defend their home against a group of armed men who want to take it forcibly from them.
DirectorSarmad MasudStarsSuhaee AbroEman MalikRazia Malik
90th ACADEMY AWARDS (2017) ░░░░ Status: submitted
8. Under the Shadow
20161h 24mPG-13
6.8 (31K)
83Metascore
As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
DirectorBabak AnvariStarsNarges RashidiAvin ManshadiBobby Naderi
89th ACADEMY AWARDS (2016) ░░░░ Status: submitted
9. Under Milk Wood
20151h 27m
4.8 (118)
Residents of a fictional Welsh community share stories and poems of their life in their seaside town.
DirectorKevin AllenStarsRhys IfansBradley FreegardSteffan Rhodri
88th ACADEMY AWARDS (2015) ░░░░ Status: submitted
10. Uzun Yol
20142h
5.6 (52)
Belief is life's biggest gamble
DirectorNihat SevenStarsMehtap AnilDerin BebekBora Cengiz
87th ACADEMY AWARDS (2014) ░░░░ Status: submitted
11. Metro Manila
20131h 55mNot Rated
7.6 (9.3K)
65Metascore
This riveting crime thriller follows Oscar, a recent emigrant to Manila who gets pulled into a harrowing world of corruption and violence when he takes a job as an armored car driver to support his family (in Tagalog w/ English subtitles).
DirectorSean EllisStarsJake MacapagalJohn ArcillaAlthea Vega
86th ACADEMY AWARDS (2013) ░░░░ Status: submitted
12. Patagonia
20101h 59m
6.6 (646)
A young Welsh couple travel to Argentina to work on their relationship.
DirectorMarc EvansStarsMatthew RhysMarta LubosNahuel Pérez Biscayart
84th ACADEMY AWARDS (2011) ░░░░ Status: submitted
13. Afghan Star
20091h 50mUnrated
7.2 (1K)
78Metascore
A documentary about the simultaneously unifying and divisive effects of Afghanistan's version of the TV talent show format on its society. It focuses on "Afghan Star" which airs on the Tolo TV channel in Afghanistan.
DirectorHavana MarkingStarsRafi NaabzadaLima SaharHameed Sakhizada
82nd ACADEMY AWARDS (2009) ░░░░ Status: submitted
14. Hope Eternal
20082h
7.2 (21)
After the violent death of her Welsh rugby-loving doctor boyfriend in the country's civil war, a Malagasy nurse working at a child hospice in Congo makes a pilgrimage to Wales to sprinkle his ashes on the turf of the Millennium Stadium.
DirectorKarl FrancisStarsChristine Rochat GenoudRichard HarringtonLusungu Munthali
81st ACADEMY AWARDS (2008) ░░░░ Status: submitted
15. Eldra
20021h 20m
7.7 (28)
A gypsy girl arrives in Bethesda to stay with her grandparents.
DirectorTimothy LynStarsIona JonesRhys RichardsLeisa Mererid
75th ACADEMY AWARDS (2002) ░░░░ Status: submitted
16. Oed Yr Addewid
20011h 29m
7.5 (19)
Maureen has her hands full at home and can't take care of her father William, who may be suffering from Alzheimer's. Her brothers - Alun, an alcoholic trumpet player, and John, an insensitive businessman - don't really want to help. William, a lifelong socialist, feels angry and resentful towards the British government which has abandoned him in his old age. Having been persuaded by his children to buy a council house in the booming 80s, he discovers that this selfsame government, which made such a virtue of home ownership some ten years earlier, now expects him to sell the property in order to pay for his care. Isolated in old age, Williams secretly decides to put into action a plan to get back at the system.
DirectorEmlyn WilliamsStarsCaroline BerryRomolo BruniCatrin Dafydd
74th ACADEMY AWARDS (2001) ░░░░ Status: submitted
17. Solomon & Gaenor
19991h 45mR
6.8 (1.5K)
58Metascore
A 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.
DirectorPaul MorrisonStarsIoan GruffuddNia RobertsSue Jones-Davies
72nd ACADEMY AWARDS (1999) ▓▓▓▓ Status: nominated
18. Cameleon
19971h 30m
7.7 (15)
1942. Delme Davies, a wayward idealistic young man, joins the army in a quest for excitement and adventure. One night he returns home unexpectedly to his widowed mother, Iwanna and brother, Elfed Davies. Absent without leave, he hides in the lofts of Temple Row, the terrace of drab Victorian cottages in Delme's home village in South Wales where his family lives. Despite regular raids from military police, he remains undetected as he has discovered that the attic links all six houses in Temple Row. Delme is able to keep himself hidden by moving from house to house. He spends time with each household, sharing their homes, adapting to each family's ways...
DirectorCeri SherlockStarsDaniel EvansSimon FisherAneirin Hughes
71st ACADEMY AWARDS (1998) ░░░░ Status: submitted
19. Branwen
19951h 34m
6.9 (18)
A poignant drama set in both the Wales and Northern Ireland of 1990. Loosely based on the story of the Second Branch of the Mabinogi, one of the Welsh myths.
DirectorCeri SherlockStarsMorfudd HughesRichard LynchJ.O. Roberts
68th ACADEMY AWARDS (1995) ░░░░ Status: submitted
20. Hedd Wyn
19922h 3mUnrated
7.0 (472)
A young poet living in the North Wales countryside competes for the most coveted prize of all in Welsh Poetry - that of the chair of the National Eisteddfod, a tradition dating back a hundred years. Before the winner is announced Hedd Wyn gets sent to fight with the English in the trenches of the First World War
DirectorPaul TurnerStarsHuw GarmonCatrin FychanCeri Cunnington
66th ACADEMY AWARDS (1993) ▓▓▓▓ Status: nominated
21. Lost in Siberia
19912h 20mNot Rated
6.7 (369)
A political drama about Stalin's prison-camp system in Russia.
DirectorAleksandr MittaStarsAnthony AndrewsVladimir IlinElena Mayorova
64th ACADEMY AWARDS (1991) ░░░░ Status: submitted