88th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee Mustang
2015
France
Color
Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Plot: When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
60th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children)
1987
France
Color
Directed by Louis Malle
Plot: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret. (Written by Dale O'Connor)
59th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee Betty Blue (37°2 le matin)
1986
France
Color
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
Plot: Zorg is a handyman working at in France, maintaining and looking after the bungalows. He lives a quiet and peaceful life, working diligently and writing in his spare time. One day Betty walks into his life, a young woman who is as beautiful as she is wild and unpredictable. After a dispute with Zorg's boss they leave and Betty manages to get a job at a restaurant. She persuades Zorg to try and get one of his books published but it is rejected which makes Betty fly into a rage. Suddenly Betty's wild manners starts to get out of control. Zorg sees the woman he loves slowly going insane. Can his love prevail even if it comes to the worst? (Written by Mattias Pettersson)
81st Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Nominee The Class (Entre les murs)
2008
France
Color
Directed by Laurent Cantet
Plot: Teacher François Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school year teaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. The teachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both the good and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire their students, but each teacher is an individual who will do things in his or her own way to achieve the results they desire. They also have differing viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praise and discipline them. The administration of the school tries to be as fair as possible, which includes having student representatives sit on the student evaluation committee. Marin's class this year of fourteen and fifteen year olds is no different than previous years, although the names and faces have changed. Marin tries to get through to his students, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utter failure. Even Marin has his breaking point, which may result in him doing things he would probably admit to himself are wrong. But after all is said and done, there is next year and another group of students. (Written by Huggo)
65th Academy Awards: Best Foreign Film Winner Indochine
1992
France
Color
Directed by Régis Wargnier
Plot: It is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, with the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement set as a backdrop.
