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The Self-Access Centre - English - World Cinema

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	Title	Author	Location	Year	Subtitles	Length	Rating
Cantonese Japanese MandarinHe was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while... 1	2046	Kar Wai Wong	SAC	2004	English	129 mins	Like (0 likes)
Hindi, Urdu, EnglishTwo friends are searching for their long lost companion. They revisit their college days and recall the memories of their friend who inspired them to think differently, even as the rest of the world called them "idiots". 2	3 Idiots	Rajkumar Hirani	SAC	2009	English	160 mins	Like (0 likes)
Romanian 3	4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days)	Cristian Mungiu	SAC	2007	English	113 mins	Like (0 likes)
Russian 4	9 rota (9th Company)	Fyodor Bondarchuk	SAC	2005	English	139 mins	Like (0 likes)
Romanian 5	Amintiri din epoca de aur (Tales from the Golden Age)	Hanno Höfer	SAC	2009	English	155 mins	Like (0 likes)
Mayan, EnglishAs the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate. 6	Apocalypto	Mel Gibson	SAC	2006	English	139 mins	Like (0 likes)
English, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, Berber, RussianTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. 7	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu	SAC	2006	English	143 mins	Like (0 likes)
KoreanThrough a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways. 8	Bakjwi (Thirst)	Chan-wook Park	SAC	2009		133 mins	Like (0 likes)
TurkishInspired by a performance of his favorite play, "Volpone," 20th-century millionaire Cecil... 9	Bal (Honey)	Semih Kaplanoglu	SAC	2010		133 mins	Like (0 likes)
Lingala, French 10	Benda Bilili!	Renaud Barret	SAC	2010		85 mins	Like (0 likes)
Turkish 11	Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia )	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	SAC	2011		150 mins	Like (0 likes)
Serbian 12	Bure baruta (Balkan Cabaret)	Goran Paskaljevic	SAC	1998	English	102 mins	Like (0 likes)
RomanianA railway chief delays a NATO train transporting military equipment during the war in Kosovo in 1999. 13	California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit)	Cristian Nemescu	SAC	2007	English	155 mins	Like (0 likes)
Hindi 14	Chak De India!	Shimit Amin	SAC	2007	English	153 mins	Like (0 likes)
Korean, English, Japanese 15	Chinjeolhan geumjassi (Lady Veneance)	Chan-wook Park	SAC	2005	English	112 mins	Like (0 likes)
KoreanJoong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts... 16	Chugyeogja (The Chaser)	Hong-jin Na	SAC	2008	English	125 mins	Like (0 likes)
English, Nyanja, Africaans, ZuluAn extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology. 17	District 9	Neill Blomkamp	SAC	2009		112 mins	Like (0 likes)
Cantonese, Mandarin 18	Dung che sai duk (Ashes of Time)	Kar Wai Wong	SAC	1994	English	100 mins	Like (0 likes)
Cantonese, Shanghainese 19	Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love)	Kar Wai Wong	SAC	2000	French	98 mins	Like (0 likes)
Cantonese, Thai 20	Gin gwai (The Eye)	Oxide Pang Chun	SAC	2002	English	99 mins	Like (0 likes)
A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches. 21	Gwoemul (The Host)	Joon-ho Bong	SAC	2006	English	119 mins	Like (0 likes)
Turkish 22	Iklimler (Climates)	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	SAC	2006	English	101 mins	Like (0 likes)
French, Romanian 23	Ils (Them)	David Moreau	SAC	2006	English	77 mins	Like (0 likes)
French German English LatinOn Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish fraternize and get to know the men who live on the opposite side of a brutal war, in what became a true lesson of humanity. 24	Joyeux Noel	Christian Carion	SAC	2005		116 mins	Like (0 likes)
Romanian, HungarianIn the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart... 25	Katalin Varga	Peter Strickland	SAC	2009		82 mins	Like (0 likes)
HungarianA tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception likeable characters, a rival ticket inspection team, and racing along the tracks... And a tale about love. 26	Kontroll	Nimród Antal	SAC	2003	English	105 mins	Like (0 likes)
CantoneseIn Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf. 27	Kung fu (Kung Fu Hustle)	Stephen Chow	SAC	2004	English	95 mins	Like (0 likes)
Finnish, Russian 28	Laitakaupungin valot (Lights In The Dusk)	Aki Kaurismäki	SAC	2006	English	78 mins	Like (0 likes)
Romanian 29	Moartea domnului Lazarescu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)	Cristi Puiu	SAC	2005	English	150 mins	Like (0 likes)
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese 30	Mondvino	Jonathan Nossiter	SAC	2004	English	135 mins	Like (0 likes)
Mongolian, MandarinThe story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206. 31	Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan	Sergey Bodrov	SAC	2007		126 mins	Like (0 likes)
Punjabi, English, Hindi, UrduA stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India. 32	Monsoon Wedding	Mira Nair	SAC	2001	English	114 mins	Like (0 likes)
Cantonese, English, ThaiMonths after the events of the original film, Ming suspects a police superintendent as being a new mole for the triads, while years earlier, Yan embarks on his first mission. 33	Mou gaan dou (Infernal Affairs)	Wai-keung Lau	SAC	2002	English	101 mins	Like (0 likes)
PersianStruggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums. 34	Offside	Jafar Panahi	SAC	2006	English	93 mins	Like (0 likes)
KoreanNow in his fifties, Vagn leads a solitary life and plays football with a group of similarly aged men... 35	Oldboy	Chan-wook Park	SAC	2003	English	120 mins	Like (0 likes)
English, CzechA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. 36	Once	John Carney	SAC	2006	English	85 mins	Like (0 likes)
Czech 37	Otesánek (Greedy Guts - Little Otik)	Jan Svankmajer	SAC	2000	English	132 mins	Like (0 likes)
BengaliSometime in the early years of the century, a boy, Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a village in Bengal... 38	Pather Panchali	Satyajit Ray	SAC	1955		122 mins	Like (0 likes)
Turkish 39	Pazar - Bir ticaret masali (The Market: A Tale of Trade)	Ben Hopkins	SAC	2008		93 mins	Like (0 likes)
RussianA semi-fictional account of Russian poets Josef Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972. 40	Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu (A Room and a Half)	Film Four	SAC	2011	English	130 mins	Like (0 likes)
Korean 41	Saibogujiman kwenchana (I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK)	Chan-wook Park	SAC	2006	English	105 mins	Like (0 likes)
Korean 42	Shi (Poetry)	Chang-dong Lee	SAC	2010		139 mins	Like (0 likes)
CzechA horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both... 43	Sílení (Lunacy)	Jan Svankmajer	SAC	2005		123 mins	Like (0 likes)
Russian, GermanA psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting an alien planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane. 44	Solyaris (Solaris)	Andrey Tarkovskiy	SAC	1972	English	165 mins	Like (0 likes)
Hungarian, German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish 45	Sorstalanság (Fateless)	Lajos Koltai	SAC	2005	English	140 mins	Like (0 likes)
Czech 46	Spiklenci Slasti (Conspirators of Pleasure)	Jan Svankmajer	SAC	1996		75 mins	Like (0 likes)
Low German, Spanish 47	Stellet licht (Silent Light)	Carlos Reygadas	SAC	2007	English	145 mins	Like (0 likes)
Persian 48	The Hunter	Rafi Pitts	SAC	2010		90 mins	Like (0 likes)
KoreanIn Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after one another when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father. 49	Treeless Mountain	So Yong Kim	SAC	2008		89 mins	Like (0 likes)
Zulu, Xhosa, Africaans, EnglishSix days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader (Chweneyagae). 50	Tsotsi	Gavin Hood	SAC	2005		94 mins	Like (0 likes)
Kazakh, RussianOn the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children... 51	Tulpan	Sergei Dvortsevoy	SAC	2008	English	100 mins	Like (0 likes)
Turkish 52	Üç maymun (Three Monkeys)	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	SAC	2008	English	109 mins	Like (0 likes)
RussianIn the remote Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father--a man they only know through a single photograph--resurfaces. 53	Vozvrashchenie (The Return)	Andrei Zvyagintsev	SAC	203	English	105 mins	Like (0 likes)
Russian, SpanishThe narrator states, 'This is a documentary fantasy', in the prologue. The film is edited into four segments: 1) 'The Snow Queen'... 54	Zerkalo (The Mirror)	Andrey Tarkovskiy	SAC	1975	English	108 mins	Like (0 likes)

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