Annual Top Films Lists

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: Picks 200-101

Published on January 4, 2016

It’s become a great breaking in the new year traditional here at IONCINEMA.com. We begin our countdown to the our most anticipated foreign films (anything outside the U.S.) with our own Nicholas Bell curating the best bets for 2016. Here are the titles and filmmakers that didn’t make our final Top 100 cut, but are nonetheless “radar” worthy.

101. El Rey del Once – Daniel Burman
102. The Dancer – Stephanie Di Giusto
103. Le Cancre – Paul Vecchiali
104. While the Women are Sleeping – Wayne Wang
105. Tomorrow – Martha Pinson
106. Spring Again – Gael Morel
107. Crowhurst – Simon Rumley
108. Le Garcon – Philippe Lioret *
109. Marie and the Misfits – Sebastien Betbeder
110. Le Caravage – Alain Chevalier
111. Night Song – Raphael Nadjari
112. Réparer les vivants – Katell Quillevere *
113. Project Lazarus – Mateo Gil
114. Afterimages – Andrzej Wajda
115. Don’t Knock Twice – Caradog James
116. Detour – Christopher Smith
117. The Bride of Rip Van Winkle – Shunji Iwai
118. Three on the Road – Johnnie To
119. Le Vin et le Vent – Cedric Klapisch
120. La Princesita – Marialy Rivas *
121. The Odysse – Jerome Salle
122. M – Sara Forestier
123. The Correspondence – Giuseppe Tornatore
124. The Secret Scripture – Jim Sheridan
125. Their Finest Hour and a Half – Lone Scherfig
126. Ravens – Jens Assur
127. The Thirtieth Love – Angelina Nikonova
128. The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea – Syllas Tzoumerkas
129. Pimpette – Diasteme
130. La Piazza Gioa – Paolo Virzi
131. The Story of Love – Radu Mihăileanu
132. Bat, Butterfly, Moth – Sergio Caballero
133. On the Balcony – Ole Giaever
134. L’ami (Francois d’Assise et ses freres) – Renaud Fely
135. White Shadows – Fabio Mollo
136. Home – Fien Troch
137. White Knuckles – Pia Marais
138. 7.19 a.m. – Jorge Michel Grau
139. Ports of Call – Atiq Rahimi
140. Trespass Against Us – Adam Smith
141. Berlin Syndrome – Cate Shortland *
142. The King’s Choice – Erik Poppe
143. Le Divan De Staline – Fanny Ardant
144. The Fox – Matthias Luthardt
145. The Eyes of Karl Marx – Raoul Peck
146. Much Ado About Nothing – Alejandro Fernandez Almendras
147. Invasion! – Gabriela Pichler *
148. The Skating Rink – Valeria Sarmiento
149. Andorra – Fred Schepisi
150. Clash – Mohamed Diab
151. Freaking – Julie Ducourneau
152. A Real Bastard – Teddy Lussi-Modeste
153. The Ferryman – Zhang Jiajia
154. Polina – Angelin Preljocaj
155. Fixeur – Adrian Sitaru
156. The Forest of Quinconces – Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet
157. Down By Love – Pierre Godeau
158. Tordenskiold Sheep Dog – Henrik Ruben Genz
159. Saving Neta – Nir Bergman
160. Amoureux solitaires – Sylvie Verheyde
161. The Bird is Sick – Sophie Filliere
162. Um Certo Joaquim – Marcelo Gomes
163. Oppenheimer Strategies – Joseph Cedar
164. Vida de Familia – Alicia Scherson & Cristian Jimenez
165. Carole Mathieu – Louis-Julien Petit
166. The Oath – Baltasar Kormakur
167. Orpheline – Arnaud des Pallieres
168. The Song of Scorpions – Jens Dahl
169. 3 Things – Anup Singh
170. In My Room – Ulrich Kohler
171. The Serious Game – Pernilla August
172. The Apple of My Eye – Axelle Ropert
173. A Storm in the Stars – Haifaa Al-Mansour
174. Le Confessioni – Roberto Ando
175. El Olivo – Icair Bollain
176. Shepherds and Butchers – Oliver Schmitz
177. Muse – Jaume Balaguero
178. Before Dawn – Maria Schrader
179. Tulip Fever – Justin Chadwick
180. Untitled Donald Crowhurst Project – James Marsh
181. Ali and Nino – Asaf Kapadia
182. The Truth is in the Sky – Roberto Faenza
183. Au nom de ma fille – Vincent Garenq
184. Jellyfish Eyes 2 – Takashi Murakami
185. De Premier – Erik Van Looy
186. Mein Bruder Robert – Philip Groning
187. The Last Photograph – Danny Huston
188. Hier – Balint Kenyeres
189. The Bookshop – Isabel Coixet
190. El Bar – Alex de la Iglesia
191. La Promesse de l’Aube – Eric Barbier
192. I Want to Be Like You – Konstantin Bojanov
193. Cezanne et Moi – Daniele Thompson
194. Summertime – Gabriele Muccino
195. The Great Mystical Circus – Carlos Diegues
196. Vier Gergen die Bank – Wolfgang Petersen
197. Tacit Wisdom – Saara Cantell
198. Lost in Paris – Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel
199. Moka – Frederic Mermoud
200. Rosso Istanbul – Ferzan Ozpetek

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).