Annual Top Films Lists

Introducing Our Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: A Precursor (Picks 300 to 151)

Published on December 27, 2019

As we wave au revoir to a year in cinema that gave us the Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, the Cannes Palme d’Or winner Parasite, the Locarno Golden Leopard winner Vitalina Varela, the Venice Golden Lion winner Joker and TIFF’s Platform section honored Martin Eden, Nicholas Bell and I forge ahead into the world cinema offerings of 2020 with our extensive Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 countdown.

Beginning next week, we’ll be unveiling what we are most enthused by with Nicholas providing background information on the filmmaker, the film project and guesstimate to which film festival the given title is likely to premiere at. Before we launch in countdown mode next week, we’d like to thank our readers for supporting this outlet and thank our friends at Mubi who much like us love international cinema. Here are some ranked items that did not make our cut but we’ll nonetheless be keeping a watchful eye on.

151. La hija – Manuel Martín Cuenca
152. Cigare au miel – Kamir Aïnouz
153. Saint-Narcisse – Bruce Labruce
154. The Thousand Miles – Sylvain Chomet
155. Un médecin de nuit – Élie Wajeman
156. Bootlegger – Caroline Monnet
157. It Snows in Benidorm – Isabel Coixet
158. Train to Busan 2 – Sang-ho Yeon
159. Amira – Mohamed Diab
160. Shakira – Noémie Merlant
161. Petite leçon d’amour – Ève Deboise
162. Come Away – Brenda Chapman
163. Relic – Natalie Erika James
164. Surge – Aneil Karia
165. High Tide – Verónica Chen
166. People Just Do Nothing – Jack Clough
167. Cottontail – Patrick Dickinson
168. Til Death – Aharon Keshales
169. La Salamandre – Alex Carvalho
170. The Stonebreaker – Gianluca & Massimiliano De Serio
171. Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait – Emmanuel Mouret
172. Herself – Phyllida Lloyd
173. Life After Death – Klaus Härö
174. The Banishing – Christopher Smith
175. The Trip to Greece – Michael Winterbottom
176. Iguana Tokyo – Kaan Müjdeci
177. Death of Nintendo – Raya Martin
178. The Man Who Sold His Skin – Kaouther Ben Hania
179. Havel – Slávek Horák
180. The Postcard Killings – Danis Tanovic
181. Hammamet – Gianni Amelio
182. Stardust – Gabriel Range
183. The Night House – David Bruckner
184. Los abismos – Agustina San Martín IV
185. Here Before – Stacey Gregg
186. De l’or pour les chiens – Anna Cazenave Cambet
187. Sons of the Neon Night – Juno Mak
188. Sunset Boulevard – Rob Ashford
189. The Dig – Simon Stone
190. Falling – Viggo Mortensen
191. Sleep (Schlaf) – Michael Venus
192. A Friendly Tale – Daniel Cohen
193. Fools – Tomasz Wasilewski
194. Walking in Paris – Peter Greenaway
195. Last Dear Bulgaria – Aleksey Fedorchenko
196. Blithe Spirit – Edward Hall
197. Il Boemo / The Resurrection – Petr Vaclav
198. Assoiffés – Jérémie Elkaïm
199. Hive – Christophe Hermans
200. Casablanca Beats – Nabil Ayouch

201. Villetta con ospiti – Ivano De Matteo
202. The Wind Blew On – Katrín Ólafsdóttir
203. The Conference – Ivan. I Tverdovsky
204. No – Dietrich Brüggemann
205. Monday – Argyris Papadimitropoulos
206. And They May Still Be Alive Today – Tudor Cristian Jurgiu
207. Rendez-vous in Paradise – Alain Berliner
208. The Book of Vision – Carlo Hintermann
209. Amulet – Romola Garai
210. Brighton 4 – Levan Koguashvili
211. Misbehaviour – Philippa Lowthorpe
212. Last Words – Jonathan Nossiter
213. The Lost Prince – Michel Hazanavicius
214. Outside The Wire – Mikael Hafstrom
215. Dream Horse – Euros Lyn
216. Way Down – Jaume Balaguero
217. Slalom – Charlène Favier
218. Violence of Action – Tarik Saleh
219. Un Triomphe – Emmanuel Courcol
220. The Education of Fredrick Fitzell – Christopher MacBride
221. Louis Wain – Will Sharpe
222. Flora and Fauna – Nicolas Pereda
223. Best Sellers – Lina Roessler
224. Un drago a forma di nuvola – Sergio Castellito
225. Justice – Stephan Streker
226. Natural Light – Dénes Nagy
227. His House – Remi Weekes
228. Penguin Bloom – Glendyn Ivin
229. Helene – Antti Jokin
230. Qu’un sang impur – Abdel Raouf Dafri
231. My Donkey, My Lover and I – Caroline Vignal
232. Soeurs – Yamina Benguigui
233. Padre Nostro – Claudio Noce
234. Home – Franka Potente
235. Citizens of the World – Gianni di Gregorio
236. Summer White (Blanco de Verano) – Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson
237. The Last Bus – Gillies MacKinnon
238. Gods of Mexico – Helmut Dosantos
239. Gli anni più belli – Gabriele Muccino
240. Stage Mother – Thom Fitzgerald
241. Sulphur And White – Julian Jarrold
242. RAMS – Jeremy Sims
243. The Duke – Roger Michell
244. A Mermaid in Paris – Une sirène à Paris
245. Luxor – Zeina Durra
246. Erna At War – Henrik Ruben Genz
247. Wise Blood – Bouli Lanners / Tim Mielants
248. Eight for Silver – Sean Ellis
249. Made In Italy – James D’Arcy
250. The Silencing – Robin Pront

251. Selon la police – Frédéric Videau
252. This Nan’s Life – Josie Rourke
253. The Notebooks – Joana Hadjithomas / Khalil Joreige
254. La déesse des mouches – Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
255. Bye Bye Morons – Albert Dupontel
256. Archive – Gavin Rothery
257. Madeleine Collins – Antoine Barraud
258. James & Lucia – Robert Mullan
259. Love, Wedding, Repeat – Dean Craig
260. The Owners – Julius Berg
261. Simone, une femme du siècle – Olivier Dahan
262. Valses de Vienne – Marc Fitoussi
263. Brave The Dark – Damian Harris
264. U nee drugoe imya – Veta Geraskina
265. Pixie – Barnaby Thompson
266. Azor – Andreas Fontana
267. The Power of Love – Valerie Lemercier
268. BAC Nord – Cédric Jimenez
269. Connemera – Isild Le Besco
270. De Oost – Jim Taihuttu
271. Summer Knight – Xing You
272. The Show – Mitch Jenkins
273. The Bay of Silence – Paula van der Ouest
274. Freaks Out – Gabriele Mainetti
275. Die Frau des Piloten – Anna Zohra Berrached
276. Wildfire – Cathy Brady
277. The Inspiration – Gregory Magne
278. Miss Osaka – Daniel Dencik
279. Medieval – Petr Jákl
280. Emperor – Lee Tamahori
281. Post Mortem – Peter Bergendy
282. Resistance – Jonathan Jakubowicz
283. The Seven Sorrows of Mary – Pedro Varela
284. Summerland – Jessica Swale
285. Poly – Nicolas Vanier
286. The Marco Effect – Martin Zandvliet
287. Volevo nascondermi – Giorgio Diritti
288. Treasure City – Szabolcs Hadju
289. Sin Señas Particulares – Fernanda Valadez
290. #jesuislà – Éric Lartigau
291. Gunpowder Milkshake – Navot Papushado
292. One Thousand Paper Cranes – Richard Raymond
293. High Ground – Stephen Johnson
294. The Lost Girls – Livia De Paolis
295. Death of a Ladies’ Man – Matthew Bissonnette
296. Sin La Habana – Kaveh Nabatian
297. Loveland – Ivan Sen
298. Un voyage en hiver – Claus Drexel
299. Falling For Figaro – Ben Lewin
300. Like a House on Fire – Jesse Klein

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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).

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Annual Top Films Lists

Introducing Our Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: A Precursor (Picks 300 to 151)