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World & Foreign Cinema Quiz
World & Foreign Cinema · Easy
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World and foreign cinema encompasses films produced outside Hollywood and English-language markets, representing an enormous diversity of storytelling traditions, aesthetics, and c...
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All 20 questions in this World & Foreign Cinema quiz
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What is Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu's international breakthrough film before his Hollywood work?
- A. 21 Grams
- B. Babel
- C. Amores Perros
- D. Birdman
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What film did Bernardo Bertolucci direct that became one of the most successful European films in American cinema?
- A. The Last Emperor
- B. The Dreamers
- C. 1900
- D. The Conformist
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What is Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' (1957) famous for in cinema?
- A. Its iconic chess match between a medieval knight and Death - one of cinema's most famous images
- B. Being the first film to win the Palme d'Or
- C. Being the first Swedish film in colour
- D. Its portrayal of World War II through allegory
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Which Italian director made 'La Dolce Vita' (1960) featuring the famous Trevi Fountain scene?
- A. Vittorio De Sica
- B. Federico Fellini
- C. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- D. Michelangelo Antonioni
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What is the Italian film 'Life is Beautiful' (La Vita Bella, 1997) directed by and starring Roberto Benigni?
- A. A war action film
- B. An Italian musical
- C. A romantic comedy without war elements
- D. A tragicomedy about an Italian Jewish man who uses humour and imagination to shield his young son from the horror of a Nazi concentration camp - won three Academy Awards
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Who directed the Indian film 'Lagaan' (2001) that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
- A. Rituparno Ghosh
- B. Ashutosh Gowariker
- C. Satyajit Ray
- D. Mira Nair
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What is the Danish film 'Another Round' (Druk, 2020) by Thomas Vinterberg about and what award did it win?
- A. A romantic drama
- B. A documentary about alcoholism
- C. A film about four teachers who conduct an experiment maintaining a constant low level of alcohol - won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film with Mads Mikkelsen in the lead
- D. A Danish action film
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What country produced 'A Separation' (2011) - the first Iranian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
- A. Iraq
- B. Turkey
- C. Iran
- D. Afghanistan
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What is the significance of Pixar and Disney in world animation cinema?
- A. They only make live-action films
- B. They produce only children's entertainment
- C. They are the only animation companies
- D. American studios that revolutionised animation - but the international animation tradition from Studio Ghibli (Japan), Aardman (UK), and various European studios represents equally important world animation cinema
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What is Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli most famous for?
- A. American superhero films
- B. Japanese animated feature films with extraordinary artistry including Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, and Princess Mononoke
- C. Horror animation
- D. Live-action action films
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What is Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' (2001) about?
- A. A love story set in modern Tokyo
- B. A war film between rival clans
- C. A samurai epic
- D. A young girl who stumbles into the spirit world while her parents are transformed into pigs - she must work in a bathhouse for spirits to rescue them
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What is 'City of God' (2002) and from which country does it originate?
- A. A French crime film
- B. A Mexican narco-thriller
- C. A Brazilian crime drama about youth gangs in Rio de Janeiro's favelas - considered one of the greatest films of the 21st century
- D. An Italian gangster film
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What is the South Korean film 'Train to Busan' (2016) that became an international hit?
- A. A historical epic
- B. A supernatural horror film
- C. A romantic drama
- D. A zombie thriller set on a train from Seoul to Busan - one of the most commercially successful South Korean films internationally and praised for its social commentary
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What is the Japanese horror tradition in world cinema and which films defined it?
- A. Japanese science fiction
- B. Japanese action cinema
- C. Japanese romantic comedies
- D. J-Horror - a Japanese horror movement of the 1990s-2000s featuring dark imagery of long-haired ghosts and supernatural dread - 'Ring' (Ringu, 1998) and 'Ju-on' (The Grudge, 2002) are its defining works
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What is the German film 'Run Lola Run' (Lola Rennt, 1998) by Tom Tykwer known for?
- A. A historical drama
- B. A slow contemplative drama
- C. A kinetic thriller showing three different versions of a 20-minute run to save her boyfriend - its genre-bending structure and pulsating techno soundtrack revolutionised European genre filmmaking
- D. A German romantic comedy
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What language is 'Amelie' (2001) spoken in?
- A. Spanish
- B. English
- C. French
- D. Italian
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Which South Korean director made 'Oldboy' (2003) - part of the Vengeance Trilogy?
- A. Lee Chang-dong
- B. Park Chan-wook
- C. Kim Ki-duk
- D. Bong Joon-ho
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Which country produced the film 'Parasite' (2019) that won the Academy Award for Best Picture?
- A. Thailand
- B. Japan
- C. China
- D. South Korea
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What is the significance of the Cannes Palme d'Or in world cinema?
- A. The highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival - one of the most prestigious awards in world cinema, awarded by an international jury
- B. A French government cultural prize
- C. The Academy Award for Best International Film
- D. An honorary lifetime achievement award
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Which Mexican director's film 'Roma' (2018) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
- A. Alfonso Cuarn
- B. Carlos Reygadas
- C. Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu
- D. Guillermo del Toro