Born in Fortaleza, Brazil, Karim Aïnouz is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, and visual artist. His first feature, Madame Satã, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. He has also directed Love for Sale (2006), I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2009), and The Silver Cliff (2011). Invisible Life (2019) is his seventh feature.
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The List
1
Wanda
Barbara Loden
1970
103 min
2tie
News from Home
Chantal Akerman
1976
89 min
2tie
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
1974
155 min
3
The Piano Teacher
Michael Haneke
2001
131 min
4
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1974
93 min
5tie
Written on the Wind
Douglas Sirk
1956
99 min
5tie
All That Heaven Allows
UnavailableDouglas Sirk
1955
89 min
6
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky
1966
183 min
7
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
1966
122 min
8
Badlands
UnavailableTerrence Malick
1973
94 min
9
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
UnavailableRuss Meyer
1970
109 min
10
Arabian Nights
UnavailablePier Paolo Pasolini
1974
131 min