Sebastián Lelio is a Chilean filmmaker based in Berlin. His fifth feature film, A Fantastic Woman, won the 2018 Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Independent Spirit Award for best international film. It premiered in main competition at Berlinale 2017, where it won the Silver Bear for best screenplay and the Teddy Award for best film with LGBT subject matter. His latest film, Disobedience, is now in theaters.
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The List
1
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
1974
155 min
2
Elevator to the Gallows
Louis Malle
1958
92 min
3
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
1984
145 min
4
8½
Federico Fellini
1963
139 min
5
La notte
Michelangelo Antonioni
1961
122 min
6
Cría cuervos . . .
Carlos Saura
1976
105 min
7
Day for Night
UnavailableFrançois Truffaut
1973
116 min
8
Persona
Ingmar Bergman
1966
84 min
9
Breaking the Waves
UnavailableLars von Trier
1996
159 min
10
Solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky
1972
167 min