The following 13 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 43rd Academy Awards in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The titles highlighted in blue and yellow were the five nominated films, which came from Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Italy ended up winning the award for crime drama Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion.[1]
| Country | Film title used in nomination | Language | Original title | Director | IMDB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Paix sur les champs | French | Paix sur les champs | Jacques Boigelot | [1] |
| Brazil | Mortal Sin | Portuguese | Pecado Mortal | Miguel Faria, Jr. | [2] |
| Denmark | Re. Lone | Danish | Ang. Lone | Franz Ernst | [3] |
| Egypt | The Night of Counting the Years | Arabic | المومياء | Shadi Abdel Salam | [4] |
| France | Hoa-Binh | French | Hoa-Binh | Raoul Coutard | [5] |
| West Germany | o.k. | German | o.k. | Michael Verhoeven | [6] |
| Hungary | Lovefilm | Hungary | Szerelmesfilm | István Szabó | [7] |
| Italy | Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion | Italian | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto | Elio Petri | [8] |
| Japan | The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan | Japanese | 無頼漢 | Masahiro Shinoda | [9] |
| Poland | The Taste of Black Earth | Polish | Sól ziemi czarnej | Kazimierz Kutz | [10] |
| Spain | Tristana | Spanish | Tristana | Luis Buñuel | [11] |
| Sweden | A Swedish Love Story | Swedish | En Kärlekshistoria | Roy Andersson | [12] |
| Switzerland | First Love | German | Erste Liebe | Maximilian Schell | [13] |