List of submissions to the 59th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The following 32 films, all from different countries, were submitted for the 59th 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 Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France and the eventual winner, The Assault from the Netherlands. Austria was nominated for the first time and Puerto Rico submitted a film for consideration for the first time.

Country	Film title used in nomination	Language	Original title	Director	IMDB
Algeria	The Last Image	French	La Dernière image	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	[1]
Argentina	Tangos, the Exile of Gardel	Spanish, French	Tangos, el exilio de Gardel	Fernando Solanas	[2]
Austria	'38 – Vienna Before the Fall	German	38 – Auch das war Wien	Wolfgang Glück	[3]
Belgium	Jumping	Dutch	Springen	Jean-Pierre De Decker	[4]
Brazil	The Hour of the Star	Portuguese	A Hora da Estrela	Suzana Amaral	[5]
Canada	The Decline of the American Empire	French	Le Déclin de l'empire américain	Denys Arcand	[6]
China	Sun Zhongshan	Chinese	陵中山	Ding Yinnan	[7]
Colombia	Time to Die	Spanish	Tiempo de morir	Jorge Alí Triana	[8]
Czechoslovakia	My Sweet Little Village	Czech	Vesnicko má stredisková	Jiří Menzel	[9]
Denmark	The Dark Side of the Moon	Danish	Manden i månen	Erik Clausen	[10]
Finland	The Unknown Soldier	Finnish	Tuntematon sotilas	Rauni Mollberg	[11]
France	Betty Blue	French	37°2 le matin	Jean-Jacques Beineix	[12]
West Germany	Men...	German	Männer...	Doris Dörrie	[13]
Hungary	Cat City	Hungarian	Macskafogó	Béla Ternovszk	[14]
Iceland	The Beast	Icelandic	Eins og skepnan deyr	Hilmar Oddsson	[15]
India	The Pearl	Telugu	Swati Mutyam	K. Vishwanath	[16]
Israel	Avanti Popolo	Arabic, Hebrew	אוונטי פופלו	Rafi Bukai	[17]
Italy	Summer Night	Italian	Notte d'estate con profilo greco, occhi a mandorla e odore di basilico	Lina Wertmüller	[18]
Japan	Final Take	Japanese	キネマの転地	Yôji Yamada	[19]
South Korea	Eunuch	Korean	내시	Doo-yong Lee	[20]
Mexico	The Realm of Fortune	Spanish	El Imperio de la fortuna	Arturo Ripstein	[21]
Netherlands	The Assault	Dutch, German	De Aanslag	Fons Rademakers	[22]
Norway	Hard Asphalt	Norwegian	Hard Asfalt	Sølve Skagen	[23]
Poland	Axiliad	Polish	Siekierezada	Witold Leszczyński	[24]
Puerto Rico	La Gran Fiesta	Spanish	La Gran Fiesta	Marcos Zurinaga	[25]
Romania	The Last Assault	Romanian	Noi, cei din linia întîi	Sergiu Nicolaescu	[26]
Spain	Half of Heaven	Spanish	La Mitad del cielo	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	[27]
Sweden	The Sacrifice	Swedish, French	Offret	Andrei Tarkovsky	[28]
Switzerland	Tanner	Swiss German	Der Schwarze Tanner	Xavier Koller	[29]
Taiwan	The Heroic Pioneers	Chinese	唐山过台湾	Shing Lee	[30]
Soviet Union	The Wild Pigeon	Russian	Чужая белая и рябой	Sergei Solovyov	[31]
Yugoslavia	Happy New Year '49	Macedonian, Serbian	Среќна Нова ’49	Stole Popov	[32]