List of entries for best foreign language film for the 1987 Academy Awards

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The following 32 films, all from different countries, were nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 1987 Academy Awards . The highlighted titles were the five ultimately nominated films, which come from France, Canada, the Netherlands, Austria and Czechoslovakia. The Oscar went to the Dutch film The Attack .

This is the first time an entry from Puerto Rico has been submitted for this award.

Contributions

country	German distribution title	Original title	Languages)	Director (s)	Result
Algeria	the last Picture	French	La Dernière image	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Not nominated
Argentina	Tangos	Spanish , French	Tangos, el exilio de Gardel	Pino Solanas	Not nominated
Belgium	Leap	Dutch	Leap	Jean-Pierre De Decker	Not nominated
Brazil	Great moment	Portuguese	A Hora da Estrela	Suzana Amaral	Not nominated
People's Republic of China	The end of an empire	Chinese	孙中山 (Sun Zhongshan)	Ding Yinnan	Not nominated
Denmark	Manden i månen	Danish	Manden i månen	Erik Clausen	Not nominated
BR Germany	Men	German	Men	Doris Dörrie	Not nominated
Finland	The unknown soldier	Finnish	Tuntematon sotilas	Rauni Mollberg	Not nominated
France	Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning	French	37 ° 2 le matin	Jean-Jacques Brilleix	Nominated
India	Swati Mutyam	Telugu	Swati Mutyam	K. Viswanath	Not nominated
Iceland	One og skepnan deyr	Icelandic	One og skepnan deyr	Hilmar Oddsson	Not nominated
Israel	Enemies among themselves	Arabic , Hebrew	אוונטי פופלו (Avanti Popolo)	Rafi Bukai	Not nominated
Italy	Rich and merciless	Italian	Notte d'estate con profilo greco, tatting a mandorla e odore di basilico	Lina Wertmüller	Not nominated
Japan	The girl in the studio	Japanese	キ ネ マ の 転 地 (Kinema no Tenchi)	Yōji Yamada	Not nominated
Yugoslavia	Happy New Year '49	Macedonian , Serbian	Среќна Нова '49 (Srećna nova '49.)	Stole Popov	Not nominated
Canada	The fall of the American empire	French	Le Déclin de l'empire américain	Denys Arcand	Nominated
Colombia	Time of vengeance	Spanish	Tiempo de morir	Jorge Alí Triana	Not nominated
Mexico	El imperio de la fortuna	Spanish	El imperio de la fortuna	Arturo Ripstein	Not nominated
Netherlands	The attack	Dutch, German	De Aanslag	Fons Rademakers	Won
Norway	Hard asphalt	Norwegian	Hard asphalt	Sølve Skagen	Not nominated
Austria	38 - That was Vienna too	German	38 - That was Vienna too	Wolfgang luck	Nominated
Poland	The ballad of the ax	Polish	Siekierezada	Witold Leszczyński	Not nominated
Puerto Rico	The big festival	Spanish	La Gran Fiesta	Marcos Zurinaga	Not nominated
Romania	Noi, cei din linia întâi	Romanian	Noi, cei din linia întîi	Sergiu Nicolaescu	Not nominated
Sweden	Victim	Swedish , French	Offret	Andrei Tarkovsky	Not nominated
Switzerland	The black tanner	German	The black tanner	Xavier Koller	Not nominated
Soviet Union	The strange white and speckled	Russian	Чужая белая и рябой (Tschuschaja Belaja i Rjaboi)	Sergei Solovyov	Not nominated
Spain	Half of the sky	Spanish	La Mitad del Cielo	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	Not nominated
South Korea	Eunuchs	Korean	내시 (Naeshi)	Doo-yong Lee	Not nominated
Taiwan	Tangshan guo Taiwan	Chinese	唐山 过 台湾 (Tangshan guo Taiwan)	Li Hsing	Not nominated
Czechoslovakia	Home, sweet home	Czech	Vesnicko má stredisková	Jiří Menzel	Nominated
Hungary	Cat City	Hungarian	Macskafogó	Béla Ternovszk	Not nominated