Sunday's Golden Globes feature five very different films nominated in the foreign language film category. There are movies from different countries and regions including China, Belgium and Spain.

(L-R) Directors Pedro Almodovar, Angelina Jolie, Asghar Farhadi, Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne at the American Cinematheque's 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards Foreign-Language Nominee Event held at the Egyptian Theater Los Angeles, California.

Chinese entrant "The Flowers of War" stars Christian Bale as a Westerner who finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's raid of Nanking in 1937.

From Belgium, "The Kid with a Bike" tells the story of a young boy who is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.

Angelina Jolie's directorial debut "In the Land of Blood and Honey," which tells of a love story set against the background of the Bosnian War picked up a nomination. The actors speak a variety of Serbo-Croatian dialects throughout the film.

Iranian film "A Separation" chronicles a married couple who are faced with a difficult decision: to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

And Spanish film "The Skin I Live In" stars Antonio Banderas, and was directed by Pedro Almodovar. The drama follows a plastic surgeon haunted by past tragedies who creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage.

The Golden Globe Awards is putting on a gala ceremony on Sunday January 15th, hosted by British comedian Ricky Gervais and telecast live on NBC.

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