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1. The Islands and the Whales (2016)
81 min | Documentary
The whale hunters of the Faroe Islands believe that hunting is vital to their way of life, but, when a local professor makes a grim discovery about the effects of marine pollution, environmental changes threaten their way of life forever.
Director: Mike Day
Votes: 202
2. Band of Brothers (2001)
TV-MA | 594 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord, through V-J Day.
Stars: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor
Votes: 382,850
3. Reefer Madness (1936)
PG | 66 min | Crime, Drama
Cautionary tale features a fictionalized take on the use of marijuana. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles, Dave O'Brien
Votes: 7,990
4. Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor (2018)
8 min | Documentary, Short
From 2015 to 2017, Lynne visited with Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer and Gunvor Nelson, three multi-faceted artists who have embraced the moving image throughout their lives. From ... See full summary »
Director: Lynne Sachs | Stars: Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer, Gunvor Nelson
Votes: 58
5. Certain Women (2016)
R | 107 min | Drama
The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, James Le Gros
Votes: 12,324 | Gross: $1.03M
6. Life Itself (2014)
R | 121 min | Documentary, Biography
The life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert.
Director: Steve James | Stars: Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Gene Siskel, Martin Scorsese
Votes: 14,943 | Gross: $0.81M
7. Zama (2017)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, History
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan MinujÃn
Votes: 5,756 | Gross: $0.20M
8. Get Out (I) (2017)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener
Votes: 503,645 | Gross: $176.04M
9. Las Acacias (2011)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
Reluctantly, a dour long-distance truck driver agrees to give a lift to a Paraguayan single mother and her five-month-old daughter to Buenos Aires. Can the palpable silence soften up the taciturn trucker's sullen heart?
Director: Pablo Giorgelli | Stars: Germán de Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani, Matilde JazmÃn Mamani
Votes: 2,249
10. Beau travail (1999)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, War
This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Djibouti.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet
Votes: 9,068 | Gross: $0.25M
11. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2008–2009)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A woman opens her own detective agency in Botswana.
Stars: Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati, Desmond Dube
Votes: 3,196
12. The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain (2018)
97 min | Mystery
Two shepherds living on top of an unknown mountain go searching for an aircraft that crash landed somewhere nearby even as different teams sent by the aircraft's team get lost on the mountain.
Director: Ridham Janve | Stars: Lokendra Gurung, Arjun Pant
Votes: 60
13. Cafe Togo (2018)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Café Togo looks at the efforts to change street names with colonial connotations in the so-called Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter) in Berlin-Wedding. According to Berlin's street law... See full summary »
Directors: Gregor Kasper, Chihying Musquiqui | Stars: Hike, Ling-Yu Ho, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Keto Logua
14. The Theory of Happiness (2014)
82 min | Documentary
Deep in the Ukrainian countryside, the filmmaker becomes a participant of a radical group trying to discover happiness through mathematical formulas. Can they succeed, or do dreams of utopia turn into a veritable nightmare?
Director: Gregory Gan | Stars: Gregory Gan, Tamara Kostiuk, Sasha Kuropatkina, Aleksandr Novodatsky
15. The Missing Picture (2013)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
Director: Rithy Panh | Stars: Randal Douc, Jean-Baptiste Phou
Votes: 3,117 | Gross: $0.05M
16. Paradise: Faith (2012)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama
A single woman in her 50s devotes her vacations to doing Catholic missionary work in Vienna, descending into violent self-punishment as part of her faith.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, René Rupnik, Natalya Baranova
Votes: 4,315 | Gross: $0.01M
17. Benda Bilili! (2010)
PG-13 | 85 min | Documentary, Music
Kinshasa, DRCongo, 2005: Benda Bilili, poor paraplegic street musicians, get noticed by a French film team. Studio recordings get their music out on album and 2009, they have concerts in Europe.
Directors: Renaud Barret, Florent de La Tullaye | Stars: Leon Likabu, Roger Landu, Coco Ngambali, Cubain Kabeya
Votes: 771
18. System K (2019)
94 min | Documentary
In the urban jungle of Kinshasa, amid social and political chaos, an eclectic and bubbling street art scene is emerging.
Director: Renaud Barret | Stars: Béni Baras, Géraldine Tobe, Freddy Tsimba
Votes: 84
19. Safe Journey (1993)
103 min | Documentary, Music
The journey of the Romany people told through musicians and dancers of India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain.
Director: Tony Gatlif | Star: La Caita
Votes: 1,900 | Gross: $1.03M
20. The Queen Has No Crown (2011)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
Poignant meditation on family, loss, and the mental maps of homelessness. The film navigates the intimate lives of 5 brothers and their mother, over the course of a decade, through the ... See full summary »
Director: Tomer Heymann | Star: Tomer Heymann
Votes: 33
22. Immer die Radfahrer (1958)
97 min | Comedy
Three old friends are going on a cycle holiday, like they did 20 years ago.
Director: Hans Deppe | Stars: Heinz Erhardt, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Wolf Albach-Retty, Waltraut Haas
Votes: 386
23. Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971)
36 min | Short
Frampton slowly burning his black and white photographs as he describes and tells the story behind them.
Director: Hollis Frampton | Star: Michael Snow
Votes: 620
24. Wavelength (1967)
45 min | Drama
One of the most unconventional and experimental films ever made, Wavelength is a structural film of a 45-minute long zoom in on a window over a period of a week.
Director: Michael Snow | Stars: Hollis Frampton, Lyne Grossman, Naoto Nakazawa, Roswell Rudd
Votes: 2,377
25. Resonating Surfaces (2005)
39 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Manon de Boer | Star: Suely Rolnik
26. Thinking like a Mountain (2018)
91 min | Documentary
The Arhuacos are the guardians of the forest and the ice of Colombia highest mountain, the Sierra Nevada Santa Marta. They draw from this unique environment a preserved and singular ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hick | Star: Jwikamey Torres
Votes: 41
27.
ITV Exposure (2011– )
Episode:
White Right: Meeting the Enemy
(2017)
55 min | Documentary, News
Emmy award-winning film-maker Deeyah Khan joins the front line of the race wars in America, sitting down face-to-face with Neo-Nazis and fascists.
Director: Deeyah Khan | Stars: Deeyah Khan, Jeff Schoep, Brian Culpepper, Mike Schloer
Votes: 622
28. Local Hero (1983)
PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.
Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson
Votes: 22,050 | Gross: $5.90M
30. What We Do in the Shadows (2019– )
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of three vampires, who've lived together for over 100 years, on Staten Island.
Stars: Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén
Votes: 38,352
31. Derrière les volets (2018)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Messaline Raverdy | Star: Messaline Raverdy
32. The Master (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 157,917 | Gross: $16.38M
33. Chintu Ka Birthday (2020)
80 min | Drama, War
During US invasion of Iraq some illegal migrants are waiting to get back home to India. As one such family prepares to celebrate the 6th birthday of their youngest member Chintu, their kind-hearted Iraqi landlord lends them a helping hand.
Directors: Devanshu Singh, Satyanshu Singh | Stars: Vinay Pathak, Tillotama Shome, Seema Bhargava, Khaled Masso
Votes: 3,903
34. Wasp Network (2019)
TV-MA | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Edgar RamÃrez, Gael GarcÃa Bernal, Ana de Armas
Votes: 8,617
35. Soviet Hippies (2017)
75 min | Documentary, History
The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound impact on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
Director: Terje Toomistu | Stars: Valya Hitchhiker, Aksel Lampmann, Alexander Lipnitsky, Aare Loit-Babai
Votes: 115
36. In Praise of Nothing (2017)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary
Iggy Pop narrates - in simple childlike verse - Nothing's weekend on Earth.
Director: Boris Mitic | Star: Iggy Pop
Votes: 468
37. Taste of Cement (2017)
85 min | Documentary
A portrait of workers in exile. An empathetic encounter with people who have lost their past and their future, locked in the recurring present. ZIAD KALTHOUM creates an essay documentary of... See full summary »
Director: Ziad Kalthoum
Votes: 197
38. Charlie's Country (2013)
Not Rated | 108 min | Adventure, Drama
Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties.
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford, Lizzie Durrurrnga
Votes: 2,130
39. History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991)
32 min | Documentary, Short
Groundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri's family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese ... See full summary »
Director: Rea Tajiri
Votes: 78
40. The Vampires of Poverty (1978)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Comedy
Fictional film that simulates being a documentary about filmmakers who exploit the misery with mercantilist purposes. It is a scathing criticism "porno-misery" and the opportunism of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Carlos Mayolo, Luis Ospina | Stars: Luis Alfonso Londoño, Carlos Mayolo, Ramiro Arbeláez, Eduardo Carvajal
Votes: 843
41. Kitchen Stories (2003)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A scientific observer's job of observing an old cantankerous single man's kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.
Director: Bent Hamer | Stars: Tomas Norström, Joachim Calmeyer, Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson
Votes: 8,067 | Gross: $0.35M
42. Writing on the City (2012)
60 min | Documentary, History
The formation of a city named Tehran goes back to 200 years ago. Before that it was a small village resting between surrounding mountains. Many political and social events have happened in ... See full summary »
Director: Keywan Karimi | Stars: Salman Razavi, Farahnaz Sharifi
Votes: 30
43. Broken Border (2012)
19 min | Documentary, Short, History
On all the borders of Iran, the smuggling of fuel prevails. The kind of equipment for carrying the smuggled cargo based on the geographical situation is different, but in all situations ... See full summary »
Director: Keywan Karimi | Star: Keywan Karimi
Votes: 10
44. We Children from Bahnhof Zoo (2021)
Not Rated | Drama
A dramatization of Christiane F.'s memoirs and her hard beginnings in Berlin.
Stars: Jana McKinnon, Lena Urzendowsky, Lea Drinda, Michelangelo Fortuzzi
Votes: 1,836
45. The Great Indian Kitchen (2021)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
After marriage, a woman struggles to be the submissive wife that her husband and his family expect her to be. The story follows her journey, as she changes herself and, even more so, changes the household.
Director: Jeo Baby | Stars: Nimisha Sajayan, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Ajitha V.M., T. Suresh Babu
Votes: 3,773
46. The Show About the Show (2017)
99 min | Comedy
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that ... See full summary »
Director: Caveh Zahedi | Stars: Kayvon Afshari, Betsy Aidem, Ruqayyah Albaari, Khaled Alsbaai
Votes: 26