Movies For Film Buffs
by nzswanny | created - 01 Sep 2018 | updated - 02 Feb 2019 | PublicThe ultimate list of movies that either had a significant part in history, that drives on both art and entertainment and that are iconically memorable, this is a list you’ll want to return to again and again. Most of these are art movies, however I also added some good blockbusters with some artistic elements such as characterisation and surrealism and pioneer elements that make you think and feel. WARNING: These movies were meant to divide audiences. Some may break your rules.
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1. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg
Votes: 22,569
A brilliant movie for those who feel they are different from others; in this movie, it’s not the individual who is mad, it’s the community around him.
2. Forrest Gump (1994)
PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Votes: 2,256,114 | Gross: $330.25M
Emotional movie that depicts a serious mental illness with lots of depth and heart, giving an emotional and heart-felt point of view on the past through the eyes of a man with a low IQ’s life.
3. The Blue Bird (1918)
Not Rated | 75 min | Family, Fantasy
With the aid and guidance of a magical fairy, two peasant children set out in search of the elusive "Blue Bird of Happiness".
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Edwin E. Reed, Emma Lowry
Votes: 1,015
Beautiful fantasy with magic realism for all the dreamers out there searching for true happiness.
4. Tih Minh (1918)
418 min | Adventure, Mystery
Jacques d'Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that, unbeknownst to him, contains a ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Mary Harald, René Cresté, Georges Biscot, Édouard Mathé
Votes: 468
Slightly racist, but adventourous action movie about a detective who goes out to solve a case before the foreigners do.
5. The Lost Moment (1947)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet to find his lost love letters.
Director: Martin Gabel | Stars: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring
Votes: 1,333
Set against the beautiful landscape of Italy, a brilliant but dark and brooding ‘mild’ horror that will win your heart over in seconds.
6. La Ciudad (the City) (1998)
88 min | Drama
The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Director: David Riker | Stars: Anthony Rivera, Joseph Rigano, Miguel Maldonado, Ricardo Cuevas
Votes: 375 | Gross: $0.24M
Very emotional, realistic and touching portrait of what immigration feels like in the hearts of men.
7. The Haunted Castle (1921)
Not Rated | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first ... See full summary »
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Arnold Korff, Lulu Kyser-Korff, Lothar Mehnert, Paul Hartmann
Votes: 2,065
A frightening horror-mystery set against the background of socialites in which a man decides to get his reputation cleared by discovering who had murdered a woman’s husband to prove he didn’t to others.
8. Let the Right One In (2008)
R | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
Director: Tomas Alfredson | Stars: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl
Votes: 226,727 | Gross: $2.12M
A beautiful but deeply frightening romance between two opposites; a light human character and a dark vampire. Great movie for those who accept diversity and the macabre.
9. La Terra Trema (1948)
Not Rated | 160 min | Drama
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono
Votes: 5,593
Revolutionary movie set in Sicily about classism and the poor and the rich clashing, with this movie describing the effort the poor must make to gain back the rights that have been taken from them by the leading class.
10. The Violin Player (2015)
72 min | Drama, Music
The Violin Player is the story of one day in the life of a Bollywood session violinist who finds expression in an unlikely place. The day unfolds to reveal startling truths about music, art, life and survival.
Director: Bauddhayan Mukherji | Stars: Adil Hussain, Ritwick Chakraborty, Nayani Dixit, Sonam Stobgais
Votes: 423
Brilliant, tasteful and artistic Indian character study about a movie musician under severe stress and turmoil who crosses paths with a dark, brooding filmmaker, and how between eachother they discover the secrets within their lives.
11. $ (1971)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob three safety deposit boxes containing $1.5 million in cash belonging to three very different criminals from a high-tech security bank in Hamburg, Germany.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber
Votes: 2,885 | Gross: $4.40M
Sadly neglected but incredibly fun movie with a half an hour long car chase scene and some of the best wit and humour put onto the screen in 1971.
12. '71 (2014)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In 1971, a young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.
Director: Yann Demange | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris, Paul Popplewell
Votes: 60,139 | Gross: $1.27M
Brutal, harsh and cold, this harrowing thriller based on true events shows the struggle of politics as a soldier is left behind in Belfast during a political division.
13. Jackie Brown (1997)
R | 154 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the illegal arms dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda
Votes: 374,872 | Gross: $39.67M
Stylish, fun but also extremely dark crime thriller about a woman who keeps her mouth shut, a man who watches the crime, a man who has a high reputation in the criminal underworld and a woman who’s a bit of a slut.
14. The Enchanted Cottage (1924)
70 min | Drama
A crippled World War I veteran retracts to a small cottage in the countryside to escape from his nosy family and to hide from the outside world. There he meets a plain but also a very kind ... See full summary »
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman, Alfred Hickman
Votes: 696
Romantic fantasy melodrama with elements of magic realism about a pair who fall in love after spirits put a love spell over them.
15. 'G' Men (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 4,360
One of James Cagney’s first conformist movies (which, to me, isn’t a good thing,) started a bit of a rebellion itself between Cagney’s film career. This movie demonstrates the greatness of the American government and the laws it establishes.
16. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie
Votes: 9,779
An emotional movie that will make you fall in love with the beautiful landscape of Scotland again and again, this dreamy and spectacular movie with additional surrealism will possibly make you feel at home.
17. Fantail (2013)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama
Tania thinks she's Maori. She works the graveyard shift at Horizon to save money to take her brother Pi to Surfers. But one night a cheeky little bird ruins everything and Tania pays the ultimate price for being a hero.
Director: Curtis Vowell | Stars: Sophie Henderson, Stephen Lovatt, Jarod Rawiri, Jahalis Ngamotu
Votes: 193
Gripping character study that tackles racism, the everyday ordinary dirt under our normal lives and the mind we have to wake up to every morning and sleep with every night, an emotional, hard and gripping New Zealand movie that will instantly grab you by the arm and say, “Listen.”
18. 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
Passed | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
Director: Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Allan Jeayes, Mary Morris
Votes: 1,849
A fun anti-Nazi romp with the good old-fashioned Leslie Howard!
19. Interstellar (2014)
PG-13 | 169 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy
Votes: 2,098,746 | Gross: $188.02M
A spectacular, visually stunning science fiction movie that revolves around both the depth of human emotions as well as it’s setting. This movie also shares both views on individualism and collectivism, which I think is a good thing when a movie shows both sides of an argument.
20. And Justice for All (1979)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A lawyer is forced to defend a judge, while defending other clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg
Votes: 39,641
Brilliant, rebellious, and necessary. You must watch it, and even if you disagree at first, it will turn your table and stare you in the eye. After all, haven’t the movie have time to stare at you after you’ve been staring at it for so long?
21. Highlander (1986)
R | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponents, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart
Votes: 147,393 | Gross: $5.90M
Fascinating, surreal and adventurous fable that spans across years and centuries, centering on the life of an immortal from Ancient times to the 1980s. A masterpiece, combined with a brilliant soundtrack and a memorable stroyline that you’ll still remember even through the ages. One of my favourite 1980’s movies.
22. Under the Skin (I) (2013)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell
Votes: 158,159 | Gross: $2.61M
I have no idea why this got panned by some people. For me, it was a descent into the macabre, a descent into the forbidden and unknown, and it was truly far more terrifying than any other movie I’ve seen. This is also one of my favourite movies of all time because of how strange and surreal it is, so I definetly highly reccomend this, even if I’m being incredibly self-centered in doing so.
23. 10 Rillington Place (1971)
GP | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood
Votes: 9,777
Realistic, brutal and harrowing movie based on a true story about the murders surrounding 10 Rillington Place, in which a seemingly ordinary man turns out to be a serial killer.
24. 10,000 BC (2008)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who bonds with the beautiful Evolet. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh must embark on an odyssey to save his true love.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Marco Khan, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 135,464 | Gross: $94.78M
I know this got bad reviews, but this is the very definition of iconic epic. It may not be a masterpiece, but there’s something nostalgic about having an iconic movie like this where the poster sells more than the tickets. Highly recommended for people who love entertainment as well as BC history.
25. The Last House on the Left (1972)
R | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln
Votes: 40,270 | Gross: $3.10M
A terrifyingly disturbing movie about a group of teenagers who decide to look for drugs but are taken in and brutalized by a group of sadists. This movie, a remake of The Virgin Spring, is a flawed masterpiece because of it’s cold, unflinching atmosphere, and will even make you question whether or not remakes can sometimes work.
26. New Jack City (1991)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.
Director: Mario Van Peebles | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock
Votes: 38,815 | Gross: $47.62M
A great, brilliant and astounding motion picture that tackles the world of gangsters as well as common 1990’s racism. While it may be badly edited, it adds to it’s originality and so far it’s one of the most original gangster movies I have ever seen. I know what you’re thinking, “Why not The Godfather?” But this movie has it all, it’s entertaining, it’s artistic, and it’s downright brutal in some parts as well as emotional. Watch it!
27. My Side of the Mountain (1969)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Family
As young Sam Gribley runs away he learns about nature.
Director: James B. Clark | Stars: Ted Eccles, Theodore Bikel, Tudi Wiggins, Paul Hébert
Votes: 1,173
For all the lucky individuals out there in the world who are sick of society and want freedom.
28. Nights and Days (1975)
245 min | Drama, Romance, War
An epic saga of the Niechcic family, told from a woman's perspective. In 1914 in the war-torn Kaliniec, Barbara Niechcic remembers her youthful love, marriage hardships, family life in the countryside and finally her husband's death.
Director: Jerzy Antczak | Stars: Jadwiga Baranska, Jerzy Binczycki, Emir Buczacki, Stanislawa Celinska
Votes: 562
After all these rebellious movies, it may be too much to ask for a conservative movie, but you don’t have to prepare any yawns. This movie, while set in an entirely traditional setting and characters, is actually a realistic view on how people lived through tradition and how some views they shared were wrong and the other views they shared were right. Definetly a beautiful movie, but beware, it’s traditional.
29. Spider-Man (2002)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After being bitten by a genetically-modified spider, a shy teenager gains spider-like abilities that he uses to fight injustice as a masked superhero and face a vengeful enemy.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco
Votes: 879,465 | Gross: $403.71M
I really do have a soft spot in my heart for this movie, Spiderman, with Tobey Maguire, an actor who has the guts to shed his own blood on the screen for an ungrateful audience like us. This movie is brilliant, it’s nostalgic, it’s timeless, it’s adventurous, and whenever I watch it I always feel like a child again.
30. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a former brilliant scientist named Otto Octavius.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco
Votes: 708,332 | Gross: $373.59M
Again, this is the same as the first one.
31. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church
Votes: 637,315 | Gross: $336.53M
And same again, but I’ll want to add another note onto this. Believe me, this is not as bad as some critics have pushed it; it’s a brilliant metaphoric movie that gives us a glimpse into the darkness hidden inside ourselves. Maybe I overdid it when I said that, especially for a superhero movie, but no matter it’s social rank, I love it.
32. Breathless (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Van Doude, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 87,902 | Gross: $0.34M
This was an incredibly ground-breaking, revolutionary movie for it’s time because of it’s stylish, fast-paced quick takes and editing. Back before the 1960’s, avant garde cinema did exist and there were many experiments, but none were quite so rare as Breathless itself! This isn’t a movie for all the boring people out there who want a boring “true story” or “one about the Queen,” this is a fantastic movie for rebels like me. See it.
33. The Green Mile (1999)
R | 189 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A tale set on death row, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the lead guard, Paul Edgecombe, recognizes John's gift, he tries to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt
Votes: 1,406,834 | Gross: $136.80M
This movie has been called racist, but it really isn’t. In fact, it’s anti-racism, because it shows how a black man is falsely accused of rape and murder, and the fact that he has magical powers really isn’t a stereotype at all, it’s beautiful. Some of the scenes with Michael Clarke Duncan are some of the most emotional I’ve seen in a long time, and the execution scenes are brutal and harrowingly impacting. This is a masterpiece for everyone, black, white, male, female, conformist, rebel, and perhaps even aliens one day.
34. Passion Fish (1992)
R | 135 min | Drama
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Angela Bassett, Lenore Banks
Votes: 6,086 | Gross: $5.41M
This is a brilliant melodrama about self-discovery and how it transforms two people in a bonding friendship, a white paraplegic woman and a black woman. This tackles down a lot of personal and social issues that paraplegics would of had and still have today, and for that, along with a beautiful soundtrack and sweeping cinematography, it’s beautiful. It really is.
35. 'Round Midnight (1986)
R | 133 min | Drama, Music
A troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips
Votes: 5,861 | Gross: $3.27M
Great jazz movie about the heart of the soul, the heart of the music and wonder of it all...jazz. Before La La Land, before Mo Better Blues, there was ‘Round Midnight, the jazz defining movie of the 80’s. It’s old school, it’s fun, it’s got heart and soul, it’s astounding...what more can one want?
36. Hugo (2011)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 336,787 | Gross: $73.86M
This is a beautiful movie for the real movie fanatics out there. It’s magical, it’s inspirational, it’s inaginative, it’s innocent and yet it contains all these ideas of the world in just one movie. Let your feelings be free, let yourself be a child, and become fascinated and enthralled into this wondrous world they call “Hugo.”
37. 'night, Mother (1986)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.
Director: Tom Moore | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins
Votes: 2,547 | Gross: $0.44M
This is a very, very, VERY historically significant movie because of it’s depiction of epilepsy in the 1980’s. This movie follows the lives of a depressed, dissapointed woman and her epileptic, hasty mother, and how one day the dissapointed one just can’t take it anymore and decides to give it all up at once. Touching, heart-wrenching and tragic, this one will make you cry.
38. A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016)
485 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The search for the body of Andres Bonifacio.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Piolo Pascual, John Lloyd Cruz, Hazel Orencio, Alessandra De Rossi
Votes: 351
Like I said, I’m a rebel, so of course there’s going to be a lot of surreal experimental work on here. Directed by Lav Diaz, a film director who directs notoriously long movies, made this strange, hallucinatory experience called A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery. Watch if you want your brain turned upside down.
39. 1 Litre of Tears (2005)
98 min | Drama
'1 Litre of Tears' is a Japanese movie mainly based on a published version of Diary.
Director: Riki Okamura | Stars: Asae Ônishi, Kazuko Katô, Kaori Torii, Yoshimi Ashikawa
Votes: 1,342
I do not know much about the background for this film, but what I do know is that the bits I have seen from it, such as the movie trailer, it looks fantastic. A wonderful, beautiful and heart-felt melodrama set in the beautiful Asian landscape...believe it or not, I see it as a masterpiece without seeing it.
40. ...ing (2003)
104 min | Drama, Romance
Mi-na, a high school student living alone with her mother, dreams of having the perfect boyfriend. But can any man hope to live up to her image of the ideal partner?
Director: Eon-hie Lee | Stars: Lim Soo-jung, Kim Rae-won, Lee Mi-sook, Jang-Su Bae
Votes: 2,277
A touching, real and heart-felt romantic comedy about an introvert and an extrovert who, despite their differences, fall in love. One to watch on New Years Eve.
41. The Photo-Drama of Creation (1914)
480 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The Photo-Drama of Creation, is a four-part Christian film produced by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. The film presents the Bible's account of God's plan from the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Taze Russell
Votes: 295
Well, sure, I’m a rebel, but everyone needs to see both sides of an argument. This movie shows the story of the Bible, told as if it were true, from Genesis all the way to Jesus’s crucifixion. Great movie and very important significantly in history because of it’s retelling of the bible and it’s length but, while I haven’t seen it yet, it does look very episodic. I’m still interested, don’t get me wrong.
42. The Red Circle (1970)
Not Rated | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand
Votes: 28,141 | Gross: $0.37M
This isn’t exactly experimental cinema, but it is a form of an experiment with cinema that I think people who love “true stories” would appreciate too. What makes this a form of experiment is because there is a long heist scene done without any talking, and that’s really interesting and ground-breaking for it’s time. Great, exciting neo noir thriller that I’m sure the whole family would enjoy.
43. Satantango (1994)
Not Rated | 439 min | Drama
On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.
Director: Béla Tarr | Stars: Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László feLugossy, Éva Almássy Albert
Votes: 12,569
Emptiness, worthlessness, engulfing your mind...isn’t it painful? Mustn’t you want to rebel? If so, then watch Satantango, and see the darkness our hard hearts are covered in when everything goes to ruin.
44. Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Votes: 57,036 | Gross: $0.10M
Brilliant artistic melodrama and biography that is, in fact, a “true story!” But, believe it or not, it also has elements of “experimental cinema!” So, we’re both happy, you and I, when we’ll watch this movie.
45. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
442 min | Biography, Drama
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels
Votes: 906
This is a very, very, very, very, very important movie historically, and it’s self-explanatory as to why. The fact that we are given a portrait of a monstrous animal and are expected to see him as a human is difficult, but this movie succeeds in doing that. Not for the weak minds out there, and only for knowledgable idiots like you and I who understand film.
46. War and Peace (1965)
GP | 393 min | Drama, Romance, War
The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Boris Zakhava
Votes: 8,339 | Gross: $0.13M
While not the original War And Peace movie, this is the epic Russian version that cost more than half a billion to make compared to modern currency! An epic movie based on a book made in it’s homeland that shows us both sides of conformity and rebellion, war and peace, and whether or not we must stand aside or take action, and how we shall.
47. Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee, Anna Massey, Andrew Ray
Votes: 1,539
Coppies!
48. The Satin Slipper (1985)
410 min | Drama
During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Patricia Barzyk, Anne Consigny, Anne Gautier
Votes: 189
Again, tradition, tradition, but we’re showing both sides of the argument here. I haven’t seen this, but this looks like a beautiful, sweeping historical melodrama to me which had a lot of heart put into it and because of the long runtime the emotions won’t feel crammed and you’ll have breathing space.
49. The Third One (2014)
Unrated | 70 min | Drama, Romance
After meeting in a chat room, Fede (22) arrives at a downtown building to have an intimate encounter with a gay couple older than him. As the night unfolds, Fede has an intense and telling ... See full summary »
Director: Rodrigo Guerrero | Stars: Carlos Echevarría, Emiliano Dionisi, Nicolás Armengol
Votes: 733
It might just look like gay erotica to you, but believe me, it actually does look sensual, sure, but in a very artistic, deep and meaningful way. It’s a movie about a threesome, but it also gives us a glimpse into the thoughts and feelings of each one of them, and it’s also a great example of sexuality rebellion.
50. Winter Light (1963)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow
Votes: 27,082
This was a very important movie for it’s time, especially in the 1960’s, when doubt of religion was increasing. This movie shows the view of a priest and his doubts on his own beliefs and how he questions these himself is what makes the movie so good, yet so powerful. Good performances all around from Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin and Max Von Sydow.
51. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet, Simon Callow
Votes: 166,073 | Gross: $52.70M
A very snobbish, conservative, English royal movie that I actually really enjoyed. The cast, the director and the script writer all join together to make one brilliant movie about a sensible yet mistiming man who falls head over heels over a woman he shouldn’t really love in society. Good movie!
52. 100 Yen Love (2014)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
A 32-year-old woman living with her parents meets a boxer and finally starts a life.
Director: Masaharu Take | Stars: Sakura Andô, Hirofumi Arai, Yôzaburô Itô, Miyoko Inagawa
Votes: 2,708
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53. 'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas
Votes: 982
54. The Best of Youth (2003)
R | 374 min | Drama, Romance
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
Votes: 23,201 | Gross: $0.27M
55. The French Revolution (1989)
335 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the French Revolution from the calling of the Etats General in 1789 until the end of the Jacobin Terror in 1794.
Directors: Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 1,845
56. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,106,266 | Gross: $44.02M
57. Death in Buenos Aires (2014)
TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A businessman is murdered at his home. Experienced police Inspector Chávez uses a rookie officer as a bait to catch the killer, while struggling with his own deepest desires.
Director: Natalia Meta | Stars: Demián Bichir, Chino Darín, Carlos Casella, Mónica Antonópulos
Votes: 2,313
58. Obsession (1943)
TV-14 | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Votes: 8,274
59. Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)
Not Rated | 360 min | Drama
In a rural area, a father forces his daughter into prostitution. Somewhere else, two men embark on a quest for a buried treasure.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Hazel Orencio, Kristine Kintana, Noel Sto. Domingo, Willy Fernandez
Votes: 266
60. Johnny Guitar (1954)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Western
After helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady
Votes: 19,740
61. Les vampires (1915)
Not Rated | 421 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé
Votes: 5,427
62. Fight Club (1999)
R | 139 min | Drama
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
Votes: 2,322,894 | Gross: $37.03M
63. Bitva za Moskvu (1985)
358 min | Drama, History, War
The battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.
Stars: Helmut Hellstorff, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Artyom Karapetyan, Yakov Tripolsky
Votes: 468
64. Little Dorrit (1987)
G | 357 min | Drama, Romance
Arthur returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison.
Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall
Votes: 1,238 | Gross: $1.03M
65. ...and the Wild Wild Women (1959)
95 min | Drama
A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a female prison environment. The story concerns a young girl sent to prison who experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she ... See full summary »
Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Cristina Gaioni, Anita Durante
Votes: 577
66. 'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
Approved | 52 min | Drama, Western
A cowboy escorts a little girl, whose mother made her the heir of a cash-able oil company, and must protect her from an outlaw as they search for the girl's father.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, Shirley Jean Rickert, Jack Rockwell
Votes: 1,136
67. Extracted (2012)
R | 89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A scientist who has invented a technology to construct virtual realities from people's memories finds himself in a perilous situation, after he reluctantly allows it to be used for a purpose he never imagined.
Director: Nir Paniry | Stars: Sasha Roiz, Jenny Mollen, Dominic Bogart, Richard Riehle
Votes: 12,513
68. 10½ (2010)
108 min | Drama
Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
Director: Daniel Grou | Stars: Claude Legault, Robert Naylor, Eugénie Beaudry, Blaise Tardif
Votes: 724
69. Cloverfield (2008)
PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.
Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller
Votes: 420,561 | Gross: $80.05M
70. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable.
Director: Dan Trachtenberg | Stars: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin
Votes: 354,605 | Gross: $72.08M
71. Tamango (1958)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
Director: John Berry | Stars: Dorothy Dandridge, Curd Jürgens, Jean Servais, Alex Cressan
Votes: 422
72. The Prince of Tides (1991)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
Director: Barbra Streisand | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Nick Nolte, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan
Votes: 19,722 | Gross: $74.79M
73. The Infiltrator (2016)
R | 127 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Director: Brad Furman | Stars: Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Amy Ryan
Votes: 78,793 | Gross: $15.43M
74. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Not Rated | 179 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Claudia Cardinale
Votes: 21,191
75. Schindler's List (1993)
R | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Votes: 1,450,192 | Gross: $96.90M
76. Variety (1925)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap ... See full summary »
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti, Warwick Ward
Votes: 1,408 | Gross: $0.71M
77. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
R | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
Votes: 238,338 | Gross: $82.52M
78. Solaris (1972)
PG | 167 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Votes: 98,222
79. A Serbian Film (2010)
NC-17 | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.
Director: Srdjan Spasojevic | Stars: Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Slobodan Bestic
Votes: 71,655
80. Goodbye to Language (2014)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, Fantasy
A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevallier, Zoé Bruneau
Votes: 6,313
81. Persona (1966)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Votes: 130,872
82. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
Votes: 1,193,374 | Gross: $70.10M
83. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
R | 137 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Votes: 805,166 | Gross: $66.21M
84. Lovers and Liars (1979)
R | 120 min | Comedy
An American actress vacationing in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Aurore Clément
Votes: 560
85. Critters (1986)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of small but vicious alien creatures called Crites escape from an alien prison transport vessel and land near a small farm town on earth, pursued by two shape-shifting bounty hunters.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes
Votes: 39,302 | Gross: $13.17M
86. Critters 2 (1988)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Eggs of the small but voracious alien creatures called Crites are left behind on earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the small farm town of Grover's Bend.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Terrence Mann, Don Keith Opper
Votes: 16,845 | Gross: $3.81M
87. Critters 3 (1991)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The tiny fur ball aliens that will eat anything or anyone set their sights on a Los Angeles apartment tower.
Director: Kristine Peterson | Stars: John Calvin, Aimee Brooks, Christian Cousins, Joseph Cousins
Votes: 13,225
88. Critters 4 (1992)
PG-13 | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After being cryogenically frozen and waking up on a space station in the near future, the Critters aim to have the unwitting crew for lunch.
Director: Rupert Harvey | Stars: Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann, Paul Whitthorne, Anders Hove
Votes: 8,302
89. Senso (1954)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Romance, War
An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti, Heinz Moog
Votes: 7,516 | Gross: $0.03M
90. Melancholia (2011)
R | 135 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård
Votes: 195,830 | Gross: $3.03M
91. The Third Part of the Night (1971)
107 min | Drama, Horror, War
Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki, Jerzy Golinski
Votes: 2,696
92. The Omen (1976)
R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, David Warner
Votes: 132,400 | Gross: $4.27M
93. Damien: Omen II (1978)
R | 107 min | Horror
Damien the Antichrist, now about to turn thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
Directors: Don Taylor, Mike Hodges | Stars: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth
Votes: 35,824 | Gross: $3.88M
94. The Final Conflict (1981)
R | 108 min | Horror
The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him.
Director: Graham Baker | Stars: Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon, Lisa Harrow
Votes: 22,740 | Gross: $20.47M
95. Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama (1993)
PG | 135 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An anime adaptation of the Hindu epic the Ramayana, where Lord Ram combats the wicked king Ravana.
Directors: Ram Mohan, Yûgô Sakô, Koichi Saski | Stars: Arun Govil, Nikhil Kapoor, Edie Mirman, Rael Padamsee
Votes: 14,574
96. The New Daughter (2009)
PG-13 | 108 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A single father moves his two children to rural South Carolina, only to watch his daughter exhibit increasingly strange behavior.
Director: Luiso Berdejo | Stars: Kevin Costner, Ivana Baquero, Samantha Mathis, Gattlin Griffith
Votes: 16,121
97. Playing for Time (1980 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, Music
Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
Directors: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski
Votes: 2,885
98. Camille (1936)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan
Votes: 8,746 | Gross: $1.15M
99. Broadway Bill (1934)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A runaway heiress and her sister's husband join forces to race the latter's fast horse, Broadway Bill.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson
Votes: 1,160
100. The Berlin File (2013)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Thriller
Jong-seong, a North Korean ghost agent, interrupts an illegal arms sale in Berlin. A notorious North Korean agent tests the loyalties of everyone involved as Jong-Seong prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Director: Ryu Seung-wan | Stars: Ha Jung-woo, Han Suk-kyu, Ryu Seung-beom, Jun Ji-hyun
Votes: 7,631 | Gross: $0.67M
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