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1. Window Horses (2016)
85 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
Director: Ann Marie Fleming | Stars: Elliot Page, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sandra Oh, Omid Abtahi
Votes: 599
2. Dead Slow Ahead (2015)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Drama
The freighter Fair Lady crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors' trade ... See full summary »
Director: Mauro Herce
Votes: 392
3. Detroit (2017)
R | 143 min | Crime, Drama, History
Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore
Votes: 55,934 | Gross: $16.79M
4. Euphoria (I) (2017)
R | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Sisters in conflict travelling through Europe toward a mystery destination.
Director: Lisa Langseth | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Eva Green, Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance
Votes: 4,736
5. Pali Road (2015)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A young doctor wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is married to another man and living a life she can't remember. Her search for the truth to her past life will lead her to question everyone around her and her entire existence.
Director: Jonathan Lim | Stars: Jackson Rathbone, Sung Kang, Michelle Chen, Henry Ian Cusick
Votes: 2,391
6. Life in Color (I) (2015)
Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two depressed loners stuck house sitting together have 3 weeks to turn their lives around.
Director: Katharine Emmer | Stars: Josh McDermitt, Katharine Emmer, Adam Lustick, Jim O'Heir
Votes: 1,405
7. Another Day of Life (2018)
85 min | Animation, Biography
A gripping story of a three-month-long journey that renowned Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski took across Angola, ravaged by a war in which the front lines shifted like a kaleidoscope, from one day to the next.
Directors: Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow | Stars: Artur Queiroz, Luis Alberto Ferreira, Carlota Machado, Joaquim António Lopes Farrusco
Votes: 2,743
8. The Darkest Minds (2018)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After a disease kills 98% of children, the survivors develop powers and are declared a threat. 16-year-old Ruby, escapes the government facility and joins a group of rebel teenagers ready to fight the government forces out to get them.
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson | Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore, Bradley Whitford, Harris Dickinson
Votes: 36,083 | Gross: $12.70M
9. Domain (2016)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait in self-sustaining bunkers with a networked video interface for communication, but one by one, they start mysteriously disappearing.
Director: Nathaniel Atcheson | Stars: Britt Lower, Ryan Merriman, William Gregory Lee, Sonja Sohn
Votes: 1,575
10. Life and a Day (2016)
112 min | Drama
Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
Director: Saeed Roustayi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Shabnam Moghadami
Votes: 17,519
11. Heartstone (2016)
Unrated | 129 min | Drama, Romance
In a fishing village in Iceland, a boy develops feelings for his best friend as his best friend pursues his affections for a girl.
Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Stars: Baldur Einarsson, Blær Hinriksson, Diljá Valsdóttir, Katla Njálsdóttir
Votes: 6,174
12. Sami Blood (2016)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History
A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
Director: Amanda Kernell | Stars: Maj-Doris Rimpi, Olle Sarri, Ánne Biret Somby, Bo Lundmark
Votes: 8,291
13. Thoroughbreds (2017)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.
Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks
Votes: 46,401 | Gross: $2.83M
14. To the Bone (I) (2017)
TV-MA | 107 min | Drama
A young woman, dealing with anorexia, meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Director: Marti Noxon | Stars: Rebekah Kennedy, Lily Collins, Dana L. Wilson, Ziah Colon
Votes: 54,827
15. The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)
R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Sidney Hall finds accidental success and unexpected love at an early age, then disappears without a trace.
Director: Shawn Christensen | Stars: Logan Lerman, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Monaghan
Votes: 11,741
16. What Happened to Monday (2017)
TV-MA | 123 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Marwan Kenzari
Votes: 134,438
17. Louise by the Shore (2016)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Drama
In a wonderfully sweet yet poignant story, Louise, an old lady, finds herself stranded in a seaside resort after the last train of the holiday season has left the station. But far from ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-François Laguionie | Stars: Diane Dassigny, Piera Degli Esposti, Dominique Frot, Antony Hickling
Votes: 1,233
18. Shadows (VI)
16 min | Animation, Short, History | Post-production
It tells the story of an Irish father saying good bye to his daughter for the last time as she is leaving for a new life in England. On the journey they encounter people from their lives and from his hidden past.
Director: Maria Young | Stars: Micheal Crowley, Donie Walsh, Jp Eady, Olivia Shortall
19. The Lifeboat
Crime, Drama, Thriller | Announced
Grace Winter, a young woman on trial for murder, recounts the tale of how she survived a shipwreck at sea in a lifeboat that initially carried too many people.
20. Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
Director: Bi Gan | Stars: Tang Wei, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang, Hong-Chi Lee
Votes: 9,404 | Gross: $0.50M
21. Radioactive (2019)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin
Votes: 21,709
22. The Last Suit (2017)
TV-14 | 91 min | Drama
Abraham Bursztein, an 88 year-old Jewish tailor, runs away from Buenos Aires to Poland, where he proposes to find a friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II. After... See full summary »
Director: Pablo Solarz | Stars: Miguel Ángel Solá, Ángela Molina, Olga Boladz, Julia Beerhold
Votes: 937 | Gross: $0.07M
23. Arcadia (II) (2017)
78 min | Documentary
From the earliest days of movie-making to the present day, through rare and unseen footage, we see the changing relationship the British have with their land. From images of local ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wright | Stars: Laura Rennie, Ian Sexon
Votes: 287
24. Journal 64 (2018)
Not Rated | 119 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A series of mysterious disappearances in 2006 are eerily connected to the same institution.
Director: Christoffer Boe | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Søren Pilmark
Votes: 19,461
25. Heavy Trip (2018)
92 min | Comedy, Music
After years of playing songs by other artists, the opportunity of a concert in Norway encourages a metal band to compose their own material, but not before overcoming some unexpected difficulties.
Directors: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren | Stars: Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Antti Tuomas Heikkinen, Max Ovaska
Votes: 10,631 | Gross: $0.01M
26. Puzzle (II) (2018)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
Director: Marc Turtletaub | Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Bubba Weiler
Votes: 8,525 | Gross: $2.03M
27. Bird Box (2018)
R | 124 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson
Votes: 386,106
28. The Weasel's Tale (2019)
129 min | Comedy, Drama
Four aged motion-picture veterans, who share a country estate, are visited by two underhanded real-estate developers who seek to make them homeless. But, though they are old, they still have their storytelling skills intact.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Graciela Borges, Oscar Martínez, Luis Brandoni, Marcos Mundstock
Votes: 3,684
29. Akira's Flying Wheelchair
90 min | Animation, Adventure, Family | Announced
A fantasy adventure about a paralyzed soccer player and a brilliant inventor seeking to return home after crash landing into a mythical forest.
Director: Marco Balsamo
30. The Story of My Wife (2021)
169 min | Drama, Romance
Jacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.
Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel, Sergio Rubini
Votes: 2,760
31. Once Upon a Time in Palestine
Drama, History, Thriller | Announced
A genre-bending thriller with elements of spaghetti westerns, war movies, romantic comedies and silent movies set in British-ruled Palestine in 1946.
Directors: Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado
32. Kensuke's Kingdom (2023)
85 min | Animation, Adventure
Young Michael, shipwrecked on a remote island, must adapt to life alone. Over time, he feels another presence, learning that this world is home to both unimaginable danger and beauty. A gripping animated adaptation of a beloved novel.
Directors: Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, Raffey Cassidy
Votes: 151
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