From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: a film for every country
by Snavelaar | created - 11 Oct 2013 | updated - 17 Jul 2018 | PublicMovies from around the world worth watching, originating from or filmed in a particular country.
Movies in this list may be a short or a documentary.
Still looking for entries from or about:
-Brunei
-Dominica
-Gambia
-Grenada
-Kiribati
-Lesotho
-Micronesia
-St. Kitts and Nevis
-San Marino
-São Tomé and Príncipe
-Seychelles
-Somalia
-Swaziland
-Togo
You can find a list of films I gladly recommend here: Snavelaar's Choice as well as my personal top 250 and here's a list of interesting directors.
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1. Osama (2003)
PG-13 | 83 min | Drama
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
Director: Siddiq Barmak | Stars: Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar, Khwaja Nader, Mohammad Arif Herati
Votes: 9,525 | Gross: $1.13M
Afghanistan
2. Pharmakon (2012)
134 min | Drama, Thriller
A young pharmacist enters into a casual relationship with a young woman alleged to be his father's secret mistress, in contemporary Tirana.
Director: Joni Shanaj | Stars: Klevis Bega, Olta Gixhari, Niko Kanxheri, Vasil Goda
Votes: 73
Albania
3. Bab El Oued City (1994)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows the conflict between a young Algerian man and the local Islamic fundamentalists.
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Nadia Kaci, Mohamed Ourdache, Hassan Abidou, Mabrouk Ait Amara
Votes: 220
Algeria
4. Idiot Love (2004)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy
One night, Pere-Lluc heading home drunk, hits his head on the aluminum ladder a girl is using to hang banners from the streetlights. As the days go by, he becomes more and more obsessed with her.
Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Santi Millán, Mercè Pons, Marc Cartes, Jordi Dauder
Votes: 521
Andorra
5. Hollow City (2004)
90 min | Drama
A group of children, fleeing the war, is taken to Luanda accompanied by a nun. When they reach the airplane, 11-year-old N'dala decides to leave the group and to explore the city. The nun ... See full summary »
Director: Maria João Ganga | Stars: João Roldan, Domingos Fernandes Fonseca, Júlia Botelho, Ana Bustorff
Votes: 282
Angola
6. Working Girl (2010)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama
Dire circumstances drive a brilliant school girl into the seedy world of prostitution.
Director: Nigel Trellis | Stars: Bruce Barthley, Morrison George, Melissa Mc Leish, Terry-Ann Price
Votes: 18
Antigua and Barbuda
7. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo
Votes: 222,104 | Gross: $6.39M
Argentina
8. Big Story in a Small City (2006)
90 min | Comedy
The family of Grigor Janoyan brings the wrong corpse to his funeral viewing.
Director: Gor Kirakosian | Stars: Hrant Tokhatyan, David Tovmasyan, Khoren Levonyan, Narek Gaplanian
Votes: 223
Armenia
9. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Music
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Director: Stephan Elliott | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell
Votes: 54,901 | Gross: $11.22M
Australia
10. Revanche (2008)
Not Rated | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
Director: Götz Spielmann | Stars: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss
Votes: 15,928
Austria
11. Sahä (2010)
118 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The story is set in Baku. A famous photographer has to choose between accepting a valuable job offer in Africa or marrying his fiancee - a young , talented sculptor inspired by images of ... See full summary »
Director: Ilgar Safat | Stars: Zuzu Bejashvili, Melissa Papel, Vaqif Ibrahimoglu, Teymur Odushev
Votes: 134
Azerbaijan
12. Rain (I) (2008)
R | 93 min | Drama
Determined to reconcile with the mother who abandoned her when she was just a toddler, a Bahamian adolescent boards a local mail boat and sets sail for Nassau in director Maria Govan's ... See full summary »
Director: Maria Govan | Stars: Renel Brown, Nicki Micheaux, CCH Pounder, Marion Bethel
Votes: 171
Bahamas
13. A Bahraini Tale (2006)
96 min | Drama
Set during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, this epic drama is both the personal story of a middle-class Bahraini family and an account of the hopes and faith the Arab world had in Jamal Abdul... See full summary »
Director: Bassam Al-Thawadi | Stars: Saad Abdulla, Fatima Abdulrahim, Abdulla Al Sa'adawi, Ebrahim Al-Ghanim
Votes: 113
Bahrain
14. The Clay Bird (2002)
95 min | Drama, History
A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
Director: Tareque Masud | Stars: Nurul Islam Bablu, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachy
Votes: 4,232
Bangladesh
15. Payday (2014)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy
Payday, a Barbadian comedy-drama/buddy film showcasing a raw slice of Barbadian community life. Romie, an aspiring mechanic and ladies man, with his brutally honest best friend Pack, invest... See full summary »
Director: Selwyne Browne | Stars: Andrew Franklin, Damien Gibson, Vincia Clarke, Arlon Griffith
Votes: 38
Barbados
16. Fortress of War (2010)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 10,504
Belarus
17. Bullhead (2011)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama
Sint-Truiden, Belgium. Jacky, a young cattle farmer who is constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, is approached by a veterinarian to make a deal with a notorious beef trader.
Director: Michaël R. Roskam | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy, Barbara Sarafian
Votes: 24,294 | Gross: $0.15M
Belgium
18. Yai Wanonabalewa: The Enemy God (2008)
100 min | Drama
Shake is a powerful shaman of the Yanomami people. He wields his power to heal and to protect his people against their enemies in this world and beyond. Tracing his life and the life of his... See full summary »
Director: Christopher M. Bessette | Stars: Martie Ashworth, Denielle Broer, Matthew Castagna, Mateo Coc
Votes: 40
Belize
19. Barbecue-Pejo (2000)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
A poor Beninoise corn farmer wanting to break out of his deep misery buys a shaky Peugeot 504 and tries his hand at being a bush cabdriver.
Director: Jean Odoutan | Stars: Jean Odoutan, Laurentine Milebo, Gladys Agboliagbo, Olivia Agboliagbo
Votes: 17
Benin
20. Milarepa (2006)
PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Milarepa is a tale of greed and vengeance - demons, magic, murder and redemption. It is the story of the man who became Tibet's greatest mystic.
Director: Neten Chokling | Stars: Orgyen Tobgyal, Kelsang Chukie Tethtong, Jamyang Lodro, Jamyang Nyima
Votes: 1,102
Bhutan
21. American Visa (2005)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After being denied an American visa, a Bolivian professor becomes involved in a web of criminal activities, holds-up the American consulate and falls for a beautiful prostitute from the Bolivian lowlands.
Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia | Stars: Demián Bichir, Kate del Castillo, Alberto Etcheverry, Roberto Barbery
Votes: 531
Bolivia
22. No Man's Land (I) (2001)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis
Votes: 48,794 | Gross: $1.06M
Bosnia and Herzegovina
23. The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
PG | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy
A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.
Director: Jamie Uys | Stars: N!xau, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, Louw Verwey
Votes: 59,389 | Gross: $30.03M
Botswana
24. City of God (2002)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen
Votes: 799,762 | Gross: $7.56M
Brazil
25. Zift (2008)
Unrated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien ... See full summary »
Director: Javor Gardev | Stars: Zachary Baharov, Tanya Ilieva, Vladimir Penev, Mihail Mutafov
Votes: 5,445
Bulgaria
26. Moolaadé (2003)
Unrated | 124 min | Drama
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
Director: Ousmane Sembene | Stars: Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré, Dominique Zeïda
Votes: 4,146 | Gross: $0.21M
Burkina Faso
27. Gito, l'ingrat (1992)
90 min | Comedy
Gito is a young African intellectual returning home from France with numerous academic degrees and ministerial ambitions. Gradually his ambitions are crushed by the daily realities of his ... See full summary »
Director: Léonce Ngabo | Stars: Joseph Kumbela, Marie Bunel, Aoua Sangare, Eric Depreter
Votes: 61
Burundi
28. The Rice People (1994)
125 min | Drama
In Cambodian refugee camps, when children are asked where rice comes from, they answer, "from UN lorries". They have never seen a rice field. One day, these children will have to learn to ... See full summary »
Director: Rithy Panh | Stars: Peng Phan, Mom Soth, Chhim Naline, Va Simorn
Votes: 316 | Gross: $0.04M
Cambodia
29. Ninah's Dowry (2012)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Ninah is a runaway wife whose husband finds out she is pregnant and he comes to recover the dowry he paid or take home the woman he owns. By any means necessary.
Director: Victor Viyuoh | Stars: Mbufung Seikeh, Anurin Nwunembom, Norbert Kecha, Kingsley Nkwah
Votes: 79
Cameroon
30. Leolo (1992)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.
Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon | Stars: Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Gilbert Sicotte, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 7,327 | Gross: $0.61M
Canada
31. Napomuceno's Will (1997)
117 min | Drama
Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then ... See full summary »
Director: Francisco Manso | Stars: Nelson Xavier, Maria Ceiça, Chico Díaz, Zezé Motta
Votes: 196
Cape Verde
32. Le silence de la forêt (2003)
93 min | Drama
A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what ... See full summary »
Directors: Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouenangare | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Nadège Beausson-Diagne, Sonia Zembourou, Philippe Mory
Votes: 90
Central African Republic
33. A Screaming Man (2010)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Present-day Chad. Adam, fifty-five, a former swimming champion, is pool attendant at a smart N'Djamena hotel. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up ... See full summary »
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emile Abossolo M'bo, Hadje Fatime N'Goua
Votes: 1,840 | Gross: $0.01M
Chad
34. The Maid (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola, Andrea García-Huidobro
Votes: 6,456 | Gross: $0.55M
Chile
35. Li Tong (2009)
76 min | Drama
Eight-year-old Li Tong from Beijing loses her bus pass one day after school. She decides to walk home. On her way, she encounters a warm-hearted old lady, a security guard, a young woman, a... See full summary »
Director: Nian Liu | Stars: Kang Yao, Zhicun Zhao
Votes: 27
China
36. Maria Full of Grace (2004)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
Director: Joshua Marston | Stars: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guilied Lopez, Orlando Tobón, Virginia Cristina Ariza
Votes: 36,164 | Gross: $6.52M
Colombia
38. Mobutu, roi du Zaïre (1999)
135 min | Documentary
Thiery Michel takes an in-depth look at the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko. A man of "modest roots" who had a Catholic upbringing, Mobutu was sent to the army by his father for insubordination. ... See full summary »
Director: Thierry Michel | Stars: Raymond Barre, Jacques Chirac, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Mobutu Sese Seko
Votes: 216
Congo (Zaire)
39. A ojos cerrados (2010)
65 min | Drama, Family
Gabo and Maga are an old couple who have lived together all their life and depend emotionally on each other completely. Delia, their grand-daughter, was brought up by them. The three of ... See full summary »
Director: Hernán Jiménez | Stars: Carlos Luis Zamora, Carol Sanabria, Anabelle Ulloa, César Maurel
Votes: 106
Costa Rica
40. Pulska veza (2012)
90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Police inspector Romano is investigating the kidnapping of a journalist entangling himself into a web of secrets of a business tycoon and the police captain.
Director: Zoran Mikletic | Stars: Roberto Legovic, Mirko Mocko, Dalila Antolovic, Gianclaudio Bonassin
Votes: 157
Croatia
41. I Am Cuba (1964)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Votes: 10,632
Cuba
42. Fish n' Chips (2011)
102 min | Drama
A hard working Cypriot immigrant in London finally opens his very own chip shop. But his dream turns into a nightmare, as he seems to have overlooked one small detail: Cyprus just isn't London.
Director: Elias Demetriou | Stars: Marios Ioannou, Marlene Kaminsky, Anne-Marie O'Sullivan, Diomedes Koufteros
Votes: 240
Cyprus
43. The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, War
A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.
Directors: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos | Stars: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarík, Hana Slivková
Votes: 9,712
Czech Republic
44. The Hunt (2012)
R | 115 min | Drama
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm
Votes: 363,640 | Gross: $0.69M
Denmark
46. Love Child (2011)
97 min | Drama, Romance
Maria, 18 year old daughter of a single mother, decides to look for the father she has never met after her mother dies in a tragic accident. She finally finds him in a nearby town, living ... See full summary »
Director: Leticia Tonos | Stars: Julietta Rodriguez, Victor Checo, Gastner Legerme, Dionis Rufino
Votes: 172
Dominican Republic
47. Balibo (2009)
Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos-Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975.
Director: Robert Connolly | Stars: Jane Hampson, Bea Viegas, Christine Martins, Ana Rosa Mendoça
Votes: 2,923
East Timor
48. Ratas, ratones, rateros (1999)
107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in ... See full summary »
Director: Sebastián Cordero | Stars: Carlos Valencia, Marco Bustos, Cristina Dávila, Fabricio Lalama
Votes: 910
Ecuador
49. Rags & Tatters (2013)
87 min | Biography, Drama
In one of the most extraordinary nights in the history of Egypt, the prisons were suddenly opened, leaving thousands of prisoners wandering the desert. Among them was one man trying to find... See full summary »
Director: Ahmad Abdalla | Stars: Asser Yassin, Amr Abed, Mohamed Mamdouh, Mona Sheimy
Votes: 446
Egypt
50. Salvador (1986)
R | 122 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage
Votes: 23,116
El Salvador
51. Where the Road Runs Out (2014)
91 min | Drama, Family, Romance
George, a scientist living in Rotterdam is growing wary of the world of academia. The sudden death of an old friend is the incentive he needs to return to his African roots where he takes ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolf Buitendach | Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Juliet Landau, Stelio Savante, Sizo Motsoko
Votes: 154
Equitorial Guinea
52. Minister (2002)
Drama
An epic-like story of a young Eritrean soldier who deserts the British army in order to protect his village from a marauding bandit.
Director: Temesghen Zehaie Abraha | Stars: Hamza Abdulkader, Yirgalem Abera, Tesfai Abraha, Yirgalem Abraham
Votes: 8
Eritrea
53. The Class (2007)
99 min | Drama
An average Estonian high-schooler decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Director: Ilmar Raag | Stars: Vallo Kirs, Pärt Uusberg, Lauri Pedaja, Paula Solvak
Votes: 15,840
Estonia
54. Atletu (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Biography, Drama
Running the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero ... See full summary »
Directors: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew | Stars: Rasselas Lakew, Dag Malmberg, Ruta Gedmintas, Abba Waka Dessalegn
Votes: 261
Ethiopia
55. Reel Paradise (2005)
R | 110 min | Documentary
Former indie film "guru" John Pierson takes his family to Fiji for one year to run the world's most remote movie theater.
Director: Steve James | Stars: Georgia Pierson, Janet Pierson, John Pierson, Wyatt Pierson
Votes: 532 | Gross: $0.03M
Fiji
56. The Man Without a Past (2002)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Annikki Tähti, Juhani Niemelä
Votes: 26,001 | Gross: $0.92M
Finland
57. The Intouchables (2011)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot
Votes: 927,698 | Gross: $13.18M
France
58. Dôlè (2000)
79 min | Crime, Drama
Mougler and his friends slip into a life of petty crime in Libreville, Gabon. When they take their chances in robbing a lottery kiosk, things turn from lighthearted to tragic.
Director: Imunga Ivanga | Stars: David N'Guema-N'Koghe, Emile Mepango, Roland Nkeyi, Evrard Elle
Votes: 74
Gabon
59. In Bloom (2013)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
Set in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi in 1992. Friends Eka and Natia look to leave childhood behind as they ignore societal customs and work to escape their turbulent family lives.
Directors: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß | Stars: Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokeria, Zurab Gogaladze, Data Zakareishvili
Votes: 7,107 | Gross: $0.05M
Georgia
60. A Goat's Tail (2006)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Kojo is a taxi driver living and working in Ghana. Sleeping on his break he is awoken by a beautiful young travelling actress called Cynthia. She's in Ghana for the day and hires Kojo to ... See full summary »
Director: Julius Amedume | Stars: Godfred Nortey, Lesley Cook, Simon James Morgan, Jason Ramsay
Votes: 27
Ghana
61. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,267 | Gross: $1.24M
Germany
62. The Travelling Players (1975)
230 min | Drama, History, Music
Greece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Eva Kotamanidou, Vangelis Kazan, Aliki Georgouli, Kiriakos Katrivanos
Votes: 4,346
Greece
63. Invisible Evidence (2003)
102 min | Drama
Visiting American journalist Johnson finds more in Guatemala than he's bargained for. His reporter contact is missing and nobody's looking for him; his first assignment is to meet with ... See full summary »
Director: Alejandro Castillo Close | Stars: R. Brandon Johnson, Arloa Reston, Jorge Pupo, Giacomo Buonafina
Votes: 29
Guatemala
64. I.T. - Immatriculation temporaire (2001)
73 min | Drama
Director: Gahité Fofana | Stars: Fatoumata Kanté, Gahité Fofana, Yves Guichard Traoré, Ibrahima Sanogo
Votes: 16
Guinea
65. The Battle of Tabato (2013)
78 min | Drama
Director: João Viana | Stars: Mamadu Baio, Fatu Djebaté, Imutar Djebaté
Votes: 101
Guinea-Bissau
66. Guiana 1838 (2004)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama
The abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834 prompts Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Company in Calcutta, a part of the East India Company, to recruit Coolies from India to fill the ... See full summary »
Director: Rohit Jagessar | Stars: Kumar Gaurav, Aasheekaa Bathija, Henry Rodney, Neville Williams
Votes: 81 | Gross: $0.23M
Guyana
67. La rebelle (2005)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama
A sweet Haitian teenage girl becomes a foul-mouthed, alcohol-drinking, drug-taking, promiscuous teen when she finds her single dad with a new girlfriend. Just how far will she take her personal rebellion?
Director: Sacha Parisot | Stars: Nathalie Ambroise, Reginald Lubin, Nadine Stephenson, Ashley Laraque
Votes: 28
Haiti
68. The Spirit of my Mother (1999)
59 min | Drama
A Garifuna woman returns to Honduras to forget her past and rediscover herself.
Director: Ali Allie | Stars: Francisca Crisanto, Johana Martinez, Rosibel Reyes, Tomasa Martínez
Votes: 16
Honduras
69. Control (2003)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception likable characters, a rival ticket inspection team and racing along the tracks - and a tale about love.
Director: Nimród Antal | Stars: Sándor Csányi, Eszter Balla, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch
Votes: 27,052 | Gross: $0.24M
Hungary
70. Metalhead (2013)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A girl is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in the dark music of Black Metal and dreams of becoming a rock star.
Director: Ragnar Bragason | Stars: Thora Bjorg Helga, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson
Votes: 7,856
Iceland
71. The Raid: Redemption (2011)
R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.
Director: Gareth Evans | Stars: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy, Donny Alamsyah
Votes: 216,834 | Gross: $4.11M
Indonesia
72. Pather Panchali (1955)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Chunibala Devi
Votes: 38,478 | Gross: $0.54M
India
73. The Color of Paradise (1999)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Family
The story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi, Farahnaz Safari
Votes: 18,180 | Gross: $1.81M
Iran
74. Leaving Baghdad (2010)
85 min | Drama
Leaving Baghdad is a road movie that follows Sadik, the personal cameraman to the leader Saddam Hussein, at the end of the nineties. Sadik is trying to escape the grip of the regime, being ... See full summary »
Director: Koutaiba Al-Janabi | Stars: Sadik Al-Attar, Jasim Al-Timimi, Rang Omar, Attila Solymosy
Votes: 45
Iraq
75. My Left Foot (1989)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Votes: 79,676 | Gross: $14.74M
Ireland
76. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
R | 90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
Director: Ari Folman | Stars: Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan
Votes: 60,357 | Gross: $2.28M
Israel
77. La Dolce Vita (1960)
Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 78,102 | Gross: $19.52M
Italy
78. Au nom du Christ (1993)
90 min | Comedy
A West African pig farmer has a religious vision, wherein he is told that he'll be Magloire the First, a prophet of Christ. He then sets out to rid his local villagers of superstition and instead save them for Jesus.
Director: Roger Gnoan M'Bala | Stars: Albert Ayatollah, Akissi Delta, Pierre Gondo, Martin Guedeba
Votes: 193
Ivory Coast
79. Better Mus' Come (2011)
104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The film follows warring political factions in 1970s Jamaica as they enlist the support of gangs to enforce their policies, and advance their political agenda. It is a fictionalized ... See full summary »
Director: Storm Saulter | Stars: Sheldon Shepherd, Sky Nicole Grey, Ricardo Orgil, Everaldo Creary
Votes: 186
Jamaica
80. Rashomon (1950)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 180,157 | Gross: $0.10M
Japan
81. Captain Abu Raed (2007)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
When an old airport janitor finds a captain's hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.
Director: Amin Matalqa | Stars: Nadim Sawalha, Rana Sultan, Hussein Al-Sous, Odai Qedese
Votes: 1,754
Jordan
82. Tulpan (2008)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough and strong. It's dry, dusty, and windy; too ... See full summary »
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy | Stars: Askhat Kuchinchirekov, Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Samal Yeslyamova, Ondassyn Bessikbassov
Votes: 3,371 | Gross: $0.16M
Kazakhstan
83. The First Grader (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge, Alfred Munyua
Votes: 4,892 | Gross: $0.33M
Kenya
84. Urs Al-Zayn (1976)
90 min | Drama
Everyone in his village believes that Zein is a simpleton, a half-wit, an amiable buffoon. Thus, his braying laughter and public declarations of love for village maidens only win laughter ... See full summary »
Director: Khalid Al Siddiq | Stars: Ali Mahdi, Sunni Dafallah, Ibrahim Hujazi, Mohamed Khairi
Votes: 22
Kuwait
85. The Adopted Son (1998)
81 min | Drama
In a Kyrgyz village, five older women adopt an infant foundling. Jump ahead about 12 years: the boy, Beshkempir, is entering puberty, the age, his granny says, when life goes berserk. He ... See full summary »
Director: Aktan Arym Kubat | Stars: Mirlan Abdykalykov, Adir Abilkassimov, Mirlan Cinkozoev, Bakit Dzhylkychiev
Votes: 631
Kyrgyzstan
86. At the Horizon (2011)
101 min | Drama, Thriller
AT THE HORIZON is about two different worlds colliding: the wealthy influential people on the one hand and the poor and honest on the other hand. Sin, a wealthy boy had been spoiled by his ... See full summary »
Director: Anysay Keola | Stars: Khounkham Sidthiyom, Khamhou Phanludeth, Vatsana Sayoudom
Votes: 35
Laos
87. Pa celam aizejot (2001)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A nine-year-old boy awaits the return of his sailor father, unaware that he is missing presumed drowned. The boy's mother starts an affair with a local woodsman, causing his wife to embark on a vendetta. Then the boy runs away.
Director: Viesturs Kairiss | Stars: Davis Bergs, Elita Klavina, Guna Zarina, Andris Keiss
Votes: 55
Latvia
88. Caramel (2007)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Yasmine Al Massri
Votes: 14,593 | Gross: $1.06M
Lebanon
89. Small Small Thing (2013)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Drama
A look at the high profile case of Liberian Olivia Zinnah, who died in 2012 of complications from a rape that occurred when she was just 7 years old.
Director: Jessica Vale | Stars: Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Louis Johnson, Dannetha Sampson
Votes: 65
Liberia
90. Lion of the Desert (1980)
PG | 173 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.
Director: Moustapha Akkad | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, Irene Papas
Votes: 17,342 | Gross: $3.27M
Libya
91. Glück und Liebe in Monaco (1959)
78 min | Drama, Romance
Lindy writes to the Monaco principality offering a pussycat to Princess Caroline. She is invited by Rainiero himself to deliver the gift herself. Accompanied by an Air France hostess and a ... See full summary »
Director: Hermann Leitner | Stars: Germaine Damar, Claus Biederstaedt, Gilda Emmanuelli, Alexander Kerst
Votes: 22
Liechtenstein
92. Narcissus (2012)
95 min | Drama
Narcissus (from Greek Narkissos) shares the root nark- with narcosis and narcotic. All these words have the same origin in the verb narkao - to intoxicate through a strong smell. In the ... See full summary »
Director: Dovile Gasiunaite | Stars: Amvrosios Vlachopoulos, Sigitas Sidlauskas, Asmik Grigorian, Susanna Perry Gilmore
Votes: 69
Lithuania
93. Blind Spot (2012)
PG | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
The intrigue kicks off with a cop being murdered and develops as a complex and smart game of manipulation where nothing and no one are what they seem.
Director: Christophe Wagner | Stars: Jules Werner, André Jung, Brigitte Urhausen, Gilles Soeder
Votes: 141
Luxembourg
94. Before the Rain (1994)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
Director: Milcho Manchevski | Stars: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Josif Josifovski
Votes: 15,845 | Gross: $0.76M
Macedonia
95. Madagascar (2005)
PG | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild.
Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath | Stars: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith
Votes: 436,903 | Gross: $193.60M
Madagascar
96. William and the Windmill (2013)
88 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
With only a library book as his guide, 14-year-old William Kamkwamba sets about building a wind turbine in his Malawian village.
Director: Ben Nabors | Stars: William Kamkwamba, Tom Rielly
Votes: 73
Malawi
97. Lampu merah mati (2005)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama
A group of men arrested for the terrorist bombing of a nightclub have to reenact their actions for the police and media.
Director: Ming Jin Woo | Stars: Azman Hassan, Hariry Jalil, Pang Khee Teik, Sharaad Kuttan
Votes: 49
Malaysia
98. Yeelen (1987)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Fantasy
A young man with magical powers journeys to his uncle to request help in fighting his sorcerer father.
Director: Souleymane Cissé | Stars: Issiaka Kane, Aoua Sangare, Niamanto Sanogo, Balla Moussa Keita
Votes: 2,748
Mali
99. The Island President (2011)
PG | 101 min | Documentary
After bringing democracy to his country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, takes up the fight to keep his homeland from disappearing under the sea.
Director: Jon Shenk | Star: Mohamed Nasheed
Votes: 1,247 | Gross: $0.08M
Maldives
100. Daqqet ix-Xita (2010)
15 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in the old city of Valletta, Malta; this is a short film that explores dark, liquefied decrepitude. A sailor's son is damned to row a rotting boat back... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Scicluna | Stars: Sean Decelis, Polly March, Philip Mizzi, Ilaria Falzon
Votes: 24
Malta
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