Film Comment Best of 2018-2022
by Quinoa_Chris_Kirk | created - 09 Mar 2023 | updated - 1 week ago | PublicAs voted at the end of each year by Film Comment contributors.
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1. May December (2023)
R | 117 min | Drama
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Natalie Portman, Chris Tenzis, Charles Melton, Julianne Moore
Votes: 52,795
#1 2023 https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2023/
2. Showing Up (2022)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, André 3000, Todd-o-Phonic Todd
Votes: 5,480
#2 2023
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
R | 206 min | Crime, Drama, History
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 239,989
#3 2023
4. Fallen Leaves (2023)
Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu
Votes: 22,908
#4 2023
5. Pacifiction (2022)
165 min | Drama, Thriller
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the high commissioner of the Republic and French government must investigate an ongoing rumor: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Marc Susini, Matahi Pambrun
Votes: 3,211
#5 2023
6. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
Director: Justine Triet | Stars: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 122,420
#6 2023
7. Afire (2023)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs
Votes: 7,331
#7 2023
8. The Zone of Interest (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte
Votes: 84,451
#8 2023
9. Unrest (2022)
93 min | Drama, History
In late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.
Director: Cyril Schäublin | Stars: Alisa Miloglyadova, Elisaveta Kriman, Olga Bushkova, Tatiana Kulminska
Votes: 1,084
#9 2023
10. Our Body (2023)
168 min | Documentary
Follows doctors and patients at a gynecology ward in France.
Director: Claire Simon | Star: Claire Simon
Votes: 215
#10 2023
11. Dry Ground Burning (2022)
153 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
In 2013 the military police of the Brazilian Federal District initiated a large operation against drug traffic in the peripheral city of Ceilândia, dismantling a series of illegal networks and arresting sixteen men.
Directors: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós | Stars: Débora Alencar, Léa Alves da Silva, Gleide Firmino, Joana Darc Furtado
Votes: 280
#11 2023
12. Passages (2023)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A gay couple's marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman.
Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Erwan Kepoa Falé
Votes: 11,347
#12 2023
13. Trenque Lauquen (2022)
262 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.
Director: Laura Citarella | Stars: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Cecilia Rainero
Votes: 752
#13 2023
14. Orlando, My Political Biography (2023)
Unrated | 98 min | Documentary
Academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado's Berlin Film Festival award-winning doc tells his and others' stories of transition through unique reenactments and visual interpretations of Virginia Woolf's Orlando: A Biography.
Director: Paul B. Preciado | Stars: Arthur, Emma Avena, Amir Baylly, Jenny Bel'Air
Votes: 416
#14 2023
15. The Fabric of the Human Body (2022)
115 min | Documentary
Focuses on five hospitals in northern Paris neighborhoods. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Votes: 665
#15 2023 De humani corporis fabrica
16. Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros (2023)
240 min | Documentary
A 93-year-old director embeds inside a French restaurant that's held three Michelin stars for more than 50 years.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Votes: 394
#16 2023
17. Youth (Spring) (2023)
212 min | Documentary
Zhili is one of the centers of the textile industry and people around rural areas flock there for work. They toil away tirelessly, live in squalid conditions, face prejudice from their families, and have to fight for better pay.
Director: Wang Bing
Votes: 322
#17 2023
18. Asteroid City (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 113,722
#18 2023
19. Rewind & Play (2022)
65 min | Documentary, Music
The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state television.
Director: Alain Gomis | Star: Thelonious Monk
Votes: 141
#19 2023
20. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon
Votes: 51,171
#20 2023
21. The Human Surge 3 (2023)
121 min | Drama
Different groups of people wander in a rainy, windy, dark world. They are spending time together, trying to escape from their depressing jobs and to own the question of what to do with their time.
Director: Eduardo Williams | Stars: Bo-Kai Hsu, Meera Nadarasa, Sharika Navamani, Abel Navarro
Votes: 56
#1 2023 undistributed https://www.filmcomment.com/best-undistributed-films-of-2023/
22. Eureka (2023)
147 min | Drama
Murphy searches for his daughter after she is kidnapped by the outlaw Randall.
Director: Lisandro Alonso | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Chiara Mastroianni, Alaina Clifford, Sadie LaPointe
Votes: 300
#2 2023 undistributed
23. Close Your Eyes (2023)
169 min | Drama
A Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez
Votes: 2,767
#3 2023 undistributed
24. Allensworth (2022)
65 min | Documentary
It centers on Allensworth, the first self-administered African-American municipality in California, showcasing the buildings of the now-abandoned town and looking for the traces of a Black cultural history.
Director: James Benning
Votes: 42
#4 2023 undistributed
25. Gush (I) (2023)
71 min | Documentary
An embodied rumination of both male and female power, healing and haunting, all within an apocalyptic world. A transformation that courses through unknown terror to untamed collective joy.
Director: Fox Maxy | Stars: Ruth Fish, Sergio Mejia, Suavitel Paper, No'Aash Iswut Peltier
Votes: 15
#5 2023 undistributed
26. Nowhere Near (2023)
95 min | Documentary
Profound portrait of immigration, disillusionment, and the elusiveness of home.
Director: Miko Revereza | Stars: Bernadette Gutierrez, Aurora Fernandez Revereza, Jet Revereza, Matthew Revereza
Votes: 10
#6 2023 undistributed
27. The Plough (2023)
96 min | Drama, Family
Three siblings, a father and a grandmother run a business in the form of a travelling puppet show. When the father dies, the remaining family members try to keep his legacy alive.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Damien Mongin, Esther Garrel, Léna Garrel
Votes: 266
#7 2023 undistributed
28. The Practice (2023)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
Gustavo, an Argentine yoga instructor living in Chile who recently lost his wife and home while an injury prevents him from continuing with his yoga practice.
Director: Martín Rejtman | Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Esteban Bigliardi, Camila Hirane, Mirta Busnelli
Votes: 66
#8 2023 undistributed La práctica
29. Arturo a los 30 (2023)
92 min | Comedy
It follows Arturo, whose penchant for indiscretions is impossible to overlook.
Director: Martín Shanly | Stars: Martita Alchourrón, Miel Bargman, Francisco Bertín, Julieta Caputo
Votes: 119
#9 2023 undistributed About Thirty
30. Samsara (I) (2023)
113 min | Drama
In the temples of Laos, teenage monks accompany a soul in transit from one body to another through the bardo. A luminous and sonorous journey leads to reincarnate on the beaches of Zanzibar, where groups of women work in seaweed farms.
Director: Lois Patiño | Stars: Amid Keomany, Toumor Xiong, Simone Milavanh, Mariam Vuaa Mtego
Votes: 562
#10 2023 undistributed
31. Crimes of the Future (2022)
R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman
Votes: 40,751
#1 2022 https://www.filmcomment.com/best-films-of-2022/
32. EO (2022)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Hola, Tako, Marietta, Ettore
Votes: 14,455
#2 2022
33. Aftersun (II) (2022)
R | 102 min | Drama
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...
Director: Charlotte Wells | Stars: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham
Votes: 93,912
#3 2022
34. Saint Omer (2022)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama
Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
Director: Alice Diop | Stars: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit
Votes: 5,070
#4 2022
35. The Eternal Daughter (2022)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Mystery
Returning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Louis, August Joshi, Carly-Sophia Davies
Votes: 6,148
#5 2022
36. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Unrated | 113 min | Documentary
Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Nan Goldin, David Velasco, Megan Kapler, Marina Berio
Votes: 7,811
#6 2022
37. In Front of Your Face (2021)
85 min | Drama
She manages her daily life with a sense of mindfulness while keeping a grave secret to herself, and she decides to meet with a younger director who asked her to join his project, and after they meet there is sudden rainfall and thunder.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yunhee Cho, Kwon Hae-hyo, Lee Hye-yeong, Iseo Kang
Votes: 1,451
#7 2022
38. Nope (2022)
R | 130 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott
Votes: 266,415 | Gross: $123.28M
#8 2022
39. The Novelist's Film (2022)
92 min | Drama
A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Lee Hye-yeong, Kim Min-hee, Seo Younghwa, Mi-so Park
Votes: 1,416
#9 2022
40. The Cathedral (2021)
87 min | Drama
An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.
Director: Ricky D'Ambrose | Stars: Monica Barbaro, Brian d'Arcy James, Geraldine Singer, Cynthia Mace
Votes: 619
#10 2022
41. Tár (2022)
R | 158 min | Drama, Music
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
Director: Todd Field | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer
Votes: 93,912
#11 2022
42. Decision to Leave (2022)
Not Rated | 139 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Lee Jung-hyun, Go Kyung-pyo
Votes: 55,311
#12 2022
43. The Girl and the Spider (2021)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama
Lisa is moving out. Mara is left behind. As boxes are shifted and cupboards built, abysses begin to open up and an emotional roller coaster is set in motion. A tragicomic catastrophe film. A poetic ballad about change and transience.
Directors: Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Stars: Henriette Confurius, Liliane Amuat, Ursina Lardi, Flurin Giger
Votes: 1,700
#13 2022
44. The Fabelmans (2022)
PG-13 | 151 min | Drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch
Votes: 117,020
#14 2022
45. One Fine Morning (2022)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia
Votes: 6,928
#15 2022
46. A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021)
99 min | Documentary
L writes letters to her estranged lover. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.
Director: Payal Kapadia | Star: Bhumisuta Das
Votes: 446
#16 2022
47. Stars at Noon (2022)
R | 135 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young American journalist stranded in present-day Nicaragua falls for an enigmatic Englishman who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, however, that he may be in even greater danger than she is.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, Danny Ramirez
Votes: 3,698
#17 2022
48. The Hole (2021)
93 min | Drama
The extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino | Stars: Nicola Lanza, Antonio Lanza, Leonardo Larocca, Claudia Candusso
Votes: 1,856
#18 2022 Il Buco
49. Armageddon Time (2022)
R | 114 min | Drama
A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb
Votes: 15,377
#19 2022
50. Benediction (2021)
PG-13 | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
Legendary 20th century English war poet Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships. True salvation can only come from within.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Jack Lowden, Thom Ashley, Orlando Jopling, Christopher Naylor
Votes: 3,737
#20 2022
51. We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)
R | 86 min | Drama, Horror
Alone in her attic bedroom, teenager Casey becomes immersed in an online role-playing horror game, wherein she begins to document the changes that may or may not be happening to her.
Director: Jane Schoenbrun | Stars: Anna Cobb, Michael J Rogers, Theo Anthony, Holly Anne Frink
Votes: 5,816
#20 2022
52. The Plains (2022)
180 min | Drama
Every evening a man in his late 50s commutes home at the end of the working day in the outer suburbs of Melbourne.
Director: David Easteal | Stars: Andrew Rakowski, David Easteal, Cheri LeCornu, Inga Rakowski
Votes: 297
#1 2022 undistributed
53. Coma (I) (2022)
Unrated | 82 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Online behavior and content consumption through the eyes of a teenage girl who immerses audiences into her dreams and nightmares. Navigating between dreams and reality, she's guided by a disturbing and mysterious YouTuber, Patricia Coma.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Julia Faure, Louise Labèque, Ninon François, Bonnie Banane
Votes: 441
#2 2022 undistributed
54. Trenque Lauquen (2022)
262 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.
Director: Laura Citarella | Stars: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Cecilia Rainero
Votes: 752
#3 2022 undistributed
#3 2022 undistributed
55. Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022)
122 min | Drama
A suicidal teen develops a rapport with the student from Shanghai assigned to watch her in the hospital. A nightly exchange of secrets, text messages, and possessions expands the boundaries of the relationship and alters inner chemistry.
Director: Ashley McKenzie | Stars: Sarah Walker, Ziyin Zheng, Xue Yao, Cherlena Brake
Votes: 138
#4 2022 undistributed
56. Mutzenbacher (2022)
100 min | Documentary
Setting that permits analysis, emotion, reflection and intimacy in equal measure, opening up insights for us into the cosmos of eroticism and sexuality: both within and beyond the confines of male fantasy.
Director: Ruth Beckermann | Stars: Alexander Diwiak, Alexander Horwath, Raphael Nicholas, Ben Schidla
Votes: 248
#5 2022 undistributed
57. Gigi la legge (2022)
102 min | Documentary, Action
A policeman in a small village in northern Italy whose boring days barely conceal a growing melancholy in the town a world whose contours are just barely discernible.
Director: Alessandro Comodin | Stars: Pier Luigi Mecchia, Ulisse Buosi, Tomaso Cecotto, Annalisa Ferrari
Votes: 162
#6 2022 undistributed
58. The United States of America (2022)
98 min | Documentary
A crisscrosses through the USA, carving it up into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming.
Director: James Benning
Votes: 56
#7 2022 undistributed
59. Afterwater (2022)
93 min | Drama
The study of inland water ecosystems.
Director: Dane Komljen | Stars: Jonasz Hapka, Signe Westberg, Ton Gras, Boban Kaludjer
Votes: 63
#8 2022 undistributed
60. It Is Night in America (2022)
66 min | Documentary
Shot entirely on day for night, this wildlife eco-horror follows the trajectories of endangered species fleeing to escape extinction, in a sombre plot in which the animals look back at us.
Director: Ana Vaz
Votes: 153
#9 2022 undistributed
61. A Woman Escapes (2022)
81 min | Drama
A woman moves to Paris to tend to the home of a recently deceased friend and begins a video correspondence with filmmakers Burak and Blake, an interaction that is initially healing but is not what it seems.
Directors: Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Cevik, Blake Williams | Star: Deragh Campbell
Votes: 60
#10 2022 undistributed
62. Memoria (I) (2021)
PG | 136 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jerónimo Barón
Votes: 11,161
#1 2021
63. Drive My Car (2021)
Unrated | 179 min | Drama
A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masaki Okada
Votes: 65,910
#2 2021
64. The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance
In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Honor Swinton Byrne, James Spencer Ashworth, Alice McMillan
Votes: 4,306
#3 2021
65. Annette (2021)
R | 141 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell
Votes: 22,705
#4 2021
66. Days (2020)
Unrated | 127 min | Drama
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Anong Houngheuangsy
Votes: 1,910
#5 2021
67. The Power of the Dog (2021)
R | 126 min | Drama, Western
Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Votes: 193,940
#6 2021
68. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
121 min | Drama, Romance
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Votes: 9,823
#7 2021
69. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)
150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?
Director: Aleksandre Koberidze | Stars: Ani Karseladze, Giorgi Bochorishvili, Oliko Barbakadze, Giorgi Ambroladze
Votes: 2,032
#8 2021
70. Benedetta (2021)
Unrated | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 25,518
#9 2021
71. Undine (2020)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz
Votes: 9,234
#10 2021
72. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Nicodim Ungureanu, Olimpia Malai
Votes: 10,494
#11 2021
73. The Velvet Underground (2021)
R | 121 min | Documentary, Music
The Velvet Underground explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of the most influential bands in rock and roll.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: John Waters, Mary Woronov, Barbara Walters, Lou Reed
Votes: 5,347
#12 2021
74. Bergman Island (2021)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A couple retreat to the island that inspired Ingmar Bergman to write screenplays for their upcoming films when the lines between reality and fiction start to blur.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie
Votes: 9,924
#13 2021
75. El Planeta (2021)
79 min | Comedy, Drama
Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over common tragedy and an impending eviction.
Director: Amalia Ulman | Stars: Ale Ulman, Amalia Ulman, Nacho Vigalondo, Genoveva Garcia Castanon
Votes: 986
#14 2021
76. Licorice Pizza (2021)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits
Votes: 140,381
#15 2021
77. The Woman Who Ran (2020)
77 min | Drama
While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul. They make friendly conversation but there are different currents flowing independently of each other, both above and below the surface.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Min-hee, Kwon Hae-hyo, Lee Eun-mi, Song Seon-mi
Votes: 3,603
#16 2021
78. The Card Counter (2021)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
William Tell is an ex-military interrogator living under the radar as a low-stakes gambler. When he encounters a young man looking to commit revenge against a mutual enemy, he takes him on the casino circuit to set him on a new path.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 43,035
#17 2021
79. The Inheritance (II) (2020)
100 min | Drama
A young man inherits his grandmother's house and, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, turns it into a Black socialist collective where community forms the basis of family.
Director: Ephraim Asili | Stars: Aurielle Akerele, Shirley Chisholm, Chris Jarell, Michael A. Lake
Votes: 143
#18 2021
80. Parallel Mothers (2021)
R | 123 min | Drama
The story of two mothers who bond in unexpected way after giving birth the same day.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Votes: 36,041
#19 2021
81. Titane (2021)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for ten years.
Director: Julia Ducournau | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh
Votes: 56,211
#20 2021
82. I Want to Talk About Duras (2021)
95 min | Romance
The relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.
Director: Claire Simon | Stars: Swann Arlaud, Emmanuelle Devos, Christophe Paou, Philippe Minyana
Votes: 193
#1 2021 undistributed
83. Outside Noise (2021)
61 min | Drama
Daniela is unsure about what to do next and where to live. Mia is finishing a master's degree that she spontaneously started. Along with Natascha, another friend thinking of moving to Vienna, they wander around and talk.
Director: Ted Fendt | Stars: Daniela Zahlner, Mia Sellmann, Natascha Manthe, Genevieve Havemeyer-King
Votes: 271
#2 2021 undistributed
84. Haruhara San's Recorder (2021)
120 min | Drama
It is based on an expressive portrait of a young woman's interior world through suggestive action rather than psychology.
Director: Kyoshi Sugita | Stars: Chika Araki, Saho Ito, Takenori Kaneko, Minako Niibe
Votes: 81
#3 2021 undistributed
85. We (2021)
115 min | Documentary
Encounters on a rail line crossing north to south thru Paris and its outskirts: A cleaning lady, a scrap merchant, a writer, a nurse, a follower of hunts and the filmmaker herself.
Director: Alice Diop | Stars: Marcel Balnoas, Ethan Balnoas, Florence Roche, Ismael Soumaïla Sissoko
Votes: 357
#4 2021 undistributed
86. Babi Yar. Context (2021)
121 min | Documentary, History
Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Hans Frank, Dina Pronicheva, Hans Isenmann, Vladimir Artobolevsky
Votes: 435
#5 2021 undistributed
87. A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (2021)
87 min | Documentary, Drama
There are the images of before, the images of after and the letters. The images of after come first, they stem from the same surveillance camera in Wuhan, empty streets that only throng with people again on April 4th, 2020.
Director: Shengze Zhu
Votes: 46
#6 2021 undistributed
88. Taming the Garden (2021)
91 min | Documentary
Documentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.
Director: Salomé Jashi
Votes: 720
#7 2021 undistributed
89. Neptune Frost (2021)
105 min | Musical, Sci-Fi
An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.
Directors: Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams | Stars: Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Diogène Ntarindwa, Bertrand Ninteretse
Votes: 1,061
#8 2021 undistributed
90. Wood and Water (2021)
79 min | Drama
As she enters retirement, a mother leaves behind her solitary life in rural Germany and memories of a once perfect family life and travels to protest-ridden Hong Kong, a place that has kept her son away from her for many years.
Director: Jonas Bak | Stars: Lena Ackermann, Anke Bak, Theresa Bak, Alexandra Batten
Votes: 373
#9 2021 undistributed
91. The Cathedral (2021)
87 min | Drama
An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.
Director: Ricky D'Ambrose | Stars: Monica Barbaro, Brian d'Arcy James, Geraldine Singer, Cynthia Mace
Votes: 619
#10 2021 undistributed
92. The Sacred Spirit (2021)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
When the leader of a UFO association dies unexpectedly, José Manuel becomes the only person who knows a secret that could alter the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, a young girl goes missing in Spain.
Director: Chema García Ibarra | Stars: Nacho Fernández, Llum Arques, Joanna Valverde, Rocío Ibáñez
Votes: 1,078
#11 2021 undistributed
93. Shared Resources (2021)
98 min | Documentary
Shared Resources depicts the filmmaker's family after their father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared bankruptcy, largely due to the filmmaker's own debt.
Director: Jordan Lord | Stars: Albert Lord, Deborah Lord, Jordan Lord, Ashley Schlafly
Votes: 7
#12 2021 undistributed
94. Returning to Reims (Fragments) (2021)
83 min | Documentary
Based on the novel by Didier Eribon, the film tells an intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.
Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot | Stars: Adèle Haenel, Jacques Delors, Jacques Duclos, Lionel Jospin
Votes: 253
#13 2021 undistributed Returning to Reims
95. 107 Mothers (2021)
93 min | Drama
Follows the real-life stories of 107 mothers in the Odesa prison in Ukraine.
Director: Peter Kerekes | Stars: Maryna Klimova, Iryna Kiryazeva, Lyubov Vasylyna, Vyacheslav Vygovskyi
Votes: 438
#14 2021 undistributed
96. Liborio (2021)
99 min | Drama
Liborio disappears in a hurricane. One day he returns speaking as a prophet, curing the sick and congregates many followers deep in the mountains. The local powers confront him only to see ... See full summary »
Director: Nino Martínez Sosa | Stars: Vicente Santos, Karina Valdez, Ramón Emilio Candelario, Fidia Peralta
Votes: 259
#15 2021 undistributed
97. Come Here (2021)
69 min | Drama
Four young travelers embark on a trip to Kanchanaburi to see the museum, but pass the time in other ways when they find out it's closed for refurbishment.
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong | Stars: Sirat Intarachote, Waywiree Ittianunkul, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
Votes: 98
#16 2021 undistributed
98. The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (2021)
110 min | Documentary, History
An account of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with statements from Israeli soldiers about their service there.
Director: Avi Mograbi | Stars: Dani Vilenski, Shlomo Gazit, Roni Hirschson, Zvi Barel
Votes: 121
#17 2021 undistributed
99. Out of This World (2021)
117 min | Drama, Romance
A boy and a girl wander through the streets of a city in China during lockdown, in search of entertainment and freedom.
Director: Guan Chen | Stars: Keyu Deng, Ruguang Wei
Votes: 21
#18 2021 undistributed
100. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet (2021)
73 min | Drama
Sebastián, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.
Director: Ana Katz | Stars: Raquel Bank, Daniel Katz, Nicolás Levin, Valeria Lois
Votes: 967
#19 2021 undistributed
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