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1. There Is No Evil (2020)
151 min | Drama
The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Zhila Shahi, Baran Rasoulof, Mahtab Servati, Ehsan Mirhosseini
Votes: 6,168
2. Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
Unrated | 176 min | Drama, Romance
1930s Berlin. Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his future begin to wane.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Tom Schilling, Albrecht Schuch, Saskia Rosendahl, Michael Wittenborn
Votes: 2,288
3. House of Hummingbird (2018)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
Seoul 1994, in the year the Seongsu Bridge collapsed, 14-year-old Eunhee wanders the city searching for love.
Director: Bora Kim | Stars: Park Ji-hu, Kim Sae-byeok, Jeong In-gi, Soo-Yeon Park
Votes: 3,783
4. Winter adé (1989)
116 min | Documentary
Before GDR collapsed, Misselwitz interviewed diverse East German women who candidly reveal personal and professional stories, frustrations, hopes, aspirations to record a changing society against a backdrop of architecture and landscapes.
Director: Helke Misselwitz | Stars: Erika Banhardt, Hermann Busse, Margarete Busse, Heide Drechsler
Votes: 165 | Gross: $0.01M
5. Nest (I) (2022)
22 min | Short, Drama
Siblings building a tree house together over the course of a year. We experience the beauty and brutality of the seasons, as we follow them through their struggles and moments of joy.
Director: Hlynur Pálmason | Stars: Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Grímur Hlynsson, Þorgils Hlynsson
Votes: 1,108
6. Alamar (2009)
G | 73 min | Documentary, Drama
Before their inevitable farewell, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots, and Natan, his half-Italian son, spend time together living off the Banco Chinchorro coral reef.
Director: Pedro González-Rubio | Stars: Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini, Nestór Marín
Votes: 2,712 | Gross: $0.06M
7. Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (2021)
217 min | Documentary
How does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home.
Director: Maria Speth | Stars: Dieter Bachmann, Aynur Bal, Önder Cavdar
Votes: 938
8. This Much I Know to Be True (2022)
105 min | Documentary, Music
Explores the creative relationship and songs from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' last two studio albums, "Ghosteen" and "Carnage".
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Earl Cave, Nick Cave, Andrew Dominik, Warren Ellis
Votes: 1,795
9. Sweet Thing (2020)
91 min | Drama
The story revolves around two siblings and their struggle to find solid ground in the homes of their alcoholic father and negligent mother. The children ultimately run away and find a temporary life for themselves.
Director: Alexandre Rockwell | Stars: Lana Rockwell, Nico Rockwell, Will Patton, Karyn Parsons
Votes: 1,411
10. The Turin Horse (2011)
Not Rated | 155 min | Drama
A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.
Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | Stars: János Derzsi, Erika Bók, Mihály Kormos, Ricsi
Votes: 19,438 | Gross: $0.05M
11. Transit (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman
Votes: 11,872 | Gross: $0.82M
12. Ballad of a White Cow (2020)
105 min | Drama
Mina's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was innocent of the crime for which he was executed, so she starts a silent battle against a cynical system for her own and her daughter's sake.
Directors: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha | Stars: Maryam Moghadam, Alireza Sani Far, Pourya Rahimi Sam, Avin Poor Raoufi
Votes: 2,547
13. In the Aisles (2018)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
Christian begins to work as a shelf stacker at a supermarket and finds himself in a new, unknown world: the long aisles, the bustle at the checkouts, the forklifts.
Director: Thomas Stuber | Stars: Andreas Leupold, Franz Rogowski, Peter Kurth, Steffen Scheumann
Votes: 6,006 | Gross: $0.03M
14. 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
15. Center Stage (1991)
126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Biopic of 1930s Chinese actress Lingyu Ruan.
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Han Chin, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Carina Lau
Votes: 2,725
16. The Twentieth Century (2019)
90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Determined to become the leader of the Dominion of Canada, a young W.L. Mackenzie King rises to power.
Director: Matthew Rankin | Stars: Dan Beirne, Sarianne Cormier, Catherine St-Laurent, Mikhaïl Ahooja
Votes: 1,470
17. Little Girl (2020)
88 min | Documentary
The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl way of thinking.
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Votes: 1,448
18. Hail Mary (1985)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Manon Andersen
Votes: 3,734
19. 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: 3,604
20. Azor (2021)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.
Director: Andreas Fontana | Stars: Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau, Carmen Iriondo, Juan Trench
Votes: 2,989
21. Terminal Norte (2021 TV Special)
37 min | Documentary, Music
During the 2020 lockdown, Lucrecia Martel returns to home in Salta, Argentina. She follows Julieta Laso who, like a muse, introduces her to a group of female artists and defiant people who exchange glances and opinions around a fire.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Julieta Laso, Lorena Carpanchay, Mariana Carrizo, Maka Fuentes
Votes: 241
22. That Kind of Summer (2022)
137 min | Drama
Invited to a rest home to explore their sexual issues, three women spend their days and nights trying to tame their inner demons. Under the detached supervision of a German therapist and a ... See full summary »
Director: Denis Côté | Stars: Larissa Corriveau, Aude Mathieu, Laure Giappiconi, Anne Ratte-Polle
Votes: 719
23. The Commune (2016)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama
A story about the clash between personal desires, solidarity and tolerance in a Danish commune in the 1970s.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Fares Fares, Ulrich Thomsen, Lars Ranthe
Votes: 8,247 | Gross: $0.04M
24. Teknolust (2002)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning film about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, which she cloned from her own D.N.A.
Director: Lynn Hershman Leeson | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, John O'Keefe
Votes: 1,929 | Gross: $0.03M
25. Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
Director: Yi'nan Diao | Stars: Fan Liao, Gwei Lun-Mei, Xuebing Wang, Jingchun Wang
Votes: 9,582
26. For Lucio (2021)
79 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This is a tribute to an artist whose songs told the story of Italy at a time of rapid social and cultural change. Thanks to the testimony of the singer's manager and friend Tobia Righi, and... See full summary »
Director: Pietro Marcello | Stars: Lucio Dalla, Umberto Righi, Stefano Bonaga, Giovanni Agnelli
Votes: 234
27. The Marriage Circle (1924)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale
Votes: 1,503 | Gross: $0.81M
28. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020)
112 min | Documentary, History
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Huifang Duan, Liang Hong, Yu Hua, Pingwa Jia
Votes: 526
29. By the Grace of God (2018)
137 min | Crime, Drama
Three men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences and question their life with their wife, family, and colleagues.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud, Éric Caravaca
Votes: 8,216
30. 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
31. Easter Eggs (2020)
15 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Jason dreams of having his own mountain bike.
Director: Nicolas Keppens | Stars: Victor Polster, Rik Verheye
Votes: 401
32. Bulky Trash (1991)
79 min | Documentary, Music
In early summer 1989, Helke Misselwitz portrays young musicians in a band who produce their music on other people's waste items. The four boys call themselves "Bulk Rubbish" and they drum ... See full summary »
Director: Helke Misselwitz | Star: Helke Misselwitz
Votes: 29
33. Red Moon Tide (2020)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In a village where the sea and the moon are near, there was a monster, three witches, many ghosts and a shipwrecked man.
Director: Lois Patiño | Stars: Rubio de Camelle, Ana Marra, Carmen Martínez, Pilar Rodlos
Votes: 880
34. Being 17 (2016)
Unrated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret
Votes: 7,261 | Gross: $0.05M
35. My Little Sister (2020)
99 min | Drama
Lisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.
Directors: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond | Stars: Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Jens Albinus
Votes: 1,345
36. The Golden Glove (2019)
Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Jonas Dassler, Vasiliki Georgina Pseimada, Christine Jensen, Greta Sophie Schmidt
Votes: 18,272
37. Fourteen (I) (2019)
94 min | Drama
Over the course of a decade, a young woman becomes increasingly dysfunctional due to undiagnosed mental illness, or perhaps to drugs, while her more stable friend sometimes tries to help, sometimes backs away to preserve herself.
Director: Dan Sallitt | Stars: Tallie Medel, Norma Kuhling, Lorelei Romani, C. Mason Wells
Votes: 957
38. Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
183 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
Director: Burhan Qurbani | Stars: Welket Bungué, Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase, Annabelle Mandeng
Votes: 3,890
39. Mother (2019)
128 min | Drama, Thriller
Ten years have passed since Elena's son, then six years old, has disappeared. Today Elena lives and works at a seaside restaurant until she meets a teenager who reminds her of her missing son.
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Stars: Marta Nieto, Jules Porier, Alex Brendemühl, Anne Consigny
Votes: 2,345
40. The Trouble with Being Born (2020)
94 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
Director: Sandra Wollner | Stars: Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard, Jana McKinnon
Votes: 1,449
41. Have a Nice Day (2017)
77 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime
A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draw several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict.
Director: Jian Liu | Stars: Changlong Zhu, Kai Cao, Jian Liu, Siming Yang
Votes: 2,229 | Gross: $0.08M
42. Classical Period (2018)
62 min | Drama
Classical Period is a portrait of Cal and his friends in Philadelphia. They meet and have long conversations about books, poetry, music, and architecture, most notably Henry Longfellow's ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Fendt | Stars: Calvin Engime, Evelyn Emile, Sam Ritterman, Christopher Stump
Votes: 211
43. Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Zee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli. A very unlikely, funny and touching ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Jaglom | Stars: Michael Emil, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Martin Harvey Friedberg
Votes: 399
44. Taste (2021)
97 min | Drama
A Nigerian man moves in with four middle-aged Vietnamese women after his contract with a football team is terminated.
Director: Bao Le | Stars: Olegunleko Ezekiel Gbenga, Khuong Thi Minh Nga, Le Thi Dung, Nguyen Thi Cam Xuan
Votes: 377
45. Piranhas (2019)
111 min | Crime, Drama
A gang of teenage boys stalks the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding.
Director: Claudio Giovannesi | Stars: Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Balzo, Ciro Vecchione
Votes: 5,307 | Gross: $0.02M
46. Los Conductos (2020)
70 min | Drama, Mystery
A man comes to terms with his past after satiating his greatest desire: assassinating the leader of the sect of which he was a part for many years.
Director: Camilo Restrepo | Stars: Fernando Úsaga Higuíta, Luis Felipe Lozano
Votes: 467
47. Isabella (I) (2020)
80 min | Drama
Mariel wants to play Isabella in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure". Luciana, who is also an actress, helps her rehearse the part. But during the audition, Mariel realizes that Luciana is trying out for the same role.
Director: Matías Piñeiro | Stars: María Villar, Agustina Muñoz, Pablo Sigal, Gabriela Saidon
Votes: 202
48. Egomania: Island Without Hope (1986)
84 min | Drama
There will be no other end to the world: fierce battles full of hatred and love for incest and wealth.
Director: Christoph Schlingensief | Stars: Udo Kier, Tilda Swinton, Uwe Fellensiek, Anna Fechter
Votes: 333
49. Notes on an Appearance (2018)
60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.
Director: Ricky D'Ambrose | Stars: Zia Anger, Michael M. Bilandic, Bingham Bryant, A.S. Hamrah
Votes: 212 | Gross: $0.00M
50. Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine (2020)
85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian farmers find an abandoned shed in the valley, attributing it supernatural powers.
Director: Alex Piperno | Stars: Daniel Quiroga, Inés Bortagaray, Noli Tobol, Efrén Ananayo
Votes: 270
51. Violence (I) (2015)
84 min | Crime, Thriller
A psychologist is gradually broken down to the point of no return in his life; but was it his work or his past that sends him over the edge, to do the most unthinkable things. All of this happens to him in the middle of chaos breaking out during the London riots.
Director: Matt Steinauer | Stars: Craig Rees, Veronica Lavery, Hayley J Williams, Danny Pardo
Votes: 1,181
52. Goldie (II) (2019)
TV-MA | 88 min | Drama
A teenager in a family shelter wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. A story about displaced youth, ambition. and strength.
Director: Sam de Jong | Stars: Slick Woods, George Sample III, Danny Hoch, Marsha Stephanie Blake
Votes: 1,211
53. Death of Nintendo (2020)
99 min | Comedy
In the early 1990s, a teenager and his gang of friends enjoy their summer playing games as they grow up.
Director: Raya Martin | Stars: Noel Comia Jr., Agot Isidro, Moi Marcampo, John Vincent Servilla
Votes: 187
54. A Storm Was Coming (2020)
87 min | Documentary, Crime
King Ebwera of the Bubi is captured 1904 by the Spaniards controlling Ecuadorian Guinea. The initial official reports tell a heroic story. But further investigations and the oral memories of the descendants tell a much darker one.
Director: Javier Fernández Vázquez | Stars: Paciencia Tobilleri Bepe, Ricardo Bulá Bitema, Nieves Posa Bohome, Justo Bolekia Boleká
Votes: 46
55. As Long as Shotguns Remain (2014)
Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Drama
It's damned hot. Streets are oddly empty. Palms are suffering and shot guns crying. Joshua wants to die but doesn't want to leave his brother Mael alone. Meanwhile he meets with a gang : the Icebergs.
Directors: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | Stars: Lucas Doméjean, Nicolas Mias, Naël Malassagne, Benoît Roux
Votes: 254
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