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1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 105,491 | Gross: $4.16M
2. Of Mice and Men (1992)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Western
A nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression.
Director: Gary Sinise | Stars: John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko
Votes: 47,407 | Gross: $5.10M
3. Stranger (2017–2020)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With the help of a gutsy female detective, a prosecutor who has almost lost the ability to feel emotions tackles a strange murder case amid political corruption.
Stars: Cho Seung-woo, Bae Doona, Lee Jun-hyuk, Jeon Bae-soo
Votes: 10,194
4. Hamlet (2000)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Modern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Venora, Sam Shepard
Votes: 10,005 | Gross: $1.57M
5. India Song (1975)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann
Votes: 2,600
6. Eva (II) (2018)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel, Julia Roy, Marc Barbé
Votes: 1,266
7. The Truck (1977)
76 min | Drama, Romance
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 458
8. Her Venetian Name in Deserted Calcutta (1976)
114 min | Drama
The life of Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of ambassador to India circa 1930.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Nicole Hiss, Michael Lonsdale, Sylvie Nuytten, Delphine Seyrig
Votes: 178
9. Paris Is Us (2019)
83 min | Drama
Anna misses the flight she should have taken to find Greg in Barcelona. The plane crashes.
Director: Elisabeth Vogler | Stars: Noémie Schmidt, Grégoire Isvarine, Marie Mottet, Lou Castel
Votes: 1,510
10. Lazare (2020)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.
Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek
Votes: 11
11. Parsifal (1982)
PG | 255 min | Drama, Music
Richard Wagner's last opera has remained controversial since its first performance for its unique, and, for some, unsavory blending of religious and erotic themes and imagery. Based on one ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Edith Clever, Martin Sperr, Robert Lloyd, Michael Kutter
Votes: 334
12. L'oeuvre au noir (1988)
110 min | Drama, History
In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as a ... See full summary »
Director: André Delvaux | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe, Anna Karina
Votes: 498
13. L'ombre du doute (1993)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
Alexandrine, 12, is the only witness to a crime she can barely denounce. Yet, a few words will suffice to spread panic around her. Why is she bringing horrific charges against her father and then retracting?
Director: Aline Issermann | Stars: Mireille Perrier, Alain Bashung, Sandrine Blancke, Emmanuelle Riva
Votes: 176
14. Le navire Night (1979)
90 min | Drama
Each night in Paris, hundreds of men and women anonymously use telephone lines that date from the German Occupation and are no longer listed to talk to each other, to love each other.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Dominique Sanda, Mathieu Carrière, Benoît Jacquot
Votes: 353
15. Les ailes de la colombe (1981)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Dominique Sanda, Michele Placido, Loleh Bellon
Votes: 285
16. Nathalie Granger (1972)
83 min | Drama
This art film has no conventional dialog between the main characters. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu, Luce Garcia-Ville
Votes: 667
17. Woman of the Ganges (1974)
85 min | Drama
A man returns to the places where he lived a passionate love with a woman who has died today. The sensation he feels is so strong that he imagines that she is still alive.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Catherine Sellers, Christian Baltauss, Gérard Depardieu, Dionys Mascolo
Votes: 158
18. Destroy, She Said (1969)
100 min | Drama
Elizabeth Alione is sinking into a deep melancholy when she drags down the corridors, the park and the dining room of a hotel.
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Catherine Sellers, Michael Lonsdale, Henri Garcin, Nicole Hiss
Votes: 289
19. La squale (2000)
100 min | Drama
Désirée, a black girl, is nicknamed "The Shark" by her friends. This nickname comes from her strong rebellion and her ability to win in the suburban city, dominated by the power of boys.
Director: Fabrice Genestal | Stars: Esse Lawson, Tony Harrisson, Khereddine Ennasri, Stéphanie Jaubert
Votes: 215
20. Virgo Flash
40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama | Pre-production
Eve is a young and beautiful woman of the end of twenties. She's still a virgin as a sign on her asexuality. She's quiet happy with it. But her mother an ex burlesque dancer will like her to have date with men.
Director: Frédéric Aufray | Star: Sofiya Loriaschvili
21. Soy immortal
90 min | Documentary | Filming
The life of Sophia Lamar, transgender woman who left Cuba in the 80's to become a famed member of the Club Kids movement. From Havana to New York, "Soy Immortal" follows Sophia on a journey from the shadows into the light.
Directors: Eytan Jan, Darius Kaufmann | Star: Sophia Lamar
22. Faut-il aimer Mathilde? (1993)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Traumatized by an accident, Mathilde feels the urgency of changing her monotonous life.
Director: Edwin Baily | Stars: Dominique Blanc, Paul Crauchet, André Marcon, Anne-Marie Cappeliez
Votes: 27
23. Dis-moi oui, dis-moi non (1989)
17 min | Short
Cécile thinks one thing and its opposite. She wants one thing and its opposite. She doesn't know what she thinks or what she wants. So she talks about one thing and its opposite.
Director: Noémie Lvovsky | Stars: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Nicolas Briançon
Votes: 27
24. Boomerang (VIX) (2018)
10 min | Short, Drama
Lucie is a shy young woman. However, one day when her husband David returns from work, she decides to murder him.
Director: Kelly Reynol | Stars: Julien Manicon, Fleur Moretti-Sid
25.
The 4400 (2004–2007)
Episode:
Carrier
(2005)
TV-14 | 41 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After living for 8 years in an alternate world that only Tom and Alana remember the world with the 4400 has returned as it was at the second the 8 years started. A 30 year old 4400 woman ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Libman | Stars: Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Mahershala Ali, Laura Allen
Votes: 437
26.
JJ Villard's Fairy Tales (2020)
Episode:
Little Red Riding Hood
(2020)
TV-MA | 11 min | Animation, Comedy, Horror
A girl must transport illegal drugs over the border to save her boyfriend's life.
Director: J.J. Villard | Stars: Jennifer Tilly, Kevin VanHentenryck, David Patrick Kelly, Linda Blair
Votes: 28