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1. Klaus (2019)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg's new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions.
Directors: Sergio Pablos, Carlos Martínez López | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones, Will Sasso
Votes: 190,147
2. Persepolis (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 100,289 | Gross: $4.45M
3. A Heart in Winter (1992)
105 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Stéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Elizabeth Bourgine
Votes: 10,667 | Gross: $1.67M
4. Ama Gloria (2023)
83 min | Drama
Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
Director: Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq | Stars: Louise Mauroy-Panzani, Ilça Moreno Zego, Abnara Gomes Varela, Fredy Gomes Tavares
Votes: 380
5. Songcatcher (2000)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Music
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in ... See full summary »
Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Janet McTeer, Michael Harding, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin
Votes: 3,684 | Gross: $3.05M
6. The Dark Horse (2014)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama
A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
Director: James Napier Robertson | Stars: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance, James Napier Robertson
Votes: 6,587 | Gross: $0.06M
7. The Road Home (1999)
G | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng, Yulian Zhao
Votes: 13,925 | Gross: $1.28M
8. Powaqqatsi (1988)
G | 99 min | Documentary, Music
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Christie Brinkley, David Brinkley, Patrick Disanto, Pope John Paul II
Votes: 8,885 | Gross: $0.59M
9. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
R | 172 min | Drama
The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.
Director: Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk
Votes: 6,870 | Gross: $3.79M
10. The Miracle (2015)
TV-MA | 136 min | Comedy, Drama
N the 1960s, a new teacher arrives in a village in the interior of Turkey and discovers that there is no school. He mobilizes the residents to build a place for children and the disabled to learn.
Director: Mahsun Kirmizigül | Stars: Talat Bulut, Mert Turak, Mahsun Kirmizigül, Erdem Yener
Votes: 14,292
11. Electra (I) (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli, Theano Ioannidou
Votes: 1,816
12. Gabbeh (1996)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
When an old couple washes their gabbeh - a type of Persian rug - a young woman magically appears and tells them her life story.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami, Abbas Sayah
Votes: 3,671 | Gross: $0.27M
13. Missing Home (2022)
114 min | Comedy, Drama
A married couple stages their divorce in order to encourage their estranged adult children to return to their hometown.
Director: Bene Dion Rajagukguk | Stars: Arswendy Bening Swara, Tika Panggabean, Boris Bokir, Ghita Bhebhita
Votes: 2,116
14. Saint (2010)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
Director: Dick Maas | Stars: Egbert Jan Weeber, Bert Luppes, Caro Lenssen, Huub Stapel
Votes: 9,675
15. Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Family
A young American inherits an olive farm in France and decides to use four chimpanzees to harvest the fruit when he finds the price of the local labor to be too costly.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Dean Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Bernard Woringer
Votes: 585
16. Primitif (1978)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Horror
After a raft accident in the jungle, three anthropology students and their guides attempt to escape from a primitive cannibal tribe that has hunted them down.
Director: Sisworo Gautama Putra | Stars: Enny Haryono, Barry Prima, Johann Mardjono, Rukman Herman
Votes: 807
17. Quackerz (2016)
PG | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The battle between ducks and humans for the place under the sun.
Director: Viktor Lakisov | Stars: Michael Gross, Robbie Daymond, Mark DeCarlo, Jesse Corti
Votes: 727
18. War Dance (2007)
PG-13 | 105 min | Documentary, Music, War
Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
Directors: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix | Stars: Dominic, Nancy, Rose, Jane Adong
Votes: 1,199 | Gross: $0.11M
19. The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
A film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she can ... See full summary »
Director: Marzieh Makhmalbaf | Stars: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand
Votes: 1,992 | Gross: $0.34M
20. The Bride (1973)
92 min | Drama
A young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. ... See full summary »
Director: Lütfi Ö. Akad | Stars: Hülya Koçyigit, Kerem Yilmazer, Ali Sen, Kamran Usluer
Votes: 1,759
21. Shadow Magic (2000)
PG | 116 min | Drama, History, Romance
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and ... See full summary »
Director: Ann Hu | Stars: Jared Harris, Yu Xia, Yufei Xing, Peiqi Liu
Votes: 808 | Gross: $0.15M
22. The Truth About Sauna: The Truth About Finns (2008 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
Taking sauna is the Finnish people's national obsession, so there are two of the per five Fins, and they build theme everywhere, even on military operations and aboard vessels, but ... See full summary »
Directors: Nina Stenros, Anu Valve | Stars: Sirkka-Liisa Anttila, Jörn Donner, Neil Hardwick, Jonathan Hutchings
Votes: 54
23. Trembling Before G-d (2001)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary
A cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.
Director: Sandi Simcha Dubowski | Stars: Shlomo Ashkinazy, Steve Greenberg, Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Naomi Mark
Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.62M
24. The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)
112 min | Drama
A portrayal of the lives of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak. Based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen.
Directors: Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Pakak Innuksuk, Leah Angutimarik, Neeve Irngaut, Natar Ungalaaq
Votes: 385
25. Heaven and Earth (1983)
285 min | Documentary
An epic documentary in two parts about life in the Styrian mountain village of St. Anna.
Director: Michael Pilz
Votes: 52
26. Des marelles et des petites filles (1999)
52 min | Documentary
Hopscotch is universal. Girls around the world trace squares on the ground, then hop through them, trying hard to reach the end. Girls share other interests too; they all like to talk about... See full summary »
Director: Marquise Lepage | Stars: Archana Anand, Aminatou Bandé, Patralkha Chaterjee, Isabelle Chen
Votes: 18
29. Tales of Sand and Snow (2004)
49 min | Documentary
-In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people,Hyacinthe Combary, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal band, the Atikamekw of northern Quebec (Canada).
Director: Hyacinthe Combary | Stars: Hyacinthe Combary, Charles Coocoo, Djouali Coulidiaty, Souleymane Coulidiaty
30. Tigers and Temples: A Journey to India and Bhutan (2010)
30 min | Short
The Bengal tiger is fighting for its very existence -- with less than 3000 animals left in the entire world.
Director: Fred Heiman | Stars: Peggy Heiman, Vipul Jain
31. Mousaraa (2017)
16 min | Short, Action, Drama
In the grungy arenas of the Inland Empire, wrestling knows no rules and no justice. Diandra, a feisty and ruthless wrestler, lashes out as her dreams of becoming a wrestler are gradually ... See full summary »
Director: Dana Itani | Stars: Yasmine Itani, Joseph Covino, Ali Habhab, Shereen Elcherif
32. Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974)
58 min | Documentary
Since times predating agriculture, Cree First Nations people have gone to the bush of the James Bay and Ungava Bay area to hunt.
Directors: Tony Ianzelo, Boyce Richardson | Stars: Boyce Richardson, Sam Blacksmith, Ronnie Jolly, Glen Speers
Votes: 27
33. Tchau Brás (1977)
11 min | Documentary, Short
The short documentary presents a brief analysis of the neighborhood of Brás, in São Paulo, known for gathering countless of Italian immigrants in the first half of the 20th century. The ... See full summary »
Director: Rudá de Andrade | Star: Francisco Luís de Almeida Salles
34. Winter in Japan (2013)
21 min | Short
The 64th annual snow festival in Sapporo, Japan.
Director: Fred Heiman | Stars: Fred Heiman, Peggy Heiman
35.
P.J. (1997–2009)
Episode:
Jeux de mains
(2004)
Crime, Thriller
Agathe and Alain go to a cybercafe to observe a deaf mute boy who works as a pickpocket, he escapes from them but in a next place they manage to arrest him.His name is Jérémie Meunier, he ... See full summary »
Director: Étienne Dhaene | Stars: Bruno Wolkowitch, Charles Schneider, Marc Betton, Valérie Bagnou-Beido
Votes: 5
36.
Taboo (2002–2014)
Episode:
Extreme Punishment
(2008)
TV-14 | Documentary
Each culture sees justice in its own way. In Albania, blood is avenged with blood. In India, criminals are allowed to take jobs and have families while serving time. In Tennessee, people are punished with public shaming.
Star: Andres Williams
Votes: 6
37.
Signes des temps (1972–1975)
Episode:
La Transamazonienne, 2ème partie: La marche vers l'ouest
(1973)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Hubert Knapp | Star: Hubert Knapp