New Directions
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1. Melancholia (2008)
Not Rated | 450 min | Drama
Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Angeli Bayani, Perry Dizon, Roeder Camanag, Dante Perez
Votes: 555
2. Slow Action (2011)
45 min | Sci-Fi
Herzog-influenced imagining of ecological possibilities for four locations, anticipating Earth's impending post-societal collapse.
Director: Ben Rivers
Votes: 144
3. Independencia (2009)
77 min | Drama
Mimicking early silent films, Independencia creates a lush metaphor that plays with cinematic illusions and the cultural and mythical history of the Philippines.
Director: Raya Martin | Stars: Sid Lucero, Tetchie Agbayani, Alessandra De Rossi, Mika Aguilos
Votes: 248
4. Liverpool (2008)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
A merchant sailor returns to his home in Tierra del Fuego after spending most of his life at sea.
Director: Lisandro Alonso | Stars: Juan Fernández, Nieves Cabrera, Giselle Irrazabal
Votes: 1,201
5. This Is Not a Film (2011)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
It's been months since Jafar Panahi, stuck in jail, has been awaiting a verdict by the appeals court. By depicting a day in his life, Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb try to portray the deprivations looming in contemporary Iranian cinema.
Directors: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi | Stars: Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Votes: 5,646 | Gross: $0.08M
6. El cant dels ocells (2008)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
Three wise men embark on a journey to see the newborn Jesus Christ.
Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Lluís Carbó, Lluís Serrat Batlle, Lluís Serrat, Montse Triola
Votes: 615
7. Face (2009)
138 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-ching Lu, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Votes: 1,006
8. 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: 19,436 | Gross: $0.05M
9. Étoile violette (2005)
45 min
Alexandre, a thirty-year old tailor, has decided to improve his cultural level. That is the reason why he has decided to attend an evening school. The lessons are given in the classroom of ... See full summary »
Director: Axelle Ropert | Stars: Serge Bozon, Lou Castel, Emmanuel Levaufre, Maria Pia Bracchi
Votes: 43
10. La France (2007)
Unrated | 102 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In France in the darkest days of the Great War Camille receives an alarming letter from her soldier boyfriend. Disguising herself as a man she sets off to try and find him. As she lives ... See full summary »
Director: Serge Bozon | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Verdier, François Négret
Votes: 581
11. L'idiot (2008)
61 min | Drama
Nastassia is a woman amongst four men. One is her protector another the Idiot, the one who loves her madly. All four, and some others, meet at a party at Nastassia. Nobody will decide for her: she will choose the outcome.
Director: Pierre Léon | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Laurent Lacotte, Sylvie Testud, Bernard Eisenschitz
Votes: 91
12. The Portuguese Nun (2009)
127 min | Drama
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
Director: Eugène Green | Stars: Leonor Baldaque, Francisco Mozos, Diogo Dória, Ana Moreira
Votes: 672
13. Whores' Glory (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary
An examination of the lives, needs, troubles, and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico.
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Emma, Ning, Toh, Wat
Votes: 5,122 | Gross: $0.03M
14. Buenas noches, España (2011)
70 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In another lifetime, a Spanish couple takes drugs and teleports through their television set. A troubled young man travels through the countryside and meets a lost woman. During the trip, ... See full summary »
Director: Raya Martin | Stars: Andrés Gertrúdix, Pilar López de Ayala, PlayCacao
Votes: 90
15. La bouche de Jean-Pierre (1996)
52 min | Drama
A ten-year-old girl goes to live with her aunt when her mother is admitted to a mental hospital, but the aunt lives with a man who is too affectionate towards the girl.
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Sandra Sammartino, Denise Aron-Schropfer, Michel Trillot, Delphine Allange
Votes: 601
16. Century of Birthing (2011)
Not Rated | 360 min | Drama
An artist struggles to finish his work. A storyline about a cult plays in his head. Fundamentalism will destroy the world. The artist destroys his muse in the process. He redeems her in the end.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Perry Dizon, Angel Aquino, Bart Guingona, Hazel Orencio
Votes: 300
17. Himizu (2011)
129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Votes: 4,712
18. Differently, Molussia (2012)
81 min | Documentary, Drama
Nine reels (shown in no particular order) of allegories and political musings by political prisoners in the mythical fascist state of Molussia. Based on Günther Anders, The Molussian Catacomb (1931).
Director: Nicolas Rey | Star: Peter Hoffmann
Votes: 94
19. Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Nathalia Acevedo, Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Rut Reygadas, Eleazar Reygadas
Votes: 5,941 | Gross: $0.04M
20. The Days When I Do Not Exist (2002)
114 min | Drama, Fantasy
A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. The problem with Antoine Martin is that he only exists one day out of two. And it is from this circumstance so personal that he ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Charles Fitoussi | Stars: Antoine Chappey, Clémentine Baert, Luís Miguel Cintra, Antoine Michot
Votes: 233
21. Outside Satan (2011)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
In a village on the French Opal Coast, a drifter engages in a perplexing relationship with a young woman who has suffered abuse.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: David Dewaele, Alexandra Lemâtre, Christophe Bon, Juliette Bacquet
Votes: 2,090
22. Sombre (1998)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Horror
A sexually frustrated serial killer takes a liking to a woman he comes across.
Director: Philippe Grandrieux | Stars: Marc Barbé, Elina Löwensohn, Géraldine Voillat, Coralie Trinh Thi
Votes: 1,888
23. Film socialisme (2010)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
The passengers on a Mediterranean cruise enjoy their luxuries as a small family struggles with overbearing media attention.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Marc Stehlé, Agatha Couture, Mathias Domahidy, Quentin Grosset
Votes: 2,923 | Gross: $0.03M
24. Goodbye to Language (2014)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, Fantasy
A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdelli, Richard Chevallier, Zoé Bruneau
Votes: 6,317
25. 3x3D (2013)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra.
Directors: Puttipong Nakthong, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra | Stars: Tiago Correia, Akarin Akaranitimaytharatt, Pedro Almendra, Carolina Amaral
Votes: 363
26. Slow Action (2011)
45 min | Sci-Fi
Herzog-influenced imagining of ecological possibilities for four locations, anticipating Earth's impending post-societal collapse.
Director: Ben Rivers
Votes: 144
27. Paradise: Love (2012)
Unrated | 120 min | Drama
Teresa, a fifty-year-old Austrian mother, travels to the paradise of the beaches of Kenya, seeking out love from African boys. But she must confront the hard truth that on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Margarete Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz
Votes: 10,038 | Gross: $0.02M
28. Paradise: Faith (2012)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama
A single woman in her 50s devotes her vacations to doing Catholic missionary work in Vienna, descending into violent self-punishment as part of her faith.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, René Rupnik, Natalija Baranova
Votes: 5,163 | Gross: $0.01M
29. Paradise: Hope (2013)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama
The final installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy, 'Paradise: Hope' tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya ('... See full summary »
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas
Votes: 4,996 | Gross: $0.01M
30. Enter the Void (2009)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Fantasy
An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander
Votes: 88,094 | Gross: $0.34M
31. Trash Humpers (2009)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
Director: Harmony Korine | Stars: Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Travis Nicholson, Harmony Korine
Votes: 5,479
32. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy
Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Natthakarn Aphaiwonk
Votes: 17,406 | Gross: $0.18M
33. Syndromes and a Century (2006)
105 min | Drama
Story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents, who were both doctors, and the director's memories about growing up in the hospital environment.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Nantarat Sawaddikul, Jaruchai Iamaram, Sophon Pukanok, Jenjira Pongpas
Votes: 4,602 | Gross: $0.02M
34. Ashes (II) (2012)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
She paints her nails by the swimming pool. He waits lying on the sofa. The boat leaves.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Star: Chaisiri Jiwarangsan
Votes: 603
35. Three Sisters (2012)
Not Rated | 153 min | Documentary
Three young sisters live and work in extreme poverty in the harsh environment of Yunnan, a province on the Sino Burmese border area of China.
Director: Wang Bing
Votes: 476
36. River Rites (2011)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Trance dance and water implosion, a line drawn between secular freak-outs and religious phenomena. Shot in a single-take at a sacred site on the Upper Suriname River, the minor secrets of ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Russell
Votes: 105
37. Finisterrae (2010)
Unrated | 80 min | Fantasy
Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.
Director: Sergio Caballero | Stars: Pau Nubiola, Santi Serra, Pavel Lukiyanov, Yuri Mykhaylychenko
Votes: 697
38. Robinson in Ruins (2010)
101 min | Documentary
A tour around England featuring images of nature and various industrialized and militarized settings.
Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 259
39. Film ist a Girl & a Gun (2009)
93 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Fragments of several (mostly) silent films are shown. They're guided by quotes from, among others, Plato and Sappho and a soundtrack.
Director: Gustav Deutsch
Votes: 181
40. Symbol (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
A man wakes up in a white room empty other than buttons on the walls, he must find out which button to push to get what he wants.
Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto | Stars: Hitoshi Matsumoto, David Quintero, Luis Accinelli, Lilian Tapia
Votes: 4,454
41. Nymph (2009)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy
An urban husband and wife travel to the jungle and learn just how precious their relationship is.
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang | Stars: Nopachai Chaiyanam, Porntip Papanai, Wanida Termthanaporn, Chamanun Wanwinwatsara
Votes: 593
42. Dialogues (2009)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Drama
A filmmaker returns from a year in Japan to Los Angeles has experiences with real and imaginative women.
Director: Owen Land | Stars: Arisara, Francesca Brown, Cheryl Campbell, Cheryl Campbell
Votes: 13
44. Keyhole (2011)
R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller
Gangster and deadbeat dad Ulysses Pick embarks on an unusual journey through his home.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier, Brooke Palsson
Votes: 1,598 | Gross: $0.02M
45. Ruhr (2009)
121 min | Documentary
James Benning's worrying and also reassuring vision of the Ruhr Valley, shot in 7 fascinating takes of a tunnel, a factory, a forest near an airport, inside a mosque, a graffiti wall, a street and an industrial chimney.
Director: James Benning
Votes: 195
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