PdA's Anti-Canon, 2013 Edition

by Perception_de_Ambiguity | created - 18 Sep 2013 | updated - 05 Apr 2014 | Public

Favorite films (that are listed on IMDb) with less than 1,500 votes at the time the list was conducted. Roughly in order of preference. Special things like making ofs, stand-up shows, episodes of a series, etc. have largely been excluded, with some notable exceptions.

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1. Matalo! (Kill Him) (1970)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A gang of outlaws find themselves in conflict with a mysterious, boomerang-wielding drifter and a widower who arrive in the ghost town they have holed up in.

Director: Cesare Canevari | Stars: Lou Castel, Corrado Pani, Antonio Salines, Luis Dávila

Votes: 617

2. The Scoundrel (1935)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Fantasy

A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.

Directors: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Stars: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper

Votes: 445

3. Crime Without Passion (1934)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.

Directors: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Stars: Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges

Votes: 596

4. Vampire Journals (1997 Video)

R | 82 min | Fantasy, Horror

Avenging vampire stalks a king of the vampires in Eastern Europe, slaughters anyone who gets in his way.

Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Jonathon Morris, David Gunn, Kirsten Cerre, Starr Andreeff

Votes: 1,854

5. Go West (1923)

12 min | Short, Comedy, Western

A short film with an all animal cast about a young chimp who is kicked out of his home by his parents and heads west to make his fortune.

Director: Len Powers

Votes: 291

6. The Super Cops (1974)

R | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".

Director: Gordon Parks | Stars: Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle

Votes: 1,124

7. The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)

R | 82 min | Horror

Newlywed Susan is haunted by visions of Mircalla Karnstein, a centuries-old bride who murdered her husband on their wedding night.

Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín, Alexandra Bastedo, Dean Selmier

Votes: 2,369

8. This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama

In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder. Things complicate when their feeble-minded mother begins to suspect something.

Director: Michael Oblowitz | Stars: Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Christian Durango, Sloan Cobb

Votes: 1,324 | Gross: $0.01M

9. Models (1999)

118 min | Drama

Four models share their life experience.

Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Viviane Bartsch, Tanja Petrovsky, Lisa Grossmann, Elvyra Geyer

Votes: 1,181

10. The Intruder (1962)

PG-13 | 84 min | Drama

A charismatic "social reformer" rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but he soon finds himself in a situation that he cannot control.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt

Votes: 3,892

11. The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)

R | 91 min | Drama, Romance

A married woman leaves her husband and zooms off on her motorcycle to see her lover.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Marianne Faithfull, Alain Delon, Roger Mutton, Marius Goring

Votes: 2,627

12. A Letter to Momo (2011)

Not Rated | 120 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

65 Metascore

11-year-old Momo moves with her mother to a small island town after her father dies. When she arrives, she encounters three goblins that others cannot see who try to help her to cope with the loss of her father and the changes in her life.

Director: Hiroyuki Okiura | Stars: Karen Miyama, Yuka, Daizaburo Arakawa, Toshiyuki Nishida

Votes: 8,142

13. Cut-Throats Nine (1972)

R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Bandits attack a wagonload of convicts, and only a sergeant, his daughter, and seven sadistic prisoners survive. The sergeant must get his prisoners to their destination while a web of lies, greed, and betrayal unfolds.

Director: Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent | Stars: Robert Hundar, Emma Cohen, Alberto Dalbés, Antonio Iranzo

Votes: 1,386

14. Golgo 13: The Professional (1983)

Not Rated | 91 min | Animation, Action, Crime

After killing the son of a powerful oil tycoon, an infamous hit-man is targeted by American governmental forces and superhuman killers.

Director: Osamu Dezaki | Stars: Tetsurô Sagawa, Gorô Naya, Toshiko Fujita, Kôsei Tomita

Votes: 3,366

15. Reign of Terror (1949)

Approved | 89 min | History, Romance, Thriller

Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart, Arlene Dahl

Votes: 2,118

16. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)

Not Rated | 317 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

82 Metascore

Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.

Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, João Arrais

Votes: 3,608 | Gross: $0.11M

17. The Terrorizers (1986)

109 min | Crime, Drama

A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.

Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Cora Miao, Li-Chun Lee, Shih-Chieh King, Pao-Ming Ku

Votes: 5,488

19. 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: 1,882

20. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)

116 min | Drama

A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.

Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Miou-Miou, Jacques Denis

Votes: 1,182

21. Film (1965)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama

A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based ... See full summary »

Directors: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider | Stars: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed

Votes: 2,286

22. The Iron Rose (1973)

TV-MA | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.

Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Françoise Pascal, Hugues Quester, Natalie Perrey, Mireille Dargent

Votes: 2,295

23. Unsere Afrikareise (1966)

13 min | Short

A trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.

Director: Peter Kubelka

Votes: 771

24. Angels Over Broadway (1940)

Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.

Directors: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen

Votes: 1,335

25. Johnny Hamlet (1968)

PG | 91 min | Drama, Western

Back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton learns that his father was murdered by Santana the bandit and that his mother Gertrude married his uncle Claude but Johnny is determined to find out the truth.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Andrea Giordana, Gilbert Roland, Horst Frank, Ennio Girolami

Votes: 657

26. Rockaby (2000 TV Short)

14 min | Short

An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she calls for more.

Director: Richard Eyre | Star: Penelope Wilton

Votes: 88

27. The Dancing Pig (1907)

Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

A humongous and obese anthropomorphic swine dressed like a fine gentleman in a fancy dinner attire tries to make a pass at a solitary lady having a picnic.

Director: Millard Mercury | Stars: Ewing Tordella, Edith Trublanchet

Votes: 1,399

28. The Man Who Sleeps (1974)

77 min | Drama

A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.

Director: Bernard Queysanne | Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël

Votes: 4,633

29. Crows (1994)

66 min | Drama

A thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining... See full summary »

Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Karolina Ostrozna, Katarzyna Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska, Anna Prucnal

Votes: 699

30. A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation (2010)

PG | 15 min | Animation, Short, Drama

When his father dies unexpectedly, a young man seeking to cope with his grief goes on a powerful emotional journey through time and space.

Directors: Stefan Leuchtenberg, Martin Wallner | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Ian McKellen

Votes: 145

31. Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997)

PG | 98 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama

82 Metascore

Twenty-four contestants compete in an endurance/sleep deprivation contest in order to win a brand new Nissan Hardbody truck. The last person to remain standing with his or her hand on the ... See full summary »

Director: S.R. Bindler | Stars: Sid Allen, Brent Baskin, Greg Cox, J.C. Crum

Votes: 2,475 | Gross: $0.49M

32. Face to Face (1967)

R | 111 min | Western

A history professor has a chance meeting with an infamous outlaw and eventually assumes leadership of his gang.

Director: Sergio Sollima | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Tomas Milian, William Berger, Jolanda Modio

Votes: 3,357

33. The End (1995)

6 min | Animation, Short

An animator finds himself trying to explain his (lack of) artistic vision to his creations, who just aren't impressed.

Director: Chris Landreth | Stars: Jeffrey Hirschfield, Gina Clayton, Hannah Kravitz, Vivian Chelette

Votes: 300

34. The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)

55 min | Documentary, Biography

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Simon | Stars: Samuel Fuller, Tim Robbins, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese

Votes: 400

35. City Girl (1930)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance

A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.

Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke

Votes: 3,726

36. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary

Henri-Georges Clouzot's unfinished masterpiece, Inferno (1964), is reconstructed in this film which is part drama and part documentary.

Directors: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea | Stars: Romy Schneider, Bérénice Bejo, Serge Reggiani, Jacques Gamblin

Votes: 1,999 | Gross: $0.02M

37. Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974)

Not Rated | 80 min | Adventure, Drama

An attractive but conservative mid-30's housewife stays at the house of her sexually open daughter and soon becomes involved in her daughter's swinger lifestyle.

Director: Joseph W. Sarno | Stars: Mary Mendum, Jennifer Welles, Chris Jordan, Eric Edwards

Votes: 671

38. More Things That Happened (2007 Video)

76 min | Drama, Mystery

A collection of deleted scenes from David Lynch's 2006 surrealist horror 'Inland Empire'

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Peter J. Lucas, William Maier, Krzysztof Majchrzak

Votes: 791

39. Flatland (2007 Video)

95 min | Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Flatland is a two-dimensional universe occupied by living geometric figures - squares, triangles, circles, etc. A Square, Attorney At Law, finds himself in the middle of two upheavals: the ... See full summary »

Director: Ladd Ehlinger Jr. | Stars: Ashley Blackwell, Chris Carter, Denise Carter, Juliana Carter

Votes: 1,220

40. Fear of Fear (1975 TV Movie)

91 min | Drama

Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not ... See full summary »

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann

Votes: 1,997

41. Un lac (2008)

90 min | Drama

The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Grandrieux | Stars: Dmitriy Kubasov, Natálie Rehorová, Aleksey Solonchev, Simona Huelsemann

Votes: 819

42. Demons (1971)

134 min | Drama, Horror

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

Director: Toshio Matsumoto | Stars: Katsuo Nakamura, Jûrô Kara, Yasuko Sanjo, Masao Imafuku

Votes: 2,855

44. Post Tenebras Lux (2012)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama

69 Metascore

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: 5,939 | Gross: $0.04M

45. Diably, diably (1991)

86 min | Drama

A film set in a small Polish village in the '60s that deals with a young girl's awakening sexuality. Mala, about 13, lives with her unmarried mother and has a boyfriend of her own age. The ... See full summary »

Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Danuta Szaflarska, Monika Niemczyk, Jerzy Lapinski, Krzysztof Plewka

Votes: 125

46. Classic Albums (1997– )
Episode: Nirvana: Nevermind (2005)

74 min | Documentary, Music

It has sold millions and is responsible for the birth of grunge. This documentary looks at the story behind how Nirvana came to record Nevermind and the effect it was to have on the music ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Smeaton | Stars: Samuel Bayer, Kurt Cobain, Steve Diggle, Dave Grohl

Votes: 667

47. Nostos: The Return (1989)

85 min | Adventure, History

At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles... See full summary »

Director: Franco Piavoli | Stars: Luigi Mezzanotte, Branca de Camargo, Alex Carozzo, Paola Agosti

Votes: 517

48. Dishonored (1931)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland

Votes: 3,188

49. Nuit #1 (2011)

Unrated | 91 min | Drama

61 Metascore

It starts as a one night stand that evolves in a long discussion with infinite subjects between a québécoise and an immigrant.

Director: Anne Émond | Stars: Catherine De Léan, Dimitri Storoge, Véronique Rebizov, Raphaël Boulanger

Votes: 890

50. The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

125 min | Drama

A conscientious factory worker becomes embroiled in political activism after accidentally cutting off his finger while working a machine.

Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice, Luigi Diberti

Votes: 4,051

51. Texas, Adios (1966)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Drama, Western

A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.

Director: Ferdinando Baldi | Stars: Franco Nero, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Elisa Montés, José Guardiola

Votes: 1,855

52. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)

Not Rated | 62 min | Documentary, History

A comprehensive history of the medium and art of motion pictures.

Stars: Mark Cousins, Juan Diego Botto, Aleksandr Sokurov, Norman Lloyd

Votes: 4,826

53. Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1992 TV Movie)

50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

The performer of Twin Peaks theme Julee Cruise's experimental concert film, which opens with a short intro where a man breaks up with his girl over the phone, which devastates her. The concert is set in her nightmarish subconscious mind.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Julee Cruise, Lisa Giobbi

Votes: 1,923

54. Cemetery Without Crosses (1969)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western

A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.

Director: Robert Hossein | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Guido Lollobrigida, Daniele Vargas

Votes: 2,389

55. Der Totmacher (1995)

110 min | Crime, Drama

Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to find out whether he is sane and can be held responsible for his crimes. During this ... See full summary »

Director: Romuald Karmakar | Stars: Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch, Pierre Franckh, Hans-Michael Rehberg

Votes: 2,347

56. Illicit (1931)

Unrated | 79 min | Drama, Romance

A young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, Natalie Moorhead

Votes: 1,166

57. A New Life (2002)

102 min | Drama, Horror

The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.

Director: Philippe Grandrieux | Stars: Zachary Knighton, Anna Mouglalis, Marc Barbé, Zsolt Nagy

Votes: 1,137

58. The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (1996 Video)

88 min | Documentary

A documentary following Terry Gilliam through the creation of "12 Monkeys" (1995)

Directors: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe | Stars: Keith Fulton, Terry Gilliam, Charles Roven, Lloyd Phillips

Votes: 1,088

59. Crash of Silence (1952)

Approved | 93 min | Drama

Mandy Garland was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life. Her parents believe she is able to speak if she can only be taught, and they enroll her with a special teacher.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan, Godfrey Tearle

Votes: 1,020

60. Testament of Orpheus (1960)

Not Rated | 79 min | Biography, Fantasy

75 Metascore

The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.

Director: Jean Cocteau | Stars: Jean Cocteau, Françoise Arnoul, Claudine Auger, Charles Aznavour

Votes: 3,734

61. La cartomancienne (1932)

12 min | Short

In a European seaside village, a maiden takes clean sheets down from the clothesline. Carrying her basket of linens home, she stops to consult a fortune teller, whose been napping the the ... See full summary »

Director: Jerome Hill

Votes: 183

62. The Wheel (1923)

Not Rated | 417 min | Drama

A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.

Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof, Séverin-Mars

Votes: 2,560

63. Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963)

75 min | Family, Fantasy

Olya and Yalo save the people of the looking glass from lies.

Director: Aleksandr Rou | Stars: Olga Yukina, Tatyana Yukina, Tatyana Barysheva, Andrei Stapran

Votes: 1,485

64. Return to Reason (1923)

3 min | Short

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.

Director: Man Ray | Star: Kiki of Montparnasse

Votes: 2,201

65. Specter of the Rose (1946)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music

Ballet dancer Andre Sanine (Ivan Kirov) may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. Andre is charming, if a little peculiar. Haidi (Viola Essen), a ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Hecht | Stars: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen

Votes: 272

66. Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen (2003)

Not Rated | 81 min | Drama

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.

Director: Maren Ade | Stars: Eva Löbau, Daniela Holtz, Jan Neumann, Ilona Schulz

Votes: 1,892 | Gross: $0.00M

67. The Bead Game (1977)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

To a percussive soundtrack, a succession of more complex animals forms and is consumed by their successors (all formed from beads). Finally, We reach man, who develops ever more sophisticated forms of war.

Director: Ishu Patel

Votes: 701

68. The Meaning of Life (2005)

Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The evolution of humanity, through countless eons.

Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Murwarid Abdiani, Jaden Alexander, Lance Anderson, Karin Anger

Votes: 1,943

69. Santos Palace (2006)

15 min | Short, Thriller

Santos Palace is a coffee shop in Belgium. There, a waitress serves a strange client. Their eyes meet, minutes pass and we seem to witness a love story that hasn't began or may have already started.

Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Mick Gondouin, Sarah Lablack, Marina Luz Missart, Marie-Francine Najib

Votes: 115

70. Busting (1974)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, Allen Garfield, Antonio Fargas

Votes: 1,868 | Gross: $0.11M

71. Ecstasy (1933)

TV-MA | 82 min | Drama, Romance

Eva has just got married to an older gentleman. She leaves him, and one day, she meets a young man, and they fall in love. Fate brings the husband together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.

Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Zvonimir Rogoz, Aribert Mog, Leopold Kramer

Votes: 2,778

72. The Joke (1969)

80 min | Drama

In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years ... See full summary »

Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar, Jaroslava Obermaierová

Votes: 1,699

73. Indiánské léto (1995)

65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A debut of director Sasa Gedeon unfolding the simple story of an adolescent girl (Klára Issová) who begins her entry into the adult world during a summer vacation spent at her grandmother's... See full summary »

Director: Sasa Gedeon | Stars: Tatiana Dyková, Klára Issová, Robert Stepánek, Jirí Ployhar

Votes: 262

74. Pulp Fiction Art: Cheap Thrills & Painted Nightmares (2005)

57 min | Documentary

An intimate look at the extraordinary, often ostracized, and now largely forgotten artwork of Pulp Fiction Magazines. For the first time in a documentary film, we take a look at the world ... See full summary »

Director: Jamie McDonald | Stars: Robert Anderson, Charles Ardai, Terrence Brown, Ernest Chiracka

Votes: 37

75. Passage à l'acte (1993)

12 min | Short, Comedy

An avant-garde sonic and visual reediting of a short clip from the classic 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Director: Martin Arnold | Stars: Phillip Alford, Mary Badham, Gregory Peck

Votes: 365

76. The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)

TV-PG | 98 min | Documentary, History

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

Director: Wendy Apple | Stars: Kathy Bates, Zach Staenberg, Jodie Foster, Michael Tronick

Votes: 3,194

77. The Story of the Fox (1937)

63 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When Renard the Fox's mischievous pranks go too far, King Lion is forced to attempt to bring the trickster to justice.

Directors: Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz | Stars: Claude Dauphin, Romain Bouquet, Sylvain Itkine, Léon Larive

Votes: 1,550

78. Time to Die (2007)

104 min | Drama

When the witty old lady Aniela finally gets rid of her last lodger, she thinks it's finally time for her to feel at home in her beautiful old wooden house. But her greedy son and neighbours have other plans.

Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Danuta Szaflarska, Krzysztof Globisz, Marta Waldera, Patrycja Szewczyk

Votes: 1,159

80. Face Like a Frog (1987)

5 min | Animation, Short

A frog is called to the help of another frog, whose house is haunted.

Director: Sally Cruikshank

Votes: 265

81. Fugue (1999)

7 min | Animation, Short

A visual art work that borrows the principles of fugue from music. A man, his dreams, a hotel room...

Director: Georges Schwizgebel

Votes: 310

82. Man, Pride & Vengeance (1967)

Not Rated | 101 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A stalwart Spanish soldier turns to a life of crime to prove his love for a mysterious and promiscuous gypsy woman.

Director: Luigi Bazzoni | Stars: Tina Aumont, Franco Nero, Klaus Kinski, Guido Lollobrigida

Votes: 763

83. La mort d'un tueur (1964)

80 min | Drama

After five years in prison for robbery, a gangster comes home to find out who betrayed him to the police.Was it his best friend, who has hooked up with the sister for whom the former prisoner has an unnatural, incestuous love?

Director: Robert Hossein | Stars: Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Simón Andreu, Jean Lefebvre

Votes: 172

84. The Stranger (1967)

104 min | Drama

A man faces a trial for murder. The court is biased because of his personal qualities.

Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier, Alfred Adam

Votes: 3,090

85. Angel's Egg (1985 Video)

Not Rated | 71 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.

Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Mako Hyôdô, Jinpachi Nezu, Keiichi Noda

Votes: 11,972

86. Paradise: Hope (2013)

Unrated | 92 min | Drama

78 Metascore

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: 4,986 | Gross: $0.01M

87. Beyond the Forest (1949)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

Resentful of her small-town life, a married woman schemes to run off with a rich businessman.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman

Votes: 2,767

88. Deanimated (2002)

60 min | Comedy, Horror

The avant-garde filmmaker Martin Arnold subjects a legendary American horror movie of 1941 to radical cinematographic surgery.

Director: Martin Arnold

Votes: 39

89. The Ground (2001)

20 min | Short

A stone mason works to build and repair a castle wall.

Director: Robert Beavers

Votes: 101

90. L'ange (1982)

64 min | Animation, Fantasy

A surreal, nightmarish collection of imagery.

Director: Patrick Bokanowski | Stars: Maurice Baquet, Jean-Marie Bon, Martine Couture, Jacques Faure

Votes: 629

91. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

81 Metascore

A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain.

Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim

Votes: 4,728

92. Der Rabe (1951)

14 min | Short, Horror

A black and white short depicting the events written by Edgar Allan Poe in his famous poem "The Raven".

Director: Kurt Steinwendner | Stars: Leopold Rudolf, Margit Jergins

Votes: 110

93. A Dog's Life (1962)

Approved | 108 min | Documentary, Horror

A "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence.

Directors: Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Rossano Brazzi, Yves Klein, Henning Skaarup

Votes: 4,405

94. Ride the Pink Horse (1947)

Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.

Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King

Votes: 3,425

95. Crime and Punishment (1935)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama

Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh, Tala Birell

Votes: 2,230

96. Finding Interest (1995)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An action thriller about an unhappy advertising executive who hires a hit-man to have himself killed.

Directors: Samer Daboul, Trevor Sands | Stars: Timothy Patrick Quill, Matthias Hues, Frank Adonis, Linda Kerns

Votes: 82

97. Two for the Seesaw (1962)

Approved | 119 min | Drama, Romance

Robert Wise directs Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine in this spicy and poignant love story about a free-spirited Greenwich Village girl who hooks up with a brooding Nebraska lawyer. In HD.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan, Elisabeth Fraser

Votes: 2,054 | Gross: $3.82M

98. Gucia (1985)

16 min | Short

Based on a story by Jerzy Anrzejewski, called The First Love, it's a gentle story of two seven-year-olds and the feeling emerging between them.

Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Waldek Kalisz, Agatka Pokorowska

Votes: 31

99. Snakes and Ladders (1980 TV Movie)

30 min | Mystery

A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Loup Rivière

Votes: 169

100. N. Took the Dice (1972)

Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Horror

This enigmatic narrative and its outre content are pushed several degrees closer to total madness which scrambles an already ambiguous chronology to the point of free form collage.

Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet | Stars: Catherine Jourdan, Pierre Zimmer, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer

Votes: 309



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