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1. Everest (2015)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
On May 10, 1996, mountain guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer combine their expedition teams for a final ascent to the summit of Mount Everest. With little warning, a storm strikes the mountain and the climbers must now battle to survive.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Jason Clarke, Ang Phula Sherpa, Thomas M. Wright, Martin Henderson
Votes: 232,361 | Gross: $43.48M
2. Moon (2009)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 376,641 | Gross: $5.01M
3. The Big Short (2015)
R | 130 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
Votes: 484,292 | Gross: $70.26M
4. Rick and Morty (2013– )
TV-MA | 23 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The fractured domestic lives of a nihilistic mad scientist and his anxious grandson are further complicated by their inter-dimensional misadventures.
Stars: Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke, Justin Roiland
Votes: 601,082
5. Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
PG-13 | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
Director: Malik Bendjelloul | Stars: Rodriguez, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, Dennis Coffey, Mike Theodore
Votes: 72,889 | Gross: $3.97M
6. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt
Votes: 108,127 | Gross: $1.88M
7. Foxcatcher (2014)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.
Director: Bennett Miller | Stars: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 149,230 | Gross: $12.10M
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
R | 104 min | Drama, Music
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund
Votes: 163,446 | Gross: $13.24M
9. Black Sun (2005)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
Gary Tarn's remarkable, award-winning documentary, BLACK SUN, investigates this through the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a New York-based artist and filmmaker who was blinded by a vicious attack in 1978.
Director: Gary Tarn | Star: Hugues de Montalembert
Votes: 415
10. Captain Fantastic (2016)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Director: Matt Ross | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso
Votes: 235,018 | Gross: $5.88M
11. Senna (2010)
PG-13 | 106 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
A documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.
Director: Asif Kapadia | Stars: Ayrton Senna, Reginaldo Leme, John Bisignano, Neyde Senna
Votes: 75,755 | Gross: $1.61M
12. Night on Earth (1991)
R | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Lisanne Falk, Alan Randolph Scott
Votes: 65,985 | Gross: $2.02M
13. Swiss Army Man (2016)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.
Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Antonia Ribero
Votes: 133,545 | Gross: $4.21M
14. Ex Machina (2014)
R | 108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.
Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno
Votes: 588,939 | Gross: $25.44M
15. Nightcrawler (2014)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.
Director: Dan Gilroy | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, Riz Ahmed
Votes: 604,402 | Gross: $32.38M
16. Children of Men (2006)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine
Votes: 529,273 | Gross: $35.55M
17. The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary, Comedy
A documentary about branding, advertising and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising and product placement.
Director: Morgan Spurlock | Stars: J.J. Abrams, Peter Berg, Paul Brennan, Noam Chomsky
Votes: 15,191 | Gross: $0.64M
18. Better Things (2016–2022)
TV-MA | 22 min | Comedy, Drama
An actress raises her three daughters while juggling the pressures of working in Hollywood and being a single parent.
Stars: Pamela Adlon, Mikey Madison, Hannah Riley, Olivia Edward
Votes: 18,023
19. Hell or High Water (II) (2016)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Toby is a divorced father who's trying to make a better life. His brother is an ex-con with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that's about to foreclose on their family ranch.
Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham
Votes: 252,444 | Gross: $27.01M
20. A Separation (2011)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini
Votes: 258,462 | Gross: $7.10M
My rating - 9.5/10.
Most film critics would say that Abbas Kiarostami is Iran's greatest director, but consider that title to be true to the relatively-young Asghar Farhadi. He is certainly one of the best directors around today and a rare gem. This is his best film and Iran's greatest film because of the film's tension, its realness, and its amazing screenplay. The authenticity of each character, and their respective raw emotions, drives this movie higher-and-higher, reaching its peek at the ending. The movie's beauty comes from its ability to interject between subjecting faith, tradition, and family through a critical lense in the modern post-revolution Iranian life. I hold this film in such high regard, that I would rank it as the second-best film of the current century (the 2000s), trailing only to Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film "There Will Be Blood."
(Iran. - Received funding from the United States.)
21. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
R | 90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
Director: Ari Folman | Stars: Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan
Votes: 60,397 | Gross: $2.28M
My rating - 9.5/10.
Ari Folman's interestingly animated documentary about the 1982 invasion of Lebanon by Israel is one of the great documentaries. It's an almost near-perfect anti-war film because of the experience we go through during the moments told in throughout the invasion feel so real and true to what war feels like for the innocent civilians, as well as the Israeli soldiers. The amazing animation goes astonishingly-well with its unorthodox documentary-narrative.
(Israel.)
22. Close-Up (1990)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah
Votes: 23,000 | Gross: $0.00M
My rating - 9/10.
It's no wonder that this film is considered to be his magnum-opus, and was voted as the 43rd-greatest film of all time in "Sight & Sound" magazine's 2012 poll of the greatest movies of all time. This part-narrative/part-documentary film is just quite possibly one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring movies ever made, in my opinion. Probably my favorite aspect of this masterpiece by Kiarostami, is how the main character, a definitive cinephile, loves movies because it gives him a reason for hope and a way to feel accepted, providing him a way to express himself, in a country where poor individuals like him are brutally mistreated under their human rights-violating Islamist fundamentalist government.
(Iran.)
23. The Gatekeepers (2012)
PG-13 | 101 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.
Director: Dror Moreh | Stars: Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, Avi Dichter, Yaakov Peri
Votes: 5,886 | Gross: $2.42M
My rating - 9/10.
In Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh's Academy-Award nominated and highly acclaimed documentary, six former heads of Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, describe how the State of Israel has conducted in violent attacks and stirred up many problems against Palestinians since 1967, mainly due to right-wing hysteria. This is the best movie, documentary or not, that discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as being one of the best documentaries from the 21st-century.
(Israel. - Co-produced with France).
24. The Square (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.
Director: Jehane Noujaim | Stars: Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour, Ramy Essam
Votes: 9,402 | Gross: $0.12M
My rating - 9/10.
Egypt's 2011 revolution to overthrow dictator Hosni Mubarak ultimately during the so-called 'Arab Spring' didn't achieve the wishes of many of its participants. This great Egyptian documentary directed by Jehane Noujaim (also directed the documentary "Control Room"), shows the Egyptian people from all backgrounds coming together to achieve a more representative government. The movie shows just how powerful conflicts between those in the revolution are, when it comes to actually achieving success. In this case, it would be how the Muslim Brotherhood turned their backs on the rest of the revolutionaries - who were mostly young, secular, and liberal (most of these protesters were from Muslim heritage as well).
(Egypt. - Directed by an Egyptian-born American-citizen [Noujaim]. Co-produced with the United States.)
25. Turtles Can Fly (2004)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, War
Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Votes: 20,752 | Gross: $0.26M
My rating - 8.5/10.
The neorealistic movie is a gripping and touching anti-war movie from its writer and director, Bahman Ghobadi. It may not be the greatest acted movie ever, but it undoubtedly makes all that up for with its authenticity of life in a war-torn nation (Iraq). When the U.S. forces illegally invaded Iraq in 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein from power, many Kurds in the country viewed it with great optimism, as Hussein had led military attacks against them and disenfranchised them from Iraqi life. We see through the lenses of Kurdish children and their lives during the beginnings of the Iraq War, seeing from a perspective of a group of people that are often ignored in media.
(Iran. - Although it was filmed entirely in Iraq, starring Kurdish actors/actresses from Iraq, it was directed, produced, and financed all by Iran. Albeit, some people do consider this one as an Iraqi film. If Kurdistan was a country [which it should be, in my opinion], this movie would have unquestionably been a Kurdish film, and not an Iranian or Iraqi film in anyway.)
26. About Elly (2009)
TV-PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zare'i
Votes: 57,148 | Gross: $0.11M
My rating - 8.5/10.
This was the first film from the Middle-East that I ever watched, and is one of the best movies from the extremely underrated and overlooked cinema of Iran. What makes this movie so great was the characterization by its elite and supremely-talented director, Asghar Farhadi, resulting in a very tense and rewarding experience. Its wonderful direction and well-acted characters has this movie standing out from the rest of the pack of movies these days.
(Iran.)
27. Gett (2014)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
After a lukewarm marriage of over twenty years, a woman appeals to her husband's compassion to obtain the desirable divorce document in front of a court, which proves to be more challenging than she would expect.
Directors: Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz | Stars: Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Gabi Amrani, Dalia Beger
Votes: 6,883 | Gross: $0.99M
My rating - 8.5/10.
Co-director and lead actress Ronit Elkabetz does an all-around stunning job in this Israeli flick about the patriarchal power structures that hold women down in not only Israeli society, but as well in societies worldwide. Although moving at a slow pace all throughout, the film hits with many powerful blows, aimed at the inequality practiced in religious law, specifically Jewish law in this case. The film's main theme revolves around how men ultimately want to control and determine the lives of women - viewing women and their bodies as their sole property - using whatever means such as religion and traditional morals to justify the subjugation of women in society. For something such as divorce that ought to be quick and simple to accomplish, the movie uses mild-mannered humor to showcase the absurdities of a woman needing the ultimate approval of men to finalize and achieve a divorce to her husband.
(Israel. - Co-produced with France.)
28. The Salesman (2016)
PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, Thriller
While Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mina Sadati, Babak Karimi
Votes: 64,694 | Gross: $2.40M
My rating - 8.5/10.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's seventh film was definitely the best movie of the 2016 year in cinema. Farhadi always seems to deliver with heart-punching films, and it's no different with this movie here. Although slow at a few parts, as a whole, the film hits hard as dramatic and tragic life sequences play out before our very eyes. Farhadi has mastered creating tensing movies, gradually getting tighter and tighter by the scene. This film's 2017 Academy Awards nomination and victory highlighted President Donald Trump's "Muslim ban," as director Farhadi couldn't travel to the awards show because Iran is one of the countries listed in the ban. Due to this, the movie's greatness is even more so, given that the movie's theme can relate to all peoples around the world, not just to those in Iran.
(Iran. - Co-produced with France.)
29. Baran (2001)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance
In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.
Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Mahjoub
Votes: 8,963 | Gross: $0.13M
My rating - 8/10.
A gritty and rough film about the love shared between two people that is made more challenging because of a xenophobic society intolerant to immigrants and refugees, a societal issue that is common worldwide. Filmmaker Majid Majidi's movies tend to have corny sentimentality elements to them, as well as religious and conservative characters and themes. But this movie is definitely his one big exception, with an authentic feel and emotion between its two central and developed characters. Going away from his usual conservative theme, Majidi's movie here has a liberal message, which is for people to reform their intolerant views towards immigrants, with it being Iran's Afghani immigrants/refugees in this case.
(Iran.)
30. Crimson Gold (2003)
Unrated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri
Votes: 5,298 | Gross: $0.15M
My rating - 8/10.
This is my personal favorite film directed by the liberal-minded Jafar Panahi, because of its social commentary theme about the wealth-gap in Iran, and the differing types of treatment someone will receive from the police and others depending on their social-class and wealth. Not too long or too short in time duration, this movie offers us the glimpse of how the poor are neglected and brutalized by authorities, and how they are looked down upon as inferior in some parts of Iranian society, which are all problems that can be found in most countries around the globe.
(Iran.)
31. Wadjda (2012)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd
Votes: 21,472 | Gross: $1.35M
My rating - 8/10.
Saudi female director Haifaa Al Mansour's feature-length directional-debut film is more than just a 11-year old girl trying to raise enough money for a bike; Al Mansour's film discusses the role of women and girls in an ultra-conservative Saudi Arabian society than looks down on them simply because of their gender. While having to deal with a rather grim topic as misogyny, the movie as a whole is upbeat and somewhat-optimistic and with likable characters. Although the number of films included in their collection isn't that large, this is thus far the best feature-length film to come from the Arab world yet.
(Saudi Arabia. - Co-produced with Germany. Received funding from Germany, Jordan, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, & the United States.)
32. Offside (2006)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Mohammad Asarian
Votes: 8,605 | Gross: $0.18M
My rating - 8/10.
This film by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi about a group of women that are being excluded from a big soccer game simply due to their gender, is enticing and moving to watch because, no matter how much the authorities try to restrain these women from entering the stadium, it never dampens the women's spirits and willingness to try to enter the soccer stadium. Panahi is Iran's premier filmmaker when it comes to social commentary, and it is no different here, where he challenges Iran's sexist treatment of women and their ultra-conservative laws that disenfranchise women. Those last couple of scenes-or so from the movie, are some of the most beautiful moments I've seen in Iranian cinema.
(Iran.)
33. Kandahar (2001)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Ike Ogut, Sadou Teymouri
Votes: 7,064 | Gross: $0.02M
My rating - 8/10.
This movie by the underrated and influential Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is one that seems to be polarized by both film critics and non-critics alike. It's one of the most important films to come out of the Middle-East, because, just like the 2003 Afghani-film "Osama" (which was actually filmed in Afghanistan, unlike "Kandahar"), this movie shows us the harsh and unbearable living conditions under the Taliban government in Afghanistan during the late 1990s. The biggest complaint with the film for me was how it ended without a strong resolution to its main plot line.
(Iran.)
34. The Attack (2012)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An Palestinian surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsallem, Evgenia Dodina, Dvir Benedek
Votes: 4,554 | Gross: $1.71M
My rating - 8/10.
This Lebanese film co-written and directed by Ziad Doueiri, takes no sides in one of the world's most troubling conflicts between two parties: Israel and Palestine. One well-meaning and worried Israeli-Arab husband investigates to learn exactly why his non-violent wife of many years would become a suicide bomber and blow herself up in a restaurant, killing and maiming many eating inside. Palestinian suicide bombers like her aren't shown as the heroes they are manipulated into believing in the movie, but we understand the Palestinian cause and what leads a small number of them into following a similar path as her's.
(Lebanon. - Co-produced with Belgium, France, & Qatar.)
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