Doubling the Canon 2021 Nominations

by BHunziker | created - 26 Feb 2021 | updated - 25 Mar 2021 | Public

List of nominations for the 2021 Doubling the Canon poll.

More info here: DtC 2021 Nominations Thread.

These nominations have no iCM/IMDb page (yet): Episode 1 (2003) Parallel I-IV (2014)

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1. 48 (I) (2010)

93 min | Documentary

Filmmaker Susana Sousa Dias traces Portugal's period of fascism from 1926 until 1974.

Director: Susana de Sousa Dias | Stars: Georgette Ferreira, Dias Lourenço, Sofia Ferreira, Manuel Martins Pedro

Votes: 121

2. 300 (2006)

R | 117 min | Action, Drama

52 Metascore

In the ancient battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fight against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. They face insurmountable odds when they are betrayed by a Spartan reject.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West

Votes: 864,533 | Gross: $210.61M

3. 1917 (2019)

R | 119 min | Action, Drama, History

78 Metascore

April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth

Votes: 675,981 | Gross: $159.23M

4. Valparaiso (1963)

27 min | Documentary, Short

A travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular ... See full summary »

Director: Joris Ivens | Star: Roger Pigaut

Votes: 1,320

5. ...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (1970)

75 min | Animation

A set of words without any meaning, forms the title of the first and only feature film in the history of Spanish cinema made entirely by hand-painting directly on celluloid.

Director: José Antonio Sistiaga

Votes: 151

6. ...und deine Liebe auch (1962)

92 min | Drama, Romance

On August 13th, 1961-the night that the Berlin Wall goes up-three people must make a decision that will change their lives forever.... Upon learning of the building of the Wall, the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Vogel | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Kati Székely, Ulrich Thein, Alfonso Arau

Votes: 42

7. Magino Village: A Tale (1987)

222 min | Documentary, Drama

The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the ... See full summary »

Director: Shinsuke Ogawa | Stars: Tatsumi Hijikata, Junko Miyashita, Takahiro Tamura, Chôichirô Kawarasaki

Votes: 64

8. 102 Minutes That Changed America (2008 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 102 min | Documentary, History

The morning of September 11, 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in New York City, from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers collapse.

Directors: Nicole Rittenmeyer, Seth Skundrick | Stars: George W. Bush, Joe Napolitano, Kelly Edwards

Votes: 2,906

9. 21 X New York (2016)

70 min | Documentary

"21 x New York" is an intimate portrait of the city and its people. We meet the characters in the NYC subway and we follow them to the surface finding out about their lives, cravings, ... See full summary »

Director: Piotr Stasik

Votes: 186

10. 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

Approved | 103 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A blind American writer living in London stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy involving kidnapping and extortion.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan

Votes: 2,588

11. 3 Godfathers (1948)

Passed | 106 min | Drama, Western

82 Metascore

Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.

Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond

Votes: 10,616

12. Deadly Games (1989)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

On Christmas Eve, a resourceful young boy has to defend himself and his grandfather from a killer dressed as Santa Claus.

Director: René Manzor | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Louis Ducreux, Patrick Floersheim, Alain Lalanne

Votes: 2,783

13. The Bigamist (1942)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's ... See full summary »

Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Giuditta Rissone, Carlo Romano

Votes: 526

14. '71 (2014)

R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

83 Metascore

In 1971, a young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.

Director: Yann Demange | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris, Paul Popplewell

Votes: 60,171 | Gross: $1.27M

15. 8 Women (2002)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

64 Metascore

A man is murdered in an isolated chalet, and the eight female residents are all suspects; their secrets are revealed as they try to determine who is guilty.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve

Votes: 34,344 | Gross: $3.08M

16. 99 River Street (1953)

Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was having an affair with.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen

Votes: 3,439

17. Escape from Dartmoor (1930)

88 min | Crime, Drama

A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring, Anthony Asquith

Votes: 1,235

18. A dança dos paroxismos (1929)

46 min

A surreal short film in which a young man embarks on a journey through villages and the countryside.

Director: Jorge Brum do Canto | Stars: Machado Correia, Jorge Brum do Canto, Maria Do Carmo, Maria Emília Vilas

Votes: 132

19. À l'ombre de la canaille bleue (1986)

82 min | Drama, Thriller

Necrocity, a city of nightly terrors and a place where even the authorities seem to reinforce this state of mayhem, as a way to impose cruel laws and the use of police brutality with ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Clémenti | Stars: Nadine Clémenti, Pierre Clémenti, Olivier Corneille, Ricky Darling

Votes: 127

20. The Bite (2019)

26 min | Short

Scientists breeding genetically modified mosquitos to stop epidemy in Brasil. In paralel non traditional sexual relations taking place.

Director: Pedro Neves Marques | Stars: Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Alina Dorzbacher, Kelner Macêdo, Luiz Felipe Lucas

Votes: 32

21. A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

26 Metascore

Two dim-witted brothers dream of owning their own dance club or at least getting into the coolest and most exclusive club in town, The Roxbury.

Director: John Fortenberry | Stars: Chris Kattan, Will Ferrell, Raquel Gardner, Viveca Paulin

Votes: 64,295 | Gross: $30.32M

22. A Patch of Blue (1965)

Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Romance

73 Metascore

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford

Votes: 9,537

23. A Perfect Day (I) (2015)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, War

60 Metascore

A group of aid workers work to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone.

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Mélanie Thierry

Votes: 23,536

24. A Quiet Place (2018)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

82 Metascore

A family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.

Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe

Votes: 583,783 | Gross: $188.02M

25. A Simple Plan (1998)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

81 Metascore

Three blue-collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash and make a plan to keep their find from the authorities, but it isn't long before complications and mistrust weave their way into the plan.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe

Votes: 76,177 | Gross: $16.31M

26. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)

Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary, Music

70 Metascore

A man in search for the creation of utopia in the present. First, as a member of a commune on an Estonian island, then alone in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland and later as the singer of a neo-pagan, black metal band in Norway.

Directors: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell | Stars: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Nick McMaster, Weasel Walter

Votes: 608

27. A Star Is Born (1976)

R | 139 min | Drama, Music, Romance

59 Metascore

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark

Votes: 13,182 | Gross: $80.00M

28. Take It All (1963)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

A man struggles with his identity, his life choices, his interracial relationship, and his latent homosexuality. A portrait of some young intellectuals in early sixties Montreal.

Director: Claude Jutra | Stars: Claude Jutra, Johanne Harelle, Victor Désy, Tania Fédor

Votes: 383

29. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

PG | 129 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Encouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 8,410

30. A Very English Scandal (2018)

TV-14 | 56 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe is accused of conspiracy to murder his gay ex-lover and forced to stand trial in 1979.

Stars: Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Alex Jennings, Patricia Hodge

Votes: 16,251

31. Invisible Life (2019)

R | 139 min | Drama

81 Metascore

Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.

Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão, António Fonseca

Votes: 9,665

32. A Voz e o Vazio - A Vez de Vassourinha (1998)

16 min | Documentary, Short

Experimental documentary about the life and work of obscure samba musician Vassourinha (1923-1942), born in São Paulo, who only recorded six 78rpm records, dying at 19.

Director: Carlos Adriano

Votes: 24

33. A Wedding (1978)

PG | 125 min | Comedy, Drama

The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but the reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Carol Burnett, Desi Arnaz Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Howard Duff

Votes: 3,750

34. A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Andréa Ferréol, Frances Barber

Votes: 7,571

35. The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)

PG-13 | 188 min | Drama, History, War

During World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy | Stars: Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova

Votes: 4,774

36. Abolition (1988)

153 min | Documentary

A documentary, mostly in color, but with historical photography and pictures in black and white. It marks 100 years of abolition (Abolicao) of slavery in Brazil. It describes the many ... See full summary »

Director: Zózimo Bulbul | Stars: Camila Amado, Benedita da Silva, Abdias do Nascimento, Gilberto Freyre

Votes: 58

37. The Devious Path (1928)

107 min | Drama, Romance

Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife, drugs and flirtations included.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Gustav Diessl, Brigitte Helm, Hertha von Walther, Jack Trevor

Votes: 432

38. Act of Violence (1948)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

An embittered, vengeful POW stalks his former commanding officer who betrayed his men's planned escape attempt from a Nazi prison camp.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor

Votes: 5,715

39. Adua e le compagne (1960)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva

Votes: 1,408

40. Affliction (1997)

R | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

79 Metascore

A deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Brigid Tierney

Votes: 19,100 | Gross: $6.30M

41. Afterschool (2008)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Mystery

66 Metascore

An Internet-addicted prep-school student captures on video camera the drug overdose of two girls.

Director: Antonio Campos | Stars: Ezra Miller, Jeremy Allen White, Emory Cohen, Michael Stuhlbarg

Votes: 4,951 | Gross: $0.00M

42. Agatha and the Limitless Readings (1981)

90 min | Drama

A dialogue-driven drama about a woman and her brother who meet at a deserted seaside hotel to deal with their passionate incestuous feelings for each other and reminisce about their happy childhood.

Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Yann Andréa, Marguerite Duras

Votes: 322

43. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

R | 91 min | Documentary

81 Metascore

A documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government.

Director: Alison Klayman | Stars: Ai Weiwei, Dan Ai, Lao Ai, Lee Ambrozy

Votes: 4,527 | Gross: $0.53M

45. Air Force (1943)

Approved | 124 min | Action, Drama, History

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 3,816

46. Akenfield (1974)

98 min | Drama

As the young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.

Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Garrow Shand, Peggy Cole, Barbara Tilney, Lyn Brooks

Votes: 141

47. Karnak Café (1975)

143 min | Drama

In Egypt, a group of university students were arrested without comitting a crime because of their meetings at the cafe "Karnak", which was known for hosting some thinkers who sometimes criticize the 1952 revolution.

Director: Ali Badr Khan | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Suad Husni, Nour El-Sherif, Salah Zulfikar

Votes: 745

48. Alamar (2009)

G | 73 min | Documentary, Drama

77 Metascore

Before their inevitable farewell, Jorge, a young man of Mayan roots, and Natan, his half-Italian son, spend time together living off the Banco Chinchorro coral reef.

Director: Pedro González-Rubio | Stars: Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini, Nestór Marín

Votes: 2,712 | Gross: $0.06M

49. All or Nothing (2002)

R | 128 min | Drama

72 Metascore

In a poor working class London home, Penny's love for her partner, taxi driver Phil, has run dry. When an unexpected tragedy occurs, they and their local community are brought back together.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Alison Garland

Votes: 11,460 | Gross: $0.12M

50. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)

Passed | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon

Votes: 5,608

51. The Dupes (1972)

107 min | Drama

Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport... See full summary »

Director: Tewfik Saleh | Stars: Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abdul Rahman Al Rashi, Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala, Bassam Lotfi

Votes: 401

52. Alone in the Wilderness (2004 TV Movie)

57 min | Documentary

In 1968, one man films his attempt to build a cabin and live in the Alaskan wilderness. He goes weeks or months at a time without human contact.

Director: Dick Proenneke | Stars: Dick Proenneke, Bob Swerer Jr., Wendy Ishii, Pamela Guest

Votes: 4,019

53. Alone in the Wilderness Part II (2011 TV Movie)

57 min | Documentary

Dick Proenneke's simple, yet profound account of his 30 year adventure in the remote Alaska wilderness continues in this sequel to "Alone in the Wilderness". Watch through his eyes as he ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Swerer Jr. | Star: Dick Proenneke

Votes: 495

54. Amateur (1994)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

53 Metascore

An amnesiac wakes up on an NYC alley. He meets Isabelle, an ex nun now erotic writer, at a diner and follows her home. She helps him find his identity. Then there's Sofia, the porn star.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, Damian Young

Votes: 7,097 | Gross: $0.86M

55. American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984)

58 min | Documentary, Crime

Images of Hank Aaron memorabilia are displayed over the handwritten diaries of would be assassin Arthur Bremer, set to a soundtrack of alternating political news clips and popular songs from Aaron's career.

Director: James Benning

Votes: 130

56. American Reflexxx (2015)

14 min | Short, Reality-TV

A woman wearing a mirrored mask and stripper garb walks down the Myrtle Beach boardwalk where she is followed by an unruly mob that turns violent.

Director: Alli Coates | Star: Signe Pierce

Votes: 48

57. Amistad (1997)

R | 155 min | Biography, Drama, History

64 Metascore

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 82,817 | Gross: $44.18M

58. Report to Mother (1986)

115 min | Drama

The story revolves around the incidents following the death of a young Naxalite, upon whose death his friends travel to the village where his mother lives to inform her of the death of her only son.

Director: John Abraham | Stars: Kunhulakshmi Amma, Nilambur Balan, Harinarayan, Joy Mathew

Votes: 216

59. An Optical Poem (1938)

Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Short, Music

Mental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.

Director: Oskar Fischinger

Votes: 752

60. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012)

TV-MA | 84 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

74 Metascore

An artist's shortsighted film about a failed relationship is reedited into a more collaborative, more inclusive work of art.

Director: Terence Nance | Stars: Alisa Becher, Jc Cain, Reg E. Cathey, Dexter Jones

Votes: 813 | Gross: $0.07M

61. Anantaram (1987)

125 min | Drama

A young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.

Director: Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Stars: Mammootty, Ashokan, Shobana, Bahadur

Votes: 338

62. And Then There Were None (1945)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young

Votes: 16,647

63. And Then We Danced (2019)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance

68 Metascore

A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.

Director: Levan Akin | Stars: Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Javakishvili, Kakha Gogidze

Votes: 14,360

64. Ángel de fuego (1992)

95 min | Drama

In a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a group of puppeteers who make shows from passages of the Bible.

Director: Dana Rotberg | Stars: Evangelina Sosa, Lilia Aragón, Roberto Sosa, Noé Montealegre

Votes: 211

65. Angela (1995)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

Rebecca Miller's riveting drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.

Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Miranda Rhyne, Charlotte Eve Blythe, Anna Thomson, John Ventimiglia

Votes: 1,060

66. Angele (1934)

Not Rated | 145 min | Drama

A young and naive peasant girl in Provence, who has been seduced and abandoned, moves to Marseilles and becomes a street-walker after having her baby.

Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon, Jean Servais

Votes: 425

67. Angry Inuk (2016)

85 min | Documentary

An Inuk filmmaker takes a close look at the central role of seal hunting in the lives of the Inuit, the importance of the revenue they earn from sales of seal skins, and the negative impact... See full summary »

Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril | Stars: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Aaju Peter

Votes: 371

68. Ani to sono imôto (1939)

101 min | Drama

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister is a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.

Director: Yasujirô Shimazu | Stars: Shin Saburi, Kuniko Miyake, Michiko Kuwano, Ken Uehara

Votes: 84

69. Animal Farm (1954)

Approved | 72 min | Animation, Drama

A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong when the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.

Directors: Joy Batchelor, John Halas | Stars: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham

Votes: 19,007

70. Anne of the Indies (1951)

Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall

Votes: 1,493

71. Another Earth (2011)

PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

66 Metascore

On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.

Director: Mike Cahill | Stars: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, DJ Flava

Votes: 100,033 | Gross: $1.32M

72. Assassination (1964)

104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Shima Iwashita, Eiji Okada, Isao Kimura

Votes: 969

73. The Magician (1958)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama

86 Metascore

A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Naima Wifstrand

Votes: 10,956

74. Anti-Clock (1979)

96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

The Anti-Clock project takes Joseph Sapha though the shadows of his past to confront that mirror image of the self that condemns us all - a blind automaton whose words are simply the ... See full summary »

Directors: Jane Arden, Jack Bond | Stars: Sebastian Saville, Suzan Cameron, Tom Gerrard, Elizabeth Saville

Votes: 237

75. The White Silk Dress (2006)

142 min | Drama

Wartime epic involving a poverty-stricken family who struggle to make ends meet, and the mother who does the unthinkable to provide her daughters with the traditional silk dresses required to attend school.

Director: Luu Huynh | Stars: Thien Tu Tran, Truong Ngoc Anh, Khanh Quoc Nguyen, Quynh Nhu

Votes: 589

76. We'll Meet Again (1957)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.

Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Kenji Sugawara, Ryûji Shinagawa

Votes: 526

77. Apache Drums (1951)

Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker, Arthur Shields

Votes: 943

78. Aparelho Voador a Baixa Altitude (2002)

80 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned apartment complex to protect their mutant child from certain death.

Director: Solveig Nordlund | Stars: Margarida Marinho, Miguel Guilherme, Rui Morisson, Rita Só

Votes: 292

79. Apollo 11 (I) (2019)

G | 93 min | Documentary, History

88 Metascore

A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins.

Director: Todd Douglas Miller | Stars: Neil Armstrong, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Deke Slayton

Votes: 27,221 | Gross: $9.04M

80. Appointment in Honduras (1953)

Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller

A wealthy American couple are hostages on an arduous jungle journey.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Glenn Ford, Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott, Rodolfo Acosta

Votes: 687 | Gross: $1.15M

81. Aprili (1961)

45 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.

Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Tatyana Chanturia, Gia Chiraqadze, Akakiy Chikvaidze, V. Maisuradze

Votes: 506

82. Mr. Thank You (1936)

76 min | Comedy, Drama

A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Ken Uehara, Ryuji Ishiyama, Einosuke Naka, Michiko Kuwano

Votes: 1,274

83. Labour of Love (2014)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama

Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.

Director: Aditya Vikram Sengupta | Stars: Ritwick Chakraborty, Basabdatta Chatterjee

Votes: 1,276

84. Ashik Kerib (1988)

73 min | Drama

A talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.

Directors: Sergei Parajanov, Dodo Abashidze | Stars: Yuri Mgoyan, Sofiko Chiaureli, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Konstantin Stepankov

Votes: 2,249

85. Assault on the Pay Train (1962)

102 min | Crime, Drama

Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.

Director: Roberto Farias | Stars: Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria, Jorge Dória, Átila Iório

Votes: 854

86. At Sea (2007)

60 min | Documentary

This is a soundless story of the building of 'Toledo Spirit', the container ship, its sailing and eventual beaching. Insignificant men crawl on cranes and gantries to build it and other men, sans the equipment, scrape it after beaching.

Director: Peter B. Hutton

Votes: 342

87. At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World (2007)

4 min | Short, Drama

In an unspecified future, a man prepares to kill himself in a cinema toilet. Two unseen radio commentators say he is the last Jew in the world, and that this is the last cinema, slated for destruction. They are not sorry to see it go.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Gina Clayton, Jesse Collins, David Cronenberg

Votes: 132

88. At' zije Republika (1965)

134 min | Drama, War

It is the spring 1945 and the front line is getting closer to the small Moravian village of Nesovice. Twelve-year old Oldrich Vareka, nicknamed Shorty for his tiny stature, observes the ... See full summary »

Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Frank Argus, Josef Barta, P. Bohdanecky, Eduard Bredun

Votes: 307

89. Atomic Blonde (2017)

R | 115 min | Action, Thriller

63 Metascore

An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

Director: David Leitch | Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan

Votes: 206,575 | Gross: $51.69M

90. From the Life of the Marionettes (1980 TV Movie)

R | 104 min | Drama

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath, Rita Russek

Votes: 4,753

91. Avalon (2001)

R | 107 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

In a dystopian world, a woman spends her time playing an illegal and dangerous game, hoping to find meaning in her world.

Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Dariusz Biskupski

Votes: 13,700

92. The Song of Sparrows (2008)

PG | 96 min | Drama, Family

74 Metascore

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes ... See full summary »

Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Mohammad Amir Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hamid Aghazi

Votes: 11,111 | Gross: $0.12M

93. The Adventuress (1950)

101 min | Drama, Musical

Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to ... See full summary »

Director: Alberto Gout | Stars: Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Andrea Palma, Rubén Rojo

Votes: 640

94. When the Cat Comes (1963)

104 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

People arrive in a small village with a strange cat wearing glasses. When someone takes them off, he can color people, according to their nature and mood. Adults consider him dangerous; children love him.

Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Jan Werich, Emília Vásáryová, Vlastimil Brodský, Jirí Sovák

Votes: 2,068

95. Evening Rain (1980)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama

Two party members escort a poet and political prisoner of the Cultural Revolution on a ship to Wuhan. They sleep in a cabin with other victims of the era, who sympathize deeply with the poet.

Director: Yigong Wu | Stars: Bin Lin, Yu Zhang, Ming Qiang, Xinghuo Zhong

Votes: 133

97. Women of Ryazan (1927)

67 min | Drama

Orphan Anna lives with her aunt Aliona in the Russian district of Ryazan. One day, they meet Wassily and his son Ivan. In order to marry off his son, Wassily organizes a meeting with all ... See full summary »

Directors: Ivan Pravov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya | Stars: Kuzma Yastrebitsky, Olga Narbekova, Yelena Maksimova, Georgi Bobynin

Votes: 370

98. Babylon (1980)

95 min | Drama

80 Metascore

The movie centres around Brindsley Forde's character Blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in South West London (Brixton). The film captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.

Director: Franco Rosso | Stars: David N. Haynes, Trevor Laird, Victor Romero Evans, Brian Bovell

Votes: 1,951 | Gross: $0.11M

99. Graduation (2016)

R | 128 min | Crime, Drama

84 Metascore

A film about compromises and the implications of the parent's role.

Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Mãlina Manovici

Votes: 14,729 | Gross: $0.18M

100. Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into a modern and nihilistic life begins.

Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Syd Brisbane

Votes: 15,035



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