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1. Tár (2022)
R | 158 min | Drama, Music
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
Director: Todd Field | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer
Votes: 93,884
2. 10,000 BC (2008)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the prehistoric past, D'Leh is a mammoth hunter who bonds with the beautiful Evolet. When warriors on horseback capture Evolet and the tribesmen, D'Leh must embark on an odyssey to save his true love.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Marco Khan, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 135,514 | Gross: $94.78M
3. The Act of Killing (2012)
Not Rated | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.
Directors: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn | Stars: Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik
Votes: 40,819 | Gross: $0.49M
4. Daughters of the Dust (1991)
TV-PG | 113 min | Drama, History, Romance
A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.
Director: Julie Dash | Stars: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao, Trula Hoosier
Votes: 3,292 | Gross: $1.64M
5. Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
With an older brother in jail and living with their single mother on Pine Ridge Reservation, Johnny and his sister Jashuan's lives develop new challenges when their absentee cowboy father ... See full summary »
Director: Chloé Zhao | Stars: John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, Irene Bedard, Jessica Rowland
Votes: 3,842 | Gross: $0.03M
6. Nanook of the North (1922)
Passed | 78 min | Documentary
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou, Allegoo
Votes: 13,457
7. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
97 min | Drama, Romance
A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.
Director: Sergei Parajanov | Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili
Votes: 8,456
8. Leviathan (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
A documentary shot in the North Atlantic and focused on the commercial fishing industry.
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel | Stars: Brian Jannelle, Adrian Guillette, Arthur Smith, Asterias Vulgaris
Votes: 3,794 | Gross: $1.09M
9. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
TV-PG | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Bill Bambridge
Votes: 6,388
10. Games of Love and Chance (2003)
123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Krimo a 15 years old shy boy falls in love for Lídia who is his classmate.To be able to assume his love for her he decides to take a part in the play that was to be one of his friends.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benhamou
Votes: 3,251 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History
A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.
Directors: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch | Stars: Angelo, Nadine Ballot, Catherine, Céline
Votes: 3,584
12. Silent Light (2007)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama, Romance
In a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Peter Wall
Votes: 6,839 | Gross: $0.05M
13. Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel (2003)
PG | 93 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.
Directors: Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni | Stars: Janchiv Ayurzana, Chimed Ohin, Amgaabazar Gonson, Zeveljamz Nyam
Votes: 6,414 | Gross: $1.74M
14. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)
Passed | 71 min | Documentary
The struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Khan
Votes: 1,194
15. Sweetgrass (2009)
Unrated | 101 min | Documentary, Adventure, Western
In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme north-west of the United States. It was a journey ... See full summary »
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Votes: 1,106 | Gross: $0.21M
16. The Mad Masters (1955)
36 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
A documentary short depicting a Hauka ceremony where young workers are possessed by British colonial officers.
Director: Jean Rouch | Star: Jean Rouch
Votes: 1,773
17. Pilgrimage (2001)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary film accompanied only by music, it alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico.
Director: Werner Herzog
Votes: 334
18. Manakamana (2013)
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary
A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
Directors: Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez | Stars: Chabbi Lal Gandharba, Anish Gandharba, Bindu Gayek, Narayan Gayek
Votes: 779
19. Ala-Arriba! (1942)
94 min | Drama, Romance
In a village of poor fishermen in the North of Portugal, João Moço and Julha fall in love. Unfortunately they belong to two different fisher castes and the community as well as their respective families condemn their love...
Director: José Leitão de Barros | Stars: Ilidio Rocha Silvestre, Elsa Bea-Flor, João Moço, Nicolau
Votes: 107
20. A Tale of Two Hippies (2006 Video)
87 min | Documentary
Ibiza was first inhabited by the Phoenicians 3000 years ago, followed by Carthaginians, Romans, Moors, Catalans, artists and writers and in the 1960's by the Hippies who made Ibiza their spiritual home. But what has become of them?
Director: Stefan Archetti | Stars: Andrux, Maya Blain, Anna Gläse, Dieter Gläse
21. Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
A documentary on the relationship between curator Sam Wagstaff, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, and musician/poet Patti Smith.
Director: James Crump | Stars: Pierre Apraxine, Dick Cavett, Dominick Dunne, Raymond Foye
Votes: 296
22. Bom (2011)
Not Rated | 117 min | Documentary, History
Malana, a remote village in the Himalayas, isolated from outside civilization for thousands of years has been fostering a primitive existence in harmony with nature and a unique model of ... See full summary »
Director: Amlan Datta
Votes: 103
23. Mammy Water (1953)
19 min | Short, Documentary
After experience a bad catch, the inhabitants of a fishing village hold a ceremony to honour Mammy Water and restore their fortunes.
Director: Jean Rouch
Votes: 134
24. The Kingdom of the Nabateans, from Hegra to Medain Saleh (2004 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History
Who were the Nabateans, caravan traders who once ruled over the Arabic peninsula all the way to Syria before building the majestic city of Petra?
Directors: Bernard George, Nassera Zaïd | Stars: Egle Barone-Visigalli, Giuseppe Orefici
Votes: 20
25. 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy (2009)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
In one of the largest unknown mass-killings of the 20th century, an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 people were secretly and systematically killed in 1965 when General Suharto began a bloody... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lemelson | Stars: Budi, Nyoman Kereta, Lanny, Geoffrey Robinson
Votes: 50
26. Shamans of the Blind Country (1981)
221 min | Documentary
The life and healing practices of a tribe in the Himalayas in north-western Nepal.
Director: Michael Oppitz | Stars: Bal Bahadur, Beth Bahadur, Man Bahadur, Tul Bahadur
Votes: 42
27. The Boy in the Branch (1993 TV Movie)
27 min | Documentary
Set at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, India, this is a film about the indoctrination of young Hindu boys by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (the RSS), India's foremost Hindu fundamentalist... See full summary »
Director: Lalit Vachani
Votes: 6
28. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
40 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which documents the lives of women in a rural Senegal.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 465
29. Three Lives (1971)
70 min | Documentary, Biography
Photographed by an all-female crew and directed by the author of Sexual Politics, these are autobiographical interiews with three very different women who talk frankly about their lives, conflicts, and contrasting life styles.
Directors: Susan Kleckner, Kate Millett | Stars: Robin Mide, Mallory Millett, Lillian Shreve
Votes: 30
30. Pag-ukit sa paniniwala (2019)
90 min | Documentary
A sculpture believed to have been imported in town during Spanish colonial conquest, locally known as "Mahal na Señor Sepulcro" (Holy Sepulchre), is celebrating its 500 years. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »
Director: Hiyas Baldemor Bagabaldo
31. Zenerù (2021)
30 min | Documentary, Short
The poetic relationship, between the ancient ritual of Zenerù and the life of the hermit Flaminio, makes us reflect on the border between domestic and wild, between known and unknown.
Director: Andrea Grasselli | Star: Flaminio Beretta
Votes: 5
32. The Men in the Tree (2002)
98 min | Documentary
In October 1992, Lalit Vachani and the Wide Eye Film team were filming The Boy in the Branch. At the time, Kali, the central character of the film, was nine years old. He had joined the RSS... See full synopsis »
Director: Lalit Vachani
33. Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama
The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Russell | Stars: Monie Pansa, Benjen Pansa, Erwin Akobe, Veronique Akoeba
Votes: 85
34. Wailing in the Forest (2016)
105 min | Drama
An indigenous family, one of the last forest people of old, copes with the unusual changes in their environment including the imposing lifestyle and customs of the more sociable tribes on the plains.
Director: Bagane Fiola | Stars: Omeles Laglagan, Ailyn Laglagan, Vangelyn Panihao, Jhea Mae Laglagan
Votes: 19
35. A Man Called 'Bee': Studying the Yanomamo (1974)
40 min | Documentary, Short
This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. Napoleon Chagnon, ... See full summary »
Directors: Timothy Asch, Napoleon A. Chagnon | Star: Napoleon A. Chagnon
36. Vaudou (1973)
100 min | Documentary
It was from Dahomey (now Benin, Africa) that the cult of the deads was exported - through the slave trade - to Brazil, and Haiti. The film narrates the modern story of this ethnographical, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Magneron
Votes: 17
37. My Homeland Tales (2018)
83 min | Documentary
My Homeland Tales is a film about the resuscitated magic of the North where the human being stands a challenge: to believe in reality of things unreal and to preserve the islets of the old ... See full summary »
Director: Sofya Gorlenko
Votes: 12
38. Guest (II) (2010)
124 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Jose Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges is a wonderfully humane and sincere ... See full summary »
Director: José Luis Guerín | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Tanja Czichy, Charlotte Dupont, José Luis Guerín
Votes: 120
39. Gaucho: The Last Cowboys of Patagonia (2017 TV Movie)
37 min | Documentary
GAUCHO is an evocation of a dying way of life and a portrait of a true original, Heraldo Rial, an eighty-year-old cattle rancher who embodies the traditional ranching culture of his ... See full summary »
Directors: Josh Bullock, Tom Martienssen | Stars: Heraldo Rial, Rolando Arratia, Diego Arratia, Franco Arratia
Votes: 15
40. My Grandmother Is an Egg (2021)
9 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
My grandmother was a T'ung-yang-hsi. She has lived up to her fate. T'ung-yang-hsi is the traditional practice of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised ... See full summary »
Director: Wu-Ching Chang | Stars: Yu-Chin Chang, Yu-Hsia Chang, Yu-Jan Chang, Yu-Lin Chang
Votes: 11
41. Sigui synthèse, l'invention de la parole et de la mort (1981)
123 min | Documentary
About the Sigui Dogon festival, which lasts seven years and takes place only every sixty years. The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa. ... See full summary »
Directors: Germaine Dieterlen, Jean Rouch
Votes: 9
42. God Johogoi (2015)
60 min | Documentary
Every year the Sakha people celebrate the festival of summer - Ysekh. This ethnic holiday celebrates the Aiyy deities and the revival of nature; it embraces ritual prayers, plenty of rich ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Potapov
44. Return to the Lost Eden (2020)
54 min | Documentary, Biography, Family
50 years later, Adriano Zecca returns with his whole family to revisit the Mentawai people in Siberut Island, Indonesia: a journey of discovery, through time and memory, but also a precious ethnographic testimony of a fading world.
Director: Adriano Zecca | Stars: Eloy Zecca, Adriano Zecca, Magda Castel, Pio Framarin
Votes: 5
45. Festa, Trabalho e Pão em Grijó de Parada (1974)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Manuel Costa e Silva | Star: Manuel Costa e Silva
Votes: 5
46. Celso and Cora (1983)
109 min | Documentary
Australian feature length documentary about a poverty stricken family living in a squatter's dwelling in Manila, Phillipines. Doc is set during a three month period and tells the story of ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Kildea
Votes: 10
47. Afflictions: Culture & Mental Illness in Indonesia, Volume 1: Psychotic Disorders (2010)
78 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
"Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia" is a two part series of films on mental illness and neuropsychiatric disorder in Indonesia, based on material drawn from 12 years of ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lemelson
48. Kalte Heimat (1995)
157 min | Documentary, History
In this documentary 'Volker Koepp' shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the rivers Weichsel and Memel and proceeds the development of the state.
Director: Volker Koepp
Votes: 18
49. Treulababbu (Le ragioni dei bambini) (2013)
80 min | Fantasy
Two stories, two children.
First episode: "The Devil's Donkey"
10 years old Vincenzo Pani arrives in Sardegna with his parents. They are moving there because his father Marco got a job as ... See full synopsis »
Director: Simone Contu | Stars: Lia Careddu, Armando Contu, Massimo De Lorenzo, Cristiano Laconi
Votes: 11
50. My Survival as an Aboriginal (1979)
49 min | Documentary, History
The movie delves beneath surface appearances to reveal a strong resistance to assimilation and loss of identity, as the late Essie Coffey, a Murrawarri woman, takes us into the Aboriginal struggle for survival.
Director: Essie Coffey | Star: Essie Coffey
Votes: 16