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1. Une infinie tendresse (1970)
92 min
A lonely, crippled youth meets a stranger and discovers the boundaries of his world expanded in close friendship.
Director: Pierre Jallaud | Stars: José Guerra, Jeanne Lennox, France-Noëlle, John Ainsworth
2. Baraka (1992)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
Writers: Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson, Genevieve Nicholas, Constantine Nicholas, Bob Green | Director: Ron Fricke
3. Samsara (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 102 min | Documentary, Music
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
Writers: Ron Fricke, Mark Magidson | Director: Ron Fricke | Stars: Balinese Tari Legong Dancers, Ni Made Megahadi Pratiwi, Puti Sri Candra Dewi, Putu Dinda Pratika
4. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Writer: Dziga Vertov | Director: Dziga Vertov | Star: Mikhail Kaufman
5. The Naked Island (1960)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
Writer: Kaneto Shindô | Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto
6. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
62 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Writer: Don Hertzfeldt | Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Sara Cushman, Don Hertzfeldt
7. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Unrated | 86 min | Documentary, Music
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them.
Writers: Ron Fricke, Michael Hoenig, Godfrey Reggio, Alton Walpole | Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Lou Dobbs, Ted Koppel
8. Un homme qui dort (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.
Writer: Georges Perec | Director: Bernard Queysanne | Stars: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël
9. Rosas danst rosas (1997)
57 min | Documentary, Musical
Writers: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Thierry De Mey | Director: Thierry De Mey | Stars: Cynthia Loemy, Sarah Ludi, Anne Mousselet, Samantha Van wissen
10. Le Bal (1983)
109 min | History, Musical
The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (... See full summary »
Writers: Jean-Claude Penchenat, Ruggero Maccari, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola | Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier
11. Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003)
Not Rated | 68 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A continuation of the story told in the Daft Punk music videos "One More Time," "Aerodynamic," "Digital Love," and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."
Writers: Thomas Bangalter, Cédric Hervet, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo | Director: Kazuhisa Takenouchi | Stars: Romanthony, Thomas Bangalter
12. Voci nel tempo (1996)
86 min | Drama
Semi-documentary without comment portraying Castellarano, a small town in Northern Italy.
Director: Franco Piavoli | Stars: Patrizio Girardi, Emanuela Cobelli, Laura Carnevali, Alberto Crosato
13. Crosswind - La croisée des vents (2014)
90 min | Drama, History
"Risttuules" is very emotional and tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on memories of Erna. It all started 14th of June 1941 when trucks came for the innocent families with... See full summary »
Writers: Martti Helde, Liis Nimik | Director: Martti Helde | Stars: Laura Peterson, Tarmo Song, Mirt Preegel, Ingrid Isotamm
14. Que Viva Mexico (1979)
Unrated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, Western
Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
Writers: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein | Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Grigori Aleksandrov
15. Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
85 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk ... See full summary »
Writer: Jan Svankmajer | Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová, Anna Wetlinská
16. From the East (1993)
107 min | Documentary
A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Writer: Chantal Akerman | Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Natalia Chakhovskaia
17. Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
PG | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
Writers: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak, Nick Park | Directors: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak | Stars: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid Djalili, Richard Webber
18. Quest for Fire (1981)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, History
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three prehistoric tribesmen search for a new fire source.
Writers: Gérard Brach, J.H. Rosny Sr. | Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong
19. Powaqqatsi (1988)
G | 99 min | Documentary, Music
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
Writers: Godfrey Reggio, Ken Richards | Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Christie Brinkley, David Brinkley, Pope John Paul II, Dan Rather
20. Decasia (2002)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
Writer: Bill Morrison | Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Margaret Cullington, William S. Hart
21. Age Is... (2012)
75 min | Documentary
Exploring the texture, the beauty and the singularity of aging faces and silhouettes, Age Is meditates through tiny details, a gesture, a pause, a look, on the subjective experience and cultural concepts of ageing.
Director: Stephen Dwoskin | Star: Stephen Dwoskin
22. Themroc (1973)
-16 | 100 min | Comedy
Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, this is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.
Director: Claude Faraldo | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Marilù Tolo, Francesca Romana Coluzzi
23. Few of Us (1996)
105 min | Drama
Silent Lithuanian film about a woman visiting a Fayre.
Writer: Sarunas Bartas | Director: Sarunas Bartas | Stars: Yekaterina Golubeva, Piotr Kishteev, Sergei Tulayev
24. Cheatin' (2013)
76 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into ... See full summary »
Writer: Bill Plympton | Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Sophia Takal, Jeremy Baumann, Alex Markowitz, Sita Steele
25. Hic (2002)
Unrated | 78 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old... See full summary »
Writer: György Pálfi | Director: György Pálfi | Stars: Ferenc Bandi, Józsefné Rácz, József Farkas, Ferenc Nagy
26. Mammame (1986)
65 min | Music
Writers: Jean-Claude Gallotta, Raoul Ruiz | Director: Raoul Ruiz | Stars: Eric Alfieri, Mathilde Altaraz, Muriel Boulay, Christophe Delachaux
27. Electroma (2006)
74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Follows the history of two robots, the members of Daft Punk, on their quest to become human.
Writers: Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, Cédric Hervet, Paul Hahn | Directors: Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo | Stars: Peter Hurteau, Michael Reich, Helena Stoddard, Vance Hartwell
28. Idiots and Angels (2008)
78 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out as his local bar, berating the other patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back. The ... See full summary »
Writer: Bill Plympton | Director: Bill Plympton
29. The Illusionist (1983)
U | 90 min | Comedy
Writers: Jos Stelling, Freek de Jonge | Director: Jos Stelling | Stars: Freek de Jonge, Jim van der Woude, Catrien Wolthuizen, Gerard Thoolen
31. Lyrisch nitraat (1991)
50 min | Documentary
This film is a compilation of scenes from silent films made between 1905 and 1915 that sat in storage in an Amsterdam cinema for many years. The title refers to the deteriorating nitrate ... See full summary »
Writer: Peter Delpeut | Director: Peter Delpeut | Stars: Lyda Borelli, Henny Porten, Anni Timm
32. On a volé une bombe (1961)
74 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery... See full summary »
Writer: Ion Popescu-Gopo | Director: Ion Popescu-Gopo | Stars: Eugenia Balaure, Haralambie Boros, Emil Botta, Horia Caciulescu
34. Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle) (1983)
R | 92 min | Sci-Fi
In the post-apocalyptic future, only a few humans are left. No one is able to speak; the film contains no dialogue, and characters communicate non-verbally. A determined loner befriends a ... See full summary »
Writers: Luc Besson, Pierre Jolivet | Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Jean Reno, Fritz Wepper
35. Le voyage en occident (2014)
56 min
Tsai Ming-liang returns with this latest entry in his Walker series, in which his monk acquires an unexpected acolyte in the form of Denis Lavant as he makes his way through the streets of a sun-dappled Marseille.
Writers: Ch'eng-En Wu, Ming-liang Tsai | Director: Ming-liang Tsai | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Denis Lavant
36. Dementia (1955)
61 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery
This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences through one skid-row night.
Director: John Parker | Stars: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman, Richard Barron
37. Solos (2007)
77 min | Drama
Inspired by true events, SOLOS explores relationships among three individuals who are struggling to open up their feelings towards each other. Filmmakers Kan Lume and Loo Zihan co-directed ... See full summary »
Writer: Zihan Loo | Directors: Zihan Loo, Kan Lume | Stars: Peishan Chiew, Guat Kian Goh, Yu Beng Lim, Zihan Loo
38. Spark of Being (2010)
68 min | Music
A re-imagining of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', using images culled from archives around the world.
Writer: Mary Shelley | Director: Bill Morrison
39. Orinoko, New World (1984)
103 min | Drama
Writers: Luis Ángel Duque, Diego Rísquez | Director: Diego Rísquez | Stars: Kosinegue, Rolando Peña, Hugo Márquez, Carlos Castillo
40. The Garden (1990)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald, Pete Lee-Wilson
41. The Thief (1952)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist selling top secret material to the Russians to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
Writers: Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse | Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Harry Bronson, Rita Vale
42. La région centrale (1971)
Not Rated | 180 min | Documentary
One of the best and most influential in avant-garde cinema, an experiment from Michael Snow for 24 hours, using the robotic arm Michael Snow program all robotic movements so as not to be ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Snow
44. Naqoyqatsi (2002)
PG | 89 min | Documentary, Music
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
Writer: Godfrey Reggio | Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Marlon Brando, Elton John, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Madonna
45. Ma (I) (2015)
80 min | Drama
MA is a striking modern-day vision of Mother Mary's pilgrimage through the eyes of Ma (played by Celia Rowlson-Hall), a woman who must venture across the scorched landscape of the American Southwest to fulfill her destiny.
Writer: Celia Rowlson-Hall | Director: Celia Rowlson-Hall | Stars: Kentucker Audley, Matt Lauria, Andrew Pastides, Michelle Perks
47. Derevyannaya komnata (1995)
65 min | Drama
Writers: Vladimir Maslov, Yevgeny Yufit | Directors: Vladimir Maslov, Yevgeny Yufit | Stars: Tatyana Verkhovskaya, Vladimir Maslov, Igor Bezrukov, Sergei Tsvetkov
48. Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003)
74 min | Documentary
Five sequences : 1) A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves 2) People walking on the seashore. The oldest ones stop by, look at the sea, then go away 3) Blurry ... See full summary »
Writer: Abbas Kiarostami | Director: Abbas Kiarostami
49. Moebius (2013)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama
A father driven into desire, a son coveting that of his father's, and the sorrowful maternity that hovers them into tragedy.
Writer: Ki-duk Kim | Director: Ki-duk Kim | Stars: Jae-hyeon Jo, Young-ju Seo, Eun-woo Lee, Kim Jae-Hong
50. Invitation to the Dance (1956)
93 min | Animation, Fantasy, Musical
This is a movie where three entirely different stories are told though dancing. Words are not used and the style of dancing is different for each part. Kelly is a clown in the 'Circus'; a ... See full summary »
Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Igor Youskevitch, Claire Sombert, Tamara Toumanova