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1. 1900 (1976)
Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Votes: 27,310
2. Ma mère (2004)
NC-17 | 110 min | Drama, Romance
When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes, Joana Preiss
Votes: 7,620 | Gross: $0.07M
3. Cosmopolis (2012)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 50,123 | Gross: $0.74M
4. The Captain (2017)
118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
Director: Robert Schwentke | Stars: Max Hubacher, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Rudolph, Max Thommes
Votes: 21,643 | Gross: $0.11M
5. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, Mystery
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
Directors: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | Stars: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi
Votes: 16,013 | Gross: $0.03M
6. Until the End of the World (1991)
R | 158 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 1999, Claire Tourneur's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and travels the world with him. Writer Eugene Fitzpatrick follows and writes their story as a method of recording dreams is being developed.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin
Votes: 11,360 | Gross: $0.75M
7. Boredom (1998)
122 min | Romance, Drama
Martin is a philosophy teacher in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Lacking direction or purpose in his life, he initiates an affair with Cécilia, a young artist's model who might have killed her former lover.
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Charles Berling, Sophie Guillemin, Arielle Dombasle, Robert Kramer
Votes: 2,287 | Gross: $0.04M
8. Wanda (1970)
GP | 102 min | Crime, Drama
Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.
Director: Barbara Loden | Stars: Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes
Votes: 5,724 | Gross: $0.05M
9. The Blue Room (2014)
R | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?
Director: Mathieu Amalric | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Stéphanie Cléau, Laurent Poitrenaux
Votes: 3,698 | Gross: $0.23M
10. Fidelity (2000)
166 min | Drama
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Magali Noël
Votes: 2,031
11. Dans Paris (2006)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul (Romain Duris) sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his ... See full summary »
Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Romain Duris, Louis Garrel, Alice Butaud, Guy Marchand
Votes: 4,251 | Gross: $0.06M
12. Love Songs (2007)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Ismael and Julie enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love.
Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Chiara Mastroianni
Votes: 10,167 | Gross: $0.10M
13. The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Martin Frost writes a story featuring a mysterious woman, Claire Martin, who appears in his life; their fates intertwine with the tale he writes, blurring reality and fiction in an intriguing mystery exploring the artistic process.
Director: Paul Auster | Stars: David Thewlis, Irène Jacob, Michael Imperioli, Sophie Auster
Votes: 728 | Gross: $0.01M
14. Klimt (2006)
Not Rated | 131 min | Biography, Drama
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres, Stephen Dillane, Saffron Burrows
Votes: 3,262
15. I Am Dina (2002)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Dina grows up in a village at a fjord in 1860s north Norway. As child, she accidentally kills her mom and loses her rich dad's love. She grows up to be a clever, pretty, wild, and strange woman. She marries a rich Frenchman.
Directors: Ole Bornedal, Tony Spataro | Stars: Maria Bonnevie, Gérard Depardieu, Christopher Eccleston, Bjørn Floberg
Votes: 5,727
16. Lisbon Story (1994)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Music
The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent b&w movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend, the sound engineer Phillip Winter, for help. As Winter arrives Lisbon weeks ... See full summary »
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Vasco Sequeira, Canto e Castro
Votes: 5,435
17. Cosmos (2015)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young man, hoping to write a novel, visits a French guest-house with a friend, he but finds himself distracted by a strange mystery and the stranger inhabitants of the home.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Jean-François Balmer, Jonathan Genet, Johan Libéreau
Votes: 2,196 | Gross: $0.02M
18. The Captive (2000)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovère
Votes: 1,961
19. The State of Things (1982)
121 min | Drama
The crew is running out of money to finish their film.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Allen Garfield, Samuel Fuller, Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly
Votes: 3,620 | Gross: $6.00M
20. The Domain (2019)
166 min | Drama
The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus.
Director: Tiago Guedes | Stars: Albano Jerónimo, Sandra Faleiro, Ana Vilela da Costa, Miguel Borges
Votes: 1,504
21. Our Paradise (2011)
Unrated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Dark, dangerous and supremely sexy, Our Paradise casts a thrilling glance at the lives of two rentboys in the heart of Paris.
Director: Gaël Morel | Stars: Stéphane Rideau, Dimitri Durdaine, Béatrice Dalle, Didier Flamand
Votes: 1,511
22. Never Ever (2016)
86 min | Drama
A girl who is a body artist falls in love with a director, who later dies in a traffic accident. This film expresses the feeling of love and loss.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Julia Roy, Jeanne Balibar, Victoria Guerra
Votes: 292
23. At an Uncertain Time (2015)
75 min | Drama
Two French refugees are arrested during the Portuguese fascist regime, a police inspector decides to hide them at his home, while his wife consumed by jealousy, tries to make them disappear at all costs.
Director: Carlos Saboga | Stars: Joana Ribeiro, Paulo Pires, Judith Davis, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Votes: 152
24. The Black Book (2018)
113 min | Drama, History, Romance
A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th century.
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Stanislas Merhar, Niels Schneider, Jenna Thiam
Votes: 263
25. The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016)
97 min | Drama
A beautiful summer day. A garden. A terrace. A woman and a man sit at a table beneath the trees, with a soft summer wind. In the distance, in the vast plain, the silhouette of Paris. A ... See full summary »
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Reda Kateb, Sophie Semin, Jens Harzer, Peter Handke
Votes: 682
26. Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)
169 min | Drama, Romance, War
A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich
Votes: 2,833 | Gross: $0.46M
27. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Not Rated | 317 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
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: 3,610 | Gross: $0.11M
28. Abraham's Valley (1993)
187 min | Drama
Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho
Votes: 1,545
29. El mar (2000)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama, War
Two young men and a woman who shared the same traumatic childhood experience during the Spanish Civil War are reunited years later at a hospital for tuberculosis treatment.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Roger Casamajor, Bruno Bergonzini, Antònia Torrens, Hernán González
Votes: 1,571
30. Deux (2002)
121 min | Drama
A young woman named Magdalena retrieves a postcard that had been cast into the wind by her biological mother (Bulle Ogier) from a seaside town in Portugal and discovers that she has a twin sister named Maria.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Bulle Ogier, Manuel Blanc, Arielle Dombasle
Votes: 313
31. Lines of Wellington (2012)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, History, War
On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, ... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes, John Malkovich
Votes: 1,571
32. The Worst Man in London (2024)
127 min | Crime, Drama
Charles Augustus Howell was John Ruskin's secretary, agent and model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and exhumer of Lizzie Siddal. But he is also said to have been a master blackmailer and a forger of works of art.
Director: Rodrigo Areias | Stars: Albano Jerónimo, Edward Ashley, Victoria Guerra, João Pedro Vaz
Votes: 58
33. Wild (2018)
92 min | Drama, Romance
Nora is released from prison and has only one goal in mind: to find a young neo-punk artist named Léa. Mirror of each other, these two soulmates will get to know each other and rebuild their lives together.
Director: Dennis Berry | Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Catarina Wallenstein, João Nunes Monteiro, Hugo Fernandes
Votes: 59
34. In the White City (1983)
108 min | Drama
A Swiss sailor abandons his post during a stopover in Lisbon and takes up residence in a small hotel in the city.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Teresa Madruga, Julia Vonderlinn, José Carvalho
Votes: 1,415
35. According to Pereira (1995)
104 min | Drama
Portugal 1938. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of the Lisboa, an unaffiliated evening paper. There is civil war in Spain and the fascists are in power in Portugal, but he ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Joaquim de Almeida, Daniel Auteuil, Stefano Dionisi
Votes: 1,472
36. Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
Not Rated | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon
Votes: 1,158
37. Manuel on the Island of Wonders (1984)
130 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Manuel's fantasy travel through Time goes from Long Ago (Episode 1 - O jardim proibido / Le Jardin interdit) through Now (Episode 2 - O pique-nique dos sonhos / Le Pique-nique des rêves), ... See full summary »
Stars: Ruben de Freitas, Teresa Madruga, Fernando Heitor, Marco Paulo de Freitas
Votes: 259
38. Ossos (1997)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A suicidal young woman gives her newborn child up to his deadbeat father in the Fontainhas slums of Lisbon.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz, Mariya Lipkina, Isabel Ruth
Votes: 1,739
39. Remains of the Wind (2022)
127 min | Drama
A pagan tradition from the interior of Portugal leaves painful marks on a group of teenagers. Twenty-five years later, when they reunite, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.
Director: Tiago Guedes | Stars: Albano Jerónimo, Nuno Lopes, Isabel Abreu, João Pedro Vaz
Votes: 436
40. The House (1997)
120 min | Drama
A ramshackle mansion in the woods: individuals of all type, age and condition eat, roam or rest inside. But always in strict silence.
Director: Sharunas Bartas | Stars: Francisco Nascimento, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Alex Descas, Leos Carax
Votes: 631
41. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
266 min | Drama
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme
Votes: 186
42. Bazar (2009)
103 min | Drama
Gabrielle, a pleasant woman in her sixties, learns that she is about to be evicted from her second-hand shop, and that she is about to become a grandmother. Her friends advise her to take ... See full summary »
Director: Patricia Plattner | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Lou Doillon, Pio Marmaï, Sacha Bourdo
Votes: 61
43. The Last Day (2004)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A young artist's return home is offset by his unrequited love for a childhood male friend.
Director: Rodolphe Marconi | Stars: Nicole Garcia, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Laurent, Bruno Todeschini
Votes: 1,151
44. The Rose King (1986)
106 min | Drama, Musical
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Magdalena Montezuma, Mostefa Djadjam, Antonio Orlando, Karina Fallenstein
Votes: 289
45. Diálogos Depois do Fim (2023)
100 min | Drama
Dialogues with Leuco are short dialogues between divine or heroic figures from Greek-Roman mythology. Each dialogue deals with destiny, life and death, sacrifice, suffering, memory and desire, time and place.
Director: Tiago Guedes | Stars: João Pedro Mamede, Maria do Céu Ribeiro, Isabel Abreu, Beatriz Maia
Votes: 20
46. Silvestre (1981)
120 min | Drama
The daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga, Luís Miguel Cintra, Jorge Silva Melo
Votes: 353
47. Le loup de la côte Ouest (2002)
132 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A detective thriller about a private eye, who was hired by one of the gangsters.
Director: Hugo Santiago | Stars: James Faulkner, Anna Mouglalis, Gérard Watkins, Valérie Dréville
Votes: 79
48. 'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas
Votes: 983
49. Nuit de chien (2008)
110 min | Drama
A group of people try to flee from a dictatorship government.
Director: Werner Schroeter | Stars: Pascal Greggory, Bruno Todeschini, Éric Caravaca, Amira Casar
Votes: 347
50. Mad Love (2015)
107 min | Drama, Romance
1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed it, the head of the dead man tells his story: everything was going so well. Admired priest... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Ramos | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Blanc, Diane Rouxel, Lise Lamétrie
Votes: 244