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1. Gerry (2002)
R | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A friendship between two young men is tested when they go for a hike in a desert and forget to bring any water or food with them.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Casey Affleck, Matt Damon
Votes: 19,715 | Gross: $0.24M
2. The Banishment (2007)
150 min | Drama, Romance
A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Konstantin Lavronenko, Maria Bonnevie, Aleksandr Baluev, Dmitriy Ulyanov
Votes: 9,009
3. Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Humanlike robots replace humans on space missions. Test flight with robots and human crew, including commander Pirx unaware of robots' identities, evaluates robot performance/interactions. UN organizes mission to assess robot capabilities.
Director: Marek Piestrak | Stars: Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 1,036
4. Japan (2002)
R | 122 min | Drama
A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano
Votes: 3,997
5. War Photographer (2001)
96 min | Documentary, War
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.
Director: Christian Frei | Stars: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare, Christiane Breustedt
Votes: 4,304
6. Film socialisme (2010)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
The passengers on a Mediterranean cruise enjoy their luxuries as a small family struggles with overbearing media attention.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Marc Stehlé, Agatha Couture, Mathias Domahidy, Quentin Grosset
Votes: 2,923 | Gross: $0.03M
7. Bes Vakit (2006)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama
The pain of growing up, as seen by three Turkish youths: Ömer, the son of the local imam, who wishes the death of his father; his best friend, Yakup, who's enamored with the village ... See full summary »
Director: Reha Erdem | Stars: Ozen Ozkan, Ali Bey Kayali, Elit Iscan, Bülent Emin Yarar
Votes: 4,404 | Gross: $0.01M
8. Félicité (2017)
Not Rated | 129 min | Drama, Music
Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
Director: Alain Gomis | Stars: Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka, Nadine Ndebo
Votes: 1,152 | Gross: $0.01M
9. In Praise of Love (2001)
PG | 97 min | Drama
An author works on a project on the subject of love, and, in the process, crosses paths with a former love in his life.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny
Votes: 3,021 | Gross: $0.25M
10. 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
11. Umoregi (2005)
93 min | Drama
Machi, a young high school student from a small mountain town, is having fun with her friends inventing the outline of a fantasy tale. They all add an episode to this exquisite invention ... See full summary »
Director: Kôhei Oguri | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Mai Enoki, Tokie Hidari, Mitsuru Hirata
Votes: 380
12. Rachel River (1987)
PG-13 | 85 min | Drama
Comedy drama about a young journalist (Pamela Reed) who, upon returning to her Minnesota home town, begins to examine her life.
Director: Sandy Smolan | Stars: Pamela Reed, Viveca Lindfors, Zeljko Ivanek, James Olson
Votes: 85
13. Twenty Two (I) (2015)
112 min | Documentary, Crime, History
An estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced into prostitution by the Japanese army during WWII. Only 22 of them remain today to speak out publicly. This documentary is not a film for ... See full summary »
Director: Ke Guo
Votes: 592 | Gross: $0.05M
14. Yazidi (2019)
20 min | Short, Drama
Saman has arrived in Greece as a war refugee. He is one of the last members of the Yazidi tribe of North Iraq that has suffered a genocide. In Athens he is struggling to survive by doing ... See full summary »
Director: Hektor Sakaloglou | Stars: Antonello Kolani, John Konini, Giannis Kostaras, Stelios Lamprogiotas
Votes: 46
15. Maestro (2015)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary, Adventure, Music
Maestro follows Grammy award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi and an array of brilliant musicians as they perform to sold-out music halls across the world.
Director: David Donnelly | Stars: Arvo Pärt, Láng Lang, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn
Votes: 51
16. BBC Proms (2010–2018)
Music
The Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London. The Proms ... See full summary »
Stars: Katie Derham, Suzy Klein, Charles Hazlewood, Zeb Soanes
Votes: 40
17. A Kind of Hush (1999)
96 min | Drama
Six teens who were traumatized by child abuse early in their lives come together to form a gang that ultimately plots revenge against the ones who committed the crimes against them. The ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Stirner | Stars: Harley Smith, Marcella Plunkett, Ben Roberts, Paul Williams
Votes: 203
18. The Illinois Parables (2016)
60 min | Documentary, History
An experimental documentary comprised of regional vignettes about faith, force, technology and exodus. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, ... See full summary »
Director: Deborah Stratman | Stars: Raven Wolf C. Felton Jennings II, Joshua Frieman, Anna Toborg, Jose Oubrerie
Votes: 90
19. Värvilised unenäod (1975)
60 min | Family
Poetic view on the play and fantasy worlds of little Kati.
Directors: Virve Aruoja, Jaan Tooming | Stars: Katrin Zilinska, Meelis Küttim, Laur Pihel, Raine Loo
Votes: 48
20. Sacred Music (2008– )
60 min | Documentary
Documentary series in which actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music.
Stars: Simon Russell Beale, Harry Christophers, The Sixteen, Eamonn Dougan
Votes: 27
21. Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1975)
151 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
The year is 1921. Lenin and the Bolsheviks have just defeated the White Army and ended the Russian Civil War. However, the valuable diamonds that belonged to the ousted royal family are ... See full summary »
Director: Grigori Kromanov | Stars: Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Margarita Terekhova
Votes: 122
22. Gandad (2023)
8 min | Short, Drama
A dying patriarch battles with the decision to either end his life or endure his pain for the fleeting visits from his loving granddaughter
Director: Daniel Booroff | Stars: Jessica Flood, John Locke, Amber Mason, Katherine Vernez-Gray
23. Finding Light
60 min | Documentary, Drama, History | Completed
Illuminated through the story of Holocaust survivor, Naomi Warren, FINDING LIGHT takes the audience on a journey that is simultaneously situated in the past while making relevant ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Michael Bloodgood | Stars: Naomi Warren, Stephen Mills, Elie Wiesel, Aara Krumpe
24. Másnap (2004)
120 min | Crime, Drama
The details of a young girl's brutal murder are told through manipulated chronology and fragmented storylines.
Director: Attila Janisch | Stars: Tibor Gáspár, Borbála Derzsi, Sándor Czeczô, Dénes Ujlaky
Votes: 345
25. Ukuaru (1973)
85 min | Drama
Writer Veera Saar' s book Ukuaru based movie. Estonian womans drams in their life.
Director: Leida Laius | Stars: Elle Kull, Lembit Ulfsak, Velda Otsus, Jüri Järvet
Votes: 115
26. American Gambit (1989)
Documentary
American Gambit chronicles Chess Grandmaster Gary Kasparov's simultaneous challenge to six strongest American Junior Masters.
Director: Ted Haimes | Star: Garry Kasparov
Votes: 7
27. The Giant Buddhas (2005)
95 min | Documentary
A filmmaker's investigation into the destruction of giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
Director: Christian Frei | Stars: Taysir Alony, Sayeed Mirza Hussain, Peter Mettler, Nelofer Pazira
Votes: 290
28. 8x45 - Austria Mystery (2006– )
45 min | Mystery
Stars: Marion Mitterhammer, Andreas Lust, Christoph Grissemann, Peter Strauß
Votes: 21
29. Õhtust hommikuni (1962)
37 min | Drama, Short, War
Director: Leida Laius | Stars: Viiu Härm, Kirill Lavrov, Ülle Ulla, Aksel Orav
Votes: 27
30. Aquí se construye (o Ya no existe el lugar donde nací) (2000)
77 min | Documentary
Ignacio Agüero follows the demolition and development in a neighborhood in the Chilean capital Santiago. Agüero contrasts the destruction and the tearing down of walls by monstrous grabs with a calm camera that glides along the houses.
Director: Ignacio Agüero
Votes: 65
31. Après la réconciliation (2000)
74 min | Drama
Two women and two men meet. They talk: about language, about happiness, about love. Can passion be reconciled with wisdom, desire with fear, with exhaustion?
Director: Anne-Marie Miéville | Stars: Claude Perron, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jacques Spiesser, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 129
32. Sounds and Silence (2009)
88 min | Documentary
Directors: Peter Guyer, Norbert Wiedmer | Stars: Manfred Eicher, Arvo Pärt, Anouar Brahem, Eleni Karaindrou
Votes: 100
33. I don't know who we are (2019)
Short, Drama, Romance
A story of sudden encounters, for one day, Masha, one middle- aged woman,and Danis, one middle-aged man. Two people who once loved, after nine years of painfull disagreement, they accidentally encounter and evoke memories.
Director: Boris Homovec | Stars: Ljiljana Bogojevic, Robert Budak, Mislav Cavajda, Luka Dragic
34. Adam's Passion (2015)
94 min | Music
A disused submarine factory became the venue for the world premiere of the performance Adam's Passion, a stage version of music by 2023 Polar Prize winner Arvo Pärt. The performance was ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Sommer | Stars: Michalis Theophanous, Lucinda Childs, Endro Roosimäe, Erki Laur
Votes: 13
35. Amarar (2008)
23 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Noemi is a young woman lost in daydreams, where past, present and fantasies blend.
Director: Emanuel Mendes | Stars: Marcelo Braga, Helena Ignez, Bruna da Mata Rodrigues, Djin Sganzerla
Votes: 6
36. Si Sullivan m'était contée (2007)
85 min | Documentary
-Françoise Sullivan, signatory of the manifesto Refus global, in 1948, is a painter, sculptor, choreographer and dancer. She is one of the outstanding figures of the art and automatism movement in Quebec (Canada).
Directors: Lauraine André G., Martin Charron | Stars: Françoise Sullivan, Kenneth E. Carpenter, Gilles Daigneault, Louise Dery
37. Spiegel im Spiegel (2020)
5 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
People who open a fire arrive in the woods. Suddenly a man arrives, carrying a large mirror with him, approaches people and they get to know each other. The seven people in the woods will ... See full summary »
Director: Aran Cosentino | Stars: Tamara Benati, Gloria Corradi, Beppo Domenis, Pio Domenis
38. Arvo Pärt 24 prelüüdi ühele fuugale (2002)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Dorian Supin | Star: Arvo Pärt
Votes: 129
39. The Endless - Parts I & II (2024)
191 min | Documentary | Completed
A compendium of testimonies from the relatives of victims of disappearance, researchers and pit trackers in Mexico. Crisscrossing north and south, the lens is grounded at all times to the protagonists restless spirits.
Director: Óscar Enríquez
40. Nike (1994–1999)
58 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show
An hour of cultural pieces, artists, performers, exhibitions, offbeat and current culture events.
Stars: Christian Stannow, Göran Willis, Ann Victorin, Niclas Lundkvist
41. The Paper Bridge (1987)
95 min | Documentary
Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the European Jewish communities which inspired her childhood stories.
Director: Ruth Beckermann | Stars: Betty Beckermann, Salo Beckermann, Herbert Gropper, Robert Schindel
Votes: 78
42. On Target (2019)
13 min | Short, Drama
An Air Force veteran recalls an incident from 1999 NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia.
Director: Branislav R. Tatalovic | Stars: Rick Montgomery Jr., Cecilia Tolbert, JoAnn Hess, Kira L. Wilson
43. Mäeküla piimamees (1965)
88 min | Drama
A baron gives a poor peasant a well-paid job of a milkman but for reward he has to accept his beloved girl going to mansion time to time. Does the wealth outweigh the honor and conscience?
Director: Leida Laius | Stars: Jüri Järvet, Elle Eha, Ants Lauter, Jüri Järvet Jr.
Votes: 120
44. The Lost Paradise: Arvo Pärt, Robert Wilson (2015 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and ... See full summary »
Director: Günter Atteln | Stars: Sofiya Gubaydulina, Paul Hillier, Tõnu Kaljuste, Madis Kolk
Votes: 19
45. Cannot Be Trapped! (2015)
101 min
A 2015 Turkish language drama film directed by Ziya Demirel and Süheyla Schwenk. The film screened at Istanbul International Independent Film Festival in 2016.
Directors: Ziya Demirel, Mehmet Emrah Erkani, Serkan Ertekin, Ali Farkhonde, Süheyla Schwenk, Leyla Toprak | Stars: Sîlan A., Gizem Aksu, Melis Balaban, Tülin Baris
Votes: 24
47. Tutto e Niente (2021)
2 min | Short
A dada experimental short film.
Director: Aran Cosentino | Stars: Monica Piano, Ivana Vidoni
48. Broken Dreams: Reasoning and Delirium (1995 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Using archival footage and interviews with ex-Red Brigade activists and the ex-leader of the Italian Marxist-Leninists, this documentary explores the topics terrorism and the "broken dream" of the communist revolution.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Vittorio Foa, Aldo Brandirali, Enrico Fenzi, Massimo Gidoni
Votes: 12
50. Morning (I) (2023)
12 min | Short, Drama
A young man dances every morning at 8 o'clock sharp in the living room in front of his foster mother - an ex-ballerina currently in a wheelchair.
Director: Nevena Nikolova | Stars: Petar Gerzilov, Veronika Yanakieva-Hristova