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1. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror
Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
Director: John Landis | Stars: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher, Griffin Dunne
Votes: 121,150 | Gross: $30.57M
East Proctor, England.
2. Angeli 'The Killer' (2017– )
145 min | Animation, Comedy
ANGELI THE KILLER is an animated series loosely inspired in the works and personality of the Brazilian cartoonist, Angeli, creator of the seminal magazine "Chiclete com Banana" and ... See full summary »
Stars: Angeli, Grace Gianoukas, Alessandra Negrini, Milhem Cortaz
Votes: 42
3. Assassination Nation (2018)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos descends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
Director: Sam Levinson | Stars: Odessa Young, Abra, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef
Votes: 21,870 | Gross: $1.96M
4. Bacurau (2019)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
Directors: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima
Votes: 30,838
5. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi
Votes: 12,404 | Gross: $0.21M
6. Bates Motel (2013–2017)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A contemporary prequel to Psycho, giving a portrayal of how Norman Bates' psyche unravels through his teenage years, and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma, truly is.
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Nicola Peltz Beckham
Votes: 117,552
7. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
G | 84 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love.
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart
Votes: 482,050 | Gross: $218.97M
8. Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953)
78 min | Comedy
After finding out that North American people are visiting the Spanish villages, the citizens of Villar del Río start preparing themselves to welcome them when they arrive.
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert, Alberto Romea
Votes: 4,828
9. The Birds (1963)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Votes: 205,503 | Gross: $11.40M
10. Cassiopeia (1996)
Not Rated | 80 min | Family, Adventure, Animation
Four little robots get together to defend their planet Atenéia, in Cassiopéia constellation, from villain Shadowseat.
Director: Clóvis Vieira | Stars: Osmar Prado, Jonas Mello, Aldo César, Marcelo Campos
Votes: 285
Tiny planet Cassiopeia may be considered as a character.
11. El Chavo del Ocho (1972–1983)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The misadventures of a poor, homeless, fumbling boy and his friends in their humble neighborhood.
Stars: Ramón Valdés, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Carlos Villagrán, María Antonieta de las Nieves
Votes: 12,822
12. Chi-Raq (2015)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett
Votes: 10,763 | Gross: $2.65M
13. Coco (I) (2017)
PG | 105 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
Directors: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina | Stars: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach
Votes: 593,036 | Gross: $209.73M
14. The Congress (2013)
Not Rated | 122 min | Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
Director: Ari Folman | Stars: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Votes: 20,002 | Gross: $0.14M
15. Dark City (1998)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
Votes: 213,436 | Gross: $14.38M
16. El dependiente (1969)
87 min | Drama
Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the girl of his dreams...and her family.
Director: Leonardo Favio | Stars: Walter Vidarte, Graciela Borges, Nora Cullen, Fernando Iglesias 'Tacholas'
Votes: 560
17. Dogman (2018)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A timid dog groomer living in a poor suburb sells cocaine on the side and stays out of trouble, while trying to deal with his unstable, violent acquaintance who is a menace to the whole neighborhood.
Director: Matteo Garrone | Stars: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi
Votes: 29,911 | Gross: $0.15M
18. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,964 | Gross: $27.55M
19. Easy Rider (1969)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza
Votes: 117,623 | Gross: $41.73M
20. Easy Street (1917)
Unrated | 24 min | Short, Comedy
A reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner-city street.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 5,832
21. The Devil's Scarab (2016)
90 min | Adventure, Family, Mystery
A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced, but forgotten, Inspector Pimentel.
Director: Carlo Milani | Stars: Theo Salomão, Thiago Rosseti, Cirillo Luna, Nani de Oliveira
Votes: 444
22. Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
88 min | Comedy, Crime
A grouchy shopkeeper made an unsuccessful financial investment, and now he is on the verge of bankruptcy. In order to avenge oneself he engages his own family into a plan to rob a next door bank.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Yvonne Clech, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Anne Doat
Votes: 2,613
23. Ghostbusters II (1989)
PG | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis
Votes: 225,853 | Gross: $112.49M
24. Godless (2017)
TV-MA | 65 min | Action, Drama, Western
In the 1880s American West, murderous outlaw gang leader Frank Griffin hunts for ex-protege Roy Goode. Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico--a town inhabited, after a mining disaster, almost entirely by women.
Stars: Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Merritt Wever
Votes: 78,968
25. Gotham (2014–2019)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The story behind Detective James Gordon's rise to prominence in Gotham City in the years before Batman's arrival.
Stars: Ben McKenzie, Jada Pinkett Smith, Donal Logue, Camren Bicondova
Votes: 242,072
26. Happiness (III) (2017)
5 min | Animation, Short, Drama
An analogy to life on Earth, Happiness tells the story of a rodent's unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment.
Director: Steve Cutts
Votes: 2,130
27. High Plains Drifter (1973)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
A gun-fighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 64,889 | Gross: $15.70M
28. Hostel (2005)
R | 94 min | Horror
Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova
Votes: 191,928 | Gross: $47.33M
29. The Insult (2017)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh, Diamand Abou Abboud
Votes: 18,179 | Gross: $1.00M
30. I Am Not an Easy Man (2018)
98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A shameless chauvinist gets a taste of his own medicine when he wakes up in a world dominated by women and locks horns with a powerful female author.
Director: Eléonore Pourriat | Stars: Vincent Elbaz, Marie-Sophie Ferdane, Pierre Benezit, Blanche Gardin
Votes: 15,841
31. Klaus (2019)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg's new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions.
Directors: Sergio Pablos, Carlos Martínez López | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones, Will Sasso
Votes: 190,566
32. Joker (I) (2019)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy
Votes: 1,494,604 | Gross: $335.45M
33. The Monster Club (1981)
Unrated | 104 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Vincent Price, John Carradine, Anthony Steel, Roger Sloman
Votes: 4,558
34. Murderers Among Us (1946)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi
Votes: 2,556
The destroyed town after World War II.
35. The Child of Another (1975)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Ngando and Ndomé; are in love. Ngando wishes to marry Ndomé; but her family reminds him that the traditional dowry must be settled. Unfortunately, Ngando is poor and unable to fulfill the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa | Stars: Philippe Abia, Arlette Din Beli, Gisèle Dikongue-Pipa, David Endene
Votes: 379
36. New York Stories (1989)
PG | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged artist obsessed with his pretty young assistant, a precocious 12-year-old living in a hotel, and a neurotic lawyer with a possessive mother make up three Gotham tales.
Directors: Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese | Stars: Woody Allen, Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, Marvin Chatinover
Votes: 19,832 | Gross: $10.76M
37. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
PG | 76 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey
Votes: 377,108 | Gross: $75.08M
38. Heroic Losers (2019)
TV-MA | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
In times of the infamous Argentinian Corralito, the neighbors of a little town trace a plan to recover the money they lost after learning that their bank manager and a corrupt lawyer have stolen it.
Director: Sebastián Borensztein | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Luis Brandoni, Verónica Llinás, Daniel Aráoz
Votes: 12,825
39. Peaky Blinders (2013–2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Helen McCrory
Votes: 652,428
40. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.
Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Francesc Albiol
Votes: 267,211 | Gross: $2.22M
Dirty, stinky and violent 18th-century Paris.
41. The First Teacher (1965)
102 min | Drama
Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Bolot Beyshenaliev, Natalya Arinbasarova, Idris Nogajbayev, Darkul Kuyukova
Votes: 620
42. Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
PG | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective.
Director: Rob Letterman | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy
Votes: 183,531 | Gross: $144.11M
43. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Romance
When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea
Votes: 34,942 | Gross: $38.90M
44. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,112,117 | Gross: $44.02M
45. Sin City (2005)
R | 124 min | Crime, Thriller
An exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption.
Directors: Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba
Votes: 798,077 | Gross: $74.10M
46. Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
PG | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A mysterious map sets Smurfette and her friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting race through the Forbidden Forest, leading to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history.
Director: Kelly Asbury | Stars: Demi Lovato, Rainn Wilson, Joe Manganiello, Jack McBrayer
Votes: 24,311 | Gross: $45.02M
47. Neighboring Sounds (2012)
Unrated | 131 min | Drama, Thriller
The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Ana Rita Gurgel, Caio Almeida, Maeve Jinkings, Dida Maia
Votes: 8,806 | Gross: $0.03M
48. Summer of Sam (1999)
R | 142 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito
Votes: 41,580 | Gross: $19.28M
49. Terribly Happy (2008)
Unrated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz | Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Lene Maria Christensen, Kim Bodnia, Lars Brygmann
Votes: 7,083 | Gross: $0.07M
50. Timbuktu (2014)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, War
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed
Votes: 18,420 | Gross: $1.08M
51. A Via Láctea (2007)
86 min | Drama
Heitor (a teacher) and Julia (an actress) dating for a while. A violent discussion over the phone does he goes on a mad way up his girlfriend's House
Director: Lina Chamie | Stars: Marco Ricca, Alice Braga, Fernando Alves Pinto, Jules Elting
Votes: 280
Very interesting depiction of São Paulo, with nice usage of music and traveling.
52. Across 110th Street (1972)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Frank Adu
Votes: 7,172 | Gross: $3.60M
53. Dark (2017–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.
Stars: Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari, Maja Schöne
Votes: 446,331
54. Cidades Fantasmas (2017)
71 min | Documentary
Chilean desert, Brazilian Amazon, Colombian Andes and Argentine Pampa. Four destinations in Latin America revisited through fragments of memories, reconstructed from rubble.
Director: Tyrell Spencer
Votes: 27
55. A Compadecida (1969)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Clown tells the story of João Grilo, a rich couple's lively employee who cheats everybody in town: arranges a funeral for a dog, bribes the priest and the bishop into celebrating a mass in ... See full summary »
Director: George Jonas | Stars: Armando Bógus, Antônio Fagundes, Felipe Carone, Jorge Cherques
Votes: 58
56. Dheepan (2015)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers
Votes: 16,914 | Gross: $0.25M
57. Padre Padrone (1977)
Not Rated | 114 min | Biography, Drama
The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli, Fabrizio Forte
Votes: 4,383
58. Invisible City (2021–2023)
TV-G | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
An underground world is inhabited by mythical creatures evolved from a deep lineage of Brazilian folklore. One detective who finds himself caught in a murder investigation that puts him in the middle of a battle between these two worlds.
Stars: Marco Pigossi, Manuela Dieguez, Alessandra Negrini, Julia Konrad
Votes: 7,535
59. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
G | 181 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon
Votes: 48,102 | Gross: $80.50M
60. The Dwarvenaut (2016)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
A dreamlike glimpse into the visionary mind of Brooklyn-based artist and entrepreneur Stefan Pokorny. An art prodigy obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons, who attempts to bring his most ambitious work to life through Kickstarter.
Director: Josh Bishop | Stars: Tim Cecil, Stefan Pokorny
Votes: 300
61. Casa de Areia (2005)
R | 115 min | Drama
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Director: Andrucha Waddington | Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra, Seu Jorge
Votes: 3,286 | Gross: $0.53M
62. Arid Zone (2019)
76 min | Documentary
How is it to live in United States' most conservative city? Arid Zone gives the experience of being in Mesa, Arizona, considered by the MIT and the UCLA, U.S's most conservative big city.
Director: Fernanda Pessoa
Votes: 31
63. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
Votes: 12,470
64. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
G | 103 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi
Votes: 166,342
65. Rio, 40 Degrees (1955)
100 min | Drama
A semi-documentary on the people of Rio de Janeiro. The camera follows boys from a hillside shanty town who sell peanuts at Copacabana, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a soccer game. Various ... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Modesto De Souza, Roberto Bataglin, Jece Valadão, Ana Beatriz
Votes: 865
66. In the Heart of the World (2019)
121 min | Drama
The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier.
Directors: Gabriel Martins, Maurílio Martins | Stars: Kelly Crifer, Leo Pyrata, Grace Passô, Bárbara Colen
Votes: 393
67. A Man from Boulevard des Capucines (1987)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.
Director: Alla Surikova | Stars: Andrey Mironov, Alexandra Yakovleva, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Oleg Tabakov
Votes: 3,594
68. Undertow (2009)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
Director: Javier Fuentes-León | Stars: Cristian Mercado, Tatiana Astengo, Manolo Cardona, Attilia Boschetti
Votes: 7,254
69. The History of Eternity (2014)
121 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The History of Eternity is a synesthetic essay about love, desires and dreams. The entire narrative takes place in the same village with approximately 40 inhabitants in a desert landscape, ... See full summary »
Director: Camilo Cavalcante | Stars: Marcelia Cartaxo, Leonardo França, Débora Ingrid, Claudio Jaborandy
Votes: 552
70. The Lady in the Van (2015)
PG-13 | 104 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Clare Hammond
Votes: 32,192 | Gross: $10.02M
71. Germinal (1993)
R | 160 min | Drama, Romance
In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet
Votes: 5,770 | Gross: $0.38M
72. The Addiction (1995)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror
A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco
Votes: 11,579 | Gross: $0.30M
73. Whale Rider (2002)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Family
A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Director: Niki Caro | Stars: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 44,309 | Gross: $20.78M
74. La Teoría de los Vidrios Rotos (2021)
80 min | Comedy
Claudio Tapia thought he had arrived in a quiet town, but soon finds himself facing a mystery quite peculiar and complex for an insurance expert.
Director: Diego Fernández | Stars: Guillermo Arengo, Roberto Birindelli, Christian Font, Carlos Frasca
Votes: 94
75. The Distinguished Citizen (2016)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive another award. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio, Nora Navas
Votes: 13,382
76. Vampyres (1974)
R | 87 min | Horror
A pair of women lure passers-by to their countryside mansion to feed on them to satisfy their need for blood.
Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray Brown, Brian Deacon
Votes: 4,295
77. The Margin (1967)
96 min | Drama, Romance
About people who live by the margins or Rio Tietê, in São Paulo, Brazil.
Director: Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias | Stars: Mário Benvenutti, Valeria Vidal, Bentinho, Lucy Rangel
Votes: 235
78. Camocim (2017)
76 min | Documentary
Every four years, the calm and peaceful Camocim de São Félix, a small town in Pernambuco (Brazil), is shaken, revealing an outpouring of joy, anger, hope and disappointment. During the ... See full summary »
Director: Quentin Delaroche | Stars: Mayara Gomes, César Lucena
Votes: 37
79. Broken Silence (2001)
TV-PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Winter, 1944. Lucía at 21 returns to her small village in the mountains. She again meets Manuel, a young iron-smith who helps "those in the mountain", the "maquis", the anti-Franco ... See full summary »
Director: Montxo Armendáriz | Stars: Lucía Jiménez, Juan Diego Botto, Mercedes Sampietro, Álvaro de Luna
Votes: 706
80. Atrás da Sombra (2020)
85 min | Fantasy, Thriller
Jorge is a private investigator that has a questionable character. He seeks information about the death of a young boy in a small city in the countryside of Brazil, that is full of ... See full summary »
Director: Thiago Camargo | Stars: Bruna Brito, Érico Brás, Jefferson da Fonseca, Bukassa Kabengele
Votes: 29
81. The Lost Daughter (2021)
R | 121 min | Drama
A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal | Stars: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris
Votes: 75,481
82. Fuga de Natal (2018 TV Movie)
34 min | Drama, Family
Two aging pioneers of Brasília's founding decide to help a newly retired friend to escape their nursing home so the three of them can experience a Christmas like in the old days.
Director: Gui Campos | Stars: Jonathan Andrade, João Antônio, Ana Luisa Bellacosta, André Deca
Votes: 14
83. The Dressmaker (I) (2015)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse | Stars: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 65,714 | Gross: $2.02M
84. Bela Donna (1998)
111 min | Drama, Romance
American couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in love with a rude but charming fisherman. The ... See full summary »
Director: Fábio Barreto | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Eduardo Moscovis, Sophie Ward, Letícia Sabatella
Votes: 500
85. Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat (1941)
Not Rated | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The black residents of Lazy Town are bored one day until a sultry light-skinned woman shows up to teach them what rhythm is.
Director: Walter Lantz | Stars: Ivie Anderson, Mel Blanc, Leroy Hurte Chorus, Nellie Lutcher
Votes: 549
86. Belfast (2021)
PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan
Votes: 92,857
87. Frantz (2016)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber
Votes: 17,561 | Gross: $0.88M
88. The Guns (1964)
80 min | Drama
In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit.
Director: Ruy Guerra | Stars: Átila Iório, Nelson Xavier, Maria Gladys, Leonidas Bayer
Votes: 738
89. Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
A group of young friends from the Bronx fight to save their neighborhood from gentrification...and vampires.
Director: Oz Rodriguez | Stars: Jaden Michael, Gerald Jones, Gregory Diaz IV, Sarah Gadon
Votes: 11,190
90. Long Way Home (2018)
113 min | Drama
In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for ... See full summary »
Director: André Novais Oliveira | Stars: Grace Passô, Russo Apr, Rejane Faria, Hélio Ricardo
Votes: 812
91. Girlhood (2014)
Unrated | 113 min | Drama
A girl with few real prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and gaining a sense of self confidence in the process. However, she soon finds that this new life does not necessarily make her any happier.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, Mariétou Touré
Votes: 10,098
92. The Priest and the Girl (1966)
90 min | Drama
In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the sudden attraction this priest feels for a ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Stars: Helena Ignez, Paulo José, Mário Lago, Fauzi Arap
Votes: 501
93. The Addams Family (2019)
PG | 86 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams' friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families.
Directors: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard
Votes: 45,137 | Gross: $100.04M
94. Acqua Movie (2019)
105 min | Drama
Cicero is a 12-year-old boy who finds his father dead in the bathroom, victim of a massive heart attack. The boy's mother, who spends long periods away from home, returns to Sao Paulo, ... See full summary »
Director: Lírio Ferreira | Stars: Alessandra Negrini, Antonio Haddad Aguerre, Guilherme Weber, Marcelia Cartaxo
Votes: 60
95. Macabro (2019)
105 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A police officer is tasked to find two brothers accused of brutalizing women and terrorizing a small city in Rio de Janeiro. Based on a real life story.
Director: Marcos Prado | Stars: Renato Góes, Amanda Grimaldi, Guilherme Ferraz, Diego Francisco
Votes: 540
96. Proêzas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz (1967)
100 min | Comedy
Director: Paulo Gil Soares | Stars: Emmanuel Cavalcanti, Jofre Soares, Isabella, Joel Barcellos
Votes: 61
97. Fear (2020)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Svetla, a widow who lost her job recently is living next to the Bulgarian-Turkish border. There are many cases of refugees in her village due to it's location. One day she meets a refugee from Africa and this changes her life.
Director: Ivaylo Hristov | Stars: Svetlana Yancheva, Michael Flemming, Stoyan Bochev, Ivan Savov
Votes: 480
98. Distrito 666 (2022)
81 min | Thriller
In a dystopian world in 2042, young people discover government secrets about the pandemic. Fighting oppression, they try to survive.
Director: Paulo Nascimento | Stars: Gabrielle Fleck, Thaila Ayala, Marcos Breda, Pedro Caetano
Votes: 32
99. Chateau (2017)
81 min | Comedy, Drama
An agile and colorful comedy about the lives of African immigrants in Paris. Charles is the most skilled and elegant among the sellers used by hairdressers in the populated district of ... See full summary »
Directors: Modi Barry, Cédric Ido | Stars: Jacky Ido, Tatiana Rojo, Jean-Baptiste Anoumon, Zirek
Votes: 93
100. Walking to School (2009)
90 min | Drama
This film follows a 7-year-old boy, Wawa, and his older sister, Naxiang, who live beside the Nujiang River in Yunnan Province, China. Every day, Naxiang crosses the river to attend school ... See full summary »
Directors: Jiahuang Peng, Peng Chen | Stars: Anamuling, Xiwen Cao, Yifei Chen, Jiali Ding
Votes: 76
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