The Film Anti-Canon
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1. ¡Qué hacer! (1972)
R | 90 min | Drama
A Brechtian mix of political fiction, real-life footage and Country Joe McDonald music. In Chile in 1970, a young woman Peace Corps worker becomes involved with a mysterious American 'businessman' and a local revolutionary.
Directors: Saul Landau, Raúl Ruiz, Nina Serrano | Stars: Sandra Archer, Aníbal Reyna, Richard Stahl, Luis Alarcón
Votes: 64
2. '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: 982
3. *Corpus Callosum (2002)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
A surreal and comic exploration of an office space and the decorations of a living room.
Director: Michael Snow | Stars: André Alcasid, Jacqueline Anderson, Berj Bannayan, Greg Hermanovic
Votes: 249
4. Back and Forth (1969)
52 min | Documentary
A camera in a classroom continuously sways back and forth at various speeds as people occasionally move around the setting.
Director: Michael Snow | Stars: Allan Kaprow, Emmett Williams, Max Neuhaus, Joyce Wieland
Votes: 265
5. 11 x 14 (1977)
81 min | Drama
One of most widely praised American avant-garde films in recent years, James Benning's 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences.
Director: James Benning | Stars: Serafina Bathrick, Ted Brady, Barbara Frankel, Rick Goodwin
Votes: 294
6. 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
Unrated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A local talk show host organizes an alcoholic professor and a pensioner known for playing Santa Claus to decide whether there was ever a revolution in their town Vaslui.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu | Stars: Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Mirela Cioaba
Votes: 8,119 | Gross: $0.09M
7. 13 Lakes (2004)
135 min | Documentary
Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
Director: James Benning
Votes: 368
9. 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War (1968)
113 min | Documentary, War
During some months, the Dutch movie director Ivens and some North Vietnamese colleagues filmed the life of North Vietnamese peasants under the menace of heavy American bombardments. The result is an indictment of all forms of war.
Directors: Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens
Votes: 163
10. 1941 (1979)
PG | 118 min | Action, Comedy, War
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen
Votes: 36,248 | Gross: $31.76M
11. 24 City (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Drama
When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü, Tao Zhao
Votes: 2,334
12. Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, War
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo | Star: Pirkko Saisio
Votes: 704
13. 3-Iron (2004)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Lee Seung-yun, Jae Hee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Joo Jin-mo
Votes: 58,247 | Gross: $0.24M
14. 31/75: Asyl (1975)
8 min | Short
A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the camera, which finally reveals a complete ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Kren
Votes: 379
15. 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama
The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué, Grégoire Colin
Votes: 5,275 | Gross: $0.18M
16. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean
Votes: 63,277 | Gross: $1.19M
17. 6/64: Mama und Papa (Materialaktion Otto Mühl) (1964)
4 min | Short, Horror
A subversive and experimental film from director Kurt Kren.
Director: Kurt Kren | Stars: Ursula Holzbauer, Otto Muehl
Votes: 345
18. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
G | 89 min | Family, Fantasy, Music
A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig
Votes: 4,457
19. 6ixtynin9 (1999)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A woman, fired from a financial coorporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. ... See full summary »
Directors: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Tom Pen-Ek Ratanaruang | Stars: Tasanawalai Ongartittichai, Black Phomtong, Lalita Panyopas, Sirisin Siripornsmathikul
Votes: 2,411
20. 79 primaveras (1969)
Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Documentary
An agit-prop documentary marking the death of Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chí Minh, using found footage to link his work to worldwide political movements including the Cuban revolution and resistance within the USA to the Vietnam war.
Director: Santiago Álvarez
Votes: 489
21. 89 mm od Europy (1993)
12 min | Documentary, Short
This movie shows the simplest difference between Europe and former Soviet Union. It is the eponymous 89 mm - Russian train tracks are 89 mm wider than tracks in European countries. And ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Lozinski
Votes: 267
22. 99 River Street (1953)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was having an affair with.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen
Votes: 3,431
23. ABC Africa (2001)
Unrated | 83 min | Documentary
Documentary account of the AIDS crisis in Uganda.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Abbas Kiarostami, Seifollah Samadian
Votes: 864 | Gross: $0.01M
24. 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: 1,538
25. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)
Not Rated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,660
26. Adebar (1957)
2 min | Short
An early experimental short film produced by Peter Kubelka.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 732
27. Adieu Philippine (1962)
106 min | Drama, Romance
Paris, summer 1960. Michel is about to leave for Algeria for military service. He meets Liliane and Juliette, two inseparable friends. Michel goes on vacation to Corsica, where the two girls decide to join him
Director: Jacques Rozier | Stars: Jean-Claude Aimini, Daniel Descamps, Stefania Sabatini, Yveline Céry
Votes: 1,016
28. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed
Votes: 56,837 | Gross: $8.08M
29. The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)
Passed | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
In Ispahan, Persia, a barber mistakes an emerald ring as the prize to be delivered to a prince known far and wide, only to realize that a runaway Princess is the real treasure awaited, promising to escort her to her final destination.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Thomas Gomez, Amanda Blake
Votes: 666
30. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
Directors: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Votes: 6,887
31. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Music
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Director: Stephan Elliott | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell
Votes: 54,987 | Gross: $11.22M
32. Pratidwandi (1970)
110 min | Drama
A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Asgar Ali, Arabinda Banerjee, Soumitra Bannerjee
Votes: 1,912
33. Adynata (1983)
28 min | Short
A short film by Leslie Thornton that explores the mysteries of the orient from a feminine perspective.
Director: Leslie Thornton
Votes: 101
34. Afrique 50 (1950)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary about the living conditions in a small Ivorian village during French colonization.
Director: René Vautier | Star: René Vautier
Votes: 321
35. After Death (1915)
46 min | Drama, Horror
Andrei lives a secluded life with his aunt, studying and thinking about his now-deceased mother. His friend Tsenin is concerned, and tries to get Andrei to accompany him to social events. ... See full summary »
Director: Yevgeny Bauer | Stars: Vitold Polonsky, Olga Rakhmanova, Vera Karalli, Mariya Khalatova
Votes: 1,022
36. The Age of the Earth (1980)
157 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
Four Third-World Christs try to stop the American industrialist John Brahms in Glauber Rocha's experimental film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder.
Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga, Tarcísio Meira
Votes: 675
37. Water-Mirror of Granada (1955)
21 min | Documentary, Short
As stated in the film, Jose Val del Omar presents a brief audiovisual essay of lyrical plastic art.
Director: José Val del Omar | Stars: Pepe Albaicín, Juan Gómez Leal, Señorita Chon, Julián Goya
Votes: 394
38. The Red Angel (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse gives sympathy to her patients and falls in love with an impotent doctor who's addicted to morphine.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Ayako Wakao, Shinsuke Ashida, Yûsuke Kawazu, Ranko Akagi
Votes: 1,887
39. Alexandria... Why? (1979)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama
Yehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Naglaa Fathi, Ahmed Zaki, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud Al Meleji
Votes: 2,039
40. Alice (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Votes: 13,985
41. All My Life (1966)
G | 3 min | Short, Music
A 3 minute pan to the left.
Director: Bruce Baillie | Star: Ella Fitzgerald
Votes: 746
42. Almanac of Fall (1984)
119 min | Drama
A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Director: Béla Tarr | Stars: Hédi Temessy, Erika Bodnár, Miklós Székely B., Pál Hetényi
Votes: 1,621
43. Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)
Not Rated | 184 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Three brothers are separated and united after many years - one is brought up a Hindu, another a Muslim and the last (and most memorable) a Christian. Hilarity and adventure ensues.
Director: Manmohan Desai | Stars: Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi
Votes: 8,215
44. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998)
15 min | Short, Comedy
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland perform a hellish courtship in a nightmare of the American dream, created by manipulating old film.
Director: Martin Arnold | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Grace Hayes, Charles Winninger
Votes: 540
45. American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984)
58 min | Documentary, Crime
Images of Hank Aaron memorabilia are displayed over the handwritten diaries of would be assassin Arthur Bremer, set to a soundtrack of alternating political news clips and popular songs from Aaron's career.
Director: James Benning
Votes: 130
46. Mad Love (1969)
252 min | Drama, Romance
During the rehearsals for the production of the tragedy Andromaque, the leading actress and her director, a couple behind the scenes, can't find a way to leave their personal problems at ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Josée Destoop, Michèle Moretti
Votes: 807
47. O Amuleto de Ogum (1974)
112 min | Drama
To entertain some thieves, a blind guitar player tells them the story of a man from the Northeast of Brazil, involved with criminals living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, who allegedly ... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Ney Santanna, Anecy Rocha, Jofre Soares, Maria Ribeiro
Votes: 189
48. Ananas (1984)
76 min | Documentary
A documentary tracing the international network of the Dole Pineapple Corporation.
Director: Amos Gitai
Votes: 39
49. Anatomie d'un rapport (1976)
82 min | Documentary, Drama
A woman's feminist awakening drives a couple to a relationship crisis.
Directors: Luc Moullet, Antonietta Pizzorno | Stars: Luc Moullet, Marie-Christine Questerbert, Antonietta Pizzorno, Viviane Berthommier
Votes: 178
50. And Now My Love (1974)
PG | 150 min | Drama, Romance
The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Charles Denner, Carla Gravina
Votes: 791
51. Sorekara (1985)
130 min | Drama
Daisuke (Yusaku Matsuda) is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family ... See full summary »
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Miwako Fujitani, Kaoru Kobayashi, Morio Kazama
Votes: 358
52. Andaz (1949)
148 min | Musical, Drama, Crime
Dilip loves Neena, but she treats him only as a friend. Later she gets married to Rajan. When he comes to know that Dilip once loved Neena, he misunderstands them and things change a lot then.
Director: Mehboob Khan | Stars: Nargis, Dilip Kumar, V.H. Desai, Cuckoo
Votes: 604
53. Anemic Cinema (1926)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short
A spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 1,841
54. Angele (1934)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama
A young and naive peasant girl in Provence, who has been seduced and abandoned, moves to Marseilles and becomes a street-walker after having her baby.
Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon, Jean Servais
Votes: 424
55. Aniki Bóbó (1942)
71 min | Drama, Family
The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Nascimento Fernandes, Vital dos Santos, António Palma, Armando Pedro
Votes: 1,885
56. The Eighties (1983)
82 min | Documentary, Musical
This is a making of a musical, with Chantal Ackerman behind and in front of the camera. It is mostly a collection of clips, talks, directions, and lectures, with the camera capturing the whole adventure.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Aischa Bentebouche, Katherine Best, François Beukelaers, Daniela Bisconti
Votes: 168
57. Anticipation of the Night (1958)
42 min | Short
Notes of journey life of Stan Brakhage like a befits of a diary book in a very strong sense of experimentation, romantic, modernist and abstract.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 449
58. Antonio das Mortes (1969)
100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.
Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos, Hugo Carvana
Votes: 2,278
59. Anxiety (1998)
110 min | Drama
They are famous, weighed down by honour, celebrated, highly esteemed - aged and ancient. The father, in an attempt to save his son from becoming decrepit tries to drive his son to suicide. ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, José Pinto, Isabel Ruth, Leonor Silveira
Votes: 399
60. The Apple (1998)
86 min | Drama
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf | Stars: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali Naderi, Azizeh Mohamadi
Votes: 2,742 | Gross: $0.12M
61. Araya (1959)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish... See full summary »
Director: Margot Benacerraf | Stars: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 841
62. The Arbor (2010)
Unrated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Manjinder Virk, Christine Bottomley, Natalie Gavin, Parvani Lingiah
Votes: 2,134 | Gross: $0.02M
63. Archangel (1990)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Michael Gottli, David Falkenberg, Michael O'Sullivan, Margaret Anne MacLeod
Votes: 1,626 | Gross: $0.03M
64. The Argyle Secrets (1948)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
An investigative reporter tells his assistant about a book called "The Argyle Album", which contains a list of people who were traitors and war profiteers during World War II. After the ... See full summary »
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, Ralph Byrd, Jack Reitzen
Votes: 549
65. Ariel (1988)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo
Votes: 8,306
66. Arnulf Rainer (1960)
7 min | Short
An experimental short from Peter Kubelka in which the film flickers between periods of light and sound.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 949
67. Arsenal (1929)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, War
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman
Votes: 2,335
68. The Art of Vision (1965)
250 min
This film is a 'deconstruction' of 'Dog Star Man'. It takes the four 'rolls' of super-fast edited, often poetic, imagery of 'Dog Star Man' and shows them first combined, then each ... See full summary »
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 59
69. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
103 min | Drama
"Neues Kino movie" about life in the circus dome narrated in Brechtian spirit; deceptively illusionist grip is broken violently by aloofness and sweeping subjective tracking shots.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Hannelore Hoger, Sigi Graue, Alfred Edel, Bernd Höltz
Votes: 462
70. Artists and Models (1955)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 4,375 | Gross: $9.35M
71. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
288 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Hollis Frampton
Votes: 1,459
72. The Ascent (1977)
111 min | Drama, War
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Votes: 10,097
73. Assault on the Pay Train (1962)
102 min | Crime, Drama
Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
Director: Roberto Farias | Stars: Eliezer Gomes, Reginaldo Faria, Jorge Dória, Átila Iório
Votes: 851
74. The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
153 min | Drama
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher has got it, and it's not much fun.
Director: Kira Muratova | Stars: Sergei Popov, Olga Antonova, Galina Zakhurdaeva, Natalya Buzko
Votes: 1,404
75. At Land (1944)
15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman
Votes: 3,340
76. At Sea (2007)
60 min | Documentary
This is a soundless story of the building of 'Toledo Spirit', the container ship, its sailing and eventual beaching. Insignificant men crawl on cranes and gantries to build it and other men, sans the equipment, scrape it after beaching.
Director: Peter B. Hutton
Votes: 342
77. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
R | 172 min | Drama
The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.
Director: Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk
Votes: 6,860 | Gross: $3.79M
78. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
Not Rated | 180 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The film explores the image of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu using unknown official footage from the Romanian National Television and National Film Archives.
Director: Andrei Ujica | Stars: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Stefan Andrei, Gheorghe Apostol
Votes: 1,639 | Gross: $0.03M
79. Awaara (1951)
193 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A poor young man named Raj joins a criminal gang to feed his mother. But when he falls in love with Rita, he decides to reform himself for her.
Director: Raj Kapoor | Stars: Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Prithviraj Kapoor, K.N. Singh
Votes: 4,492
80. The Awakening of the Beast (1970)
93 min | Drama, Horror
Psychiatrist experiments LSD on 4 volunteers, to investigate Coffin Joe's influence over them. Each patient presents a different reaction, involving sex, perversion and sadism.
Director: José Mojica Marins | Stars: José Mojica Marins, Ângelo Assunção, Ronaldo Beibe, Andreia Bryan
Votes: 1,290
81. Away from Her (2006)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent, Stacey LaBerge
Votes: 23,075 | Gross: $4.57M
82. Back and Forth (1969)
52 min | Documentary
A camera in a classroom continuously sways back and forth at various speeds as people occasionally move around the setting.
Director: Michael Snow | Stars: Allan Kaprow, Emmett Williams, Max Neuhaus, Joyce Wieland
Votes: 265
83. Badou Boy (1970)
56 min | Comedy
Sarcastic look at Senegal's capital following the adventures of a somewhat immoral street urchin.
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Lamine Ba, Al Demba Ciss, Christoph Colomb, Gaby Diallo
Votes: 201
84. Baiju Bawra (1952)
165 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In Mughal Emperor Akbar's court, young musician Baiju challenges maestro Tansen to a musical duel in order to avenge the death of his father, which he holds Tansen responsible for.
Director: Vijay Bhatt | Stars: Meena Kumari, Bharat Bhushan, Surendra, Kuldip Kaur
Votes: 426
85. Ballet mécanique (1924)
19 min | Short
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, ... See full summary »
Directors: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Katherine Murphy
Votes: 3,293
86. Bamako (The Court) (2006)
115 min | Drama
Bamako. Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court ... See full summary »
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako | Stars: Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Habib Dembélé
Votes: 1,493 | Gross: $0.11M
87. Barrabas (1919)
489 min | Crime, Thriller
The efforts of lawyer Jacques Varese and journalist Raoul de Nerac who attempt to expose and destroy the criminal organization led by a sadistic banker Rudolph Strelitz.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Fernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé, Gaston Michel, Georges Biscot
Votes: 112
88. Barren Lives (1963)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place... See full summary »
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Stars: Átila Iório, Maria Ribeiro, Orlando Macedo, Jofre Soares
Votes: 2,906
89. Barres (1984)
14 min | Short, Comedy
A humorous short in which passengers subvert toll checkpoints in order to avoid paying.
Director: Luc Moullet | Stars: Jean Abeillé, Jean-Pierre Bonneau, André Chauchat, Odette Duval
Votes: 340
90. Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989)
120 min | Drama, War
An Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Susan Taslimi, Parviz Poorhosseini, Adnan Afravian, Golshan Anooshe
Votes: 3,201
91. Battle in Heaven (2005)
Unrated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
Marcos lusts after his boss's promiscuous daughter, but after botching an extortion scheme, he becomes wracked with guilt.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz, David Bornstein
Votes: 6,643 | Gross: $0.07M
92. The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, History
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Votes: 1,613
93. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography
Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier
Votes: 4,779 | Gross: $0.24M
94. The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
M | 90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In post-nuclear-holocaust England, a handful of bizarre characters struggles on with their lives in the ruins, among endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
Votes: 2,579
95. Before the Rain (1994)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
Director: Milcho Manchevski | Stars: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Josif Josifovski
Votes: 15,856 | Gross: $0.76M
96. Begone Dull Care (1950)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Music
Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,732
97. La belle équipe (1936)
100 min | Drama
Five unemployed penniless workers win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos, Viviane Romance
Votes: 1,421
98. Belovy (1992)
60 min | Documentary
"Belovy (the Belovs)" is a breathtaking portrait of a troubled peasant family. It's poetry in the form of a documentary that won many prizes. Beautifully shot in vintage black and white, ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Kossakovsky | Stars: Anna Fyodorovna Belova, Mikhail Fyodorovich Belov, Vasiliy Fyodorovich Belov, Sergey Fyodorovich Belov
Votes: 396
99. Benilde or the Virgin Mother (1975)
112 min | Drama
Raised in seclusion, a young woman claims her unborn child was conceived through an angel.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva, Glória de Matos
Votes: 336
100. Ticket of No Return (1979)
108 min | Drama
A woman presented as a "trinkerin" is having a special tour in Berlin. She bought herself a single-way ticket and will drink everywhere she can.
Director: Ulrike Ottinger | Stars: Tabea Blumenschein, Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma, Orpha Termin
Votes: 587
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