The films you must see to be considered a cinephile

A classic tale about bitter relationships between a frivolous girl and a soldier is adapted for the post-World War II time.

Story of a French woman doctor who admits to mercifully killing her lover, also a doctor who has cancer.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

Follows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.

Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.

During World War II, two French soldiers were captured by the Nazis and sent to Germany. One of them is going to try and escape, while the other prefers to stay.

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

A man recollects the life of his late younger brother.

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.

"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.

In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

Two sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.

The crew is running out of money to finish their film.

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.