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1. Intimacy (2001)

R | 119 min | Drama, Romance

A failed London musician meets once a week with a woman for a series of intense sexual encounters to get away from the realities of life. But when he begins inquiring about her, it puts their relationship at risk.

Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Susannah Harker, Alastair Galbraith

Votes: 13,165 | Gross: $0.10M

2. Yannick (2023)

67 min | Comedy, Drama

In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin, Sébastien Chassagne

Votes: 4,451

3. Pather Panchali (1955)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Chunibala Devi

Votes: 38,584 | Gross: $0.54M

4. The World of Apu (1959)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.

Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee

Votes: 16,771 | Gross: $0.02M

5. Aparajito (1956)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

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

Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kamala Adhikari, Rani Bala

Votes: 16,006 | Gross: $0.17M

6. My Little Loves (1974)

123 min | Drama

A boy is left to his own devices when his mother refuses to pay for his schooling.

Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Martin Loeb, Jacqueline Dufranne, Jacques Romain, Ingrid Caven

Votes: 1,425

7. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

82 min | Drama, Comedy

On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn".

Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Chun Shih

Votes: 6,184 | Gross: $0.03M

8. Mouchette (1967)

Not Rated | 81 min | Drama

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal, Paul Hébert

Votes: 13,000

9. Vive L'Amour (1994)

R | 118 min | Drama, Romance

Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment used for sexual trysts.

Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Chen Chao-jung, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yi-ching Lu

Votes: 4,802

10. 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: 3,614 | Gross: $6.00M

11. Il Grido (1957)

Not Rated | 116 min | Drama

A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriella Pallotta, Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray

Votes: 5,447

12. The Aviator's Wife (1981)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Romance

A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her lover.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière

Votes: 5,180

13. Winner (II) (2024)

68 min | Mystery, Thriller

Chloe's dream trip to Borneo transforms into a waking nightmare when she realizes she's the target of a ruthless scam. With her private photos held hostage, she races to outwit the blackmailer before her secrets are exposed to the world.

Director: Jeremy Meyer | Stars: Koko Marshall, Esmonde Cole, Emille Lacsa, Corinne Kelly

Votes: 16

14. The Salamander (1971)

125 min | Comedy, Drama

Pierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a young woman accused by her uncle of trying to kill him. They decide to meet her.

Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis, Véronique Alain

Votes: 862

15. Le joli mai (1963)

Not Rated | 165 min | Documentary

Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria ... See full summary »

Directors: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme | Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jean-Luc Godard

Votes: 879 | Gross: $0.02M

16. Before We Collapse (2023)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

Tristan, campaign manager for a legislative candidate, is shocked by an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test.

Directors: Benoît Volnais, Alice Zeniter | Stars: Niels Schneider, Ariane Labed, Souheila Yacoub, Myriem Akheddiou

Votes: 84

17. No Man's Land (1985)

110 min | Drama

Jean, a young Swiss whose watchmaking skills no longer prove useful in the real world, dawdles his time away either in his parents' farm or in Lucie's restaurant-bar.

Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Hugues Quester, Myriam Mézières, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Betty Berr

Votes: 223

18. Les photos d'Alix (1982)

18 min | Short

A woman shares important moments of her life with a man.

Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Alix Clio-Roubaud, Boris Eustache

Votes: 190

19. Hands Up! (1981)

80 min | Drama

Five young men reunite on a freight train ten years after completing their medical studies. They reminisce about their shared past, when Poland was ruled by implacable Stalinism.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Adam Hanuszkiewicz

Votes: 437

20. Winter's Child (1989)

84 min | Drama

A man leaves his pregnant wife because he does not want to be a father, then he begins a relationship with another woman who loves someone else.

Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Clotilde de Bayser, Michel Feller, Marie Matheron, Jean-Philippe Écoffey

Votes: 275

21. Wonderful Town (2007)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance

After the tsunami struck the coast town of Takua Pa, young architect Ton moves in town to develop a construction project and settles in a small hotel run by Na, a young sensitive local girl... See full summary »

Director: Aditya Assarat | Stars: Anchalee Saisoontorn, Supphasit Kansen, Dul Yaambunying, Prateep Harnudomlap

Votes: 936

22. Amor de Perdição (1979)

262 min | Drama

In the eighteenth century the thwarted love affair between a young man from a good family and his 15-year-old neighbor. But the young lovers' families are fiercely opposed.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: António Sequeira Lopes, Cristina Hauser, Elsa Wallencamp, António Costa

Votes: 121

23. Emergency Kisses (1989)

90 min | Drama

The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life, and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such a project in which she wanted to play herself.

Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Brigitte Sy, Philippe Garrel, Louis Garrel, Anémone

Votes: 354

24. Les enfants du placard (1977)

105 min | Drama

Nicolas has an appointment with his sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy secret of childhood: their mother committed suicide while their father had charged Nicolas to keep her. Since ... See full summary »

Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel, Georges Marchal

Votes: 82

25. Third Side of the Coin (1960)

60 min | Documentary

A documentary about the then only twelve year old country of Israel, caught amidst the tensions of the Middle East and the ongoing Cold War.

Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Ali, Père Gauthier, Monsieur Klein, Yaakov Malkin

Votes: 232

26. The Musician Killer (1975)

124 min | Drama

After the conductor of the orchestra he has been playing in commits suicide, a young clarinettist is left with a quite valuable violin.

Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Anna Karina, Joël Bion, Philippe March, Hélène Coulomb

Votes: 49

27. Le corps sauvage (2019)

105 min | Drama

In search of a new way of life, Diane, 25, settles in her grandfather's home in a village bordering a forest where she practices archery.

Director: Cheyenne Carron | Stars: Nina Klinkhamer, Christian de Beringhen, François Goeske, François Pouron

Votes: 11

28. The Overlook (2022)

Short, Drama | Completed

Maggie has always been closed off from living a comfortable life. She has a complicated relationship with her mom and struggles with money. When a wealthy family hires her to house sit for ... See full summary »

Director: Azael Bueno | Stars: Madeline Brashier, Shay Walker, Mary Beth Gray, Axl Prophett

29. Cyril & Louise (2022)

12 min | Short, Drama

Cyril and Louise love each other dearly. Today they celebrate the fourth anniversary of their wild love. Tonight there will be a forest party. Louise and Cyril are planning to go. They ... See full summary »

Director: Alexandre Schild | Stars: Cyril Metzger, Mélodie Adda, William Frey, Arcadi Radeff

30. Ruhr (2009)

121 min | Documentary

James Benning's worrying and also reassuring vision of the Ruhr Valley, shot in 7 fascinating takes of a tunnel, a factory, a forest near an airport, inside a mosque, a graffiti wall, a street and an industrial chimney.

Director: James Benning

Votes: 195

31. Personal Problem (2022)

7 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

A girl struggles to survive after getting trapped in the loop of a personal problem.

Director: Pratik Mittal | Star: Shweta Jain

32. Nothing (2017 Video)

46 min | Drama

Vague moving shapes framing the black screen could be anything, but what they depict is nothing.

Director: Marco Romano

Votes: 26

33. Vetal (2017)

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An interrogation goes awry, when nobody knows the whole truth.

Directors: Nirbhay Jayanti, Yash Jayanti | Stars: Nirbhay Jayanti, Yash Jayanti, Dipesh Vithlani

34. Mon frère (2021)

8 min | Short, Drama

Florian looks after his mentally handicapped brother, Thomas. An unconditional love unites the two brothers. But Florian is drowning in debt, and fate is about to separate them.

Director: Ted Etienne | Stars: Cyril Pinero, Benjamin Jaouen, Lauryanne Philippe, Thomas Combret

35. Parti sans laisser d'adresse (1982)

80 min | Drama

In a Lausanne, Salvatore, a young addict, after nine months of preventive prison, commits suicide.

Director: Jacqueline Veuve | Stars: Jacques Zanetti, Roland Amstutz, Jean-Pierre Baste, Michel Cassagne

Votes: 14

36. Victory (2018)

Short, Thriller

A boxer, upset and demoralized is about to quit the sport. Until, a hand picks him up and motivates him to fight back. The boxer resumes training, gears up for his bouts and gradually ... See full summary »

Director: Vishal Bhalla | Stars: Ali Can Aksoy, Arthur Henry

37. Télévision de chambre (1982–1984)
Episode: Une villa aux environs de New York (1982)

55 min | Drama

Karl, a young European immigrant, lives with his uncle in New York. The uncle watches over the education of his nephew. Karl is invited to Mr Pallunder. Despite strong opposition from his uncle, Karl accepts.

Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Nicolas Baby, Anne-Laure Meury, Hubert Deschamps, Michel Delahaye