With Ministère de la Culture (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. O Sacrifício (1986)
M/12 | 149 min | Drama
At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir
Votes: 20,694 | Gross: $0.30M
2. 1492: Cristóvão Colombo (1992)
M/12 | 154 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean
Votes: 26,444 | Gross: $7.19M
3. Europa, Europa (1990)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, War
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, André Wilms
Votes: 13,947 | Gross: $5.58M
4. Sem Eira Nem Beira (1985)
M/16 | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stéphane Freiss, Setti Ramdane
Votes: 7,233
5. O Caso Danton (1983)
M/12 | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche
Votes: 5,780
6. Mistérios do Sexo Oposto (2001)
M/12 | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps, some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Nastassja Kinski, Goldie Hawn
Votes: 4,511 | Gross: $6.72M
7. A Paixão de Swann (1984)
M/16 | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In the late nineteenth century Paris, Briton Charles Swann, a man of wealth and culture, runs among the social set. That life is threatened when he falls in love with Odette de Crécy, a ... See full summary »
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant
Votes: 1,594
8. A Revolução Francesa (1989)
335 min | Drama, History, Thriller
When Louis XVI summoned the Etats-Generaux, he unleashes a revolution that would change his country and cost his life. This is the story of one of the crucial points in the history of France, and Europe, divided into two parts.
Directors: Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 1,173
9. Lola (1961)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott
Votes: 4,430
10. Babar (1989–2002)
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
The adventures of the King of the elephants, his family, and friends.
Stars: Richard Binsley, Lisa Jai, Corrine Koslo, Dan Hennessey
Votes: 4,217
11. Lumière et compagnie (1995)
88 min | Documentary
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallström, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yoshishige Yoshida, Yimou Zhang, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, Michael Haneke, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette | Stars: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Merzak Allouache, Jeffe Alperi
Votes: 2,800
12. O melissokomos (1986)
122 min | Drama
A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Jenny Roussea
Votes: 1,820
13. Out 1, noli me tangere (1971)
729 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.
Directors: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman | Stars: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Pierre Baillot
Votes: 995 | Gross: $0.03M
14. Entre o Amor e o Medo (1984)
M/16 | 107 min | Drama
A teenage boy living in a Cape Breton coal mining community during the 1930's finds himself contemplating life and is haunted by a murder he witnessed in town.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat, Alan Scarfe
Votes: 608 | Gross: $0.16M
15. House of Boys (2009)
117 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Two young soul mates find each other while working at an all-male performance club/brothel. Eventually, one contracts AIDS.
Director: Jean-Claude Schlim | Stars: Loïc Peckels, Layke Anderson, Harry Ferrier, Michael N. Kuehl
Votes: 1,022
16. L'effrontée (1985)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Clothilde Baudon, Julie Glenn, Bernadette Lafont
Votes: 1,653
17. Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost (2013)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy
Umber Singh is a Sikh who loses everything during the separation of India in 1947 and is forced to leave his homeland. He obsessively wishes for a male heir. When his fourth daughter is born, he decides to wage a fight against destiny.
Director: Anup Singh | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tillotama Shome, Rasika Dugal
Votes: 735
18. Bicicleta de Pequim (2001)
PG-13 | 113 min | Drama
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Lin Cui, Xun Zhou, Bin Li, Yuanyuan Gao
Votes: 4,180 | Gross: $0.16M
19. Le big-Bang (1987)
76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Sex farce about Fred, an inept post WWIII superhero garbageman, who must prevent WW4 by disarming the continents of Virginia, where mutated feminists live, and USSSR, where mutated buttless men live. Beautiful Liberty is his only ally.
Director: Picha | Stars: Luis Rego, Georges Aminel, Perrette Pradier, Régine Teyssot
Votes: 223
20. O Bando das Quatro (1989)
M/12 | 160 min | Drama, Mystery
A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Bulle Ogier, Benoît Régent, Fejria Deliba, Laurence Côte
Votes: 831
21. O Monge e a Bruxa (1987)
97 min | Drama, History
A Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect ... See full summary »
Directors: Pamela Berger, Suzanne Schiffman | Stars: Tchéky Karyo, Christine Boisson, Jean Carmet, Raoul Billerey
Votes: 187
22. Os Favoritos da Lua (1984)
M/12 | 101 min | Crime, Drama
Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, ... See full summary »
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Katja Rupé, Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Jean-Pierre Beauviala
Votes: 592
23. Jogadas Perigosas (1984)
110 min | Drama, Sport, Thriller
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
Director: Richard Dembo | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Liv Ullmann, Leslie Caron
Votes: 929
24. I Love You (1986)
101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Michel is a bored lonely cheap-thrills-seeker. Everything changes when he finds an unusual bobble head doll in the shape of a pretty woman that can say "I love you" and falls in love with it to the point of obsession.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Eddy Mitchell, Flora Barillaro, Agnès Soral
Votes: 416
25. Amor Eterno (1984)
M/12 | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier
Votes: 854
26. 30 Door Key (1991)
90 min | Drama
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Iain Glen, Robert Stephens, Crispin Glover, Judith Godrèche
Votes: 290
27. Tangos - O Exílio de Gardel (1985)
M/12 | 119 min | Drama, Musical
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá, Marina Vlady
Votes: 522
28. Michel Petrucciani (2011)
102 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary on the late French jazz pianist.
Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Michel Petrucciani, Alexandre Petrucciani, Eugenia Morrison, David Himmelstein
Votes: 199
29. Amor de Rastos (1984)
M/12 | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house, an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blur.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Isabelle Linnartz
Votes: 409
30. Success Is the Best Revenge (1984)
R | 91 min | Drama
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Michael York, Joanna Szczerbic, Michal Skolimowski, Józef Skolimowski
Votes: 163
31. Golden Eighties (1986)
96 min | Comedy, Musical
Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's appealing to Lili, the salon's manager, ... See full summary »
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Lio, Pascale Salkin, Delphine Seyrig, Myriam Boyer
Votes: 205
32. Entre Dois Mares (1995)
M/12 | 92 min | Drama
The film tells the story of a strange friendship between an adult, already on the return of his path of life, and a Chinese girl who just begins her path. Nikos is the radio operator of a ... See full summary »
Director: Marion Hänsel | Stars: Stephen Rea, Ling Chu, Adrian Brine, Maka Kotto
Votes: 443
33. Fogo no Coração (1987)
M/16 | 110 min | Drama
The painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an "established" journalist she meets... See full summary »
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Myriam Mézières, Benoît Régent, Azize Kabouche, André Marcon
Votes: 212
34. Le bonheur a encore frappé (1986)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Jean-Luc Trotignon | Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Michèle Brousse, Jean-Noël Brouté, Caroline Appéré
Votes: 55
35. Hurlevent (1985)
130 min | Drama, Romance, Mystery
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu, Alice de Poncheville
Votes: 305 | Gross: $0.62M
36. Djeca (2012)
90 min | Drama
Siblings Rahima and Nedim are the Bosnian war orphans. She works as a restaurant chef and earns just enough money to survive.
Director: Aida Begic | Stars: Marija Pikic, Ismir Gagula, Bojan Navojec, Sanela Pepeljak
Votes: 587
37. La cage aux rossignols (1945)
89 min | Drama, Music
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
Director: Jean Dréville | Stars: Noël-Noël, Micheline Francey, René Génin, René Blancard
Votes: 159
38. Les enfants (1985)
84 min | Comedy
7 year-old boy Ernesto intrigues people around him for several reasons. Despite such a young age, he looks like a man on his 40's and also seems a little more intelligent than any of his ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Axel Bogousslavsky, Daniel Gélin, Tatiana Moukhine, Martine Chevallier
Votes: 137
39. Mascarades (2008)
94 min | Comedy
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his ... See full summary »
Director: Lyès Salem | Stars: Lyès Salem, Sarah Reguieg, Rym Takoucht, Merouane Zmirli
Votes: 331
40. Escalier C (1985)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Foster, a cynical art critic, becomes more human thanks to his relationship with the young homosexual Bruno.
Director: Jean-Charles Tacchella | Stars: Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques Bonnaffé, Catherine Leprince
Votes: 275
41. Olá Primo! (1996)
M/12 | 98 min | Comedy
Salut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris.
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Gad Elmaleh, Messaoud Hattau, Magaly Berdy, Ann-Gisel Glass
Votes: 271
42. Le polygraphe (1996)
92 min | Crime
Lucie Champagne is given the role of the victim, Marie-Claire, in a film of a true, unsolved murder. By coincidence, Lucie's neighbour Francois, was Marie-Claire's boyfriend. He is a ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Patrick Goyette, Marie Brassard, Peter Stormare, Maria de Medeiros
Votes: 401 | Gross: $0.06M
43. Notícias do Bom Deus (1996)
100 min | Comedy
When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God. Because ... See full summary »
Director: Didier Le Pêcheur | Stars: Marie Trintignant, Maria de Medeiros, Christian Charmetant, Michel Vuillermoz
Votes: 468
44. Orfeo (1985)
92 min | Music
An adaption of Claudio Monteverdis opera.
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Gino Quilico, Audrey Michaël, Carolyn Watkinson, Danielle Borst
Votes: 14
45. Autour de la maison rose (1999)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
La Maison Rose (The Pink House) is an old mansion in Beirut. It is the place where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War and in which they feel good. Unfortunately for them, ... See full summary »
Directors: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige | Stars: Hanane Abboud, Fadi Abi Samra, Anne-Marie Afif, Asma Andraos
Votes: 68
46. Natalia (1988)
Drama
WW2: in an occupied France ,a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
Director: Bernard Cohn | Stars: Pierre Arditi, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Gérard Blain, Michel Voïta
Votes: 18
47. Cartouches gauloises (2007)
92 min | Drama
A pair of childhood friends spend a spring together before the summer Algeria's war of Independence.
Director: Mehdi Charef | Stars: Mohamed Faouzi Ali Cherif, Thomas Millet, Tolga Cayir, Julien Amate
Votes: 170
48. Rouge-gorge (1985)
105 min | Drama
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Zucca | Stars: Philippe Léotard, Laetitia Léotard, Jérôme Zucca, Victoria Abril
Votes: 22
49. Les Indes galantes (2004 TV Movie)
190 min | Music, Comedy
Director: Thomas Grimm | Stars: Danielle de Niese, João Fernandes, Valérie Gabail, Nicolas Cavallier
Votes: 40
50. Bab el web (2005)
99 min | Comedy
Kamel and his younger brother live in Bab el Oued, a popular district of Algiers. Kamel is embittered and rather taciturn while jollier Bouzid escapes the drab reality of his life chatting ... See full summary »
Director: Merzak Allouache | Stars: Samy Naceri, Faudel, Julie Gayet, Hacène Benzerari
Votes: 103