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1. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023)
179 min | Drama
A man returns to his hometown, where he's haunted by past memories and desires.
Director: Thien An Pham | Stars: Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thinh, Vu Ngoc Manh, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh
Votes: 1,056
2. Plan 75 (2022)
113 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
Director: Chie Hayakawa | Stars: Chieko Baishô, Hayato Isomura, Stefanie Arianne, Taka Takao
Votes: 2,175
3. War Pony (2022)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
The interlocking stories of two young Oglala Lakota men growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Directors: Gina Gammell, Riley Keough | Stars: Anjeliq Aurora, Sean Baker, Iona Red Bear, Jessica Poor Bear
Votes: 2,512
4. Murina (2021)
96 min | Drama
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic | Stars: Gracija Filipovic, Leon Lucev, Danica Curcic, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 3,197
5. Our Mothers (2019)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama
Ernesto is a young anthropologist in Guatemala. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a "guerrillero" who went missing during the war.
Director: Cesar Diaz | Stars: Armando Espitia, Emma Dib, Aurelia Caal, Julio Serrano Echeverría
Votes: 760
6. Girl (II) (2018)
R | 105 min | Drama
A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.
Director: Lukas Dhont | Stars: Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart, Tijmen Govaerts
Votes: 17,011
7. Montparnasse Bienvenüe (2017)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
In her early thirties, broke, and in the wake of a humbling breakup, a spirited, yet rudderless young woman finds herself struggling to get by in the bustling Parisian metropolis; however, if she can make it there, she'll make it anywhere.
Director: Léonor Serraille | Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Jean-Christophe Folly
Votes: 2,931
8. Divines (2016)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.
Director: Houda Benyamina | Stars: Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kévin Mischel, Jisca Kalvanda
Votes: 10,521
9. Land and Shade (2015)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
After having left a long time ago, a humble country sugar cane worker returns home to meet his grandson and deal with the hardships his family has been put into.
Director: César Augusto Acevedo | Stars: Haimer Leal, Hilda Ruiz, Edison Raigosa, Marleyda Soto
Votes: 1,883
10. Party Girl (I) (2014)
96 min | Drama
An aging nightclub hostess decides to settle down and get married.
Directors: Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis | Stars: Angélique Litzenburger, Joseph Bour, Mario Theis, Samuel Theis
Votes: 1,527
11. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
PG-13 | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
Director: Benh Zeitlin | Stars: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes
Votes: 85,049 | Gross: $12.80M
12. Las Acacias (2011)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
Reluctantly, a dour long-distance truck driver agrees to give a lift to a Paraguayan single mother and her five-month-old daughter to Buenos Aires. Can the palpable silence soften up the taciturn trucker's sullen heart?
Director: Pablo Giorgelli | Stars: Germán De Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani, Matilde Jazmín Mamani
Votes: 2,453
13. Leap Year (2010)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Laura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover.
Director: Michael Rowe | Stars: Mónica Del Carmen, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Marco Zapata, Diego Chas
Votes: 2,797
14. Samson & Delilah (II) (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A glue-sniffing boy and his girlfriend escape the government-controlled no-hope Aboriginal community they live in and go to the city, Alice Springs, looking for a better life.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, Scott Thornton
Votes: 3,763
15. Hunger (2008)
Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw
Votes: 73,535 | Gross: $0.15M
16. Jellyfish (2007)
Unrated | 78 min | Drama
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life... See full summary »
Directors: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret | Stars: Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Raban
Votes: 2,744 | Gross: $0.34M
17. 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
18. The Forsaken Land (2005)
Unrated | 108 min | Drama
Weary residents (Soma, Lata, Piyasiri) of a war-ravaged country drift through life.
Director: Vimukthi Jayasundara | Stars: Mahendra Perera, Hemasiri Liyanage, Nilupili Jayawardena, Kaushalaya Fernando
Votes: 474
19. Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
Director: Miranda July | Stars: John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff
Votes: 37,426 | Gross: $3.89M
20. Or (My Treasure) (2004)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel... See full summary »
Director: Keren Yedaya | Stars: Dana Ivgy, Ronit Elkabetz, Meshar Cohen, Katia Zinbris
Votes: 1,611 | Gross: $0.03M
21. Reconstruction (2003)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A young man who thought himself already in love with a nice girl is drawn into a literary drama when he is captured by a deep and stimulating love affair.
Director: Christoffer Boe | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Maria Bonnevie, Krister Henriksson, Klaus Mulbjerg
Votes: 7,617 | Gross: $0.07M
22. Bord de mer (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all ... See full summary »
Director: Julie Lopes-Curval | Stars: Hélène Fillières, Jonathan Zaccaï, Bulle Ogier, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 318 | Gross: $0.01M
23. 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
24. Djomeh (2000)
94 min | Drama
Djomeh is a young Afghan man who has come to live in Iran because of family trouble. Working as a milk boy, he encounters discrimination from the Iranian villagers and disdain from Habib, a... See full summary »
Director: Hassan Yektapanah | Stars: Jalil Nazari, Rashid Akbari, Mahmoud Behraznia, Valiollah Beta
Votes: 204
25. A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, War
Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini
Votes: 8,827 | Gross: $0.70M
26. Marana Simhasanam (1999)
61 min | Drama
A satire on political corruption and class injustices in Indian village culture.
Director: Murali Nair | Stars: Vishwas Njavakkal, Lakshmi Raman, Suhas Thayat, Jeevan Mitva
Votes: 129
27. Slam (1998)
R | 100 min | Drama
Grand Jury Prize, 1998 Sundance Film Festival. A talented youth (Saul Williams) copes with urban crime and despair by competing in poetry slams. Sonja Sohn of "The Wire" costars.
Director: Marc Levin | Stars: Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone, Lawrence Wilson
Votes: 2,450 | Gross: $0.98M
28. Suzaku (1997)
95 min | Drama
Depicts the dissolution of a small family in a remote Japanese timber village.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Sachiko Izumi, Kôtarô Shibata
Votes: 1,480
29. Love Serenade (1996)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the ... See full summary »
Director: Shirley Barrett | Stars: Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith, George Shevtsov, John Alansu
Votes: 1,662 | Gross: $0.58M
30. The White Balloon (1995)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama, Family
Several people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Anna Borkowska
Votes: 8,241 | Gross: $0.47M
31. Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994)
104 min | Drama
It's summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man around 40 is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them : a boy, Jumbo, aged... See full summary »
Director: Pascale Ferran | Stars: Didier Sandre, Alexandre Zloto, Catherine Ferran, Agathe De Chassey
Votes: 226
32. The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
Director: Anh Hung Tran | Stars: Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong, Anh Hoa Nguyen
Votes: 9,980 | Gross: $1.91M
33. Mac (1992)
R | 117 min | Drama
Mac is the ambitious, overbearing, irresistible oldest of three brothers who struggle against all odds to scrape together enough money to start their own business in Queens, New York.
Director: John Turturro | Stars: John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Carl Capotorto, Nicholas Turturro
Votes: 1,023 | Gross: $0.47M
34. Toto the Hero (1991)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Thomas believed he was switched at birth with Alfred. Feeling cheated, Thomas spent his life plotting revenge against Alfred, his perceived lifelong adversary who he felt stole the privileged life that should have been his.
Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Jo De Backer, Thomas Godet
Votes: 6,342 | Gross: $1.23M
35. Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
105 min | Drama
Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.
Director: Vitali Kanevsky | Stars: Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko
Votes: 933
36. My Twentieth Century (1989)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of the luxurious Orient-Express.
Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovskiy, Paulus Manker, Péter Andorai
Votes: 1,994 | Gross: $0.68M
37. Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama
Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma
Votes: 10,088 | Gross: $2.08M
38. Robinzoniada, anu chemi ingliseli Papa (1987)
76 min | Comedy
The story, in flashback, of the death of a British Telegraph engineer in Georgia, USSR in 1920. Caught up in a civil war, and a war between his girlfriend and the women the Company send as ... See full summary »
Director: Nana Dzhordzhadze | Stars: Janri Lolashvili, Nineli Chankvetadze, Guram Pirtskhalava, Elguja Burduli
Votes: 107
39. Noir et blanc (1986)
80 min | Drama
Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a month to straighten out their books. The ... See full summary »
Director: Claire Devers | Stars: Francis Frappat, Jacques Martial, Joséphine Fresson, Marc Berman
Votes: 173
40. Oriana (1985)
88 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana
Director: Fina Torres | Stars: Doris Wells, Daniela Silverio, Rafael Briceño, Mirtha Borges
Votes: 447
41. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark
Votes: 40,644 | Gross: $2.44M
42. Adj király katonát (1983)
113 min | Drama
Jutka was an innocent 15-year-old peasant when she and her friend Zsuzsa left for the big city to get work in a textile factory and live independently. Their freedom quickly became more ... See full summary »
Director: Pál Erdöss | Stars: Erika Ozsda, Andrea Szendrei, Dénes Diczházy, Árpád Tóth
Votes: 73
43. Mourir à 30 ans (1982)
95 min | Documentary
Romain Goupil records his years of militancy and disappointment as the new world they fought for doesn't come. He praises his missing friend Michel Recanati who committed suicide at 30 years.
Director: Romain Goupil | Stars: Alain Bureau, Pierre Goupil, Romain Goupil, Sophie Goupil
Votes: 240
44. Desperado City (1981)
98 min | Drama
Skoda is the son of a wealthy banker. To keep a privileged lifestyle, he has chosen to ditch the relationship and drive a taxi for a living. The film follows his nightly rides through the city, the different characters that come and go.
Director: Vadim Glowna | Stars: Siemen Rühaak, Beate Finckh, Vera Tschechowa, Karin Baal
Votes: 42
45. Histoire d'Adrien (1980)
95 min | Drama
In the Périgord, at the beginning of the century, Adrien, illegitimate child, is adopted by his grandmother. When the First World War ended, he becomes a railway man, and takes part in the strikes of 1920.
Director: Jean-Pierre Denis | Stars: Bernard Sautereau, Serge Dominique, Pierre Dienade, Marcelle Dessalles
Votes: 25
46. Northern Lights (1978)
95 min | Drama, History
NORTHERN LIGHTS has the feel of an old black and white photograph discovered in an attic. The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in an political struggle waged by farmers against ... See full summary »
Directors: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson | Stars: Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano, Ray Ness
Votes: 215 | Gross: $0.01M
47. Alambrista! (1977)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Drama
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.
Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty
Votes: 774
48. The Duellists (1977)
PG | 100 min | Drama, War
France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox
Votes: 26,695 | Gross: $0.20M
49. Jeremy (1973)
PG | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Shy cellist boy meets upperclassman ballet-student girl at school. They experience first-time love, then happenstance pulls them apart
Director: Arthur Barron | Stars: Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Len Bari, Leonardo Cimino
Votes: 1,076
50. Between Miracles (1971)
122 min | Comedy
Little Benedetto came out of an accident uninjured on his First Communion day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and make him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That... See full summary »
Director: Nino Manfredi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Delia Boccardo, Paola Borboni, Mario Scaccia
Votes: 609
51. Hoa Binh (1970)
GP | 93 min | Drama, War
A small Vietnamese boy grows up during the horrors and hardships of The Vietnam War era.
Director: Raoul Coutard | Stars: Phi Lan, Huynh Cazenas, Xuan Ha, Le Quynh
Votes: 250
52. 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: 116,909 | Gross: $41.73M
53. Rih al awras (1966)
95 min | Drama, War
A story about the suffering of a mother (Kalthoum) from the Auras region whose husband died after aerial bombardment of the house by the French army during colonial days also the capture of... See full summary »
Director: Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Stars: Keltoum, Mohamed Chouikh, Hassan El-Hassani, Thania Timgad
Votes: 116
54. Rascoala (1966)
100 min | Drama
A few important events from the Romanian peasant uprising of 1907.
Director: Mircea Muresan | Stars: Ilarion Ciobanu, Nicolae Secareanu, Emil Botta, Ion Besoiu
Votes: 186
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