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1. Living (2022)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama
In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
Director: Oliver Hermanus | Stars: Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Adrian Rawlins
Votes: 32,867
2. Diary of a Nymphomaniac (2008)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.
Director: Christian Molina | Stars: Belén Fabra, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Llum Barrera, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 11,641
3. A Silence (2023)
99 min | Drama
Astrid, the wife of a renowned lawyer, has been silenced for 25 years. Her family's equilibrium suddenly collapses when her children start looking for justice.
Director: Joachim Lafosse | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Devos, Matthieu Galoux, Jeanne Cherhal
Votes: 268
4. Who You Think I Am (2019)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.
Director: Safy Nebbou | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Nicole Garcia, François Civil, Marie-Ange Casta
Votes: 7,512
5. From the Land of the Moon (2016)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
In 1950s France, Gabrielle is a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man when she is sent away to the Alps to treat her kidney stones. Gabrielle yearns to free herself and run away with André.
Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel, Alex Brendemühl, Brigitte Roüan
Votes: 6,701 | Gross: $0.04M
6. The Pleasure (1985)
93 min | Drama
Leonora's children Ursula and Edmund inherit her erotic recordings. Ursula uses the recordings to forge a relationship with Gerard, Leonora's late lover. Meanwhile, Gerard's mistress attends to Edmund.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Andrea Guzon, Gabriele Tinti, Marco Mattioli, Lilli Carati
Votes: 241
7. Love on the Run (1979)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys ... See full summary »
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dani
Votes: 7,537
8. The Skin of Sorrow (2010 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A naive young man and his deal with the devil.
Director: Alain Berliner | Stars: Thomas Coumans, Annabelle Hettmann, Julien Honoré, Mylène Jampanoï
Votes: 659
9. A Godwink Christmas: Second Chance, First Love (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Drama, Family, Romance
After 15 years, a single father moves home from Hawaii with his two sons, and through a series of coincidences--or Godwinks--ends up stuck in traffic next to his high school sweetheart.
Director: Heather Hawthorn Doyle | Stars: Brooke D'Orsay, Sam Page, Michele Scarabelli, Rhys Slack
Votes: 1,332
10. Esau (2019)
TV-14 | 110 min | Drama
A 40-year-old writer returns to his family house where he was raised and that he escaped after half a lifetime - to face his brother who stayed instead, inherited their family bakery and married the woman who they both loved.
Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Mark Ivanir, Yuliya Peresild, Harvey Keitel
Votes: 167
11. The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
Unrated | 137 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 1,463 | Gross: $0.28M
12. Discworld Noir (1999 Video Game)
Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Third game based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. On a dark and stormy night in the city of Ankh-Morpork, the first and only private investigator on the Discworld, Lewton (you), is ... See full summary »
Director: Gregg Barnett | Stars: Rob Brydon, Robert Llewellyn, Nigel Planer, Kate Robbins
Votes: 274
13. In the Basement (2015)
14 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A young girl is kidnapped and imprisoned by a man hell-bent on building a family by kidnapping women and forcing them to play into his twisted fantasy. But this time he just may have kidnapped the wrong girl.
Director: Matthew McGregor | Stars: Alexandra Neary, Herman Johansen, Tara Bopp, Victor Chi
Votes: 93
14. La duchesse de Langeais (1995 TV Movie)
79 min | Drama
Told as a flashback, the story of the thwarted love of the Duchess de Langeais and the Marquis de Montriveau, when he comes to look for the Duchess in the convent where she hides, but also refuses to see him for reasons of religious faith.
Director: Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | Stars: Laure Duthilleul, Robin Renucci, Edwige Feuillère, Bernard Verley
Votes: 13
15. Mine Your Business! (1927)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Western, Short
A white man disguises himself as a black man in order to get a job in the city shining shoes. He later travels out west, and gets mixed up with a gold mine and claim-jumpers.
Director: John Tansey | Stars: Fred Parker, Teddy Reavis, George Tyron, Bob Harrington
Votes: 18
16.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
May and June: Part One
(1997)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a lifetime of sibling rivalry, mousy May accepts an invitation from her recently-widowed younger sister June, to live with her in her elegant home.
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Christine Kavanagh, Michael Nardone, Phoebe Nicholls, Tina Hobley
Votes: 77
17.
Pan Am (2011–2012)
Episode:
Pilot
(2011)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, History, Romance
Dean takes on his first assignment since his promotion, piloting the Clipper Majestic on its inaugural New York to London flight. Bridget is supposed to be his lead stewardess, until she's ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Christina Ricci, Margot Robbie, Michael Mosley, Karine Vanasse
Votes: 522
18.
Vienna Blood (2019– )
Episode:
Death is Now a Welcome Guest
(2022)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, History
Max and Oskar hunt for men with fanatical devotions and dangerous obsessions after tragedy strikes at a silent film premiere.
Director: Robert Dornhelm | Stars: Matthew Beard, Juergen Maurer, Conleth Hill, Amelia Bullmore
Votes: 259
19.
Les papillons noirs (2022)
Episode:
Une Proposition Déterminante
(2022)
TV-MA | 54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Nora leaks Adrien's manuscript to his publisher. In the 70s, Albert and Solange spend bloody summers along the French Riviera.
Director: Olivier Abbou | Stars: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Niels Arestrup, Axel Granberger, Alyzée Costes
Votes: 169
20.
Les papillons noirs (2022)
Episode:
Ivresse d'Écriture
(2022)
TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Albert remembers one particularly close call and a rough patch with Solange. Adrien descends into old vices. Mathilde looks into Carrel's disappearance.
Director: Olivier Abbou | Stars: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Niels Arestrup, Axel Granberger, Alyzée Costes
Votes: 155