1. Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen)
A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
2. We Monsters (Wir Monster)
A husband and wife struggle with their consciences after they try to conceal a terrible crime committed by their teenage daughter.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
3. My So-Called Father (Min så kallade pappa)
A daughter helps her estranged father who's lost his memory.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
4. Las acacias (Las acacias)
Rubén is a middle-aged Argentinian truck driver transporting timber between Paraguay and Buenos Aires. One day, at a truck stop, he picks up a young Paraguayan woman, Jacinta, whom his employer had told to take to Buenos Aires. To Rubén's surprise, Jacinta brings along her five-month-old daughter, Anahí.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
5. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the well-connected and volatile artist assimilates Dyer into his circle of eccentric friends, as Dyer's struggle with addiction strains their bond.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
6. Pulce non c'è (Pulce non c'è)
(Pulce non c'è)
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
7. Butter on the Latch
Sarah and Isolde share an interest in the traditional music and dance of the Balkans, but it turns out that shared interests don’t always unite them. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when Sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper Steph. A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends, steering a previously ecstatic camp outing down a psychological rabbit hole.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
8. I Am the Doorway (Jsem brána)
A sci-fi horror film based on the story by Stephen King. A first person POV perspective allows the audience to get inside the head of an astronaut trapped in a spaceship, as a strange virus grows inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. Rio Belongs to Us (O Rio nos Pertence!)
After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there’s nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that here seems threatening and almost enchanting.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
10. Shipwreck
On October 3rd, 2013, a boat carrying 500 Eritrean refugees sunk off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa and over 360 people drowned. Abraham, one of the survivors, walks through a graveyard of shipwrecks and remembers this nightmarish experience. Meanwhile at the harbor, hundreds of coffins are being loaded onto a military ship.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
11. Involuntary (De ofrivilliga)
In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting one's foot down – or failing to do so – are explored.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
12. Aruvi (அருவி)
A gentle girl born and brought up amidst the ever growing eco-social-consumeristic environment finds it difficult to fit in the society. She decides to take it hard on the people.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
13. Fury
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
It has an average vote of 7.502 on TMDB.
14. The Last Supper
A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.
It has an average vote of 6.584 on TMDB.
15. A Swedish Love Story (En kärlekshistoria)
The puppy love of two teenagers is set against a backdrop of adults struggling with their own lives. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seem totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
16. You, the Living (Du levande)
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
17. Blind (Blind)
Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home—a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. After a while, Ingrid starts to feel the presence of her husband in the flat when he is supposed to be at work. At the same time, her lonely neighbor who has grown tired of even the most extreme pornography shifts his attention to a woman across the street. Ingrid knows about this but her real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take over.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
18. L'Âge d'or (L'Âge d'or)
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
It has an average vote of 6.802 on TMDB.
19. Adult Beginners
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.
It has an average vote of 5.394 on TMDB.
20. Black (Black)
Mavela, 15 years old, is a Black Bronx. She falls madly in love with Marwan, an extremely charismatic member of a rival gang, the 1080s. The young couple is forced to make a brutal choice between gang loyalty and the love they have for one another. An impossible dilemma.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
