1. A Tale of Autumn (Conte d'automne)
Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
It has an average vote of 7.044 on TMDB.
2. A Tale of Winter (Conte d'hiver)
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
3. July Tales (Contes de Juillet)
Two languorous summer days, two thorny tales of romantic misunderstanding: in part one, two girlfriends head to the Cergy leisure park for a day of swimming and equally vigorous flirtation; in the second, a Norwegian exchange student finds herself the target of unwanted attention from two would-be suitors.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
4. The Last of the Unjust (Le Dernier des Injustes)
A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, a fallen hero condemned to exile, who was forced to negotiate day after day from 1938 until the end of the war with Eichmann, to whose trial Murmelstein wasn't even called to testify. Even though he was without a doubt the one who knew the Nazi executioner best. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution" like never before.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
5. Unsere Jungs - Auch Strippen will gelernt sein (Unsere Jungs - Auch Strippen will gelernt sein)
(Unsere Jungs - Auch Strippen will gelernt sein)
It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.
6. A Tale of Springtime (Conte de printemps)
The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her off with her father, despite the latter's already having a lover of his own.
It has an average vote of 6.843 on TMDB.
7. There Will Be No More Night (Il n'y aura plus de nuit)
Images from helicopters. Video recordings from the American and the French military forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. The intervention is taking place right before our eyes. How far can the desire to see lead to, when it has no limits?
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
8. The Spitfire Grill
Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring resentment and fear in some, and growth in others.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
9. Conspirators of Pleasure (Spiklenci slasti)
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, which she whips and dominates in an abandoned church. The TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp. Her husband, who is indifferent to her, steals materials to fashion elaborate artifacts that he rubs, scrapes and rolls across his body.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
10. Child's Pose (Poziţia copilului)
Child's Pose is a contemporary drama focusing on the relationship between a mother and her 32-year-old son. After the accidental killing of a boy in a car crash, the mother tries to prevent her son being charged for the death, and she refuses to accept that her son is a grown-up man.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
11. Rendezvous in Paris (Les Rendez-vous de Paris)
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
12. The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (L'Arbre, le Maire et la Médiathèque)
The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
13. The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert)
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
It has an average vote of 7.442 on TMDB.
14. News from Home (News from Home)
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
15. The Bakery Girl of Monceau (La Boulangère de Monceau)
Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.
It has an average vote of 6.853 on TMDB.
16. Before the Rain (Пред дождот)
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
It has an average vote of 7.338 on TMDB.
17. Rhapsody in August (八月の狂詩曲)
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
It has an average vote of 7.164 on TMDB.
18. The Woman Who Ran (도망친 여자)
While her husband is on a business trip, Gam-hee meets three of her friends on the outskirts of Seoul. They make friendly conversation, as always, but there are different currents flowing independently of each other, both above and below the surface.
It has an average vote of 6.506 on TMDB.
19. Hothead (Coup de tête)
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
20. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership in Temecula teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he and his ragtag team dive in to save the day. But what Ready doesn't count on is falling in love and finding his soul.
It has an average vote of 5.409 on TMDB.
