1. Silver Dollar Road
The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
2. Goodbye Stranger (Goodbye Stranger)
A day in the life of Paul who has everything going for him. He has a dream job, a wonderful house and a girlfriend. But when, to his horror, he sees his dream foreign promotion at the world's biggest music streamer in jeopardy, his carefree summer day turns into a day he has to consider his choices. An unexpected encounter with his ex-boyfriend upsets Paul’s reality further. Has he given up his old life and ideals too soon?
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
3. The Loves of Pharaoh (Das Weib des Pharao)
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
4. Crooked Business (Hava Muhalefeti)
A politician's romantic getaway with his secret lover goes awry when his wife unknowingly joins their flight, and he takes drastic measures to avoid her.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
5. Black Night (Karanlık Gece)
Ishak, a wandering musician from a small mountain town. A lynching he was a part of 7 years ago comes back to haunt him as he returns to his town to say farewell to his dying mother. Facing the other five perpetrators--his childhood friends—as well as the community and government officials supporting them, Ishak struggles with the guilt weighing upon him. However, the bigger the crime is, the stronger the silence gets since everyone has blood on their hands.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
6. Where the Wind Blows (風再起時)
The decades spanning story of two very different policemen who rise to power in Hong Kong during British rule, and end up at odds with both organised crime groups and the anti-corruption unit vowing to bring them down.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
7. The Breaking Ice (燃冬)
In cold wintry Yanji, a city on China's northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves from an icy world.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
8. Seven Winters in Tehran (Sieben Winter in Teheran)
After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-defence against a rapist. For a pardon, she would have had to retract her testimony. This moving film reopens the case.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
9. Divinity
Two brothers crash into the decaying Earth to stop a capitalist from manufacturing an immortality serum, which is synthesized utilizing heinous methods and leaving an increasingly dire infertility rate in its wake.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
10. Climates (İklimler)
Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.
It has an average vote of 6.78 on TMDB.
11. The Bohemian (Il Boemo)
The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. Thanks to her, he gets the opportunity to play at salons. But his real opportunity arises when he becomes the lover of a libertine marquise. She teaches him worldly manners, rids him of signs of a provincial upbringing and introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance. Thus transformed, Josef gets an incan incredible commission: to write an opera for the San Carlo, Europe's largest theatre.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
12. 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.
13. Tótem (Tótem)
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
It has an average vote of 6.662 on TMDB.
14. Houria (Houria)
A young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations and they find a creative way to pursue their passion.
It has an average vote of 6.808 on TMDB.
15. Sleep (잠)
A young couple's life is turned upside down when the husband sleepwalks and turns into someone else after dark. His wife, overwhelmed by the fear that he will harm their newborn baby, can no longer sleep.
It has an average vote of 6.598 on TMDB.
16. Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet)
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
17. Passages (Passages)
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.
It has an average vote of 6.458 on TMDB.
18. Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute)
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
It has an average vote of 7.633 on TMDB.
19. Junkyard Dog (Chien de la casse)
Dog and Mirales have been friends since childhood, and live in a small village in the south of France. They spend most of the day hanging around in the streets. To kill time, Mirales has got into the habit of teasing Dog, to the extent that he has become a sort of whipping boy. But one summer, Dog meets Elsa, and they fall in love. Eaten away with jealousy, Mirales will have to get over his past to be able to grow and find his place…
It has an average vote of 7.129 on TMDB.
20. Force Majeure (Turist)
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
It has an average vote of 6.871 on TMDB.
