1. The Brothers Karamazov
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
It has an average vote of 6.643 on TMDB.
2. About Dry Grasses (Kuru Otlar Üstüne)
A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
It has an average vote of 7.753 on TMDB.
3. Early Summer (麦秋)
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
It has an average vote of 7.834 on TMDB.
4. Cops and Robbers (Guardie e ladri)
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
5. A Bay of Blood (Ecologia del delitto)
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
It has an average vote of 6.624 on TMDB.
6. Masculin Féminin (Masculin féminin)
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
It has an average vote of 7.287 on TMDB.
7. 13 Tzameti (13 Tzameti)
Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
8. Fedora
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
It has an average vote of 6.731 on TMDB.
9. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
It has an average vote of 6.953 on TMDB.
10. The Crucified Lovers (近松物語)
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
11. Three... Extremes (쓰리, 몬스터)
An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors: "Dumplings", directed by Fruit Chan of Hong Kong; "Cut", directed by Park Chan-Wook of Korea; "Box", directed by Miike Takashi of Japan. The first film "Dumplings" was extended and turned into a full-length theatrical film of the same name.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
12. Yellow Earth (黄土地)
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family , he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust…
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
13. Brothers in Arms (L'Union sacrée)
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
14. The Uninvited
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
15. The Letter
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
It has an average vote of 7.276 on TMDB.
16. Early Spring (早春)
A young salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
It has an average vote of 7.56 on TMDB.
17. The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero)
The Boyle family moves into a gothic style house by a cemetery, unaware of its bloody path and guts-spraying future.
It has an average vote of 6.239 on TMDB.
18. El Sur (El sur)
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
It has an average vote of 7.702 on TMDB.
19. Hello
An emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her murdered ex-boyfriend's secrets or find herself dead.
It has an average vote of 6.156 on TMDB.
20. Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano)
Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.
It has an average vote of 7.297 on TMDB.
