1. Mouchette (Mouchette)
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
It has an average vote of 7.443 on TMDB.
2. Call Me Mike (Llámenme Mike)
After being unjustly accused of corruption and seriously injured in prison, Miguel's personality will merge with the characters he reads in his police novels.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
3. King Lear
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
4. The Cameraman's Revenge (Месть кинематографического оператора)
A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first animated films, and stars a cast of animated beetles.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. Raven's End (Kvarteret Korpen)
In the middle of this film, about the working class in pre-world war II Sweden, is Anders, who wishes to become an author, his father, who is a notorious dreamer and liar, and his mother, who struggles to keep their family alive.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
6. Roman Summer (Estate romana)
Former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
7. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (黑眼圈)
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
8. Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne)
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
It has an average vote of 7.54 on TMDB.
9. Goodbye Uncle Tom (Addio zio Tom)
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
10. Don't Deliver Us from Evil (Mais ne nous delivrez pas du mal)
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
11. Compulsion
Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.
It has an average vote of 7.052 on TMDB.
12. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (残菊物語)
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.
It has an average vote of 7.894 on TMDB.
13. Girlfight
Diana Guzman begins to train as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers, all while keeping it a secret from her father.
It has an average vote of 6.25 on TMDB.
14. Ugetsu (雨月物語)
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
It has an average vote of 7.98 on TMDB.
15. Pickpocket (Pickpocket)
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
It has an average vote of 7.305 on TMDB.
16. The Happiness of the Katakuris (カタクリ家の幸福)
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
17. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle)
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
18. Chimes at Midnight
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.
It has an average vote of 7.222 on TMDB.
19. Alexander Nevsky (Александр Невский)
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his stand at Novgorod, where a major battle is fought on the ice of frozen Lake Chudskoe. While Alexander leads his outnumbered troops, two of their number, Vasili and Gavrilo, begin a contest of bravery to win the hand of a local maiden.
It has an average vote of 7.107 on TMDB.
20. Mrs. Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
It has an average vote of 7.025 on TMDB.
