1. Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
It has an average vote of 7.603 on TMDB.
2. Black Moon
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
3. Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
It has an average vote of 7.491 on TMDB.
4. Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ)
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
It has an average vote of 7.325 on TMDB.
5. Mega Piranha
When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh.
It has an average vote of 3.2 on TMDB.
6. The Doll (Die Puppe)
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
It has an average vote of 7.367 on TMDB.
7. The Seventh Curse (原振俠與衛斯理)
When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven 'blood curses' and must return there to find a permanent cure.
It has an average vote of 6.638 on TMDB.
8. Lost Embrace (El abrazo partido)
In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
9. God: City
God presides over a modern metropolis.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
10. Why Not? (ええじゃないか)
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
11. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen)
Govert Miereveld is a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran, whom he loses touch with after her graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, and the shock of the experience deeply affects his mental balance. He finds out - or he believes so - that Fran has become a popular singer. He arranges to meet her to finally reveal his feelings. An ambiguous but perhaps tragic denouement follows which might be a figment of the protagonist's disturbed mind.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
12. This Man Is Mine
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, drama-queen ex-wife visits.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
13. Cat Sticks (Cat Sticks)
On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Some of them seek a release, while others do not seem to want the night to end.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
14. The Lost Child
Knowing the past changes the future. Seeking a connection to her heritage, Rebecca Hoffman sets out on a journey of discovery following the deaths of her adoptive parents. She finds that connection with her birth family in the Navajo community. But cultures clash when her husband is rejected as an outsider. Rebecca and her family experience rebirth in a rich culture and renewal as a family in this dramatic film based on the autobiography Looking for Lost Bird by Yvette Melanson .
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. The Fungi Man (El hombre de los hongos)
Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.
It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.
16. Baghead
Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
17. Solstice - 5
This documentary takes place on Solstice-5, a planet whose resources are exploited by the Continental Alliance to build gigantic machines and warships. However, as the Alliance becomes too expensive to run, the operation is deemed unmanageable. Despite bombing attempts to shut down the factories in production, the machines remain unstoppable. The planet's workers, far from home, feel abandoned.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
18. Duck Season (Temporada de patos)
Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
19. Julia
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
It has an average vote of 6.723 on TMDB.
20. To End All Wars
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon , Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
