1. Heartbeat Detector (La Question humaine)
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
2. 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 7.311 on TMDB.
3. Creepy (クリーピー 偽りの隣人)
After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.
It has an average vote of 6.615 on TMDB.
4. Pulse (回路)
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
It has an average vote of 6.542 on TMDB.
5. The Bird People in China (中国の鳥人)
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
6. Violette Nozière (Violette Nozière)
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
7. Sanshiro Sugata Part Two (續 姿三四郎)
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his superiority to the foreign warrior.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
8. Happy Flight (ハッピーフライト)
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, dispatchers, controllers, and the bird patrol crew all support a single flight. They have only one mission: to secure the safety of the passengers.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
9. Avenging Force
Martial arts expert Matt Hunter was one of the most promising operatives in Army intelligence until his parents were killed by terrorists, and he retired to the family's farm in Louisiana to take care of his 12-year-old sister Sara and their grandfather Jimmy. Larry Richards, a black man running for the Senate, is one of Matt's best friends. Larry has become the target of The Pentangle, a racist organization led by a man named Glastenbury, and Glastenbury doesn't want Larry to be elected. In an attempt on Larry's life during a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, The Pentangle kills one of Larry's sons. Matt lets Larry, his wife Daisy, and his other son move to the remotely located farm so they can hide from Glastenbury and the Pentangle, but the Pentangle strikes again, setting the farmhouse on fire. Matt and Sara escape as the only survivors. Then the Pentangle kidnaps Sara, sending Matt on a mission to rescue Sara from Glastenbury and the Pentangle
It has an average vote of 5.507 on TMDB.
10. Loft (ロフト)
A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
11. Death of the Rat (La Mort du rat)
A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts... Aubier makes use of a series of successive pictures to portray the series of events that completes a cycle.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
12. Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (無理心中 日本の夏)
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the “death drive” in Japanese youth culture.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
13. There is Light (暗闇から手をのばせ)
Saori, a new face of a call girl service for the disabled, meet diverse people like a client with progressive muscular dystrophy, a college student with spinal injury, and a stalker pretending to be the disabled… Encountering with disabled people who live in various circumstances gives Saori, living in despair, a sense of fulfillment and reason for living.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
14. The Golden Cane Warrior (Pendekar Tongkat Emas)
A martial arts master angers two of her protégés when she selects a third to take her post and the legendary weapon that comes with it.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
15. Free and Easy 11 (釣りバカ日誌イレブン)
Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-san remains in low spirits over business matters.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
16. Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
A merman boy and mermaid girl play, explore a sunken ship, and deal with a giant octopus.
It has an average vote of 4.3 on TMDB.
17. Spontaneous Combustion
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
18. The Witch's Mirror (El espejo de la bruja)
A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
19. The Deep (Djúpið)
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
20. The Quatermass Xperiment
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
It has an average vote of 6.563 on TMDB.
