1. The New King of Comedy (新喜劇之王)
A young female actor dreams of becoming famous and building a successful career despite being a stand-in and extra on most sets.
It has an average vote of 5.741 on TMDB.
2. Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli)
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
3. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop 三枪拍案惊奇)
Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought to kill her husband. But Wang is watching their every move. He bribes patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It seems like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel, bloody but satisfying end or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own. As the plot twists, more blood will flow, and ever greater violence will erupt.
It has an average vote of 4.894 on TMDB.
4. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
5. Quatre étoiles (Quatre étoiles)
Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him until she finally comes into contact with him. She knows Stéphane is at bay and decides to take advantage of it.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
6. Night Market Hero (雞排英雄)
Follows a group of food vendors who have made their living in the bustling 888 Night Market for over a decade. Their livelihood is threatened when some real estate developer acquires the land where the night market is situated.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
7. Vampires (Vampires)
Vincent Lannoo’s ‘mockumentary’ shows us a community of vampires in Belgium. The two ‘parents’ of the family are George and Bertha, who have two teenage children – or rather, they raise two former humans who they turned into vampires. Son Samson is a bit of a jack the lad: enjoying the sexual freedom of vampire life, with all the vigour of an irresponsible young adult regardless of consequences . Daughter Grace yearns for humanity in a different way: applying fake tan to get rid of her vampiric pallor, dressing in pink clothes, wishing she could feel emotion and even having a human boyfriend.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
8. Shower (洗澡)
An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of Shenzhen, abruptly returns one day, it once again puts under stress the long-broken father-son ties. Presented as a light-hearted comedy, Shower explores the value of family, friendship, and tradition.
It has an average vote of 6.984 on TMDB.
9. Dead Fish
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
10. Jay Chou 2007 World Tour Concert Live (周杰倫 2007 世界巡回演唱會)
2007 the World Tours is Taiwanese Mandopop artist Jay Chou's second live album and Concert DVD. The world tour was kicked off in Taipei on 10 November 2007, and continued to Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Los Angeles. This is his third live tour since, The One Concert Live in 2002 and Incomparable Jay Concert Live, in 2004. The album debuted at number one on Taiwan's G-Music Weekly Top 20 Audio/Video Chart at week four with a percentage sales of 9.96%. It peaked at number one for eight weeks and charted in the Top 20 for 33 weeks.
It has an average vote of 8.8 on TMDB.
11. Enemies In-Law (위험한 상견례 2)
Chul-soo is the only son of a legendary thief family. He falls in love with Young-hee who is a police officer. Her family is also a police family. To get her parents’ permission to marry, Chul-soo undertakes an exam to become a police officer, but both families work to prevent their marriage.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
12. Raise the Red Lantern (大红灯笼高高挂)
In 1920s China, a nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family and compete with his three wives for his attention, slowly uncovering the dark truths that lie within their gilded cage.
It has an average vote of 7.939 on TMDB.
13. New Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Yuk Jiao Lung takes up kung fu with the former rebel master Jade Fox as a way to escape an undesirable arranged marriage, while simultaneously, sword master Li Mu Bai falls in love with Yu Shu Lien when she arrives to avenge the murder of her parents. When the Green Destiny Sword turns up stolen, and the notorious female thief Jade Fox arrives to finish the ordeal, the four become enmeshed in a tangle of adventure, vengeance, and betrayal.
It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.
14. Milarepa (མི་ལ་རས་པའི་རྣམ་ཐར།།)
Milarepa depicts the humble beginnings of the man who was to become Tibet's greatest saint. A true story based on centuries-old oral traditions, a youthful Milarepa is propelled into a world of sorrow and betrayal after his father's sudden death. Destitute and hopeless, he sets out to learn black magic - and exact revenge on his enemies - encountering magicians, demons, an enigmatic teacher and unexpected mystical power along the way. But it is in confrontation with the consequences of his anger that he learns the most. Photographed in the stunning Lahaul-Spiti region of Northern India, Milarepa offers a provocative parallel to the cycle of violence and retribution consuming today's world.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
15. Sixty Million Dollar Man (百變星君)
A rich playboy gets blown up by a gangster when he flirts with the gangster's wife. Through a series of circumstances, his professor makes him a synthetic body that allows him to change into anything he wants.
It has an average vote of 6.377 on TMDB.
16. Rouge (胭脂扣)
Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
17. Going My Way
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
It has an average vote of 6.724 on TMDB.
18. The Concubine (후궁: 제왕의 첩)
Living a torturous life of poverty and barely able to survive, Hwa-yeon decides to offer herself as one of the king’s concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately seized by the woman - the Grand Prince Seong-won, a megalomaniacal ruler drunk with power and lust, and Kwon-yoo, who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-yeon is exposed.
It has an average vote of 6.012 on TMDB.
19. The Road Home (我的父亲母亲)
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
20. Hero (英雄)
During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.
It has an average vote of 7.507 on TMDB.
