1. Boy Meets Girl (Boy Meets Girl)
Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up and wanders the streets. That evening, Mireille, a girl from provincial France who has come up to Paris to make commercials, is left by her boyfriend. Alex witnesses this separation. These two tormented souls run into each other at a party.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
2. Killer of Sheep
An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
3. Peter Ibbetson
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. Trouble Every Day (Trouble Every Day)
Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.
It has an average vote of 5.792 on TMDB.
5. Stellar
This is a hand-painted film which has been photographically step-printed to achieve various effects of brief fades and fluidity-of-motion, and makes partial use of painted frames in repetition . The tone of the film is primarily dark blue, and the paint is composed to suggest galactic forms in a space of stars.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
6. Contact
A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
7. The Samurai (Der Samurai)
Jakob, a young policeman from a remote village, has his world unhinged when a stranger in a dress emerges from the forest and begins killing villagers with a sword.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
8. The Mountain
1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
9. Doomed Love (Amor de Perdição)
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
10. Daughter Of The Guardian (بنت الحارس)
Chaos erupts in a village after a series of burglaries take place, prompting Najma, the daughter of a guard, to think of a solution. She disguises herself as a man and becomes the village vigilante.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
11. Kannapolis (N.C.), 1941
A silent, non-narrative documentary showing people in a small town in the early 1940s. One of H. Lee Waters' "Movies of Local People".
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
12. Raining Stones
Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
It has an average vote of 6.912 on TMDB.
13. Dead Man's Letters (Письма мертвого человека)
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will never be read.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
14. Mister Lonely
In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
15. 3 Women
Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.
It has an average vote of 7.252 on TMDB.
16. Cycling with Molière (Alceste à bicyclette)
Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atlantic coast. Three years later, Gauthier Valence, a beloved TV actor, shows up on the island to offer Serge a role in his directorial debut – a rendition of Molière’s classic play, “The Misanthrope”. Serge refuses at first, but then suggests that they rehearse the first scene and after five days he’ll decide if he wants to dothe play or not. What ensues is a battle of brawn and wits and peculiar encounters with a hotel maid who longs to be a pornstar and an Italian divorcée.
It has an average vote of 6.52 on TMDB.
17. The Sweet Hereafter
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
It has an average vote of 6.91 on TMDB.
18. Knife+Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur)
In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
19. Be Sick… It's Free (Il medico della mutua)
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
It has an average vote of 7.044 on TMDB.
20. The Tribe (Плем'я)
Deaf-mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf-and-dumb. In navigating through the school's hierarchy, he encounters a corrupt underbelly of criminality, known as The Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization, when he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwittingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the group.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
