1. The Sleeping Car Murder (Compartiment tueurs)
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
2. Kill! (斬る)
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
3. Crossroads-Pocket Money (臨歧:零用錢)
Decision: Ma Ji and Zhu Nu are good brothers who have sympathy for brotherhood. They have experienced all kinds of storms and waves together, and their feelings are very firm. However, in an accident, the two unintentionally set off a fire which caused heavy casualties. Ma Ji decided to make a good man from now on, but Zhu Nv still went her own way and gradually drifted away. "Pocket money": A Bang is a son-in-law born with a golden spoon, but in an accident, he became addicted to drugs, and from then on he went deeper and deeper into extinction. Wrong Way: Arvin is a kind and filial boy who always takes care of his sick mother. One day, on the basketball court, Ah Wen was repeatedly harassed and provoked by gangsters. Untolerable, he clashed with the other side, resulting in a homicide. Ah Wen was immediately pursued by the police.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
4. The Crucified Lovers (近松物語)
In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best worker, Mohei, the pair flee the city and declare their love for each other. Ishun orders his men to find them, and separate them to avoid public humiliation.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
5. Mikey and Nicky
In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who's on his trail.
It has an average vote of 6.796 on TMDB.
6. Shoeshine (Sciuscià)
At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
7. Shoah (Shoah)
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.
8. The Turin Horse (A torinói ló)
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
9. Onibaba (鬼婆)
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
10. Timbuktu (Timbuktu)
Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.
It has an average vote of 6.971 on TMDB.
11. Frantz (Frantz)
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
It has an average vote of 7.361 on TMDB.
12. Tokyo Godfathers (東京ゴッドファーザーズ)
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
It has an average vote of 7.912 on TMDB.
13. Carrie
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
14. Face/Off
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
It has an average vote of 7.029 on TMDB.
15. Interstellar
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
It has an average vote of 8.434 on TMDB.
16. Joker
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
It has an average vote of 8.161 on TMDB.
17. Parasite (기생충)
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
It has an average vote of 8.51 on TMDB.
18. Pale Rider
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
It has an average vote of 7.146 on TMDB.
19. Tenet
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
It has an average vote of 7.182 on TMDB.
20. The Godfather Part III
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
It has an average vote of 7.424 on TMDB.