1. Dolls (ドールズ)
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
It has an average vote of 7.576 on TMDB.
2. Kikoriki: Team Invincible (Смешарики: Начало)
But the lives of the Kikoriki are suddenly turned upside-down when they stumble on a strange device they had only heard about - a TV.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
3. Fireworks (HANA-BI)
Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her home. During his visit, a suspect shoots one detective dead and leaves Nishi's partner, Horibe, paralyzed. Nishi leaves the police force to spend time with his wife at home, and must find a way to pay off his debts to the yakuza.
It has an average vote of 7.685 on TMDB.
4. Brother
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.
It has an average vote of 7.107 on TMDB.
5. Boiling Point (３－４Ｘ１０月)
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
It has an average vote of 6.875 on TMDB.
6. Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (聯合艦隊司令長官 山本五十六 – 太平洋戦争70年目の真実)
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs. While this infamous attack is a low point in Japanese and US history it wouldn’t have happened if the Japanese government had listened to Yamamoto in 1939 and searched for a more peaceful way to end their war campaign, proving his many ominous presages of the outcomes of the attack to come true.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
7. Arion (アリオン)
The story follows Arion, a young man kidnapped by Hades as a child and raised to believe that his mother was blinded by Zeus and that killing the ruler of Mount Olympus will cure her.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
8. Shylock's Children (シャイロックの子供たち)
(シャイロックの子供たち)
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
9. Step Across the Border
An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
10. The Seaside Motel (シーサイドモーテル)
The Seaside Motel is trapped in the mountains, without even enough water to serve their guests 24 hours a day, much less having a view of a body of water of any kind.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
11. The New Country (Det nya landet)
A 15-year-old Somalian boy meets a 40-year-old Iranian man in a refugee camp in Skåne, in the south of Sweden. With the threat of deportation hanging over them, they decide to take their faiths in their own hands and together they go on a journey in the Swedish summer.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
12. Tati Shorts
Seven short films: On demande une brute , Gai dimanche , Soigne ton gauche , L’école des facteurs , Cours du soir , Forza Bastia , and Dégustation maison written or directed by Jacques Tati.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
13. Rich Hall's Presidential Grudge Match
An examination of the sordid machinations involved in becoming president of the United States. Rich Hall looks back at some of the dirtiest and nastiest presidential campaigns of the past, proving that the 2016 race to the White House is not the first time the contest has got personal.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. Morel's Invention (L'invenzione di Morel)
A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed with old-fashioned clothes. He is afraid because people don't see him, like a ghost.
It has an average vote of 6.129 on TMDB.
15. Golden Slumber (ゴールデンスランバー)
When easy-going Aoyagi meets an old friend for a fishing trip, he ends up drugged, framed for the Prime Minister's assassination, and on the run from corrupt cops. It's only the beginning of what quickly becomes the worst, weirdest day of his life. But he'll get by with a little help from his friends, who include a famous pop diva, a rockabilly deliveryman, a crippled old gangster, and the world's most cheerful serial killer.
It has an average vote of 7.205 on TMDB.
16. Be with You (いま、会いにゆきます)
When two souls find one another, nothing can tear them apart. Widower Takumi lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji after the loss of wife and mother Mio. Yuji unfailingly remembers her promise to him: "I'll be with you again in a year's time, when the rains come." On the first anniversary of her passing, Takumi and Yuji are taking a walk in the woods when they come across a woman sheltering from a monsoon downpour.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
17. Beat Street
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
18. Achilles and the Tortoise (アキレスと亀)
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting him, despite all setbacks.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
19. Curse of the Pink Panther
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
It has an average vote of 4.654 on TMDB.
20. Venus Beauty Institute (Vénus beauté (institut))
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
