1. After Life (Après la vie)
The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's already precarious ties to Agnes are strained further when he meets and falls for her fellow schoolteacher friend Cecile. With Pascal focused on Bruno and Cecile, Agnes is forced to find a fix on her own.
It has an average vote of 6.238 on TMDB.
2. The Moustache (La Moustache)
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?
It has an average vote of 6.074 on TMDB.
3. Ossessione (Ossessione)
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
4. Bellissima (Bellissima)
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
It has an average vote of 7.793 on TMDB.
5. The Innocent (L'innocente)
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
6. The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Vynález zkázy)
As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
7. Il Buco (Il buco)
In August 1961, speleologists from Italy’s booming North arrive on a Calabrian plateau where time stands still. The intruders discover one of the world’s deepest caves, the Bifurto Abyss, under the gaze of an old shepherd, the only witness of the pristine territory.
It has an average vote of 6.224 on TMDB.
8. Shadows
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
It has an average vote of 6.95 on TMDB.
9. 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 7.762 on TMDB.
10. Le Notti Bianche (Le notti bianche)
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
11. Sansho the Bailiff (山椒大夫)
In medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
It has an average vote of 8.102 on TMDB.
12. Ordet (Ordet)
The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.
It has an average vote of 7.901 on TMDB.
13. Candy
A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
14. Diabolique (Les Diaboliques)
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
15. Phenomena
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
It has an average vote of 6.783 on TMDB.
16. The Cabbage Soup (La Soupe aux choux)
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
It has an average vote of 6.364 on TMDB.
17. Italian Race (Veloce come il vento)
Giulia De Martino is a pilot. At seventeen she participates in the GT Championship, under the guidance of her father Mario. But one day everything changes and Giulia has to face alone both the track and her own life.
It has an average vote of 7.555 on TMDB.
18. Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
19. Manhattan
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
It has an average vote of 7.729 on TMDB.
20. Fracture
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
It has an average vote of 7.277 on TMDB.