1. China Is Near (La Cina è vicina)
A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
2. What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
A writer named Algernon buys a picture of a boat on a lake, and his obsession with it renders normal life impossible.
It has an average vote of 6.029 on TMDB.
3. Devil in the Flesh (Diavolo in corpo)
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
4. Still Life (三峡好人)
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
5. The Man Who Will Come (L'uomo che verrà)
A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.
It has an average vote of 7.433 on TMDB.
6. The Crowd
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
It has an average vote of 7.589 on TMDB.
7. Little Buddha
After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children — one American and two Nepalese — who may be the rebirth of their great teacher.
It has an average vote of 6.247 on TMDB.
8. Häxan (Häxan)
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
It has an average vote of 7.603 on TMDB.
9. The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen)
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
It has an average vote of 6.998 on TMDB.
10. Death and the Maiden
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
11. Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy (Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina)
Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" .
It has an average vote of 8.016 on TMDB.
12. El Topo (El Topo)
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.
It has an average vote of 7.086 on TMDB.
13. Anima
In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.
It has an average vote of 7.29 on TMDB.
14. The World Is Yours (Le Monde est à toi)
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
15. Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti)
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
It has an average vote of 8.097 on TMDB.
16. I Vitelloni (I vitelloni)
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
It has an average vote of 7.655 on TMDB.
17. Darkman
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
It has an average vote of 6.431 on TMDB.
18. Coup de Chance (Coup de chance)
Two young people's bond leads to marital infidelity and ultimately crime. Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
It has an average vote of 6.27 on TMDB.
19. Un Chien Andalou (Un chien andalou)
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
It has an average vote of 7.446 on TMDB.
20. Don't Be Bad (Non essere cattivo)
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
It has an average vote of 7.797 on TMDB.