1. Volver (Volver)
While a woman attempts to cover up her daughter's murder and reinvent her life, her sister is visited by their mother, who was thought to have died.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
2. Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
It has an average vote of 6.743 on TMDB.
3. Popular Music (Populärmusik från Vittula)
Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.
It has an average vote of 6.365 on TMDB.
4. Monsoon Wedding (Monsoon Wedding)
As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. This film traces five intersecting stories, each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class, continent and morality.
It has an average vote of 6.783 on TMDB.
5. Mystic River
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
It has an average vote of 7.739 on TMDB.
6. Danny
Life becomes complicated for a troubled teen when he makes friends with a gay schoolmate.
7. Care
A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
8. Aster and Sidney
(Aster and Sidney)
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. Baise-moi (Baise-moi)
Manu has lived a difficult life. Abused and violently raped, she sets off to find herself only to meet Nadine, a prostitute who has encountered one too many injustices in the world. Angry at the world, they embark on a twisted, rage-filled road trip. They choose to have sex when they please and kill when they need. Leaving a trail of mischief and dead bodies in their wake. Generating a media blitz and manhunt, soon everyone is out to capture the young fugitives.
It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.
10. Joshua
The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
11. Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
It has an average vote of 7.774 on TMDB.
12. Menarche (Menarca)
In a Brazilian village infested with piranhas, Nanã and Mel are fast growing into adolescence as they dream of ways of protecting themselves against a seemingly inescapable violence. When a mysterious body appears tangled in a fisherman's net, they learn what might be their ultimate protection.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. Tahan Na Empoy, Tahan (Tahan Na Empoy, Tahan)
Because his mother is too poor to feed her young children, Empoy is sent to work for his exploitative and cruel aunt.
14. Madonnas (Madonnen)
A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.
It has an average vote of 6.579 on TMDB.
15. For My Brother (For Min Brors Skyld)
The two brothers Aske and Bastian live with their father, Lasse, in a world of fear, violence and alcohol but the brothers' strong and close relationship means everything. Aske must serve his father's sexual needs, as well as paying customers and his father's friend, Hans. Aske tries everything to keep his little brother out of it all so that he won't experience the same as himself. But one day Bastian is abused by their father. The brothers choose to move to Norway, far away in the beautiful mountains. Their friendship outshines everything! They are together and far away from their evil father...
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
16. Working Girl
Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess takes over her office, her apartment and even her wardrobe. She creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her to the top, or finish her off for good.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
17. Frances
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
It has an average vote of 6.87 on TMDB.
18. Fort Saganne (Fort Saganne)
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
It has an average vote of 6.017 on TMDB.
19. The Child I Never Was (Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen)
A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of Germany's most famous child murderer Juergen Bartsch who, between the ages of 15 and 19, abused, tortured and killed four schoolboys in the Ruhr region of Germany from 1962 to 1966.
It has an average vote of 6.762 on TMDB.
20. Catwalk (Catwalk)
Nine-year old Ella realizes the importance of fashion, and starts revolting against her childhood.