1. Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud)
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
It has an average vote of 7.605 on TMDB.
2. Black Moon
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
3. Lacombe, Lucien (Lacombe Lucien)
In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. Atlantic City
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
5. Tokyo Sonata (トウキョウソナタ)
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
It has an average vote of 7.325 on TMDB.
6. Baghead
Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
7. The Seventh Curse (原振俠與衛斯理)
When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven 'blood curses' and must return there to find a permanent cure.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
8. The Doll (Die Puppe)
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
It has an average vote of 7.375 on TMDB.
9. My Love (Моя любовь)
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
It has an average vote of 7.294 on TMDB.
10. Lost Embrace (El abrazo partido)
In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
11. God: City
God presides over a modern metropolis.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
12. Balloon (དབུགས་ལྒང་།)
On the Tibetan grasslands, Darje and Drolkar live a serene and ordinary life with their three sons and the grandfather. A condom sparks a series of embarrassment and dilemma, breaking the harmony of the family. What matters more in the circle of life and death, soul or reality?
It has an average vote of 7.077 on TMDB.
13. Those Who Remained (Akik maradtak)
A man who lost his wife and daughter in the Holocaust and a girl who lost her parents meet. Knowing each other′s emptiness, they become like father and daughter. It is the beginning of a sad love that the world cannot accept.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
14. Baumbacher Syndrome (Baumbacher Syndrome)
Late-night talk show host Max Baumbacher turns world-famous after waking up with an unusually deep, almost magical voice.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
15. The Fungi Man (El hombre de los hongos)
Racial conflicts, love triangles and the awakening of passion will lead to disaster for a decadent aristocratic family in the newly independent Mexico.
It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.
16. Solstice - 5
This documentary takes place on Solstice-5, a planet whose resources are exploited by the Continental Alliance to build gigantic machines and warships. However, as the Alliance becomes too expensive to run, the operation is deemed unmanageable. Despite bombing attempts to shut down the factories in production, the machines remain unstoppable. The planet's workers, far from home, feel abandoned.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
17. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen)
Govert Miereveld is a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran, whom he loses touch with after her graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, and the shock of the experience deeply affects his mental balance. He finds out - or he believes so - that Fran has become a popular singer. He arranges to meet her to finally reveal his feelings. An ambiguous but perhaps tragic denouement follows which might be a figment of the protagonist's disturbed mind.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
18. The Leopard's Spots
British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
19. This Man Is Mine
The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, drama-queen ex-wife visits.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
20. Julia
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
It has an average vote of 6.723 on TMDB.
