1. Notes Towards an African Orestes (Appunti per un'Orestiade africana)
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
2. Passione (Passione)
John Turturro tells, shooting alleys and testimonies of real neapolitan people, the history and musical culture of Napoli, attending every event and tale with a song.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
3. Anna Boleyn (Anna Boleyn)
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
4. Notes for a Film in India (Appunti per un film sull'India)
A 1968 short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India in the search of a king who could give up his body to feed a starving tiger.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
5. A Lake (Un Lac)
The action unfolds in a country about which we know nothing, a land of snow and forests, somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, a young, pure-hearted man, is a woodcutter. Occasionally suffering from epileptic seizures and overcome by an ecstatic state, he is one with the nature around him. Alexi is very close to his younger sister, Hege. Their blind mother, father, and younger brother, silently observe this uncontrollable love. One day a stranger arrives, a young man slightly older than Alexi.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
6. Love at Sea (L'Amour à la mer)
During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
7. Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche (Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche)
A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
8. The Mill and the Cross (Młyn i krzyż)
What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland's most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill and the Cross is a cinematic re-staging of Pieter Bruegel's masterpiece "Procession to Calvary," presented alongside the story of its creation.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
9. Tristana (Tristana)
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.
It has an average vote of 7.255 on TMDB.
10. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Тіні забутих предків)
In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind stays on his lost love. To recapture his attention, Palagna tries sorcery, and in the process comes under the spell of the sorcerer, publicly humiliating Ivan, who then fights the sorcerer. The lively rhythms of village life, the work and the holidays, the pageant and revelry of weddings and funerals, the change of seasons, and nature's beauty give proportion to Ivan's tragedy.
It has an average vote of 7.635 on TMDB.
11. Face to Face (Ansikte mot Ansikte)
Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity.
It has an average vote of 7.259 on TMDB.
12. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!)
A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
13. The Decameron (Il Decameron)
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. From the Land of the Moon (Mal de pierres)
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
It has an average vote of 6.558 on TMDB.
15. The After
After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.
It has an average vote of 5.708 on TMDB.
16. Theorem (Teorema)
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
It has an average vote of 7.105 on TMDB.
17. The Fearless Vampire Killers
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
It has an average vote of 6.96 on TMDB.
18. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez)
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
19. Killer Joe
A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.
It has an average vote of 6.528 on TMDB.
20. I'm Starting from Three (Ricomincio da tre)
Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.
It has an average vote of 7.628 on TMDB.
