1. Dersu Uzala (Дерсу Узала)
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
2. Proof
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.
It has an average vote of 6.323 on TMDB.
3. The Dreamlife of Angels (La Vie rêvée des anges)
Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Marie is watching for a hospitalized mother and daughter. Marie, hoping to avoid a life of struggle and poverty, takes up with Chriss, a nightclub owner whose most attractive asset is his money. Isa recognizes the ultimate futility of the relationship and tries to keep Marie away from him, but her interference puts their friendship at risk.
It has an average vote of 7.039 on TMDB.
4. A Tale of Autumn (Conte d'automne)
Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
It has an average vote of 7.044 on TMDB.
5. Return to Paradise
Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.
It has an average vote of 6.435 on TMDB.
6. Talk to Her (Hable con ella)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
It has an average vote of 7.579 on TMDB.
7. Paradise Now
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
It has an average vote of 6.933 on TMDB.
8. Billy Elliot
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
9. Italian for Beginners (Italiensk for begyndere)
A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
10. Bad Education (La mala educación)
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.
It has an average vote of 7.371 on TMDB.
11. All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
It has an average vote of 7.755 on TMDB.
12. Kolya (Kolja)
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However, it’s not long before the communication barrier is broken between the two new family members.
It has an average vote of 7.391 on TMDB.
13. Sleepless in Seattle
When Sam Baldwin's wife dies, he is left to bring up his eight-year-old son Jonah alone, and decides to move to Seattle to make a new start. On Christmas Eve, Jonah rings a radio phone-in with his Christmas wish to find a new wife for his dad. Meanwhile in Baltimore, journalist Annie Reed, who is having doubts about her own relationship, is listening in.
It has an average vote of 6.744 on TMDB.
14. We Are Friends (Somos amigos)
What would you do if you had to fire your best friend? It is at this point where Julio finds himself when he learns that Santi along with twenty four other workers under his service has to be fired. His boss and friend Max tries to advise him on how to handle the situation but it soon becomes increasingly entangled. Somos Amigos is a short film that seeks to explore the limits between friendship and work... if they exist at all.
15. Perfect Strangers (Perfetti sconosciuti)
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
It has an average vote of 7.868 on TMDB.
16. One Way Trip (글로리데이)
Four best friends, Yong-bi, Ji-gong, Sang-woo and Doo-man who just turned twenty and just came of age took the road to Pohang, a small city near the beach—since one of the friends, Sang-woo, is enlisting in the marine corps the day after. On the last day before Sang-woo goes off to the army, a life-changing incident dawns in front of them. The four best friends now face a situation beyond their control, and are forced through an irrevocable day.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
17. Loev (Loev)
When hot shot, Wall Street dealmaker Jai thinks of putting some pleasure into his 48 hour business trip to Mumbai, Sahil, his young, music-producer friend, drops everything, including his reckless boyfriend Alex, to help him execute the perfect getaway. Hiking the hills and canyons of Maharashtra, amidst half-attempted conversations and sudden silences, business calls and old jokes, the friends discover there is more than just time-zones keeping them apart. Things take another turn when Alex shows up with a new male-companion at his side, throwing up old conflicts and bringing unanswered questions to the fore.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
18. Kidu (കിടു)
Five Class 11 students continue with their mischievous ways till a new teacher joins their school and puts her faith in them, despite the opposition from other faculty. While the boys change their ways, a shocking incident leaves a lasting impact in their lives.
It has an average vote of 1.5 on TMDB.
19. Brothers
Brothers is inspired by a true story of loss. It follows a mother and her two sons as they come to terms with the untimely death of their father. It examines what we remember about people we have lost and how we take their 'essence' with us as we move forward in life without them.
20. Gigantic (Absolute Giganten)
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.