1. Two Lovers and a Bear
Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
2. A Quiet Dream (춘몽)
They're losers, but nice ones. Every day they sit at Yeri's bar, smitten by the young Chinese-Korean woman. Yeri doesn't have a preference. To her, they are equally sweet: Jongbin, a milk-drinking epileptic, Ikjune, a former petty criminal, and the introverted Jungbum, who fled from North Korea.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
3. The Rider
Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
4. Zombi Child (Zombi Child)
Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
5. Sukiyaki Western Django (Sukiyaki Western Django)
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
6. State of Grace
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
It has an average vote of 6.956 on TMDB.
7. Black Coal, Thin Ice (白日焰火)
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
It has an average vote of 6.456 on TMDB.
8. Happy-Go-Lucky
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
It has an average vote of 6.571 on TMDB.
9. Happiness (Le Bonheur)
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
It has an average vote of 7.472 on TMDB.
10. Oslo, August 31st (Oslo, 31. august)
One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
11. Cracks
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
It has an average vote of 6.662 on TMDB.
12. The Class (Entre les murs)
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
13. The Best Years (Gli anni più belli)
Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
It has an average vote of 6.82 on TMDB.
14. The Grandmaster (一代宗師)
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
15. Caché (Caché)
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
It has an average vote of 7.053 on TMDB.
16. Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta)
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the leader of the Resistance is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
It has an average vote of 8.005 on TMDB.
17. The Last Letter from Your Lover
A young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
18. Persepolis (Persepolis)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
It has an average vote of 7.911 on TMDB.
19. Definitely, Maybe
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
20. Aftersun
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
