1. We, the Women (Siamo donne)
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
2. Quartet (Quartet)
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
3. General Della Rovere (Il generale Della Rovere)
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
It has an average vote of 7.415 on TMDB.
4. Playing with Fire (Le Jeu avec le feu)
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
5. The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin, and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
6. Gambit
Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point by point. However, when the team tries to execute the plan, perfection and reality don't quite match up, and Harry's vision begins to unravel in this twisty tale of a heist gone wrong.
It has an average vote of 6.97 on TMDB.
7. Europe '51 (Europa '51)
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
8. Castle of Blood (Danza macabra)
When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury)
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
10. The Music Man
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
It has an average vote of 7.13 on TMDB.
11. Summer Palace (颐和园)
The lives of four Beijing University students, from 1988 to the early 2000s.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
12. Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia)
This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.
It has an average vote of 7.307 on TMDB.
13. Landscape in the Mist (Τοπίο στην ομίχλη)
Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly live in Germany.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
14. Creating The Queen's Gambit
A fascinating character. Exquisite sets. A wig for every era. The stars, creators and crew reveal how the hit series about a chess prodigy came to life.
It has an average vote of 7.865 on TMDB.
15. Caravaggio's Shadow (L'ombra di Caravaggio)
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
16. Mamma Roma (Mamma Roma)
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
It has an average vote of 7.863 on TMDB.
17. Farewell Mister Haffmann (Adieu Monsieur Haffmann)
Paris 1942. François Mercier is an ordinary man who only aspires to start a family with the woman he loves, Blanche. He is also the employee of a talented jeweler, Mr. Haffmann. But faced with the German occupation, the two men will have no other choice but to conclude an agreement whose consequences, over the months, will upset the fate of our three characters.
It has an average vote of 6.86 on TMDB.
18. The Young and the Damned (Los olvidados)
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
19. The Leopard (Il gattopardo)
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
It has an average vote of 7.708 on TMDB.
20. 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.