1. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Garry Kasparov is possibly the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997, he played a match against the greatest chess computer: IBM's Deep Blue. He lost. This film depicts the drama that happened away from the chess board from Kasparov's perspective. It explores the psychological aspects of the game and the paranoia surrounding IBM's ultimate chess machine.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
2. Hôtel (Hôtel)
Peace reigns between Terrorists and Policemen, in a secluded and strange Hotel. Useless for the first time, they fight against boredom while the world around them slowly crumbles.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
3. Love and Bruises (Love and Bruises)
Hua, a woman in her late twenties, goes against her family to become a teacher in Paris. She falls in love with men who physically abuse her. Will she ever find her true love?
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
4. Why? (Proč?)
Why? is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia, particularly with the fans of football club Sparta from Prague, whose supporters were the pioneers of the football fan riots in Czechoslovakia, starting with hooligan actions already in the 1960s, like breaking the trains in which they travelled when they went on Sparta's away games. The film deals with one of such episodes
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
5. Rule Number One (第一誡)
Rookie Sergeant Lee is injured in a shoot-out and is assigned to the dubious-sounding Miscellaneous Affairs Department . There, he is paired up with Inspector Wong, a jaded and alcoholic veteran who explains that MAD’s role is to answer supernatural calls. Wong explains MAD’s rule number one - there are no ghosts. For every seemingly inexplicable phenomenon, there is a corresponding scientific and rational explanation.
It has an average vote of 6.13 on TMDB.
6. Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? (打ち上げ花火、下から見るか?横から見るか?)
One summer day, a group of sixth-grade boys have an argument about whether fireworks are round or flat when viewed from different angles and embark on a journey for the answer during the annual firework festival. Meanwhile, one of their classmates, Nazuna, is troubled by her parents' separation and decides to choose one of the boys to run away with.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
7. Fame chimica (Fame chimica)
(Fame chimica)
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
8. Cow
A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
9. Hi, Are You Alone? (Hola, ¿estás sola?)
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
10. The Trouble with Being Born (The Trouble with Being Born)
Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
11. The Amusement Park
An elderly gentleman sets out for what he thinks will be a normal day at an amusement park and is soon embroiled in a waking nightmare.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
12. Memories of Matsuko (嫌われ松子の一生)
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
It has an average vote of 7.676 on TMDB.
13. Article 15 (Article 15)
A young IPS officer’s new posting in rural India has him confronting caste disparities and uncomfortable truths in the face of a gruesome crime. When three girls go missing in the fictional village of Lalgaon, two of them are found dead and there is no trace of the third one. Where is she and who is responsible for this heinous act?
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
14. Great Expectations
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
It has an average vote of 7.268 on TMDB.
15. Prince Avalanche
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
It has an average vote of 6.13 on TMDB.
16. Lola (Lola)
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
17. Undine (Undine)
Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.
It has an average vote of 6.475 on TMDB.
18. Weekend (Week End)
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
It has an average vote of 7.021 on TMDB.
19. Stolen Kisses (Baisers volés)
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
It has an average vote of 7.307 on TMDB.
20. The Wild Goose Lake (南方车站的聚会)
A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
It has an average vote of 6.622 on TMDB.