1. Close-Up (کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک)
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
2. Where Is The Friend's House? (خانهی دوست کجاست؟)
An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
3. Certified Copy (Copie conforme)
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
It has an average vote of 6.95 on TMDB.
4. The Wind Will Carry Us (باد ما را خواهد برد)
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
It has an average vote of 7.102 on TMDB.
5. Dhobi Ghat (धोबी घाट)
Arun is a reclusive and lonely modern art painter. Shai is an American banker who is on a visit to Mumbai. Munna is a washerboy also living near Arun and Yasmin. The movie is about these four characters from different class of society and how the lives of four characters are intertwined.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
6. Hospitalité (歓待)
In this black comedy the lives of a timid small-time printer and his young wife are turned inside out by the arrival of a stranger who moves in and takes over their world. Set in a village-like outpost in the heart of Tokyo, this is a wry commentary on Japanese xenophobia. Kiki Sugino heads a spritely ensemble cast.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
7. The Thief (Вор)
Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
8. Antarctica Calling (Voyage au Pôle Sud)
The few thousand kilometers that separate Patagonia from the South Pole are a fascinating and hypnotic journey for explorers. Some even speak of an addiction, 'the Antarctic bite'. March of the Penguins director Luc Jacquet has been experiencing it for 30 years. His new film is a visually-striking adventure, offering us images beyond words, an ultimate tribute to a vanishing continent.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. The White Balloon (بادکنک سفید)
Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
10. Luzzu (Luzzu)
Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the world of black market fishing to provide for his girlfriend and newborn baby.
It has an average vote of 6.886 on TMDB.
11. Atlantide (Atlantide)
Daniele is a young man from Sant’Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon. He lives on his wits, isolated even from his peer group who are busy exploring an existence of pleasure-seeking expressed in the cult of the barchino . This obsession focuses on the building of ever more powerful engines to transform the little lagoon launches into dangerously fast racing boats. Daniele too dreams of a record-breaking barchino, one that will take him to the top of the leader board, but everything he does to further his dream and win respect from the others turns out to be tragically counterproductive. The decline that erodes the relationships, environment and habits of a rootless generation is observed from the timeless perspective of the Venetian landscape and its island outskirts: the point of no return is a foolish, vestigial tale of male initiation. Violent and destined to fail, it explodes dragging the ghost city along on a psychedelic shipwreck.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
12. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011, from his rise to world fame via the Internet to his highly publicized arrest due to his frequent and daring confrontations with the Chinese authorities.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
13. My Only Sunshine (Hayat Var)
Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat's life is harsh and unrelenting. But Hayat has an instinct for survival. Her capacity for courage, endurance and hope in the face of these trials suggest that there is Life despite the manifold injustices of an unjust world.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
14. A Thousand Girls Like Me (A Thousand Girls Like Me)
Khatera, a 23 year old Afghan woman, is a victim of sexual abuse from her father. She tells her story publicly on national TV, seeking punishment for her perpetrator and shedding light onto the faulty Afghan judicial system.
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
15. Careless Crime (جنایت بیدقت)
During the uprising to overthrow the Shah's regime in Iran, protestors set fire to movie theatres to protest Western culture. Forty years later, four people decide to re-create the past by burning down a theatre.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
16. Sun Valley Serenade
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
17. Tinnitus (Tinnitus)
Marina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
18. Curtains
After 50 years working the wooden dolls, things begin to fall apart for Barry Shepherd, drinking and cursing his way unrepentantly onwards, he continues with the show that threatens to take his soul.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
19. Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
20. Jagame Thandhiram (ஜகமே தந்திரம்)
When a clever, carefree gangster is recruited to help an overseas crime lord take down a rival, he is caught off guard by the moral dilemmas that follow.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
