1. In the Quarry (En el Pozo)
Four youngsters meet on a bayou after years and sordid things start to emerge.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
2. Weaving Girl (纺织姑娘)
Li Li, intelligent young woman is working in a mill Xian'an. The company knows the difficulties. Her husband, who worked in the same company, was among the first laid off and has launched a small business . They have a little boy, Bing Bing. Tired, Li Li will visit the hospital. The verdict: acute leukemia. The bone marrow is financially out of reach. Rest chemotherapy less effective but require her husband to sell the family home. In addition, Li Li needs a little freedom to live a little for herself and get answers before ... She goes to Beijing to visit the one she was in love ten years ago, and who was not accepted by her parents.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
3. Yawara! Go Get 'Em, Wimpy Kids!! (YAWARA! それゆけ腰ぬけキッズ!!)
Yawara helps a group of timid grade school kids overcome their fears and compete in a judo competition.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
4. Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff (Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff)
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. Wasati (وسطي)
During a play about moderate Islam, a group of extremists attacks the performers at a theatre in Riyadh. Based on true events that happened 10 years ago.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
6. Lamb (Lamb)
When an Ethiopian boy moves in with distant relatives he takes his pet sheep with him but the upcoming holidays spell danger for his beloved friend.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
7. Toll Booth (Gişe Memuru)
Quiet and introverted toll booth clerk Kenan's life, a humdrum routine between the Tavsancik toll booth plaza and his home, will change the day the new operations chief comes to inspect Tavsancik.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
8. Blood of the Beasts (Le sang des bêtes)
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.
It has an average vote of 7.507 on TMDB.
9. Wings (Крылья)
After WWII, a Soviet pilot returns to civilian life and struggles in her roles as school principal and mother, and with her memories of the war.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
10. Scarlet Diva (Scarlet Diva)
A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.
It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.
11. Samurai Rebellion (上意討ち 拝領妻始末)
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
It has an average vote of 8.184 on TMDB.
12. Paganini Horror (Paganini Horror)
A female rock band acquires an infamous composition by Niccolò Paganini that was used in satanic rituals. When the band decides to record the song and film a video in Paganini's old mansion, the spirit of the deceased composer is summoned and the band unlocks a portal to Hell.
It has an average vote of 4.3 on TMDB.
13. Woman in the Dunes (砂の女)
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
It has an average vote of 8.276 on TMDB.
14. The Replacement (El sustituto)
Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the hope of leading a quieter life and that the natural environment will help improve the fragile health of his daughter; but once in his new post he becomes involved by chance in the investigation of the strange death of the inspector he has come to replace.
It has an average vote of 6.217 on TMDB.
15. Heavenly Forest (ただ、君を愛してる)
The story begins with Makoto Segawa, a freshman at Meikei University. On the day of his university entrance ceremony, Makoto meets a fresh-faced, quirky girl named Shizuru. Makoto has a complex which causes him to shy away from contact with other people, but she succeeds in getting him to open up to her naturally. All Shizuru wants is to be with Makoto, so she takes up a camera too. The two spend their days together taking photos in the forest behind the campus. However, Makoto has feelings for another student named Miyuki. Shizuru decides that if Makoto likes Miyuki, she wants to like her too. She wants to like everything that he does. One day, she tells Makoto that she wants to take a photo of them kissing in the forest as a present for 'her birthday'. He obliges for her sake, and they kiss in the forest.
It has an average vote of 7.558 on TMDB.
16. Little Caesar
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
It has an average vote of 6.868 on TMDB.
17. The World of Kanako (渇き。)
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
It has an average vote of 6.488 on TMDB.
18. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇)
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
It has an average vote of 8.022 on TMDB.
19. Onibaba (鬼婆)
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
It has an average vote of 7.668 on TMDB.
20. Le Trou (Le Trou)
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.
It has an average vote of 8.273 on TMDB.