1. My Place is Here (Io resto)
Brescia, March 2020. The Spedali Civili, the city's public hospital, suddenly finds itself inundated with patients. In the best tradition of direct cinema, Michele Aiello manages to document a moving slice of life, and to film, at the worst moments of this collective tragedy, the unprecedented reports that unite patients and health personnel in the face of the unknown.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
2. The Hawks and the Sparrows (Uccellacci e uccellini)
A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
3. The Departure (Le départ)
A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his nearing debut race and meets a girl in the same time.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
4. Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle Mille e una notte)
The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
5. The Goat
A series of adventures begins when Buster is mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil bad guy.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
6. Mimi (मिमी)
An aspiring actress in a small town in Rajasthan agrees to bear a child for a visiting couple seeking a surrogate mother, but her experience takes an unexpected turn when they refuse to have the child anymore.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
7. Theorem (Teorema)
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
8. Loves of a Blonde (Lásky jedné plavovlásky)
Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. The Voice of the Moon (La voce della luna)
A parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
10. Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
It has an average vote of 6.912 on TMDB.
11. Mouchette (Mouchette)
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
It has an average vote of 7.443 on TMDB.
12. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (人間の條件 第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇)
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
It has an average vote of 8.167 on TMDB.
13. Repulsion
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia . When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
It has an average vote of 7.422 on TMDB.
14. Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα)
An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
It has an average vote of 7.656 on TMDB.
15. Diary of a Country Priest (Journal d'un curé de campagne)
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
It has an average vote of 7.527 on TMDB.
16. The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté)
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
17. 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.
18. Pusher 3 (Pusher 3)
Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
19. Au Hasard Balthazar (Au hasard Balthazar)
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
It has an average vote of 7.573 on TMDB.
20. The Measure of a Man (La Loi du marché)
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
