1. Recollections of the Yellow House (Recordações da Casa Amarela)
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.
2. Sleeping Sickness (Schlafkrankheit)
Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
3. A Tale of the Wind (Une histoire de vent)
It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
4. Historic Centre (Centro Histórico)
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
5. Little Fugitive
After a prank makes Joey Norton believe he killed his older brother, he runs away from home and spends the day at Coney Island while his brother tries to find him before their mother gets home.
It has an average vote of 6.858 on TMDB.
6. Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Leningrad Cowboys Go America)
The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
It has an average vote of 6.893 on TMDB.
7. Hideous Kinky
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
8. I Hired a Contract Killer
After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.
It has an average vote of 6.919 on TMDB.
9. Malik (മാലിക്)
A past ridden with crime, death and pain is recounted to Freddy, a juvenile criminal, who has been assigned to eliminate his estranged uncle Sulaiman, an aging patriarch, while behind bars.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
10. Inspector Lavardin (Inspecteur Lavardin)
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
11. Mädchen in Uniform (Mädchen in Uniform)
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
It has an average vote of 7.22 on TMDB.
12. Crime and Punishment (Rikos ja rangaistus)
In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who accidentally arrived at the crime scene wants to follow him, but guilt and the tightening net of the police throw a shadow over their desperate love affair.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
13. The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä)
Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.
It has an average vote of 7.428 on TMDB.
14. Why (Detenuto in attesa di giudizio)
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
It has an average vote of 7.191 on TMDB.
15. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d'un rêveur)
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
16. Master Cheng (Mestari Cheng)
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to see an old Finnish friend who lives on a farm in the countryside of Finland. It’s the most remote place Cheng can imagine with endless forests, thousands of lakes, a country with entire population of one-fifth of Cheng’s home town, Shanghai.
It has an average vote of 7.176 on TMDB.
17. The Field
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
It has an average vote of 7.024 on TMDB.
18. La Vie de Bohème (La Vie de Bohème)
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
It has an average vote of 7.512 on TMDB.
19. Amsterdamned (Amsterdamned)
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
It has an average vote of 6.362 on TMDB.
20. Ariel (Ariel)
After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city to make a living but there, he is framed and imprisoned for various crimes.
It has an average vote of 7.102 on TMDB.
