1. 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.
2. Bubble Bath (Habfürdö)
Zsolt Mohai, an eccentric shop window decorator in his 40s, drops by Anna Parádi on his wedding day, asking her to phone his bride Klára Horváth and call off the event. Drama, discussions and musical numbers ensue over topics like romance, loyalty, ambition, and settling for a family life in a modern day city.
It has an average vote of 7.02 on TMDB.
3. Small Sacrifices
A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
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. 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.
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. The Spider's Stratagem (Strategia del ragno)
A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
11. 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.
12. Perceval (Perceval le Gallois)
The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes from the story of Gawain and the crucifixion of Christ.
It has an average vote of 7.233 on TMDB.
13. 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 7.516 on TMDB.
14. 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 on TMDB.
15. 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.
16. 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 6.897 on TMDB.
17. Drifting Clouds (Kauas pilvet karkaavat)
The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they must hit the streets of Helsinki, facing up to hardship and humiliation in their quest for survival, guided through the gloom by a ray of hope.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
18. A White, White Day (Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur)
In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.
It has an average vote of 6.233 on TMDB.
19. The Freshman
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
It has an average vote of 6.278 on TMDB.
20. Miles Ahead
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
