1. The Home Song Stories
Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose mother Rose was a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer. When Rose meets Aussie sailor Bill, they are quickly married, and she packs up Tom and his older sister May to head for Melbourne. The marriage just as quickly breaks up and Rose moves with the kids to Sydney. After a succession of male friends and little success, in 1971 Rose moves back to Melbourne, in an uncomfortable arrangement living again with Bill – and his mother. With Bill called away to sea, Rose takes up with young Chinese cook Joe, but despair and conflicts over May's relationship with Joe tear the family further apart. Little Tom is deeply hurt, but May's ongoing conflict with her mother takes a respite when Rose tells her daughter about her traumatic teenage years.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
2. Cold Light (Kaldaljós)
What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
3. Distance (ディスタンス)
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
It has an average vote of 6.729 on TMDB.
4. Six Shooter
Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a troubled young man identified only as the 'Kid'. As the Kid becomes more agitated and foul-mouthed, the journey takes on a violent and dangerous hue – for the bereaved Donnelly and for other hapless passengers on the train. Academy Award Winner: Best Live Action Short Film – 2005
It has an average vote of 7.176 on TMDB.
5. Our Town
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors. This musicalization of Thornton Wilder's classic play stars Frank Sinatra who introduces the song, "Love and Marriage," which would go on to be immortalized as the theme song to the sitcom Married with Children.
6. re:attachment
Carter, afflicted all his life by a repressed childhood trauma, begins to break through new barriers in his identity and tries to escape his dissociative nature by giving flowers to a girl he hopes will help him come closer in returning to common reality.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
7. 1805 A Butterfly Drive (1805 A Rue des Papillons)
What's really happening at 1805 A Butterfly Drive? A mother and her daughter, a mystery, wild emotions...
8. Loser Leaves Town
Jose, an eleven-year-old luchador, retreats into a fantasy world until it is infiltrated by a tough 12-year-old girl. He uses his vivid imagination to make it through the toughest weekend of his life.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
9. Darkside
When an unthinkable tragedy disrupts the lives of astronaut Sam Bowman and his wife Sarah, Sam accepts an interstellar mission to save the lives of a missing crew on a deep space voyage, abandoning his life on Earth in the process. But when a critical failure leaves him without a crew, and without hope, he's forced to reckon with a harrowing guilt he can no longer avoid.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
10. Tin Head (Cabeça De Lata)
After the loss of his mother, a boy uses his imagination to escape reality, creating and playing characters. As a result, despite their grief, his family needs to do everything they can to deal with the boy's fantasies.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
11. A Christmas Visitor
The Boyajian family learned of 18-year-old John's death in the Persian Gulf War on Christmas Eve eleven years earlier and have not celebrated Christmas since. They have been so consumed by his death that they have forgotten the joys of the holidays, until a mysterious visitor enters their lives and rekindles the spirit of the season.
It has an average vote of 5.447 on TMDB.
12. To Live and Die and Live
Muhammad returns home to Detroit to bury his stepfather and is thrust into settling his accounts, but Muhammad’s struggles with depression and addiction may finish him before he finishes the task.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
13. Birdsong
Following the death of their mother, one sister tries to convince the other that she isn't really gone.
14. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
15. Birth/Rebirth
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
It has an average vote of 6.458 on TMDB.
16. The Lion King
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
It has an average vote of 7.112 on TMDB.
17. Between The Black Keys
In a society forbidding emotion, a pianist attempts to mourn her late daughter against the wishes of the oppressive regime.
18. A Quiet Death (Ήταν ένας ήσυχος θάνατος)
Martha is unhappy with her life as it is at the moment, and among other issues, she has decided to give up her writing career. Along with that decision comes a need to get away from her husband and from her psychiatrist, with whom she has had more than just a doctor-patient relationship. As Martha travels through a deserted city landscape in a storm, the external world reflects something of her inner turmoil. Flashbacks are interspersed throughout the film to enhance the suspense of Martha's inner and outer journey.
It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.
19. Water on Mars
Unhappy with his unstimulating home life, 9-year-old Daniel yearns to be abducted by aliens. He sneaks out of his house to relive the kind of adventures he once shared with his dad, but encounters a seedy cast of characters on his journey to see the universe.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
20. .270
Two childhood friends take a rifle into the mountains, and return with a secret.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
