1. Capturing the Friedmans
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.
It has an average vote of 7.159 on TMDB.
2. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
It has an average vote of 7.53 on TMDB.
3. The Parking Lot Movie
The Parking Lot Movie is a documentary about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia. The film follows a select group of parking lot attendants and their strange rite of passage.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
4. Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi! File 01: Operation Capture the Slit-Mouthed Woman (戦慄怪奇ファイル コワすぎ！ FILE-01 口裂け女捕獲作戦)
New mocumentary series from auteur Koji Shiraishi. POV style depiction of a TV crew as they cover the urban legend of "Kuchisake-Onna" or "Slit-Mouthed Woman". Director Kudo , assistant director Ichikawa and cameraman Tashiro work at a video production company, and are sent amateur footage of a supposed sighting. This leads them down a path of treacherous investigation and inventive experiments.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
5. The Collector
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.
It has an average vote of 7.346 on TMDB.
6. Four Lions
A group of Muslim men living in Sheffield hatch an inept plan to become suicide bombers.
It has an average vote of 6.951 on TMDB.
7. Eraserhead
First time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. David Lynch arrived on the scene in 1977, almost like a mystical UFO gracing the landscape of LA with its enigmatic radiance. His inaugural work, "Eraserhead" , stood out as a cinematic anomaly, painting a surreal narrative of a young man navigating a dystopian, industrialized America, grappling not only with his tumultuous home life but also contending with an irate girlfriend and a mutant child.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
8. True Grit
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
It has an average vote of 7.304 on TMDB.
9. Bambi
Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.
It has an average vote of 7.01 on TMDB.
10. Hot Fuzz
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.
It has an average vote of 7.553 on TMDB.
11. Interstellar
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
It has an average vote of 8.434 on TMDB.
12. Tenet
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
It has an average vote of 7.183 on TMDB.
13. Joker
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
14. Parasite (기생충)
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
It has an average vote of 8.51 on TMDB.
15. Snowpiercer (Snowpiercer)
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
It has an average vote of 6.903 on TMDB.
16. Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve)
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
It has an average vote of 8.065 on TMDB.
17. Pale Rider
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
It has an average vote of 7.146 on TMDB.
18. Green Book
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
It has an average vote of 8.244 on TMDB.
19. Oldboy (올드보이)
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
It has an average vote of 8.26 on TMDB.
20. Me Before You
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
It has an average vote of 7.924 on TMDB.
