1. The Tuba Thieves
A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
2. The Horse Whisperer
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
3. The Cuckoo (Кукушка)
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.
It has an average vote of 7.037 on TMDB.
4. Who Pays?
Who Pays? was a series of twelve three-reel dramas, released between March and July 1915. Henry King and Ruth Roland starred in each episode, playing different roles each time, with a variety of supporting players who varied from one episode to another. Each episode told a complete and individual story, but they were all inter-related by a uniform theme. Although there were no cliff-hanger endings, each episode did, in fact, end with a challenge to the audience: Who was responsible for the misfortune of the principal characters? The titles of the twelve episodes were: #1: The Price of Fame; #2: The Pursuit of Pleasure; #3: When Justice Sleeps; #4: The Love Liar; #5: Unto Herself Alone; #6: Houses of Glass; #7: Blue Blood and Yellow; #8: Today and Tomorrow; #9: For the Commonwealth; #10: Pomp of Earth; #11: The Fruit of Folly; #12: Toil and Tyranny.
5. The Torture of Silence (Mater dolorosa)
Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has more dramatic and psychological value than your average romantic-triangle tale. Simply put, the film concerns a doctor, his wife, and his brother. The doctor, a specialist in pediatrics, has no time for his wife Marthe. She seeks solace in the arms of his brother. Unable to keep up the charade, Marthe attempts to shoot herself, but it is her lover who is mortally wounded.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
6. Woman's World (Женщина)
A young peasant woman decides to become a tractor driver.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
7. Die Villa im Tiergarten (Die Villa im Tiergarten)
Silent film social drama
8. Home Alone (Home Alone)
(Home Alone)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
10. Earth (Tierra)
Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deseased townspeople?
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
11. Tumbledown
Inspired by true events, Todd Verow’s Tumbledown is an explosive cocktail- an emotional rollercoaster ride through the dark sides of sexuality. A complicated love triangle develops after hunky Jay meets bartender Nick and invites him to spend the weekend with him and his partner in their country cabin. Soon, copious amounts of sex, drugs and alcohol lead to a dark obsession and even darker complications. Always bold and never less than riveting, Tumbledown is sure to leave you breathless.
It has an average vote of 4.4 on TMDB.
12. Closer
Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
It has an average vote of 6.84 on TMDB.
13. Miss Julie
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.
14. Amalia (Amalia)
Amalia is a 1914 Argentine silent film directed by Enrique García Velloso and written by Eugenio Py. It was based on the novel by José Mármol. The film starred Dora Huergo and Lola Marcó del Pont. It is the first full length film ever produced in Argentine cinema history.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
15. Rangoon (रंगून)
Julia travels to the Indo-Burma border to perform for the troops during the World War II, on the insistence of Billimoria, her lover. She finds herself in love with Jemadar Malik, a soldier there.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
16. Bitter Harvest
Travis has just buried his father, when Kelly, an attractive hitchhiker walks into his life. At the same time, another attractive blonde, Jolene, starts taking an interest in Travis. Both women are secretly after something.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
17. The Female
A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melodrama, from the Cynthia Stocklet Story. Dalla is a pretty orphan who is adopted by a wealthy man. When she matures, he invites her to England ,and eventually marries her. After her husband is murdered, she is accused of the crime, because she has still been seeing her old beau Col. Valentia . After eventually being cleared of the crime Della maries her first love...Valentia.
18. If One Could See Into the Future (La madre e la morte)
A mother confronts Death as to why he has to take her young boy. And he shows her the future to explain why he need to be eliminated.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
19. Herzensschrei
(Herzensschrei)
20. La défense du drapeau (La défense du drapeau)
As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
