Release Date: 1956-11-11

Overview: A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

Rating: 7.952 (566 votes)

Release Date: 1955-08-26

Overview: A depiction of the life of an impoverished early twentieth century rural Bengali family.

Rating: 7.877 (446 votes)

Release Date: 1959-05-01

Overview: Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.

Rating: 8.102 (251 votes)

Release Date: 1958-10-10

Overview: An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the opulent music room of his younger, richer neighbour.

Rating: 7.507 (149 votes)

Release Date: 1959-07-29

Overview: A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

Rating: 6.4 (174 votes)

Release Date: 1964-04-17

Overview: In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.

Rating: 7.558 (139 votes)

Release Date: 1993-12-25

Overview: A young couple, Ganga and Nakulan, arrives at the ancestral home called Madampalli of the latter. Hailing from a family that follows tradition and superstitions, Nakulan's uncle Thampi objects to the couple's idea of moving into the allegedly haunted mansion, which Nakulan ignores. The couple moves in anyway following which seemingly supernatural events begin to happen.

Rating: 7.4 (85 votes)

Release Date: 1972-03-10

Overview: Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.

Rating: 6.676 (74 votes)

Release Date: 1999-01-01

Overview: A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen.

Rating: 8.423 (13 votes)

Release Date: 2012-11-12

Overview: Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.

Rating: 8.193 (101 votes)

Release Date: 1972-05-16

Overview: In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.

Rating: 7.4 (13 votes)

Release Date: 1956-04-01

Overview: César Neira, an almost forgotten Spanish actor, gets involved by chance with Teresa, a teacher from a small village in the province of Cáceres, who has won a radio contest. The prize is a trip to Madrid to experience just for a fortnight the life of the famous and wealthy people.

Rating: 6 (3 votes)

Release Date: 2008-01-14

Overview: At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.

Rating: 7.586 (261 votes)

Release Date: 2005-06-03

Overview: In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the farmers. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.

Rating: 6.9 (360 votes)

Release Date: 1952-10-16

Overview: A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Rating: 7.9 (552 votes)

Release Date: 1953-02-25

Overview: Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

Rating: 6.922 (492 votes)

Release Date: 1932-04-09

Overview: In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Rating: 7.446 (628 votes)

Release Date: 1977-11-27

Overview: Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it, Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by the evil dragon Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn't...

Rating: 6.542 (335 votes)

Release Date: 1956-11-08

Overview: Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

Rating: 7.608 (715 votes)

Release Date: 2014-08-20

Overview: A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.

Rating: 6.607 (770 votes)