Release Date: 1925-04-28

Overview: Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Rating: 7.375 (232 votes)

Release Date: 1928-05-11

Overview: Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.

Rating: 6.9 (209 votes)

Release Date: 1928-04-21

Overview: A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

Rating: 7.987 (1005 votes)

Release Date: 1944-11-11

Overview: Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.

Rating: 7.3 (208 votes)

Release Date: 1926-12-25

Overview: During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Rating: 7.943 (1317 votes)

Release Date: 2005-10-05

Overview: George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

Rating: 7.061 (1155 votes)

Release Date: 1926-09-03

Overview: Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan, and soars headlong into a series of wondrous adventures.

Rating: 7.5 (222 votes)

Release Date: 1929-05-12

Overview: A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Rating: 7.844 (757 votes)

Release Date: 1928-03-03

Overview: John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.

Rating: 7.598 (183 votes)

Release Date: 1964-04-20

Overview: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.

Rating: 7.2 (204 votes)

Release Date: 2015-12-17

Overview: Three separate narratives each following a love story between a foreigner and a Greek. Each story represents a different generation falling in love during a time of socioeconomic turmoil that dominates Southern Europe as a whole, only to connect as a single story in the end.

Rating: 6.6 (70 votes)

Release Date: 1929-09-27

Overview: Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

Rating: 7.384 (116 votes)

Release Date: 1925-12-21

Overview: With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.

Rating: 6.3 (48 votes)

Release Date: 1982-10-27

Overview: Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

Rating: 6.4 (83 votes)

Release Date: 1926-09-24

Overview: A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Rating: 7.363 (153 votes)

Release Date: 1972-12-30

Overview: Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Rating: 7.3 (99 votes)

Release Date: 1982-10-25

Overview: José is an unemployed 18-year-old living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Madrid. Marginalized by poverty, José spends his time with his friend Antonio. However, when Antonio gets his girlfriend, Rosario, pregnant, the two friends try anything to get the money to pay for her to have an abortion.

Rating: 6.3 (30 votes)

Release Date: 2007-08-22

Overview: Jonas is a Copenhagen homicide scene photographer, happily married, with two kids. One day, his car stalls, another car slams into him, runs head on into a third car and flips into the ditch. The other driver, Julia, is critically injured. He visits her in the hospital and is greeted by her family, who assumes he must be the Sebastian she told them about, the new fiance she met in Vietnam.

Rating: 6.866 (82 votes)

Release Date: 1999-02-01

Overview: In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.

Rating: 6.258 (60 votes)

Release Date: 1975-12-23

Overview: Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, Anna Carla’s gay friend. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murder happens...

Rating: 6.452 (73 votes)