Release Date: 1969-12-25

Overview: Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use his sword.

Rating: 7.1 (28 votes)

Release Date: 1961-09-25

Overview: Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

Rating: 7.679 (1033 votes)

Release Date: 1999-09-15

Overview: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

Rating: 8.004 (12677 votes)

Release Date: 1965-11-05

Overview: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Rating: 7.4 (911 votes)

Release Date: 1968-10-04

Overview: A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

Rating: 7.61 (2629 votes)

Release Date: 1975-06-10

Overview: In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Rating: 7.5 (944 votes)

Release Date: 1948-02-01

Overview: Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

Rating: 7.943 (2899 votes)

Release Date: 2018-04-04

Overview: On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

Rating: 6.709 (733 votes)

Release Date: 1950-08-26

Overview: Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Rating: 8.049 (2418 votes)

Release Date: 1974-01-05

Overview: An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Rating: 7.471 (1288 votes)

Release Date: 1963-06-04

Overview: A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

Rating: 6.5 (449 votes)

Release Date: 1981-10-11

Overview: Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

Rating: 7.499 (433 votes)

Release Date: 2019-07-12

Overview: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

Rating: 7.411 (1490 votes)

Release Date: 2007-06-14

Overview: Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her gender, she meets both hostility and compassion.

Rating: 6.858 (310 votes)

Release Date: 1962-09-20

Overview: Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Rating: 7.7 (678 votes)

Release Date: 1984-10-19

Overview: A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance that features creative choreography and visuals.

Rating: 8.3 (337 votes)

Release Date: 1978-10-08

Overview: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

Rating: 7.979 (670 votes)

Release Date: 1935-11-15

Overview: The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

Rating: 7.4 (529 votes)

Release Date: 1976-12-25

Overview: Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.

Rating: 7 (334 votes)

Release Date: 1950-05-17

Overview: A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

Rating: 7.6 (638 votes)