Release Date: 2013-09-27

Overview: Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inherited when they were very young — he carries on one love affair after another with his students. Winter has almost ended when one of his most brilliant students, Barbara, suddenly disappears. Two days later, Marc meets Barbara’s mother, Anna, who wants to find out more about her vanished daughter.

Rating: 5.6 (111 votes)

Release Date: 1937-10-29

Overview: While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.

Rating: 6.8 (74 votes)

Release Date: 2015-09-24

Overview: The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits.

Rating: 6.12 (125 votes)

Release Date: 2024-02-01

Overview: In Rome, during a January weekend a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the heat quickly escalates to a frightening degree, resulting in people and animals losing self-control.

Rating: 4.789 (19 votes)

Release Date: 1967-11-05

Overview: Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

Rating: 7.3 (77 votes)

Release Date: 1996-04-01

Overview: Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help him. Mahsun loves the cars he robs, cleans and polishes them, and drives them through the streets of Rumelihisar during the daytime.

Rating: 7.5 (73 votes)

Release Date: 2016-03-14

Overview: Young Tunisian Hedi lives an ordered life in which he believes there can be no more surprises. His future will play out as other people have planned, until he meets a young woman named Rim at a hotel in Mahdia Hediand. An ostensibly personal story broadens into a panorama of a society in upheaval, an allegory about breaking away from traditions. And a film about the happiness and pain of freedom.

Rating: 6.688 (24 votes)

Release Date: 1991-07-01

Overview: A documentary about German gangs in Kiel in the early 90s.

Rating: 9 (3 votes)

Release Date: 2010-09-12

Overview: Redheaded teen Remy is bullied by his soccer teammates and drawn into fights with his younger sister and mother in their cramped apartment. After a flare-up of domestic violence, he flees home and is tracked down by a bitter guidance counselor, Patrick, also a redhead. Patrick looks upon Remy’s sullen insolence with both sympathy and disdain and decides to toughen him up...

Rating: 6.2 (145 votes)

Release Date: 2013-05-28

Overview: A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

Rating: 6.775 (273 votes)

Release Date: 2011-10-07

Overview: The story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.

Rating: 7.251 (469 votes)

Release Date: 2000-01-26

Overview: In this episodic animated fantasy from France, an art teacher interprets a series of six fairy tales (each involving a prince or princess) with the help of two precocious students. Princes and Princesses was created using a special style of cutout animation, with black silhouetted characters performing the action against backlit backdrops in striking colors.

Rating: 7.664 (220 votes)

Release Date: 2001-06-15

Overview: This is the true story of Bobby Kent, a teen bully in the suburban town of Hollywood, Florida. Eventually, his best friend and girlfriend team up with the various other kids that are tired of getting beat up by him. Included in that group are the overweight Lisa Connelly. Together, seven teenagers lure Bobby out, deep into the swamp, promising him sex and drugs and when they get there, they beat him to death with baseball bats....

Rating: 6.677 (502 votes)

Release Date: 1999-08-27

Overview: When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?

Rating: 5.615 (937 votes)

Release Date: 2007-06-27

Overview: In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

Rating: 7.89 (2017 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: 6.7 (706 votes)

Release Date: 2012-10-09

Overview: The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.

Rating: 7.699 (1081 votes)

Release Date: 2021-10-07

Overview: The French government is asking Gustave Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but he simply wants to design the subway—until he crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past.

Rating: 6.249 (694 votes)

Release Date: 2003-12-24

Overview: In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Rating: 6.935 (1842 votes)

Release Date: 2009-11-06

Overview: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret; She can't read.

Rating: 7.32 (1672 votes)