Release Date: 1941-08-29

Overview: In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.

Rating: 7.5 (183 votes)

Release Date: 1948-10-01

Overview: A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.

Rating: 7.243 (171 votes)

Release Date: 2005-07-17

Overview: Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.

Rating: 6.186 (140 votes)

Release Date: 1951-04-13

Overview: Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

Rating: 6.6 (113 votes)

Release Date: 1968-06-01

Overview: An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.

Rating: 7.143 (84 votes)

Release Date: 1962-06-19

Overview: A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.

Rating: 6.729 (251 votes)

Release Date: 1971-08-03

Overview: A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet government presidency; and a revolutionary group marches in exile.

Rating: 6.13 (27 votes)

Release Date: 1960-09-02

Overview: A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

Rating: 7.3 (45 votes)

Release Date: 2009-03-05

Overview: Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat's life is harsh and unrelenting. But Hayat has an instinct for survival. Her capacity for courage, endurance and hope in the face of these trials suggest that there is Life despite the manifold injustices of an unjust world.

Rating: 6.8 (29 votes)

Release Date: 1954-03-17

Overview: Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.

Rating: 7.193 (254 votes)

Release Date: 1968-10-24

Overview: Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

Rating: 7.079 (202 votes)

Release Date: 1976-04-30

Overview: Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

Rating: 7.625 (164 votes)

Release Date: 1973-09-01

Overview: Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Rating: 7.4 (340 votes)

Release Date: 1961-12-15

Overview: C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a difficult task when she reveals to be married to a communist.

Rating: 7.506 (391 votes)

Release Date: 1988-03-11

Overview: Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

Rating: 7.599 (369 votes)

Release Date: 1962-08-25

Overview: The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.

Rating: 7.4 (521 votes)

Release Date: 1958-12-28

Overview: In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Rating: 7.973 (646 votes)

Release Date: 1962-05-16

Overview: A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.

Rating: 7.947 (693 votes)

Release Date: 1986-09-24

Overview: Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

Rating: 6.739 (733 votes)

Release Date: 2019-08-16

Overview: When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.

Rating: 6.6 (677 votes)