Release Date: 1963-11-26

Overview: A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island.

Rating: 7.4 (49 votes)

Release Date: 1985-12-04

Overview: Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

Rating: 7.361 (330 votes)

Release Date: 1965-02-10

Overview: A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.

Rating: 7.445 (265 votes)

Release Date: 1923-09-24

Overview: The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.

Rating: 6.811 (127 votes)

Release Date: 1961-10-20

Overview: Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.

Rating: 7.2 (103 votes)

Release Date: 2000-11-05

Overview: A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Rating: 7.6 (74 votes)

Release Date: 1932-11-11

Overview: Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.

Rating: 6.993 (139 votes)

Release Date: 1994-12-16

Overview: Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

Rating: 7.1 (120 votes)

Release Date: 1978-12-15

Overview: The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Rating: 5.779 (113 votes)

Release Date: 2019-05-31

Overview: A sedated young jaguar dispassionately ruminates over his latest victims as well as the object of his affection in this mesmerizing video diary.

Rating: 7.8 (18 votes)

Release Date: 2018-01-27

Overview: 'God, Sex and Truth' delves into the world of sex where it digs out and projects the deepest dignity, divinity of the act and a women's true purpose of her sexuality.

Rating: 6 (27 votes)

Release Date: 1955-04-09

Overview: Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.

Rating: 7.147 (95 votes)

Release Date: 2011-07-20

Overview: Priscilla is 16 and if you think a normal girl too, especially when repairs to your friends. When her mother goes to work and she stays alone at home, he decides he'll get in your square attitude and will fund that idea. Among the many changes it wants to promote in your life, virginity seems to be a priority, but it will be the right time is now? Although it decided to invest in more chicken from the class to live their first sexual experience, a group work at school and a trip with friends, can forever change your expectations because she discovers that not everything is exactly as said and the truth can be quite different from reality.

Rating: 7.2 (42 votes)

Release Date: 1986-01-29

Overview: At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary.

Rating: 6.7 (27 votes)

Release Date: 1977-03-28

Overview: A small provincial town lives under the caprices of Don Justin, the local cacique. This forces the young Mariana to marry him, taking advantage of the fact that her nephew Juan, the boyfriend of the girl, is far away from military service. Upon his return, Juan is mocked and goes to a witch to assist him in his revenge.

Rating: 5.9 (11 votes)

Release Date: 1999-08-07

Overview: A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and experiences.

Rating: 6.6 (13 votes)

Release Date: 1956-01-04

Overview: A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.

Rating: 6.9 (117 votes)

Release Date: 2006-09-26

Overview: A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

Rating: 7.2 (112 votes)

Release Date: 1962-01-23

Overview: In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

Rating: 7.562 (1003 votes)