Release Date: 2001-02-03

Overview: In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

Rating: 6.653 (575 votes)

Release Date: 2020-11-12

Overview: Nedumaaran Rajangam "Maara" sets out to make the common man fly and in the process takes on the world's most capital intensive industry and several enemies who stand in his way.

Rating: 7.725 (100 votes)

Release Date: 2008-09-27

Overview: A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

Rating: 7.4 (249 votes)

Release Date: 1992-10-03

Overview: A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.

Rating: 6.2 (124 votes)

Release Date: 1998-06-10

Overview: Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.

Rating: 7.186 (86 votes)

Release Date: 1962-07-12

Overview: A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.

Rating: 6.731 (54 votes)

Release Date: 1972-10-21

Overview: Emil's reputation for being a troublemaker makes the Svensson family's neighbours take up a collection for sending the boy off to America. But even if he among other unfortunate mishaps causes his father to get stuck in the outhouse window and get bitten by crawfish, all is forgotten when he skillfully wins the family a free horse. And when Alfred the farmhand gets seriously ill, Emil puts his own life on the line, venturing into a snow storm to get his best friend to a doctor before it is too late.

Rating: 6.783 (69 votes)

Release Date: 2025-03-06

Overview: During the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland, in times of military dictatorship, a group of torturers kidnap a group of young people. What begins as an inhumane interrogation turns into hell: the wrong group has been kidnapped.

Rating: 5.68 (25 votes)

Release Date: 1990-02-23

Overview: A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Rating: 4.7 (78 votes)

Release Date: 2006-11-15

Overview: The story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape.

Rating: 7.179 (42 votes)

Release Date: 1978-05-24

Overview: Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Rating: 6.8 (78 votes)

Release Date: 2014-12-18

Overview: A martial arts master angers two of her protégés when she selects a third to take her post and the legendary weapon that comes with it.

Rating: 6.5 (21 votes)

Release Date: 2005-10-07

Overview: A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.

Rating: 5.5 (37 votes)

Release Date: 2023-03-03

Overview: During World War II, a Polish food server at a luxury German hotel tempts fate as he romances local women while hiding his Jewish identity.

Rating: 6.7 (37 votes)

Release Date: 2021-01-18

Overview: Based on real events, the short takes a poke at our cultural climate of paranoia and fake news.

Rating: 6.786 (7 votes)

Release Date: 2021-03-11

Overview: Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the city of Turin, Italy. It mixes the documentary language with comedy and fiction, and is enriched by interviews to some of the most important voices of Turin cinematography. The film follows the evolution of movie theaters by enlightening its main milestones: the pre-cinema experiences in the late 19th Century, the colossals and the movie cathedrals of the silent era, the arthouse theaters, the National Museum of Cinema, the Torino Film Festival, the movie theaters system today and the main hypothesis about its future. The mission of Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is to explore and give back to the audience a deep reflection about the identity and the value of movie theater, in its social and anthropological role and as a mass media, and to analyze the experience of the viewer.

Rating: 7.5 (3 votes)

Release Date: 1963-03-15

Overview: Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition when he refuses to leave his mother to starve to death.

Rating: 7.222 (9 votes)

Release Date: 1975-01-01

Overview: A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts... Aubier makes use of a series of successive pictures to portray the series of events that completes a cycle.

Rating: 7.8 (4 votes)

Release Date: 2013-03-23

Overview: Saori, a new face of a call girl service for the disabled, meet diverse people like a client with progressive muscular dystrophy, a college student with spinal injury, and a stalker pretending to be the disabled… Encountering with disabled people who live in various circumstances gives Saori, living in despair, a sense of fulfillment and reason for living.

Rating: 6.1 (5 votes)

Release Date: 2022-08-29

Overview: After her daughter's death, divorced Miyabi works as a call girl. One day, she meets a weird customer who wants to take a picture of her spine. Then, at another assignation, her feet. She soon realises that every time she allows her body to be photographed, her daughter's spirit gets closer. Soon only her eyes remain to be captured, leading to the collapse of society in this bold, visionary and unique fantasy.

Rating: 5.5 (18 votes)