Release Date: 1958-09-07

Overview: Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

Rating: 7.4 (159 votes)

Release Date: 1928-05-09

Overview: The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

Rating: 7.595 (374 votes)

Release Date: 1964-12-01

Overview: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Rating: 7.501 (1383 votes)

Release Date: 1990-12-25

Overview: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.

Rating: 6.3 (329 votes)

Release Date: 2000-10-06

Overview: A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

Rating: 7.1 (296 votes)

Release Date: 1955-12-24

Overview: A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

Rating: 7.25 (208 votes)

Release Date: 1923-02-19

Overview: The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

Rating: 6.8 (146 votes)

Release Date: 1959-05-01

Overview: Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.

Rating: 8.1 (263 votes)

Release Date: 1998-11-20

Overview: When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

Rating: 7.046 (326 votes)

Release Date: 1976-03-17

Overview: The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.

Rating: 7.1 (150 votes)

Release Date: 1971-01-23

Overview: Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.

Rating: 7 (473 votes)

Release Date: 1977-11-03

Overview: Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.

Rating: 6.3 (710 votes)

Release Date: 1952-02-29

Overview: Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.

Rating: 7.5 (131 votes)

Release Date: 1986-11-19

Overview: In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.

Rating: 7.577 (549 votes)

Release Date: 1995-10-06

Overview: A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.

Rating: 6.5 (302 votes)

Release Date: 1944-10-25

Overview: A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Rating: 7.358 (369 votes)

Release Date: 1962-06-19

Overview: Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.

Rating: 7.102 (187 votes)

Release Date: 1995-09-29

Overview: On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!

Rating: 6.656 (311 votes)

Release Date: 2006-09-10

Overview: The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.

Rating: 5.8 (324 votes)

Release Date: 1987-09-11

Overview: A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality.

Rating: 5.7 (130 votes)