Release Date: 2004-07-28

Overview: From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.

Rating: 7.6 (55 votes)

Release Date: 2003-09-07

Overview: A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.

Rating: 7.7 (46 votes)

Release Date: 2024-06-12

Overview: This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.

Rating: 7.2 (21 votes)

Release Date: 1975-02-12

Overview: What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.

Rating: 6.4 (50 votes)

Release Date: 1988-12-07

Overview: The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.

Rating: 6.803 (137 votes)

Release Date: 2022-11-24

Overview: Daniel is respected by his village community as long as he bravely supports the fight for their affairs. He is in love with the boy next door, Olek, who is not ready to reveal his sexual identity. Their relationship develops in secret. When a teenage friend can no longer take homophobic attacks and commits a suicide, Daniel tries to convince the villagers to organise a service of the Stations of the Cross together for the intention of the victim.

Rating: 5.7 (7 votes)

Release Date: 1999-02-01

Overview: A young girl with a physical disability arrives in Dakar and challenges the convention of boys selling newspapers on the street.

Rating: 6.739 (23 votes)

Release Date: 2015-04-16

Overview: After meeting at a party, Luciana and Pedro... embark on a spur of the moment journey together that takes them to the forest. Asthey explore the beauty in the nature that surrounds them, they camp out under the stars, go on hikes, indulge in the passions of their encounter, and discuss their personal beliefs surrounding love, obligations, and attraction. Lensed in lush black-and-white cinematography amidst the gorgeous backdrop of the Costa Rican forest, an honest and genuine relationship story unfolds, lending a feeling of realism to their storybook romance in a refreshing and youthful way.

Rating: 5.9 (12 votes)

Release Date: 1967-04-07

Overview: A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

Rating: 5 (29 votes)

Release Date: 1934-07-05

Overview: A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves.

Rating: 5.636 (33 votes)

Release Date: 1969-01-22

Overview: Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala.

Rating: 6.9 (114 votes)

Release Date: 1966-10-23

Overview: Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

Rating: 6.1 (20 votes)

Release Date: 1963-01-01

Overview: Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.

Rating: 6.9 (131 votes)

Release Date: 1977-03-09

Overview: The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.

Rating: 7.2 (102 votes)

Release Date: 1981-03-04

Overview: A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…

Rating: 7.1 (111 votes)

Release Date: 2019-03-28

Overview: An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.

Rating: 7.877 (73 votes)

Release Date: 1962-04-11

Overview: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Rating: 7.683 (721 votes)

Release Date: 1967-03-28

Overview: A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Rating: 7.469 (260 votes)

Release Date: 2020-09-10

Overview: John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.

Rating: 7.211 (187 votes)