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: 7.974 (665 votes)

Release Date: 1993-04-17

Overview: In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.

Rating: 7.319 (127 votes)

Release Date: 1965-04-03

Overview: Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Rating: 8.117 (389 votes)

Release Date: 1952-10-09

Overview: Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Rating: 8.312 (1261 votes)

Release Date: 1959-04-27

Overview: Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Rating: 8.236 (537 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: 1963-11-28

Overview: Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?

Rating: 6.862 (87 votes)

Release Date: 1953-08-07

Overview: A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Rating: 7.2 (225 votes)

Release Date: 1992-12-18

Overview: Vanni, Gregorio and Livia are brothers. The first is a well-known pianist, the second has abandoned his career as an aspiring violinist to become a deejay. When Vanni discovers that his father has disappeared into thin air, together with Gregorio they decide to call his sister Livia. The three relatives travel the length and breadth of Tuscany to find their missing parent.

Rating: 6.284 (104 votes)

Release Date: 1957-10-01

Overview: Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

Rating: 7.1 (138 votes)

Release Date: 1978-09-06

Overview: In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

Rating: 6.862 (127 votes)

Release Date: 1959-06-30

Overview: The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

Rating: 6.4 (41 votes)

Release Date: 1955-11-22

Overview: An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.

Rating: 7.303 (117 votes)

Release Date: 1966-07-15

Overview: Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Rating: 6.1 (36 votes)

Release Date: 2009-02-23

Overview: A city of singing cats is preyed upon by a shadowy figure intent on performing a twisted feline symphony.

Rating: 7.4 (35 votes)

Release Date: 1955-02-27

Overview: Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.

Rating: 7.4 (36 votes)

Release Date: 2017-09-22

Overview: Known for his spectacular pyrotechnic displays, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang creates his most ambitious project yet: Sky Ladder, a visionary, explosive event that he pulls off in his hometown in China after 20 years of failed attempts.

Rating: 7 (20 votes)

Release Date: 2018-10-18

Overview: In an ancient sport traditionally reserved for men, 20-year-old female sumo prodigy Hiyori attempts to revolutionize Japan’s national pastime.

Rating: 6.2 (40 votes)

Release Date: 1997-02-15

Overview: Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, resulting in a suitcase stuffed with cash falling into a nearby river. For the remainder of the film, Sakiko begins a desperate quest to retrieve the money.

Rating: 6.5 (11 votes)

Release Date: 1996-01-25

Overview: Five young hoodlums sing karaoke, murder, joke around, get beaten up, win and lose women, and learn the value of blind loyalty.

Rating: 6.462 (78 votes)