Release Date: 1966-11-18

Overview: At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.

Rating: 7.2 (237 votes)

Release Date: 1963-09-23

Overview: Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

Rating: 7.5 (375 votes)

Release Date: 1934-07-20

Overview: A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

Rating: 6.515 (134 votes)

Release Date: 1954-09-07

Overview: This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an uncle is transformed by Roberto Rossellini into a passionate story of cruelty and cynicism as their marriage disintegrates around them.

Rating: 7.306 (304 votes)

Release Date: 1963-04-21

Overview: When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Rating: 6.957 (81 votes)

Release Date: 1949-04-16

Overview: In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.

Rating: 5.4 (18 votes)

Release Date: 1980-08-10

Overview: An “experimental soap opera” centered on a Harlem nurse, her husband, her father-in-law, and her lover.

Rating: 7 (8 votes)

Release Date: 1959-12-11

Overview: Cerasella escapes just before her marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.

Rating: 6.406 (16 votes)

Release Date: 1970-09-24

Overview: A magistrate reconstructs the murder of Costas Ghoussis, a labourer who was killed by his wife and her lover.

Rating: 7 (23 votes)

Release Date: 1960-03-28

Overview: Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, jazz at a particular time and place.

Rating: 7.231 (26 votes)

Release Date: 2016-10-07

Overview: Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.

Rating: 7.005 (501 votes)

Release Date: 1955-01-29

Overview: The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Rating: 7.92 (1024 votes)

Release Date: 1974-12-21

Overview: Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

Rating: 8.284 (602 votes)

Release Date: 1978-09-13

Overview: In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

Rating: 7.5 (1072 votes)

Release Date: 1957-08-28

Overview: Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Rating: 8.1 (1696 votes)

Release Date: 2011-06-17

Overview: George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.

Rating: 6.569 (1315 votes)

Release Date: 1966-10-18

Overview: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

Rating: 8.15 (2276 votes)

Release Date: 2018-06-02

Overview: In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.

Rating: 7.85 (2146 votes)

Release Date: 2022-11-18

Overview: Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Rating: 7 (1454 votes)

Release Date: 2010-12-10

Overview: Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

Rating: 7.381 (4469 votes)