Release Date: 1919-05-13

Overview: The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

Rating: 6.897 (232 votes)

Release Date: 1933-12-01

Overview: An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

Rating: 7 (158 votes)

Release Date: 1927-01-10

Overview: A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Rating: 7.846 (201 votes)

Release Date: 1920-09-03

Overview: A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

Rating: 6.958 (106 votes)

Release Date: 1901-10-15

Overview: A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.

Rating: 6.477 (128 votes)

Release Date: 1958-06-27

Overview: This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly edited ballet of working hands and the sequence of mechanical motions of the engines, is it especially a cinematic tour de force. That the industry can’t do without man’s involvement is shown in the scene where we hear the voice of Haanstra himself counting the bottles on the conveyor belt, until one bottle breaks…

Rating: 7.553 (38 votes)

Release Date: 1917-10-29

Overview: Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.

Rating: 5.831 (65 votes)

Release Date: 2003-08-22

Overview: Kåre is a youth coach with aspirations to become the greatest football player ever like his idol, Bryan Robson. However, his dreams are starting to take a toll on his relationship with his girlfriend, Anna.

Rating: 5.9 (14 votes)

Release Date: 1926-04-03

Overview: In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig (Lydia Potechina) from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski (Käthe Haack), the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.

Rating: 7.5 (2 votes)

Release Date: 1936-08-28

Overview: Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.

Rating: 6.835 (233 votes)

Release Date: 1965-08-27

Overview: Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Rating: 7.7 (227 votes)

Release Date: 1918-10-20

Overview: An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.

Rating: 6.8 (182 votes)

Release Date: 1915-03-08

Overview: Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Rating: 6.008 (554 votes)

Release Date: 1911-03-11

Overview: The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.

Rating: 6.618 (148 votes)

Release Date: 2009-05-16

Overview: After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.

Rating: 5.9 (256 votes)

Release Date: 1970-04-03

Overview: Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

Rating: 7.5 (402 votes)

Release Date: 1969-10-01

Overview: The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

Rating: 7.372 (294 votes)

Release Date: 1966-05-04

Overview: A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

Rating: 7.235 (353 votes)

Release Date: 1962-08-25

Overview: The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.

Rating: 7.4 (521 votes)

Release Date: 2014-05-29

Overview: After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

Rating: 7.1 (456 votes)