Release Date: 1990-10-03

Overview: The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however, we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a hairdresser.

Rating: 6.8 (216 votes)

Release Date: 1987-07-01

Overview: An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Rating: 7.9 (385 votes)

Release Date: 1994-02-01

Overview: When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

Rating: 7.4 (184 votes)

Release Date: 1939-10-13

Overview: In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

Rating: 7.845 (116 votes)

Release Date: 1923-10-01

Overview: When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

Rating: 6.78 (173 votes)

Release Date: 2018-02-02

Overview: A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.

Rating: 6.6 (52 votes)

Release Date: 1999-02-08

Overview: Mohammad joyfully returns to his tiny village on summer vacation from the Institute for the Blind, unaware of his widowed father's intentions to disown him in order to win the hand—and dowry—of a local woman. With the wedding swiftly approaching, Mohammad's future hangs precariously in the balance as his father struggles against his destiny, unable to see the wonder of life and love that's so clear to his son.

Rating: 7.539 (180 votes)

Release Date: 1997-06-04

Overview: Twenty-something Freddy is becalmed in a podunk French village where the only sign of life is the local amateur brass band and youth aimlessly roaming around the countryside on scooters. He has an intense sexual connection with his girlfriend but has no joy or passion to give her. When she falls for a handsome Arab youth a tragedy unfolds.

Rating: 6.7 (87 votes)

Release Date: 1931-07-17

Overview: After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind former aviator restore her faith and happiness?

Rating: 6.6 (47 votes)

Release Date: 1922-01-01

Overview: This short was made as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. In it, Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large number of crooks wants to steal.

Rating: 4.815 (27 votes)

Release Date: 1985-09-11

Overview: Şaban returns to Istanbul from Germany to solve a fraud crime that was framed on his father. But the people who meet him at the airport see Şaban as a punk and think that he can't help them…

Rating: 6.3 (48 votes)

Release Date: 2011-09-14

Overview: In a remote, isolated Lebanese village surrounded by land mines, Muslims and Christians live together in peace. As civil strife starts to engulf the country around them, the women in the village try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark by sabotaging the village radio, and then destroying the village TV.

Rating: 7.413 (201 votes)

Release Date: 2000-08-02

Overview: A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.

Rating: 6.389 (276 votes)

Release Date: 1966-12-16

Overview: An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

Rating: 8 (876 votes)

Release Date: 2003-09-05

Overview: The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

Rating: 7.547 (423 votes)

Release Date: 1959-04-27

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

Rating: 8.24 (513 votes)

Release Date: 1990-05-09

Overview: This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

Rating: 7.936 (408 votes)

Release Date: 1956-11-11

Overview: A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

Rating: 7.952 (566 votes)

Release Date: 2006-06-25

Overview: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Rating: 6.996 (786 votes)

Release Date: 1970-07-01

Overview: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Rating: 7.659 (709 votes)