Release Date: 1988-09-20

Overview: The mountaintop is usually the object and purpose of the trip. But for the small and serene Mr. Tao is a step on his continuing quest, that perhaps will never end.

Rating: 6.5 (14 votes)

Release Date: 2003-07-15

Overview: A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.

Rating: 4.7 (112 votes)

Release Date: 1984-05-12

Overview: Starring Yellow Magic Orchestra and David Brooks Palmer, YMO Propaganda is 1984 Musical film directed by Shin Saito. Originally premiered theatrically throughout Japan in 1984 and is considered by some to be the best visual work from 'Y.M.O.'

Rating: 8.5 (2 votes)

Release Date: 2004-10-22

Overview: A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.

Rating: 4.6 (16 votes)

Release Date: 1991-03-13

Overview: A CCTV-commissioned, 8-part series shot between 1988 and 1990, but barred from being released after the events of June 4th. A production of the Structure, Wave, Youth, Cinema Experimental Group, an informal collective of young filmmakers founded in 1989 and devoted to the production of documentaries, that includes: this series' two directors, Shi Jian and Chen Jue, as well as Wang Guangli, cinematographers Wang Hongyou and Zhao Baohong, and others like Meng Weidong and Wang Fei. The series documents various aspects of life surrounding Tiananmen: survivors of the imperial era, street performers, grandmothers cooking for their families, fledgling entrepreneurs, fashion school students, foreigners marrying Chinese nationals, and so forth. Each episode starts with a close-up of a giant portrait of Mao hung over the Square, and proceeds as a hybrid of archival footage, direct cinema, and cinema verité, weaving a permanent dialectic between the present and the past, daily life and history.

Rating: 8 (1 votes)

Release Date: 1963-12-24

Overview: Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory.

Rating: 6.9 (40 votes)

Release Date: 2012-10-24

Overview: An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom's basement. But things didn't go as planned after his half sister joins him.

Rating: 6.2 (233 votes)

Release Date: 2016-07-05

Overview: Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Rating: 5.866 (86 votes)

Release Date: 1966-05-25

Overview: The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Rating: 7.565 (471 votes)

Release Date: 1997-07-30

Overview: A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.

Rating: 6.031 (193 votes)

Release Date: 2003-01-31

Overview: A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting object of his affections.

Rating: 6.5 (167 votes)

Release Date: 1990-10-25

Overview: An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

Rating: 6.507 (280 votes)

Release Date: 1987-07-18

Overview: A naïve young tax collector for the imperial government winds up spending the night in a haunted temple. There he falls in love with a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, is dead. With the aid of a powerful Daoist Swordsman, he must defeat undead hordes, overcome a sinister Tree Demoness, and descend to the pits of hell, to fight for the spirit he loves.

Rating: 7.3 (296 votes)

Release Date: 1997-12-25

Overview: The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.

Rating: 6.808 (461 votes)

Release Date: 2013-02-22

Overview: After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

Rating: 5.817 (511 votes)

Release Date: 1996-12-14

Overview: The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Rating: 6.1 (488 votes)

Release Date: 2017-12-07

Overview: A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.

Rating: 4.972 (526 votes)

Release Date: 1999-12-25

Overview: An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Rating: 7.3 (332 votes)

Release Date: 1997-09-10

Overview: A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.

Rating: 6.466 (704 votes)

Release Date: 1993-05-07

Overview: In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.

Rating: 6.931 (755 votes)