Release Date: 1962-04-13

Overview: This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

Rating: 7.686 (518 votes)

Release Date: 1997-09-28

Overview: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Rating: 7.67 (670 votes)

Release Date: 2018-11-22

Overview: To support her family, Maria works as a trafficker of surrogate mothers, transporting them from place to place along a river — but when one disappears, Maria is left with the task of finding her and must enter deeper into a world she wishes to escape.

Rating: 6.373 (55 votes)

Release Date: 2009-04-18

Overview: A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Rating: 6.1 (35 votes)

Release Date: 1954-12-10

Overview: Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.

Rating: 7.1 (260 votes)

Release Date: 1972-01-31

Overview: “I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed, that it is useless to try” - João César Monteiro

Rating: 6 (10 votes)

Release Date: 1990-09-11

Overview: A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.

Rating: 6.3 (25 votes)

Release Date: 2007-09-07

Overview: Three segments depicting the life cycle of a freighter boat.

Rating: 7.1 (16 votes)

Release Date: 1940-03-23

Overview: Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

Rating: 7.898 (1899 votes)

Release Date: 2024-04-18

Overview: Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

Rating: 6.9 (2460 votes)

Release Date: 2013-09-19

Overview: Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.

Rating: 8.1 (12609 votes)

Release Date: 2024-09-19

Overview: Set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, a series of dramatic, consequential events unfold after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier, who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with a provincial family’s eldest daughter.

Rating: 7.073 (282 votes)

Release Date: 2006-08-23

Overview: Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child who becomes obsessed with taxidermy.

Rating: 6.6 (334 votes)

Release Date: 2019-11-27

Overview: Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

Rating: 7.491 (3057 votes)

Release Date: 1981-10-11

Overview: Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

Rating: 7.499 (433 votes)

Release Date: 1962-09-20

Overview: Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Rating: 7.7 (678 votes)

Release Date: 1981-07-24

Overview: While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Rating: 7.365 (1605 votes)

Release Date: 1999-09-15

Overview: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

Rating: 8.004 (12676 votes)

Release Date: 1989-12-08

Overview: An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)

Rating: 8.445 (633 votes)

Release Date: 1975-12-18

Overview: An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

Rating: 7.99 (3050 votes)