Release Date: 2007-09-12

Overview: With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair

Rating: 4.106 (66 votes)

Release Date: 2006-04-26

Overview: Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.

Rating: 7.057 (88 votes)

Release Date: 1985-11-27

Overview: In 1979, Louis Malle films the thriving lives of a Minnesota farming community, but returns six years later to document its drastic economic decline, offering a poignant look at the impact of political changes.

Rating: 7.3 (18 votes)

Release Date: 1933-11-01

Overview: Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?

Rating: 6.3 (50 votes)

Release Date: 1989-09-29

Overview: About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.

Rating: 7.286 (35 votes)

Release Date: 1992-10-28

Overview: Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "manifest destiny." Touching some of the most powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, this extraordinary narrative remains one of the most compelling and enduring episodes to come out of the West.

Rating: 6.8 (11 votes)

Release Date: 1997-08-22

Overview: Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

Rating: 6.3 (78 votes)

Release Date: 2004-10-04

Overview: Action Man and his team have to stop the combined forces of Dr. X and No-Face, who have unleashed a large number of X Robots on the world and framed Action Man for the kidnapping of a professor.

Rating: 6.1 (13 votes)

Release Date: 2015-06-26

Overview: Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.

Rating: 6.8 (15 votes)

Release Date: 1986-02-19

Overview: Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.

Rating: 6.9 (52 votes)

Release Date: 2005-09-12

Overview: The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio mans moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unprecedented block party.

Rating: 6.756 (119 votes)

Release Date: 1994-10-19

Overview: An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 1899 play "Uncle Vanya" played out by a company of actors. The setting is their run down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

Rating: 6.6 (84 votes)

Release Date: 1969-07-10

Overview: Bambi is nibbling the grass, unaware of the upcoming encounter with Godzilla. Who will win when they finally meet? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

Rating: 6.359 (167 votes)

Release Date: 1989-05-16

Overview: Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live.

Rating: 7.6 (118 votes)

Release Date: 2023-04-19

Overview: 1516, Legend has it that the king of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbarossa arrives to liberate the city from the Spaniards, he is determined to conquer Zaphira as well as the kingdom itself. But is Zaphira willing to let him, or is she plotting for herself?

Rating: 6.613 (31 votes)

Release Date: 1972-06-29

Overview: Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

Rating: 6.467 (165 votes)

Release Date: 1990-08-03

Overview: A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

Rating: 6.892 (166 votes)

Release Date: 2006-03-31

Overview: This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

Rating: 7.7 (135 votes)

Release Date: 1974-01-30

Overview: In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.

Rating: 7.033 (151 votes)