Release Date: 1988-04-29

Overview: An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

Rating: 7.3 (168 votes)

Release Date: 1978-11-14

Overview: An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

Rating: 6.539 (127 votes)

Release Date: 1948-07-01

Overview: This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler.

Rating: 4 (2 votes)

Release Date: 1979-11-09

Overview: The first story-time segment is about a cheerful cockroach named Don, who scurries throughout his mansion home, walks beneath the floorboards and does unspeakable things in the darkness of the cupboard, before being splatted by somebody's foot. The second segment is about an ordinary man named Albert Einstein ("the only Albert Einstein not to have discovered the Theory of Relativity") whose hands have a life of their own, staying out late at night, misbehaving and committing adultery with feet. The third segment – hasn't much story to it at all, and instead concerns the inhabitants of the moving pictures on an over-sized Christmas card, who interact with each other in all sorts of bizarre ways.

Rating: 6.2 (28 votes)

Release Date: 2008-08-08

Overview: Avery, a reclusive older man, has a best friend in his dog, Red. When three teens kill Red without reason, Avery sets out for justice and redemption, attempting to follow the letter of the law. But when the law fails him, and the boys' father clearly defines right and wrong in his own way, Avery must avenge himself by any means possible.

Rating: 6.219 (274 votes)

Release Date: 2002-03-01

Overview: Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets, he attempts to begin again from zero, befriending a moody dog and becoming besotted with a Salvation Army volunteer.

Rating: 7.424 (386 votes)

Release Date: 1992-09-15

Overview: A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

Rating: 8.2 (630 votes)

Release Date: 2019-08-29

Overview: A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.

Rating: 6 (548 votes)

Release Date: 1983-04-27

Overview: Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Rating: 7.9 (720 votes)

Release Date: 2016-11-12

Overview: Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

Rating: 7.898 (576 votes)

Release Date: 1962-10-31

Overview: A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Rating: 7.912 (1092 votes)

Release Date: 1998-06-19

Overview: The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the party, his eldest son presents a speech that reveals a shocking secret.

Rating: 7.728 (1155 votes)

Release Date: 1931-02-06

Overview: A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

Rating: 8.3 (2290 votes)

Release Date: 1991-05-24

Overview: Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.

Rating: 7.6 (3608 votes)

Release Date: 2002-07-19

Overview: Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats.

Rating: 7.128 (2309 votes)

Release Date: 1986-12-19

Overview: As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Rating: 7.747 (4752 votes)

Release Date: 1986-06-11

Overview: After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

Rating: 7.575 (5074 votes)

Release Date: 2018-12-14

Overview: Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

Rating: 6.861 (5101 votes)

Release Date: 2024-08-29

Overview: A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.

Rating: 8.171 (2126 votes)