Release Date: 1971-11-29

Overview: Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Rating: 6.9 (71 votes)

Release Date: 1930-02-04

Overview: A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

Rating: 7.2 (103 votes)

Release Date: 1928-08-04

Overview: A beautiful Russian spy seduces an Austrian military officer in order to obtain secret plans. When she falls in love with him, both are placed in danger.

Rating: 7.4 (32 votes)

Release Date: 1927-09-15

Overview: Originally thought of as the oldest surviving Greek feature film, before it was discovered that it wasn't released in 1924, but in 1927. Burlesque comedian Sfakianos, who had trained in France, stars as Villar. Villar gets a job at a dry cleaner’s and wanders through Athens. He makes one gaffe after the other and gets involved in various adventures.

Rating: 5.2 (10 votes)

Release Date: 1936-05-31

Overview: After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.

Rating: 6.071 (155 votes)

Release Date: 1930-05-28

Overview: What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

Rating: 6.858 (137 votes)

Release Date: 1933-12-01

Overview: An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

Rating: 7 (158 votes)

Release Date: 1939-03-17

Overview: A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Rating: 6.665 (115 votes)

Release Date: 1948-08-20

Overview: In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.

Rating: 7.1 (147 votes)

Release Date: 1990-07-20

Overview: After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...

Rating: 6.8 (116 votes)

Release Date: 1982-04-02

Overview: Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.

Rating: 6.8 (288 votes)

Release Date: 1981-11-19

Overview: Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.

Rating: 6.641 (227 votes)

Release Date: 1933-12-29

Overview: An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.

Rating: 7.134 (198 votes)

Release Date: 1965-12-16

Overview: British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Rating: 7.073 (307 votes)

Release Date: 1937-11-01

Overview: Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.

Rating: 6.597 (237 votes)

Release Date: 1965-08-06

Overview: A trio of thrill-seeking go-go dancers kidnap a young girl and attempt to seduce an old rancher and his two sons out of their small fortune, but their scheme doesn't play out as intended.

Rating: 6.336 (338 votes)

Release Date: 1940-01-12

Overview: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Rating: 8.13 (761 votes)

Release Date: 1922-06-11

Overview: This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Rating: 7.089 (311 votes)

Release Date: 2024-11-06

Overview: Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: She herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric and yet their relationship is smooth sailing. She has no idea he is having an affair with Rebecca, their mutual friend. When Joan finally decides to leave Victor and he disappears, the lives of the three friends and their relationships are turned upside down.

Rating: 6.6 (67 votes)

Release Date: 1964-06-23

Overview: Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.

Rating: 7.2 (578 votes)