Release Date: 1946-10-29

Overview: The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

Rating: 7.5 (630 votes)

Release Date: 2020-09-09

Overview: Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to set them apart, their social backgrounds but also their personalities. From the age of thirteen to eighteen, Adolescentes follows the two teenagers during these years where radical transformations and first times punctuate daily life. Through their personal stories, the film offers a rare portrait of France and its recent history.

Rating: 7.4 (91 votes)

Release Date: 1941-08-29

Overview: In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.

Rating: 7.5 (183 votes)

Release Date: 1932-01-20

Overview: In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.

Rating: 7.118 (170 votes)

Release Date: 1955-12-28

Overview: Four stories, humorous, romantic or dramatic, are linked by a counterfeit gold sovereign. It is made by the honest engraver in the first story, seduced by the charms of a young widow, and it subsequently passes into the hands of a beggar and a prostitute, a wealthy miser and a newly married couple where the husband is a poor artist.

Rating: 7.7 (35 votes)

Release Date: 1935-02-16

Overview: A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust Long Island family in this horsy-set drama.

Rating: 6 (18 votes)

Release Date: 2019-05-17

Overview: When Tom realizes that he has fallen in love with a boy, Bastien, his life changes: the hostile world of the high school that surrounds him quickly makes it clear that he will not have a school life as beautiful as he is. hope. Gaëlle, also a high school girl, is secretly in a relationship with Lola, but when both decide to announce it to their parents, the life of one of them is turned upside down ...

Rating: 5.7 (3 votes)

Release Date: 1974-01-01

Overview: Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions, but does not seek any concrete answers.

Rating: 6.5 (6 votes)

Release Date: 2018-06-29

Overview: Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer. However, looming over this chance encounter, is the father's imminent return to the lake house, the continuation of Leevi's studies abroad as well as Tareq's complex relationship with his family in Syria.

Rating: 6.2 (85 votes)

Release Date: 1945-01-20

Overview: A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

Rating: 7.47 (534 votes)

Release Date: 1959-12-16

Overview: Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

Rating: 7.3 (531 votes)

Release Date: 1996-06-21

Overview: Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, where three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

Rating: 7.292 (320 votes)

Release Date: 1959-04-27

Overview: Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Rating: 8.24 (513 votes)

Release Date: 1949-10-08

Overview: Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman is brought to life, narrated by Bing Crosby.

Rating: 7.4 (286 votes)

Release Date: 1990-01-22

Overview: Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.

Rating: 6.862 (641 votes)

Release Date: 2015-10-07

Overview: Because of his wavering health, Monsieur Henri can no longer live alone in his Paris appartment. Particularly grumpy, he ends up nonetheless accepting his son Paul's suggestion that he let one of his rooms out to a young female student. Far from falling for her charms, Henri uses her to orchestrate utter family chaos...

Rating: 6.653 (382 votes)

Release Date: 1979-12-19

Overview: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Rating: 7.618 (1036 votes)

Release Date: 2017-06-30

Overview: Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.

Rating: 5.879 (604 votes)

Release Date: 2021-02-11

Overview: On a hiking trip to rekindle their marriage, a couple find themselves fleeing for their lives in the unforgiving wilderness from an unknown shooter.

Rating: 5.877 (707 votes)

Release Date: 1974-01-05

Overview: An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Rating: 7.5 (1244 votes)