Release Date: 1998-12-01

Overview: After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.

Rating: 6.9 (130 votes)

Release Date: 1969-07-10

Overview: Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.

Rating: 6.4 (71 votes)

Release Date: 2005-07-08

Overview: Filmaker Alina Marazzi assembles old home movies trying to piece together the life of her mother, Liseli, who committed suicide when Alina was seven years old.

Rating: 7.442 (26 votes)

Release Date: 2021-09-01

Overview: Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.

Rating: 6.8 (18 votes)

Release Date: 1968-12-06

Overview: An apocalyptic story of three wars in three film tales encompassing the end of the WWI,WWII, as well as a vision of the world destroyed by nuclear weapons. This film was honored at the film festivals in Venice and Sorrento. Immediately after that the copy with Italian subtitles was locked in a safe as evidence of the anti-communist activities of the director, who used real footage of the Soviet invasion.

Rating: 7.1 (13 votes)

Release Date: 1985-12-01

Overview: A film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.

Rating: 6.7 (37 votes)

Release Date: 2021-11-05

Overview: The Chinese restaurant is empty. The cage full of exotic birds is wide open. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as an opportunity to catch and sell them. But catching these animals isn’t as simple as it seems.

Rating: 6.5 (11 votes)

Release Date: 1992-12-30

Overview: Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the height of his fame ". Vartanov resurrects the riveting scenes from his banned 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land, where Paradjanov concocts the chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - then reveals the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from Ukrainian prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's staggering last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession - which survives in The Last Spring - as Parajanov comments on this cherished autobiographical film. The foremost achievement of The Last Spring, emphasized by critics, is Vartanov's exquisite wordless montage that "evoked the very soul" of Parajanov and earned the praise of many of cinema's greatest masters, such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.

Rating: 5.2 (5 votes)

Release Date: 1969-10-10

Overview: A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.

Rating: 6.64 (146 votes)

Release Date: 1963-05-31

Overview: During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.

Rating: 6.5 (85 votes)

Release Date: 2000-11-05

Overview: A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.

Rating: 7.6 (74 votes)

Release Date: 2001-06-02

Overview: Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country.

Rating: 7.1 (90 votes)

Release Date: 1979-03-02

Overview: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

Rating: 7.2 (182 votes)

Release Date: 2016-09-16

Overview: Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, an ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.

Rating: 6.1 (97 votes)

Release Date: 1969-12-16

Overview: A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.

Rating: 7.1 (225 votes)

Release Date: 1977-04-02

Overview: Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

Rating: 7.8 (221 votes)

Release Date: 1971-03-25

Overview: London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.

Rating: 7 (214 votes)

Release Date: 2019-09-12

Overview: After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

Rating: 7.129 (163 votes)

Release Date: 1996-04-05

Overview: Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.

Rating: 6.8 (134 votes)

Release Date: 2008-09-27

Overview: A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.

Rating: 7.4 (249 votes)