Release Date: 1976-11-12

Overview: A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.

Rating: 6.521 (121 votes)

Release Date: 1977-10-01

Overview: Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.

Rating: 7.3 (57 votes)

Release Date: 1974-01-01

Overview: A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Rating: 7.1 (62 votes)

Release Date: 2014-01-17

Overview: In an extraordinary and tragic American story, a small town murder becomes one of the highest profile cases of all time. From its historic role as the first televised trial to the many books and movies made about it, the film looks at the media’s enduring impact on the case.

Rating: 6.1 (29 votes)

Release Date: 2007-05-22

Overview: Based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.

Rating: 6.4 (36 votes)

Release Date: 1992-09-17

Overview: Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to look; changes in movies (the arrival of sound, color, and wide screens) required creative responses from DPs; and, these artisans constantly invent new equipment and try new things, with wonderful results. The narration takes us through the identifiable studio styles of the 30s, the emergence of noir, the New York look, and the impact of Europeans. Citizen Kane, The Conformist, and Gordon Willis get special attention.

Rating: 6.99 (48 votes)

Release Date: 2002-05-15

Overview: CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...

Rating: 6.6 (32 votes)

Release Date: 1999-01-01

Overview: Angelo is an orphan who grew up with a nomad woman. He reacts to his pain over the death of his best friend for overdose, thanks to the encounter with Serena. She survives being a prostitute, but she has not lost hope. Angelo moves along an axis of characters in a desolate and poetic day without end.

Rating: 6.2 (10 votes)

Release Date: 1977-07-17

Overview: Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

Rating: 6.4 (65 votes)

Release Date: 2019-10-07

Overview: A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.

Rating: 6.682 (66 votes)

Release Date: 1997-07-18

Overview: When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown. But their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil to the monarchy.

Rating: 6.8 (180 votes)

Release Date: 1990-11-01

Overview: An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.

Rating: 5.8 (118 votes)

Release Date: 1992-02-21

Overview: Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.

Rating: 7.83 (138 votes)

Release Date: 1994-11-24

Overview: Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff and patients alike, encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural.

Rating: 7.743 (251 votes)

Release Date: 1987-12-03

Overview: A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.

Rating: 6.9 (157 votes)

Release Date: 1977-05-20

Overview: Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

Rating: 7.351 (269 votes)

Release Date: 2000-11-03

Overview: Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

Rating: 7.2 (217 votes)

Release Date: 1993-06-08

Overview: In 1951, a young Vietnamese girl arrives at a Saigon household as their new servant.

Rating: 7.023 (194 votes)

Release Date: 1964-12-15

Overview: An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

Rating: 7.281 (267 votes)

Release Date: 1989-02-10

Overview: A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

Rating: 7.7 (155 votes)