Release Date: 1966-12-16

Overview: An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.

Rating: 8 (876 votes)

Release Date: 1967-05-24

Overview: Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Rating: 7.33 (953 votes)

Release Date: 1967-05-02

Overview: Eldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social convulsion, the jaded journalist Paulo Martins opposes two equally corrupt political candidates: a pseudopopulist and a conservative. In this context, Paulo is torn between the madness of the elite and the blind submission of the masses. But, in this complex tropical reality, nothing really is what it seems to be.

Rating: 7.3 (117 votes)

Release Date: 1980-05-21

Overview: Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.

Rating: 7.008 (190 votes)

Release Date: 1960-01-15

Overview: Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

Rating: 7.974 (115 votes)

Release Date: 2011-10-12

Overview: Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.

Rating: 7.039 (168 votes)

Release Date: 2019-05-24

Overview: An assassin for a secret organization keeping Japan safe from underworld threats finds himself targeted by evil forces aiming to unleash an unstoppable criminal syndicate upon Japan.

Rating: 5.5 (16 votes)

Release Date: 1979-05-17

Overview: A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

Rating: 6.5 (27 votes)

Release Date: 2024-12-25

Overview: A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

Rating: 6.709 (2813 votes)

Release Date: 1976-02-09

Overview: A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.

Rating: 8.135 (12749 votes)

Release Date: 1989-06-02

Overview: At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Rating: 8.301 (11735 votes)

Release Date: 1964-09-04

Overview: In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Rating: 7.4 (473 votes)

Release Date: 2024-04-24

Overview: Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, it would destroy that person’s life. Time passes, Pietro’s stature as a writer grows and his family settles into the comfort of a bourgeois life. But he is haunted by the possibility that Teresa may one day reappear and tear apart his world with the secret she knows.

Rating: 6.4 (127 votes)

Release Date: 2014-02-26

Overview: The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Rating: 8.037 (15284 votes)

Release Date: 1950-08-10

Overview: A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Rating: 8.294 (2706 votes)

Release Date: 2023-06-18

Overview: Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Rating: 7 (10084 votes)

Release Date: 1954-08-01

Overview: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Rating: 8.353 (6757 votes)

Release Date: 2020-11-20

Overview: Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

Rating: 7.712 (2644 votes)

Release Date: 2002-10-11

Overview: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

Rating: 7.1 (393 votes)

Release Date: 2019-11-27

Overview: When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.

Rating: 7.843 (12963 votes)