Release Date: 1959-06-12

Overview: Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Rating: 6.991 (217 votes)

Release Date: 1991-06-21

Overview: This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

Rating: 5.298 (101 votes)

Release Date: 2010-10-10

Overview: In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.

Rating: 6.722 (115 votes)

Release Date: 1987-09-23

Overview: The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.

Rating: 6.816 (122 votes)

Release Date: 1996-08-30

Overview: A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.

Rating: 5.8 (110 votes)

Release Date: 2017-09-11

Overview: When young Mariah sees a darling little puppy named "Princess" at the pet store, she suddenly knows exactly what she wants for Christmas. But before her Christmas wish can come true, she must prove that she can dog-sit her uncle's dog, Jack, a scraggly rascal; in fact, the worst dog in the county!

Rating: 5.4 (70 votes)

Release Date: 1988-07-25

Overview: An artist dealing with the grief of his wife leaving him finds solace in painting the squalor of the sewer. He discovers a trapped mermaid, whom he brings home to heal. Her condition worsens, and she asks the artist to paint her before she dies.

Rating: 5.3 (62 votes)

Release Date: 1980-11-19

Overview: The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.

Rating: 7.2 (35 votes)

Release Date: 2014-10-23

Overview: When their elderly neighbor suddenly drops dead, a young Brooklyn couple investigates signs of foul play.

Rating: 5.1 (12 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: 1990-05-11

Overview: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Rating: 7.704 (503 votes)

Release Date: 2009-09-25

Overview: Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

Rating: 7.233 (645 votes)

Release Date: 1994-12-22

Overview: When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.

Rating: 7 (1054 votes)

Release Date: 2013-05-17

Overview: An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

Rating: 7.353 (1702 votes)

Release Date: 2013-09-19

Overview: Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.

Rating: 7.222 (3094 votes)

Release Date: 2010-12-22

Overview: Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

Rating: 7.309 (5411 votes)

Release Date: 2007-02-14

Overview: Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.

Rating: 7.564 (7842 votes)

Release Date: 1979-05-19

Overview: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Rating: 8.3 (8552 votes)

Release Date: 2004-09-09

Overview: Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

Rating: 8.397 (10400 votes)

Release Date: 2013-12-25

Overview: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

Rating: 8.028 (24776 votes)