Release Date: 1993-10-01

Overview: Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

Rating: 7.2 (625 votes)

Release Date: 1989-02-01

Overview: Young male students at a local Iranian school are asked about their feelings on homework.

Rating: 7.292 (36 votes)

Release Date: 2009-11-27

Overview: A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.

Rating: 6.1 (64 votes)

Release Date: 2001-09-02

Overview: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.

Rating: 6.3 (96 votes)

Release Date: 1945-02-07

Overview: When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.

Rating: 6.9 (64 votes)

Release Date: 1990-05-04

Overview: As a result of a misdiagnosis, Detective Burt Simpson is told he has just weeks to live. He gains a new respect for his life and loved ones but learns that in order for his wife, Carolyn, and son, Dougie, to collect any insurance money, he must be killed in the line of duty. He then becomes the most reckless man on the police force, volunteering for dangerous assignments over the objections of his by-the-book partner.

Rating: 6.398 (54 votes)

Release Date: 1980-02-01

Overview: A group of scientists take Simon, a psychology professor, as a test person for a brainwashing experiment and try to convince him that he is a living being from another planet.

Rating: 6.2 (23 votes)

Release Date: 1925-11-01

Overview: With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

Rating: 6.899 (139 votes)

Release Date: 1945-01-26

Overview: Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.

Rating: 7.219 (114 votes)

Release Date: 1994-12-23

Overview: During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.

Rating: 5.2 (219 votes)

Release Date: 1991-06-20

Overview: After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

Rating: 6.686 (462 votes)

Release Date: 2001-04-19

Overview: On an ordinary night, in an ordinary part of town, a beautiful young woman walks into a bar. Her name is Jewel, and before long she is chatting to bartender Randy. The pair leave together, but he ends up getting into a tussle with her criminal boyfriend, who she then shoots dead, later persuading Randy to take the rap for her. But this isn't the end of it, as both Randy's cousin Carl and the detective assigned to the murder case also fall for Jewel's charms and find themselves caught up in the ensuing events. It seems that any man who meets Jewel falls instantly in love with her, and she's going to use this fully to her own advantage, leaving a trail of havoc in her wake. It also seems that she is going to get away with it - that is, until Randy decides to hire a hitman...

Rating: 5.875 (349 votes)

Release Date: 2002-11-22

Overview: Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

Rating: 6.534 (305 votes)

Release Date: 1981-09-25

Overview: A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Rating: 6.1 (167 votes)

Release Date: 1955-12-24

Overview: A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

Rating: 7.252 (202 votes)

Release Date: 1987-09-03

Overview: A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

Rating: 6.911 (203 votes)

Release Date: 1937-01-28

Overview: Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

Rating: 7.199 (176 votes)

Release Date: 2016-10-07

Overview: Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.

Rating: 6.823 (96 votes)

Release Date: 1973-03-08

Overview: In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Rating: 7.4 (690 votes)

Release Date: 1977-04-10

Overview: Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

Rating: 7.2 (305 votes)