Release Date: 2010-10-27

Overview: The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master in the early 19th century. Although she dreams of being an artist, once in Europe she is exploited as a sideshow attraction due to her large buttocks and genitalia.

Rating: 6.6 (115 votes)

Release Date: 2004-06-24

Overview: The passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.

Rating: 6.8 (134 votes)

Release Date: 1984-11-21

Overview: In Paris at night, a young aspiring filmmaker grapples with heartbreak after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend. After a failed attempt to confront his friend, he wanders the streets and encounters a girl who has just been abandoned. Their paths cross at a party, bringing together two tormented souls.

Rating: 6.7 (115 votes)

Release Date: 2013-01-13

Overview: Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...

Rating: 5.364 (77 votes)

Release Date: 1994-09-09

Overview: Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.

Rating: 7.083 (60 votes)

Release Date: 2008-03-19

Overview: A man investigating his son's death learns some horrific truths about the pharmaceutical industry.

Rating: 6.034 (59 votes)

Release Date: 2011-11-25

Overview: An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.

Rating: 6.983 (231 votes)

Release Date: 2003-11-25

Overview: A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is determined not to take part, but after developing feelings for Lydia, he quickly assumes the main role and love interest in the play.

Rating: 6.639 (144 votes)

Release Date: 1994-02-01

Overview: When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

Rating: 7.4 (184 votes)

Release Date: 2012-10-10

Overview: Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposed characters and backgrounds. He works a night job as a doorman, while she works all day in a car rental service. This is the story of what happens when they decide to have a child.

Rating: 6.81 (229 votes)

Release Date: 2020-08-26

Overview: Gabriel, aged 10, lives in a comfortable ex-pat neighborhood in Burundi, his ‘small country’. Gabriel is a normal kid, happy, carefree and having adventures with his friends and little sister. Then in 1993, tensions in neighboring Rwanda spill over, threatening his family and his innocence.

Rating: 7.1 (161 votes)

Release Date: 1961-03-03

Overview: A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Rating: 7.131 (279 votes)

Release Date: 1957-10-12

Overview: Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

Rating: 7.9 (410 votes)

Release Date: 2012-10-04

Overview: Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

Rating: 6.461 (400 votes)

Release Date: 2015-04-08

Overview: Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld while her teenage son, Bones, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery if their family is to survive.

Rating: 5.742 (616 votes)

Release Date: 2016-06-10

Overview: An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, and winds up on the run from his employers across Cologne’s autobahns.

Rating: 5.528 (596 votes)

Release Date: 2021-04-09

Overview: A single mother breeds locusts as high-protein foods but has trouble getting them to reproduce until she finds they have a taste for blood.

Rating: 5.76 (477 votes)

Release Date: 2015-05-13

Overview: The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.

Rating: 7.195 (473 votes)

Release Date: 2022-10-28

Overview: In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.

Rating: 6.464 (461 votes)

Release Date: 2024-08-14

Overview: Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim's biological father, shows up... It could be the start of a melodrama, it's also the start of an odyssey into fatherhood.

Rating: 6.778 (187 votes)