Release Date: 1983-05-18

Overview: A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.

Rating: 7.68 (139 votes)

Release Date: 1976-03-04

Overview: Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.

Rating: 7.4 (137 votes)

Release Date: 1982-03-22

Overview: On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Rating: 6.5 (77 votes)

Release Date: 2005-03-11

Overview: In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson.

Rating: 7.083 (36 votes)

Release Date: 2009-08-06

Overview: There are two of them: a mother and a girl. They have no names. And they are in a constant run. The mother runs away from the daughter in an attempt to start new life, and the girl runs after her mother as she has no idea how to live without her. This endless run is full with repeated mistakes and resembles a barrel-organ sorrowful song or a spinning-top rotation. This small ridiculous toy "volchok" was the first toy in the girl's life, the only thing that tied her with the mother.

Rating: 6.233 (30 votes)

Release Date: 1992-10-01

Overview: Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.

Rating: 7.12 (46 votes)

Release Date: 1966-12-15

Overview: An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.

Rating: 4.8 (34 votes)

Release Date: 1987-09-15

Overview: Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves a note for his longtime friend Dr. Bardocz. The doctor and Zoltai's colleague Komindi join the police in investigating what drove the man to suicide.

Rating: 5.8 (8 votes)

Release Date: 1915-07-12

Overview: Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.

Rating: 6 (68 votes)

Release Date: 1998-10-10

Overview: The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.

Rating: 6 (5 votes)

Release Date: 2009-06-26

Overview: In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he hopes to flip a Mondrian for millions. One of his assistants, Beth, is sleeping with Art's most acquisitive client, Bob Macclestone. Beth wants Bob to set her up in her own gallery, so she helps him go behind Art's back for the Mondrian. Bob's wife, Jean, sets her eye on a young conceptual artist, Jo, who lusts after Art's newest assistant, Paige. Meanwhile, self-absorbed videographer Elaine is chewing her way through friends and lovers looking to make it: if she'll throw Dewey, her agent, under the bus, Beth may give her a show. And the Mondrian? No honor among thieves.

Rating: 5 (97 votes)

Release Date: 1946-10-29

Overview: Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of his students.

Rating: 6.9 (79 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: 1949-05-04

Overview: A slapstick fantasy of the amorous adventures of a magician a la Cantinflas.

Rating: 7.5 (25 votes)

Release Date: 1978-11-14

Overview: An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

Rating: 6.528 (126 votes)

Release Date: 1965-08-27

Overview: Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Rating: 7.7 (227 votes)

Release Date: 1992-08-22

Overview: During the Ming Dynasty, Tso Siu Yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.

Rating: 7.246 (128 votes)

Release Date: 1969-09-02

Overview: Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.

Rating: 7.1 (156 votes)

Release Date: 1989-01-17

Overview: Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.

Rating: 7.064 (125 votes)

Release Date: 1948-04-27

Overview: Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convince Matsunaga to stay for treatment, which would drastically change his lifestyle. They form an uneasy friendship until Matsunaga's old boss Okada returns from prison.

Rating: 7.606 (282 votes)