Release Date: 1987-07-01

Overview: An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Rating: 7.9 (385 votes)

Release Date: 1992-10-21

Overview: After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.

Rating: 7.7 (151 votes)

Release Date: 1974-11-06

Overview: Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in Tehran. In order to achieve that, he scams his friends and neighbors.

Rating: 7.233 (43 votes)

Release Date: 2021-02-26

Overview: A young man is sent to "La Maca," a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named "Zama King" and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.

Rating: 6.721 (77 votes)

Release Date: 1963-02-01

Overview: In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.

Rating: 6.4 (114 votes)

Release Date: 2007-10-31

Overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

Rating: 6.5 (142 votes)

Release Date: 2011-09-30

Overview: Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.

Rating: 6.7 (50 votes)

Release Date: 1998-12-30

Overview: In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.

Rating: 6.248 (139 votes)

Release Date: 1987-02-06

Overview: A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

Rating: 6 (110 votes)

Release Date: 1999-09-10

Overview: In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.

Rating: 6.8 (104 votes)

Release Date: 1999-06-05

Overview: A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he is offered a job at a hotel, but he is emotionally unable to part with his career as a railroader. His life takes a turn when he meets a young woman with an interest in trains who resembles his daughter.

Rating: 7.024 (42 votes)

Release Date: 2018-08-17

Overview: Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.

Rating: 6.5 (140 votes)

Release Date: 1975-10-19

Overview: A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.

Rating: 6.2 (29 votes)

Release Date: 1953-01-10

Overview: A moment after a bottle of white shoe polish pours on Jerry, Tom hears on the radio that a white mouse, having swallowed an explosive, has escaped from an experimental laboratory and that slightest jar of the mouse could cause it to explode and blow up the entire city. It is then that Tom notices now-white Jerry and concludes it's the escapee.

Rating: 6.8 (39 votes)

Release Date: 1975-01-01

Overview: The precise portrait of a woman who is present and fey at the same time, who is as tired as she is courageous and who seems to have surrendered and emancipated at once.

Rating: 8 (1 votes)

Release Date: 2018-09-05

Overview: For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman.

Rating: 7.8 (6 votes)

Release Date: 1970-03-14

Overview: After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

Rating: 7.5 (169 votes)

Release Date: 2019-10-10

Overview: Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.

Rating: 5.994 (251 votes)

Release Date: 1966-05-25

Overview: The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Rating: 7.565 (471 votes)

Release Date: 1988-08-21

Overview: 19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...

Rating: 7.783 (385 votes)