Release Date: 2012-06-10

Overview: On Saturday 12 November 2011, an eclectic range of British people turned the camera on themselves, capturing the entertaining and mundane, the exciting and unusual, the poignant and the everyday. The result, Britain in a Day tells the fascinating story of the British public in their own words. Following on from the feature film Life in a Day, this 90-minute film directed by BAFTA winner Morgan Matthews offers an extraordinarily candid look at 21st-century life across the UK, crafted from over 750 hours of footage, including 11,526 clips submitted to YouTube. The documentary offers remarkable insight into the lives, loves, fears and hopes of people living in Britain today. This captivating self-portrait of Britain forms part of the BBC's Cultural Olympiad.

Rating: 6.7 (7 votes)

Release Date: 2011-08-28

Overview: Ermus Daglek, retired Empathtek engineer, commandeers a defunct factory where he creates androids based on persons from his past and recreates a dinner party where he lost the love of his life - until they malfunction and escape.

Rating: 7.1 (67 votes)

Release Date: 1972-12-21

Overview: As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.

Rating: 7.891 (749 votes)

Release Date: 2010-04-09

Overview: A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.

Rating: 6.282 (390 votes)

Release Date: 1975-06-10

Overview: In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Rating: 7.5 (944 votes)

Release Date: 1955-01-09

Overview: The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.

Rating: 7.947 (395 votes)

Release Date: 2003-10-01

Overview: In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

Rating: 7.314 (451 votes)

Release Date: 1999-10-28

Overview: A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Rating: 7.5 (1967 votes)

Release Date: 1944-10-25

Overview: A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Rating: 7.358 (369 votes)

Release Date: 1951-03-23

Overview: Stanley Kubrick’s short documentary about Father Fred Stadtmueller, a Catholic priest serving a vast 4,000-square-mile parish in rural New Mexico. To reach his scattered congregation, he pilots his own Piper Cub aircraft, the Spirit of St. Joseph. Over two days, Kubrick follows the “flying padre” as he conducts Mass, mediates between quarreling children, attends a funeral, and airlifts a sick child to medical care—capturing both the challenges and quiet heroism of his daily mission.

Rating: 5.1 (134 votes)

Release Date: 1997-09-25

Overview: A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

Rating: 6.9 (414 votes)

Release Date: 1961-09-25

Overview: A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Rating: 7.706 (504 votes)

Release Date: 1928-09-10

Overview: A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Rating: 7.831 (415 votes)

Release Date: 2004-03-19

Overview: An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

Rating: 7.356 (1021 votes)

Release Date: 2009-06-11

Overview: In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer haunted by their family’s past. As Bennie uncovers Tetro’s hidden manuscript, old secrets and rivalries resurface, forcing both men to confront the truth about their father and the tangled legacy that tore their family apart.

Rating: 6.701 (197 votes)

Release Date: 1976-04-30

Overview: Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

Rating: 7.6 (168 votes)

Release Date: 2001-09-12

Overview: Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of the world, Lila fights to preserve the man’s natural state. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges.

Rating: 6.007 (281 votes)

Release Date: 1997-02-28

Overview: A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

Rating: 6.851 (929 votes)

Release Date: 2000-05-11

Overview: Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.

Rating: 7.156 (294 votes)

Release Date: 2002-10-04

Overview: A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.

Rating: 7.5 (160 votes)