Release Date: 1963-01-25

Overview: Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.

Rating: 7 (169 votes)

Release Date: 1964-08-05

Overview: Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or frolicsome romps through the Louvre. Eventually, their romantic view of outlaws pushes them to plan their own heist, but their inexperience may send them out in a blaze of glory -- which could be just what they want.

Rating: 7.5 (580 votes)

Release Date: 1965-05-05

Overview: Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

Rating: 6.9 (570 votes)

Release Date: 1965-11-05

Overview: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Rating: 7.4 (889 votes)

Release Date: 1992-09-09

Overview: In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.

Rating: 7.122 (98 votes)

Release Date: 1978-07-05

Overview: A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

Rating: 5.9 (96 votes)

Release Date: 1967-07-26

Overview: In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

Rating: 7.1 (93 votes)

Release Date: 1985-01-23

Overview: A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

Rating: 6.278 (81 votes)

Release Date: 1970-07-04

Overview: A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.

Rating: 6.9 (55 votes)

Release Date: 1959-05-06

Overview: A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.

Rating: 6.6 (64 votes)

Release Date: 2017-12-13

Overview: Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs, the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose from humble beginnings in New York City to become a glamorous international superstar and one of the greatest artists of all time.

Rating: 7.3 (41 votes)

Release Date: 1963-05-31

Overview: During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.

Rating: 6.5 (85 votes)

Release Date: 2004-04-16

Overview: Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the province of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. A deep mystery surrounds him.

Rating: 6.4 (35 votes)

Release Date: 1955-01-08

Overview: Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.

Rating: 6.8 (22 votes)

Release Date: 2010-09-18

Overview: Unhappy farm worker Mei borrows some money from her boyfriend Seng, boards a ship to Japan and leaves him broken-hearted. But when she is deported, it is Seng that greets her at the harbour for a night of bitter reflection.

Rating: 5.4 (8 votes)

Release Date: 1968-06-12

Overview: Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women.

Rating: 7.1 (21 votes)

Release Date: 1980-10-12

Overview: A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.

Rating: 6.2 (73 votes)

Release Date: 2015-07-16

Overview: The story of a small .22 caliber gun ties together several episodes involving a cross-section of characters in the Caribbean underworld.

Rating: 5.4 (5 votes)

Release Date: 2016-03-05

Overview: A documentary exploring the birth, death and resurrection of illustrated movie poster art. Through interviews with a number of key art personalities from the 70s and 80s, as well as many modern, alternative poster artists, “Twenty-Four by Thirty-Six” aims to answer the question: What happened to the illustrated movie poster? Where did it disappear to, and why? In the mid 2000s, filling the void left behind by Hollywood’s abandonment of illustrated movie posters, independent artists and galleries began selling limited edition, screenprinted posters — a movement that has quickly exploded into a booming industry with prints selling out online in seconds, inspiring Hollywood studios to take notice of illustration in movie posters once more.

Rating: 7 (31 votes)

Release Date: 2006-01-26

Overview: In 1924, Simone de Beauvoir, a girl with polished appearance, prepares for her final examination in philosophy and meets Jean-Paul Sartre. He seems to know her true personality and considers her the only woman worthy of his intellect. Their chaotic love serves as the premise for her magnum opus The Second Sex.

Rating: 5.7 (19 votes)