Release Date: 1979-05-25

Overview: Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

Rating: 6.6 (187 votes)

Release Date: 2018-01-19

Overview: A traveling trader provides a window into rural life in the Republic of Georgia, where potatoes are currency and ambition is crushed by poverty.

Rating: 6.599 (76 votes)

Release Date: 2000-10-27

Overview: Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a member of the group dies. Narrated by one of the children, the film follows the kids as they struggle to balance their own ambitions and relationships against a tragic lie.

Rating: 6.654 (117 votes)

Release Date: 2006-03-25

Overview: Soon to be a father, Mark feels the pressure of domestic responsibility closing in, so he is more than happy to accept when his old friend Kurt proposes a camping trip in the Oregon wilderness. During their time together, the men come to grips with the changes in their lives and the effect on their relationship.

Rating: 6.35 (183 votes)

Release Date: 1966-11-25

Overview: The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.

Rating: 6.261 (113 votes)

Release Date: 2003-09-04

Overview: A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.

Rating: 7.063 (48 votes)

Release Date: 2011-04-08

Overview: A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

Rating: 6.5 (278 votes)

Release Date: 2020-06-19

Overview: An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

Rating: 7.944 (135 votes)

Release Date: 2014-03-01

Overview: A struggling musician becomes a 12-year-old musical prodigy's guardian for a summer.

Rating: 7.4 (110 votes)

Release Date: 1990-03-16

Overview: Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann to clear her name and catch the killer. But she is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead… and much closer than she thinks!

Rating: 5.818 (425 votes)

Release Date: 1994-09-29

Overview: In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.

Rating: 6.609 (361 votes)

Release Date: 2016-09-25

Overview: Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

Rating: 6.007 (358 votes)

Release Date: 2011-10-07

Overview: The story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.

Rating: 7.251 (469 votes)

Release Date: 2001-09-08

Overview: When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class background and concentrate on her true talent. But what starts out so promising leads to self-destructive behavior and paralyzing depression that reflects an entire generation's struggle to navigate the effects of divorce, drugs, sex, and high expectations.

Rating: 6.3 (319 votes)

Release Date: 1979-12-16

Overview: Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Rating: 7.508 (534 votes)

Release Date: 1998-08-28

Overview: Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

Rating: 6.9 (515 votes)

Release Date: 2014-05-22

Overview: In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

Rating: 6.48 (881 votes)

Release Date: 1983-06-02

Overview: A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.

Rating: 7.801 (565 votes)

Release Date: 1984-03-09

Overview: A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfields.

Rating: 5.722 (1041 votes)

Release Date: 2017-11-03

Overview: In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

Rating: 6.065 (604 votes)