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1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
Director: Cristian Mungiu | Stars: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean
Votes: 63,302 | Gross: $1.19M
2. 8½ (1963)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 125,235 | Gross: $0.05M
3. 12 Angry Men (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
Votes: 865,586 | Gross: $4.36M
4. Challenge in the Snow (1968)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary about the Winter Olympics.
Directors: Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach | Stars: Peggy Fleming, Jean-Claude Killy, Dalida, Charles de Gaulle
Votes: 160
5. 16 Days of Glory (1985)
G | 284 min | Documentary, Sport
The definitive photographic record of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, told "from the inside" through the lives of the participants, the words of David Perry, and the singing voice of Placido... See full summary »
Director: Bud Greenspan | Stars: David Perry, Jose Abascal, Saïd Aouita, Evelyn Ashford
Votes: 302 | Gross: $0.08M
6. 21 Days Together (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After Larry accidentally kills his lover Wanda's estranged blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda nervously await the verdict: if the innocent suspect is found guilty then Larry will give himself up.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 1,276
7. 24 Frames (2017)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
Collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Star: Mohamad Ramezani Pour
Votes: 2,253 | Gross: $0.03M
8. Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003 Video)
R | 101 min | Documentary
Playboy unveils the hottest moments in the history of film. This feature-length documentary traces the evolution of sex in Hollywood cinema and uncovers the formula for successfully arousing audience interest around the world.
Directors: Kevin Burns, Steven C. Smith | Stars: Brandy Snow, Shannon Tweed, Richard Roeper, Paul Verhoeven
Votes: 554
9. 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946)
18 min | Documentary, Short
A day in the life of Beby the clown. Filmed between shows at Circus Medrano, at home and in the streets of Paris, with his faithful partner and friend the clown Maïss.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Louis Maïss, Beby, Jean-Pierre Melville
Votes: 764
10. 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama
The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué, Grégoire Colin
Votes: 5,278 | Gross: $0.18M
11. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,566
12. 45 Years (2015)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells
Votes: 35,148 | Gross: $4.25M
13. The 47 Ronin (1941)
241 min | Drama, History
The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa, Kan'emon Nakamura
Votes: 2,676
14. 49th Parallel (1941)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George, Eric Portman
Votes: 7,671
15. The 400 Blows (1959)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble
Votes: 128,104
16. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent
Votes: 8,737
17. The Above (2015)
8 min | Documentary, Short
In Kirsten Johnson's The Above, a U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
Director: Kirsten Johnson
Votes: 119
18. Acera, or the Witches' Dance (1972)
13 min | Documentary, Short
In mud flats along the coast of Brittany we watch acera, small ball-shaped mollusks that are about two inches in diameter. They rest in mud; then, in water, they dance, their skirt-like ... See full summary »
Directors: Geneviève Hamon, Jean Painlevé
Votes: 398
19. The Acquaintances of a Lonely John (2008)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Comedy
This is the story of a lonely man named John. He wanders through the city into various acquaintances of varying levels of niceness. He sees a lot of people but sometimes they just don't want to be bothered with him.
Director: Benny Safdie | Stars: Max Abelson, Firas Al-Ramahi, Jim Bennett, Terry Clarey
Votes: 311
20. An Act of Love (2018)
11 min | Short, Drama
A close bond between two identical twins is tested when one sister rebels against their shared sense of oneness.
Director: Lucy Knox | Stars: Rachael Awonusi, Rebekah Awonusi, Lloyd Grounds, Trudy Hellier
Votes: 65
21. An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Votes: 2,870
22. A Dog's Life (1918)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Dave Anderson, Bert Appling
Votes: 9,665
23. Pokhozhdeniya zubnogo vracha (1965)
82 min | Comedy
The young dentist Chesnokov has a knack for painlessly removing teeth, much to the dismay of other dentists, who fear unemployment and start to challenge Chesnokov.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Andrey Myagkov, Vera Vasileva, Alisa Freyndlikh, Panteleymon Krymov
Votes: 370
24. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
Directors: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Votes: 6,897
25. Adventures of Zatoichi (1964)
Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The blind swordsman tries to locate a girl's missing father.
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Miwa Takada, Eiko Takashiro, Kichijirô Ueda
Votes: 1,534
26.
ABC Close-Up! (1960– )
Episode:
Adventures on the New Frontier
(1961)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
A look at the daily business of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, with a focus on some of the political issues he faces six weeks into his term.
Directors: Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, Kenneth Stilson | Stars: McGeorge Bundy, Paul B. Fay Jr., John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Goldberg
Votes: 171
27. After the Rehearsal (1984 TV Movie)
R | 70 min | Drama
As an aging playwright interacts with the young lead in his play after everybody's gone home, he reminisces about her mother, whom he maintained a sexual relationship with before she died.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin, Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss
Votes: 2,937
28. The Age of the Medici (1972– )
255 min | Biography, History
This is a lengthy exposition of the social and political history of renaissance Florentine history, told through dramatised conversations between the main participants, particularly Cosimo ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Marcello Di Falco, Virgilio Gazzolo, Adriano Amidei Migliano, Michel Bardinet
Votes: 346
29. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Votes: 62,316
30. Alain Mimoun (1959)
Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
A documentary about French marathon runner Alain Mimoun at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.
Director: Louis Gueguen
Votes: 72
31. Alambrista! (1977)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Drama
After the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.
Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillen, Ned Beatty
Votes: 774
32. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitriy Orlov
Votes: 12,263
33. Alfie (1966)
Unrated | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Michael Caine, Shelley Winters, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster
Votes: 15,832 | Gross: $18.87M
34. Alice in the Cities (1974)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Yella Rottländer, Rüdiger Vogler, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl
Votes: 13,264
35. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann
Votes: 23,871
36. All My Good Countrymen (1969)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.
Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík, Waldemar Matuska
Votes: 1,084
37. All Night Long (1962)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Music
This movie, based on William Shakespeare's Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Betsy Blair, Paul Harris
Votes: 1,529
38. All Screwed Up (1974)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A multitude of immigrants struggling to survive in Milan rent an apartment and face the reality of everyday life in the metropolis.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Luigi Diberti, Lina Polito, Nino Bignamini, Sara Rapisarda
Votes: 428
39. All These Creatures (2018)
14 min | Short, Drama
An adolescent boy attempts to untangle his memories of a mysterious infestation, the unravelling of his father, and the little creatures inside us all.
Director: Charles Williams | Stars: Yared Scott, Mandela Mathia, Helen Hailu, Melody Demessie
Votes: 497
40. All These Women (1964)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
A critic blackmails a famous musician with his biography filled with the revelations of many of his women.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Karin Kavli
Votes: 2,565
41. The Alphabet (1969)
TV-MA | 4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
Director: David Lynch | Star: Peggy Reavey
Votes: 8,551
42. Amarcord (1973)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
Votes: 46,837 | Gross: $0.58M
43. The American Soldier (1970)
80 min | Drama
Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects ... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm
Votes: 1,937
44. The Girlfriends (1955)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman returns to her hometown of Turin to set up a new fashion salon and gets involved with a troubled woman and her three wealthy friends.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi, Valentina Cortese
Votes: 3,407 | Gross: $0.05M
45. Love (1948)
69 min | Drama
In part one, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In part two, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Federico Fellini, Peparuolo, Amelia Robert
Votes: 1,946
46. Love Exists (1961)
21 min | Documentary, Short
A social commentary on post-war France's urban developments.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Star: Jean-Loup Reynold
Votes: 699
48. The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928 (1928)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
Director: Wilhelm Prager
Votes: 73
49. And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
A look at the art of Spalding Gray who drew from real life experience to create a compelling and deeply personal series of monologues.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Spalding Gray, Forrest Gray, Kathie Russo
Votes: 1,302 | Gross: $0.02M
50. ...And God Created Woman (1956)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
In sunny St. Tropez, a young woman loves one brother but marries the other.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Curd Jürgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jane Marken
Votes: 9,379 | Gross: $2.00M
51. And Life Goes On (1992)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Farhad Kheradmand, Pouya Payvar, Behrouz Abedini, Shahin Abzan
Votes: 7,473
52. Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Votes: 57,070 | Gross: $0.10M
53. Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Story of a Christian in ancient Rome who befriends a lion.
Directors: Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray | Stars: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton
Votes: 1,066
54. ...and the Pursuit of Happiness (1986 TV Movie)
80 min | Documentary
After acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980's. In an attempt to be comprehensive, the film ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Franklin Chang-Diaz, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Lenwood Johnson, Boris Lyoskin
Votes: 523
55. The Ship Sails On (1983)
PG | 128 min | Drama, History, Music
In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier
Votes: 6,728
56. And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye (2016)
19 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
In a small village in Chile, Emeteria (85) is visited by the ghost of her patrón, Teodoro. She believes he has come to take her to the afterlife, but he has more devastating news.
Director: Francisca Alegria | Stars: Shenda Román, Luis Dubó, Catalina Saavedra, Gregory Cohen
Votes: 166
57. And You Act Like One Too (1976)
24 min | Short, Drama
On her 30th birthday, a first-time unfaithful wife picks up a strange hitchhiker who helps her conceptualize her values.
Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Karen Butler, Billy Wine, Jilian Frank, Andras Maros
Votes: 69
58. Angela (1995)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
Rebecca Miller's riveting drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.
Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Miranda Rhyne, Charlotte Eve Blythe, Anna Thomson, John Ventimiglia
Votes: 1,060
59. An Exercise in Discipline: Peel (1982)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Tim Pye, Katie Pye, Ben Martin
Votes: 1,446
60. An Angel at My Table (1990)
R | 158 min | Biography, Drama
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn
Votes: 8,688 | Gross: $1.05M
61. An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
80 min | Drama
Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that doesn't keep Kihachi from wooing single mother Otaka.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Chôko Iida, Tomio Aoki
Votes: 1,650
62. Anna Karenina (1948)
Approved | 139 min | Drama, Romance
A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster
Votes: 2,946
63. Anne-Marie (1936)
109 min | Drama
Raymond Bernard's film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Annabella, Pierre Richard-Willm, Paul Azaïs, Pierre Labry
Votes: 77
64. Antichrist (2009)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Votes: 136,577 | Gross: $0.40M
65. Love at Twenty (1962)
110 min | Drama, Romance
"Love at Twenty" unites five directors from around the world to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of ... See full summary »
Directors: Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini, François Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte
Votes: 2,462
66. Antonio Gaudí (1984)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary
The work of Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí, as seen by Japanese New Wave director Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Isidro Puig Boada, Antoni Gaudí, Seiji Miyaguchi
Votes: 1,743
67. Aparajito (1956)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kamala Adhikari, Rani Bala
Votes: 15,997 | Gross: $0.17M
68. Apart from You (1933)
64 min | Drama
Two Geisha with a connection to a young man deal with life's hardships.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono, Sumiko Mizukubo, Reikichi Kawamura
Votes: 649
69. Apostasy (1948)
99 min | Drama
While revelations of his lower class past threaten his job, a school teacher fights for freedom and equality.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Yôko Katsuragi, Osamu Takizawa, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 145
70. Appalachian Spring (1958 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 32 min | Music
A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.
Director: Peter Glushanok | Stars: Miriam Cole, Martha Graham, Stuart Hodes, Helen McGehee
Votes: 228
71. Shashi Babur Sansar (1959)
129 min | Drama
Sashibhushan who is the orthodox patriarch has a tough time dealing with the youngsters who want to live life on their own.
Director: Sudhir Mukherjee | Stars: Chhabi Biswas, Savitri Chatterjee, Vasant Choudhury, Anup Kumar
Votes: 16
72. The Arbor (2010)
Unrated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Manjinder Virk, Christine Bottomley, Natalie Gavin, Parvani Lingiah
Votes: 2,134 | Gross: $0.02M
73. L'Argent (1983)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A counterfeit bill that starts off as a schoolboy prank leads to incarceration and violence.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Vincent Risterucci
Votes: 11,848
74. Aria diva (2007)
30 min | Short, Drama
Basia has already settled down in her life. She is a housewife and has a loving family. It seems as though she does not miss anything to be happy. Until a moment when an opera diva moves ... See full summary »
Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska | Stars: Katarzyna Figura, Gabriela Muskala, Slawomir Grzymkowski, Alan Kozlowski
Votes: 145
75. Ariel (1988)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää, Eetu Hilkamo
Votes: 8,335
76. Army (1944)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, War
A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Ken Mitsuda, Kazumasa Hoshino, Kinuyo Tanaka
Votes: 396
77. Army of Shadows (1969)
Not Rated | 145 min | Drama, War
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
Votes: 25,862 | Gross: $0.74M
78. Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
Approved | 57 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
The invention of an atomic weapon - a long-range ray that can detonate explosions - sends Scotland Yard and Captain Drummond into action.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny
Votes: 512
79. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson
Votes: 74,987
80. Ars (1960)
Not Rated | 18 min | Documentary, Short
Filming the winter landscapes of the plains and villages of Ain, where the sanctified priest the Curé of Ars lived, Jacques Demy tried to understand the fighter for the faith and his daily torments of mysticism.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Jacques Demy, Bernard Toublanc-Michel
Votes: 351
81. Art (2014)
19 min | Short, Drama
After a casting session, two filmmakers found the perfect 14-year-old girl to star in their new movie. Now, they have to convince the reluctant mother to let her daughter play the role of a... See full summary »
Director: Adrian Sitaru | Stars: Emanuel Parvu, Andrei Rus, Ioana Abur, Iulia Crisan
Votes: 121
82. The Ascent (1977)
111 min | Drama, War
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Votes: 10,115
83. Ártún (2014)
20 min | Short, Drama
A boy from a small town has never kissed a girl. So one day he and his friends decide to go to the 'big city' to see if they have more luck there. In the city, the boys get much more than they bargained for.
Director: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson | Stars: Flóki Haraldsson, Viktór Leó Gíslason, Daníel Óskar Jóhannesson, Jónína Þórdís Karlsdóttir
Votes: 199
84. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Romance, War
As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Votes: 13,472
85. As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy
The director's cut (restored version) opens and closes with theatrical curtains in homage to Georges Méliès films, and is divided into four parts, separated by title cards: I - L'insomnie [... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: Pierre Étaix, Denise Péronne, Simone Fonder, Sabine Sun
Votes: 837
86. Ask Father (1919)
Passed | 13 min | Comedy, Short
The young couple have decided to marry and it is time to ask the father for the hand of his daughter. Problem is, the father does not want to give the daughter away. So every time he goes ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks
Votes: 1,232
87. Asparagus (1979)
Not Rated | 20 min | Animation, Short
An animated, surreal, visually stunning as well as rather uniquely imaginative candy-colored nightmare from indie artist Suzan Pitt.
Director: Suzan Pitt
Votes: 1,464
88. The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier, Pierre Larquey
Votes: 3,647
89. Assassin(s) (1997)
128 min | Crime, Drama
Old professional killer Wagner seeks someone to teach what he knows as long as he is already dying, and he chooses Max, young and passionless thief to be his successor.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Michel Serrault, Mathieu Kassovitz, Mehdi Benoufa, Robert Gendreu
Votes: 2,227
90. Atlanta's Olympic Glory (1997 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 206 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary covering the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Director: Bud Greenspan | Stars: Gary Hall Jr., Michael Johnson, Jackie Joyner, Carl Lewis
Votes: 82
91. The Atomic Submarine (1959)
Not Rated | 72 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Ships mysteriously disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a specially-equipped submarine is sent to investigate.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,838
92. A Test of Violence (1969)
M | 17 min | Documentary, Short
A short subject on the paintings of artist Juan Genoves.
Director: Stuart Cooper
Votes: 107
93. Attenberg (2010)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stuck in her boring factory town, twenty-three-year-old Marina is at the mercy of both her father's impending death and her distaste for other humans.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelia Randou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Votes: 7,673 | Gross: $0.02M
94. Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Votes: 22,837 | Gross: $0.04M
95. Goodbye, Children (1987)
PG | 104 min | Drama, War
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Votes: 36,127 | Gross: $4.54M
96. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Votes: 10,712
97. Autumn Sonata (1978)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Music
A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk
Votes: 37,814
98. L'Avventura (1960)
Not Rated | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar
Votes: 32,647
99. Baal (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Günther Neutze
Votes: 868
100. Babette's Feast (1987)
G | 103 min | Drama
During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
Director: Gabriel Axel | Stars: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle
Votes: 22,044 | Gross: $4.40M
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