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51. 8 (2008)

100 min | Drama

8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.

Directors: Jane Campion, Gael García Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus Van Sant, Wim Wenders | Stars: Nigist Anteneh, Tefera Gizaw, Fekadu Kebede, Ingvar Sigurdsson

Votes: 976

52. Amazing Stories (1986 TV Movie)

111 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A compilation of episodes from the anthology SF/Fantasy TV series.

Directors: William Dear, Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Scott Coffey, Kevin Costner, Tom Harrison, Christopher Lloyd

Votes: 989

53. All the Invisible Children (2005)

124 min | Drama

Through the plights of seven different children, seven cruel destinies unfold, as the unknown innocents who share the same sensitivities and desires struggle for survival, understanding--and above all--love, in an apathetic grown-up world.

Directors: Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, Kátia Lund, Jordan Scott, Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso, John Woo | Stars: Adama Bila, Elysée Rouamba, Rodrigue Ouattara, Uros Milovanovic

Votes: 4,292

54. The Turning (2013)

R | 180 min | Drama

A collection of short films based on stories by Australian writer Tim Winton.

Directors: Jonathan auf der Heide, Tony Ayres, Jub Clerc, Robert Connolly, Shaun Gladwell, Rhys Graham, Justin Kurzel, Yaron Lifschitz, Anthony Lucas, Claire McCarthy, Ian Meadows, Ashlee Page, Stephen Page, Simon Stone, Warwick Thornton, Marieka Walsh, Mia Wasikowska, David Wenham | Stars: Colin Friels, James Fraser, Henri Phillips, Nikita Leigh-Pritchard

Votes: 1,533

55. Phobias (2021)

R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller

Five dangerous patients, suffering from extreme phobias at a government testing facility, are put to the ultimate test under the supervision of a crazed doctor and his quest to weaponize fear.

Directors: Camilla Belle, Maritte Lee Go, Joe Sill, Jess Varley, Chris von Hoffmann | Stars: Leonardo Nam, Macy Gray, Martina García, Hana Mae Lee

Votes: 1,268

56. Rio, I Love You (2014)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Third installment of the Cities of Love series (Paris, je t'aime / New York, I Love You / Rio, Eu Te Amo), this collective feature-film is made of 10 stories of romance set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Directors: Vicente Amorim, Guillermo Arriaga, Stephan Elliott, Nadine Labaki, Fernando Meirelles, José Padilha, Carlos Saldanha, Im Sang-soo, Paolo Sorrentino, John Turturro, Andrucha Waddington, César Charlone | Stars: Basil Hoffman, Emily Mortimer, Rodrigo Santoro, Bruna Linzmeyer

Votes: 2,252

57. September 11 (2002)

Unrated | 134 min | Drama

The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.

Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shôhei Imamura, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic | Stars: Maryam Karimi, Mohamad Dolati, Agelem Habibi, Esmat Vahedi

Votes: 5,934

58. The Oldest Profession (1967)

119 min | Comedy, Drama

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

Directors: Claude Autant-Lara, Mauro Bolognini, Philippe de Broca, Jean-Luc Godard, Franco Indovina, Michael Pfleghar | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Enrico Maria Salerno, Gabriele Tinti, Elsa Martinelli

Votes: 625

59. 3 Extremes II (2002)

R | 140 min | Horror, Mystery

An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan.

Directors: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Kim Jee-woon, Nonzee Nimibutr | Stars: Leon Lai, Kim Hye-su, Jeong Bo-seok, Suwinit Panjamawat

Votes: 3,931

60. Blutjunge Verführerinnen 3. Teil (1972)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy

A hitchhiking runaway tells the man who picks her up about her friends' sexual escapades.

Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Ingrid Steeger, Karin Hofmann, Nadine De Rangot, Chitta Coray

Votes: 279

61. The Queens (1966)

110 min | Comedy

Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina" chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving ... See full summary »

Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Antonio Pietrangeli, Luciano Salce | Stars: Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Gastone Moschin

Votes: 389

62. The Field Guide to Evil (2018)

R | 117 min | Horror

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind's darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

Directors: Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Lee Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland, Yannis Veslemes | Stars: Marlene Hauser, Luzia Oppermann, Karin Pauer, Birgit Minichmayr

Votes: 2,517

63. Lumière and Company (1995)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.

Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallström, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yoshishige Yoshida, Yimou Zhang, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, Michael Haneke, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette | Stars: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Merzak Allouache, Jeffe Alperi

Votes: 3,356

64. Woman Times Seven (1967)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

Seven portraits of different types of women.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March, Rossano Brazzi

Votes: 1,997

65. If I Had a Million (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft

Votes: 2,316

66. The Young Seducers (1971)

R | 79 min | Comedy

The budding sexual urges of young women cause themselves and others trouble.

Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Ingrid Steeger, Melitta Tegeler, Evelyne Traeger, Rena Bergen

Votes: 307

67. The Gold of Naples (1954)

Not Rated | 138 min | Comedy, Drama

A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Totò, Lianella Carell, Pasquale Cennamo, Agostino Salvietti

Votes: 2,058

68. Jokes My Folks Never Told Me (1978)

R | 82 min | Comedy

Anthology film consisting of dirty sex jokes turned into short, comical, occasionally animated and often offensive sketches which include hillbillies, cheating, stds, double entendres, misunderstandings and male on beast bestiality.

Director: Gerry Woolery | Stars: Dave Adams, Patricia Alkaitis, James Arnold, J.J. Barry

Votes: 168

69. The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)

108 min | Comedy, Crime

Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris - France (L'homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel).

Directors: Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Hiromichi Horikawa, Roman Polanski | Stars: Mie Hama, Ken Mitsuda, Yatsuko Tan'ami, Nicole Karen

Votes: 531

70. Kerala Cafe (2009)

140 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A series of related and unrelated tales together linking them in subtle ways and discuss different shades of life.

Directors: Uday Ananthan, Lal Jose, Shaji Kailas, Anjali Menon, M. Padmakumar, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Anwar Rasheed, Revathi, Shyamaprasad, B. Unnikrishnan | Stars: Sathyan Anthikad, Augustine, M.A. Baby, Nandan Chalissery

Votes: 1,179

71. Prague Nights (1969)

99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher's stone, and complex multi-level labyrinth of underground tunnels and cellars keep many unsolved mysteries and untold treasures.

Directors: Jirí Brdecka, Milos Makovec, Evald Schorm | Stars: Milena Dvorská, Milos Kopecký, Jirí Hrzán, Milena Zahrynowska

Votes: 149

72. Sex with a Smile (1976)

R | 100 min | Comedy

Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor. In one sketch, Marty Feldman plays a bodyguard, hired by her father to ... See full summary »

Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, Dayle Haddon, Alberto Lionello

Votes: 486

73. Three Ages (1923)

Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy

The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Joe Roberts

Votes: 5,227

74. Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field

Votes: 1,157

75. Sunday Lovers (1980)

R | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, the U.S., and Italy).

Directors: Bryan Forbes, Édouard Molinaro, Dino Risi, Gene Wilder | Stars: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Ugo Tognazzi, Gene Wilder

Votes: 432

76. The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)

115 min | Comedy

Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.

Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello, Olga Villi

Votes: 1,753

77. Young Seducers 2 (1972)

R | 74 min | Comedy

Pretty young girls get involved in humorous sexual situations.

Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Evelyne Traeger, Christa Free, Rena Bergen, Margrit Siegel

Votes: 266

78. Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)

Not Rated | 122 min | Comedy, Drama

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban, Maria Pia Schiaffino, Jean-Marc Bory

Votes: 2,258

79. 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

80. Doomsday Book (2012)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

The First Chapter of The Anthology Film- In A Brave New World, a mysterious virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. The Chapter 2, The Heavenly Creature, a ... See full summary »

Directors: Kim Jee-woon, Pil-sung Yim | Stars: Lee Bong-gyu, Choi Deok-moon, Ma Dong-seok, Bae Doona

Votes: 3,571

81. Forever and a Day (1943)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, History

During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is ... See full summary »

Directors: Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, René Clair | Stars: George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty, Connie Leon

Votes: 800

82. Rotterdam, I Love You

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | Announced

Several love stories set in one of the most interesting new cities in the world, Rotterdam.

Directors: Barry Atsma, Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, John Maybury, Shariff Nasr, Pablo Trapero, Paula van der Oest, Joost van Ginkel | Stars: Katja Herbers, Halina Reijn, Benja Bruijning, Nasrdin Dchar

83. Love and Anger (1969)

102 min | Drama

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a ... See full summary »

Directors: Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlo Lizzani, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elda Tattoli | Stars: Tom Baker, Julian Beck, Jim Anderson, Judith Malina

Votes: 842

84. Allegro non troppo (1976)

PG | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

An enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has ... See full summary »

Director: Bruno Bozzetto | Stars: Maurizio Nichetti, Maurizio Micheli, Marialuisa Giovannini, Néstor Garay

Votes: 3,224

85. Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)

92 min | Drama

This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries. Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.

Directors: Kaige Chen, Víctor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurismäki, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders | Stars: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Marko Haavisto, Ana Sofia Liaño

Votes: 3,656

86. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

120 min | Documentary, Drama

Seventy short films about cinema and its future.

Directors: Hala Abdallah, John Akomfrah, Wang Bing, Catherine Breillat, Júlio Bressane, Rama Burshtein, Antonio Capuano, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Isabel Coixet, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Claire Denis, Lav Diaz, Amit Dutta, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Frédéric Fonteyne, James Franco, Lluís Galter, Haile Gerima, Aleksey German Jr., Amos Gitai, Benoît Jacquot, Zhangke Jia, Kim Ki-duk, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Larraín, Tobias Lindholm, Guido Lombardi, Jazmín López, Samuel Maoz, Pietro Marcello, Brillante Mendoza, Celina Murga, Amir Naderi, Shirin Neshat, Nicolás Pereda, Franco Piavoli, Giuseppe Piccioni, João Pedro Rodrigues, Walter Salles, Paul Schrader, Ulrich Seidl, Luca Severi, Jean-Marie Straub, Tusi Tamasese, Tariq Teguia, Pablo Trapero, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Teresa Villaverde, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andrew Wonder, Yonfan, Krzysztof Zanussi, Karim Aïnouz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jan Cvitkovic, Atom Egoyan, Davide Ferrario, Monte Hellman, Semih Kaplanoglu, Marlen Khutsiev, Yorgos Lanthimos, Milcho Manchevski, Franco Maresco, Salvatore Mereu, Ermanno Olmi, Michele Placido, Edgar Reitz, Hong Sang-soo, Todd Solondz, Sion Sono, Kounosuke Tsukamoto, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Shekhar Kapur, Heeraz Marfatia | Stars: Jessica Alexander, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lola Créton, Haile Gerima

Votes: 399

87. Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)

G | 72 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Daffy Duck opens a detective agency for the supernatural along side his Looney Toon buddies.

Directors: Greg Ford, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Terry Lennon, Robert McKimson, Maurice Noble | Stars: Mel Blanc, Mel Tormé, Roy Firestone, B.J. Ward

Votes: 2,681

88. Modest Heroes (2018)

PG | 53 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

An anthology of three original shorts written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose and Akihiko Yamashita.

Directors: Yoshiyuki Momose, Akihiko Yamashita, Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Alex Cazares, Jessica DiCicco, Scarlett Estevez, Todd Haberkorn

Votes: 3,157 | Gross: $0.18M

89. Tube Tales (1999)

PG-13 | 84 min | Drama

Nine stories based on the true-life experiences of London Underground passengers.

Directors: Gaby Dellal, Stephen Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Menhaj Huda, Armando Iannucci, Amy Jenkins, Jude Law, Charles McDougall, Ewan McGregor | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Kelly Macdonald, Denise Van Outen

Votes: 1,476

90. Horror Stories (2012)

108 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

"Horror Stories" (Moo-seo-woon I-ya-gi) was a 2012 anthology horror movie that tells the tale of a teenager (Ji_Won Kim) who is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories.

Directors: Jung Bum-shik, Ji-Yeong Hong, Gok Kim, Sun Kim, Dae-wung Lim, Kyu-dong Min | Stars: Kim Bo-kyung, Nam Bo-ra, Jung Won Cha, Lee Dong-kyu

Votes: 794

91. Urban Myths (2022)

123 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Deals with the vivid everyday life horrors that can be easily encountered in familiar places around subjects like noise between floors, secondhand furniture, mannequins, and social media.

Director: Won Ki Hong | Stars: AleXa, Arin, So-Jung Chu, Kim Do-yoon

Votes: 299

92. Viva Italia! (1977)

R | 90 min | Comedy

Several episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.

Directors: Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi

Votes: 2,119

93. 5 Sundarikal (2013)

140 min | Drama, Romance

A film comprising of 5 short stories by 5 directors. Each story is about a women.

Directors: Aashiq Abu, Siddharth Bharathan, Shyju Khalid, Amal Neerad, Anwar Rasheed, Sameer Thahir | Stars: Dulquer Salmaan, Nivin Pauly, Fahadh Faasil, Biju Menon

Votes: 1,234

94. Dog Star Man (1964)

78 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Drama

An experimental film from Stan Brakhage in which a man and his dog ascend a wooded mountain.

Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening

Votes: 1,247

95. 3 A.M. 3D (2012)

96 min | Horror

Thailand's latest horror omnibus is made up of three chilling stories. Two sisters who own a wig shop.

Directors: Isara Nadee, Kirati Nakintanon, Patchanon Thammajira | Stars: Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Focus Jirakul, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Ray MacDonald

Votes: 966

96. The Seven Deadly Sins (1962)

113 min | Comedy

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie ... See full summary »

Directors: Philippe de Broca, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy, Sylvain Dhomme, Jean-Luc Godard, Édouard Molinaro, Roger Vadim, Max Douy | Stars: Marie-José Nat, Dominique Paturel, Danièle Barraud, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Votes: 674

97. Trio (1950)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

Three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All", and "The Sanatorium" are introduced by the author.

Directors: Ken Annakin, Harold French | Stars: James Hayter, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer, Lana Morris

Votes: 907

98. Bible! (1974)

X | 84 min | Fantasy, History, Romance

A softcore, adult-oriented version of the tales from the Bible.

Director: Wakefield Poole | Stars: Bo White, Caprice Couselle, Georgina Spelvin, Robert Benes

Votes: 138

99. How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973)

R | 97 min | Comedy

Exploring love, sex and marriage in contemporary mid-'70s Italy.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Paola Borboni, Alberto Lionello

Votes: 739

100. Caprice Italian Style (1968)

95 min | Comedy

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Steno, Pino Zac, Franco Rossi | Stars: Totò, Ugo D'Alessio, Regina Seiffert, Dante Maggio

Votes: 636