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1. The Falls (1980)
Not Rated | 195 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
92 BBC documentary-style shorts that record the lives of 92 victims of the VUE (Violent Unexplained Event), each with last names beginning with "Fall."
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray, Lorna Poulter
Votes: 1,681
2. Uma Abelha na Chuva (1972)
75 min | Drama
A married couple of rich and depressed noblemen destroy the lives of their servants out of spite.
Director: Fernando Lopes | Stars: Laura Soveral, João Guedes, Zita Duarte, Ruy Furtado
Votes: 279
3. Os Verdes Anos (1963)
91 min | Drama, Romance
19-year-old Julio has just left the provinces to settle down in the outskirts of Lisbon. He lives in a poor area with his uncle Afonso and starts working as an apprentice shoemaker. At the ... See full summary »
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Rui Gomes, Isabel Ruth, Ruy Furtado, Paulo Renato
Votes: 942
4. Robinson in Ruins (2010)
101 min | Documentary
A tour around England featuring images of nature and various industrialized and militarized settings.
Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 259
5. Torre Bela (1975)
105 min | Documentary
The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred ... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas Harlan, Jacques d'Arthuys, Anna Devoto, Luc Mohler, Luisa Orioli | Stars: Thomas Harlan, Maria Vitória, José Neves Paiva, Herculano Valada Martins
Votes: 125
6. Global Groove (1973 Video)
30 min | Short, Music, Musical
Directors: John Godfrey, Merrily Mossman, Nam June Paik | Stars: Susan Kay Bottoms, John Cage, Russell Connor, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 52
7. Change of Life (1966)
94 min | Drama
After a stint in the army fighting in Angola, a soldier comes home to find his sweetheart has married his brother. He makes advances towards his sister-in-law, but she turns him down. ... See full summary »
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Geraldo Del Rey, Isabel Ruth, Maria Barroso, João Guedes
Votes: 445
8. Domingo à Tarde (1965)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Reflections on life and death through the eyes of a medicine doctor, researcher on blood deseases, under the anguish of consulting a terminally ill young woman.
Director: António de Macedo | Stars: Isabel de Castro, Ruy de Carvalho, Isabel Ruth, Alexandre Passos
Votes: 101
9. Jaime (1974)
35 min | Short, Documentary
A documentary about a deceased psychiatric patient, Jaime Fernandes.
Director: António Reis | Stars: Evangelina Gil Delgado, Jaime Fernandes
Votes: 229
10. Ruínas (2009)
60 min | Documentary
Fragments of spaces, buildings and structures, memories and remains of past eras, places of work or leisure now inhabited by our memories alone, or really forgotten. Dead things or living ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Mozos
Votes: 119
11. Labor on the Douro River (1931)
20 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Porto.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Votes: 766
12. Ana (1982)
115 min | Drama
It is a sincere and naive film that combines the themes of nature-man, modernism-man in Rilke's poets with a local narrative.
Directors: Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis | Stars: Ana Maria Martins Guerra, Manuel Ramalho Eanes, Octávio Lixa Filgueiras, Aurora Alfonso
Votes: 146
13. Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice (1972)
31 min | Short
This Experiment is a Scenario who Have 4 Act titled (1-4) Tableau. Poetic Justice is story about lovers who holding camera, Third Tableau is have Middle Shot and other Tableau is on various camera shot.
Director: Hollis Frampton
Votes: 318
14. 'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Episodes from entire military history of Portugal are told through flashbacks as a professorish soldier recounts them while marching through a Portuguese African colony in 1973. He easily ... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Miguel Guilherme, Luís Lucas
Votes: 982
15. Vertical Features Remake (1978)
Not Rated | 44 min | Short, Comedy
Tongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his early films. An attempt is made to "reconstruct" a proposed, but never made, film ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Greenaway | Star: Colin Cantlie
Votes: 678
16. Quem Espera por Sapatos de Defunto Morre Descalço (1970)
34 min | Short, Drama
The tribulations of two friends who, in despair, start begging from door-to-door, and are given a bundle including, literally, a pair of deadman's shoes.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Antónia Brandão, Carlos Ferreiro, Carlos Porto, Elsa Figueiredo
Votes: 143
17. A Tale of the Wind (1988)
80 min | Documentary
An elderly, asthmatic filmmaker travels to China, hoping to film the wind.
Director: Joris Ivens | Stars: Joris Ivens, Henxiang Han, Zhuang Liu, Delong Wang
Votes: 947
18. Dog's Dialogue (1977)
22 min | Short
A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Eva Simonet, Robert Darmel, Silke Humel, Frank Lesne
Votes: 524
19. The Jester (1987)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
Set four years after the Portuguese revolution and the simultaneous loss of the Portuguese empire in Africa, the story concerns a director who sells guns to finance his play.
Director: José Álvaro Morais | Stars: Fernando Heitor, Paula Guedes, Luís Lucas, Carlos Farinha
Votes: 152
20. Robinson in Space (1997)
82 min | Documentary
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Paul Scofield
Votes: 390
21. Blood (1989)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra
Votes: 1,157
22. Si j'avais quatre dromadaires (1966)
49 min | Documentary
Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Pierre Vaneck, Nicolas Youmatoff, Catherine Le Couey
Votes: 211
23. Philips-Radio (1931)
36 min | Documentary, Short
An industrial film which shows the operations inside the Philips Radio plant: In a mêlée of activity, glassblowers make delicate glass bulbs. Machinery assists the bulb manufacture. A ... See full summary »
Director: Joris Ivens
Votes: 332
24. Act of God (1980 TV Movie)
25 min | Documentary
Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences against a typically Greenaway backdrop ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Greenaway
Votes: 168
25. Horse Money (2014)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama
"The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces... and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the ... See full summary »
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Ventura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado, Benvindo Tavares
Votes: 1,952
26. Jamestown Baloos (1957)
6 min | Short
An experimental short film from Robert Breer with animated and live-action scenes cut together.
Director: Robert Breer
Votes: 167
27. Shirin (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Women's expressions are captured as they watch Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th-century Persian play staged by Kiarostami, revealing their reactions to the unseen narrative.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mahnaz Afshar, Pegah Ahangarani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Votes: 2,844
28. Moi, un noir (1958)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
"I, a Negro" depicts young Nigerien immigrants who left their country to find work in the Ivory Coast, in the Treichville quarter of Abidjan, the capital. These immigrants live in squalor ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Rouch | Stars: Oumarou Ganda, Gambi, Petit Touré, Alassane Maiga
Votes: 1,098
29. Crossroads (1976)
36 min | Short
The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown from 27 different angles, and ... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Conner
Votes: 317
30. A Walk Through H (1979)
Not Rated | 41 min | Short
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Colin Cantlie, Jean Williams
Votes: 639
31. Belarmino (1964)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Interview with a has-been boxing champion «who could have been great», probing, and soul revealing.
Director: Fernando Lopes | Stars: Belarmino Fragoso, Jean Pierre Gebler, Maria Teresa de Noronha, Bernardo Moreira
Votes: 476
32. Pull My Daisy (1959)
30 min | Short
A married couple vainly hopes that their irreverent beat poet friends will behave themselves when the bishop comes to visit.
Directors: Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie | Stars: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers
Votes: 814
33. 24 City (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Drama
When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü, Tao Zhao
Votes: 2,339
34. Cremaster 3 (2002)
Unrated | 182 min | Drama, Fantasy
The third film of a five-part art-installation epic -- it's part-zombie movie, part-gangster film.
Director: Matthew Barney | Stars: Richard Serra, Matthew Barney, Aimee Mullins, Paul Brady
Votes: 1,535 | Gross: $0.12M
35. King Lear (1987)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Woody Allen, Freddy Buache, Leos Carax, Julie Delpy
Votes: 1,486 | Gross: $0.06M
36. God's Comedy (1995)
170 min | Comedy, Drama
João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Cláudia Teixeira, João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Raquel Ascensão
Votes: 1,393
37. The Spousals of God (1999)
150 min | Comedy
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, João de Deus wins his buddy's girlfriend through a roll of the dice.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Rita Durão, João César Monteiro, Joana Azevedo, José Airosa
Votes: 780
38. 2084: Video clip pour une réflexion syndicale et pour le plaisir (1984)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A computer generates conflicting hypotheses about the future of trade unions.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: François Périer, Sophie Garnier, Bibiane Kirby, Atika Tahiri
Votes: 280
39. So Is This (1982)
48 min | Documentary
Experimental short in which sentences are formed by displaying one word at a time and at alternating speeds.
Director: Michael Snow
Votes: 225
40. In the Street (2013)
Not Rated | 16 min | Documentary, Short
Images of street life in New York's Spanish Harlem during the 1940s.
Directors: James Agee, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb
Votes: 399
41. Trás-os-Montes (1976)
108 min | Drama
It's a docudrama with a poetic writing and non-linear narrative. Specifically, it's an "etnofiction": portraits the typical characters of Terra Fria, the North-east of Portugal, showing ... See full summary »
Directors: Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis | Stars: Albino S. Pedro, Carlos Margarido, Mariana Margarido, Luis Ferreira
Votes: 264
42. O Fantasma (2000)
Unrated | 87 min | Drama
Young and handsome Sergio works the night shift as a trash collector in Lisbon, Portugal. He can't force himself to connect with his pretty female co-worker Fatima, who displays an avid ... See full summary »
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues | Stars: Ricardo Meneses, Beatriz Torcato, Andre Barbosa, Eurico Vieira
Votes: 3,970 | Gross: $0.13M
43. Our Beloved Month of August (2008)
Not Rated | 147 min | Music, Romance
Docu-drama about Portuguese social life in the countryside during the busy month of August
Director: Miguel Gomes | Stars: Sónia Bandeira, Fábio Oliveira, Joaquim Carvalho, Andreia Santos
Votes: 1,824
44. Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (1992)
TV-G | 7 min | Animation, Short
Two-dimensional clay animations melding and merging the work of 35 famous artists.
Director: Joan C. Gratz | Star: Jean G. Poulot
Votes: 867
45. Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977)
85 min | Documentary
Combining newsreel footage, still photographs, interviews, and analytical narration, this documentary focuses on the antifascist, anti-imperialist efforts of labor groups, peasants, and ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Kramer, Philip J. Spinelli | Star: Philip J. Spinelli
Votes: 57
46. L'hypothèse du tableau volé (1978)
66 min | Drama, Mystery
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean Rougeul, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud, Daniel Grimm
Votes: 1,205
47. Recollections of the Yellow House (1989)
122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor idiot, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: João César Monteiro, Manuela de Freitas, Ruy Furtado, Teresa Calado
Votes: 1,418
48. A Day with the Boys (1969)
18 min | Short, Drama
A group of boys spend their day outdoors exploring, wreaking havoc and letting their imaginations run wild.
Director: Clu Gulager | Stars: Mike Hertel, Jack Grindle, John McCaffrey, William Elliott
Votes: 458
49. Crimes of the Future (1970)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a dystopic world where a plague is killing off pubescent human females, an esoteric researcher seeks his missing mentor while trying to retain morality in the sex-obsessed society he lives in.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Ronald Mlodzik, Jon Lidolt, Tania Zolty, Paul Mulholland
Votes: 3,047
50. Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire, 1985 (1985)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Greenaway's documentary short shows us...well, 26 bathrooms, some in use by their owners while we visit. Whee!
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Cosey Fanni Tutti, Geoffrey Palmer
Votes: 378
51. On Top of the Whale (1982)
90 min | Fantasy, Mystery
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Jean Badin, Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel
Votes: 252
52. Entretanto (1999)
25 min | Short
Parents and teachers were absent. However, two boys and a girl form a love trio. Rui, Nuno and Rita cross three spaces and times to be alone: football game, party with pool, beach. Unstable... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Gomes | Stars: Gonçalo Félix da Costa, André Delphim, Nuno Oliveira, Mariana Ricardo
Votes: 208
53. Hail Mary (1985)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Manon Andersen
Votes: 3,729
54. Letter from Siberia (1958)
62 min | Documentary
A witty examination of life and culture in Siberia.
Director: Chris Marker | Star: Georges Rouquier
Votes: 844
55. Level Five (1997)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, Romance, War
The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. She searches the internet for information on the battle, and ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Catherine Belkhodja, Kenji Tokitsu, Nagisa Ôshima, Junichi Ushiyama
Votes: 947 | Gross: $0.02M
56. 66 scener fra Amerika (1982)
42 min | Documentary, Short
As a visual narrative 66 scener fra America is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau ... See full summary »
Director: Jørgen Leth | Stars: Jørgen Leth, Kim Larsen, Andy Warhol
Votes: 275
57. London (1994)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
An inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.
Director: Patrick Keiller | Stars: Paul Scofield, John Major, Norma Major, Dennis Skinner
Votes: 757
58. Alexandra (2007)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Andrei Bogdanov
Votes: 2,745
59. Salut les Cubains (1963)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnes Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963. The film explores Cuban society and culture post-revolution.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Juan Almeida, Alejo Carpentier, Fidel Castro
Votes: 1,890
60. Le joli mai (1963)
Not Rated | 165 min | Documentary
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme | Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 878 | Gross: $0.02M
62. Aniki Bóbó (1942)
71 min | Drama, Family
The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough... See full summary »
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Nascimento Fernandes, Vital dos Santos, António Palma, Armando Pedro
Votes: 1,886
63. Brandos Costumes (1975)
75 min | Drama
A portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the "Estado Novo", the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters' conflicts and ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Seixas Santos | Stars: Luís Santos, Dalila Rocha, Isabel de Castro, Sofia de Carvalho
Votes: 121
64. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989)
75 min | Documentary, War
Documentary examines the 'blind spot' of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Ulrike Grote, Harun Farocki
Votes: 322
65. Benilde or the Virgin Mother (1975)
112 min | Drama
Raised in seclusion, a young woman claims her unborn child was conceived through an angel.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Maria Amélia Matta, Jorge Rolla, Varela Silva, Glória de Matos
Votes: 337
66. The Territory (1981)
100 min | Drama, Horror
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Geoffrey Carey, John Paul Getty III, Jeffrey Kime, Camila Mora-Scheihing
Votes: 293
67. H Is for House (1973)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short
Experimental short film set in the English countryside, with strange narration which has a particular focus on objects beginning with the letter 'H'.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Peter Greenaway, Hannah Greenaway, Colin Cantlie
Votes: 714
68. Blood of My Blood (2011)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, Thriller
A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Rita Blanco, Anabela Moreira, Cleia Almeida, Rafael Morais
Votes: 2,035
69. Papillon d'amour (2004)
3 min | Short
By subjecting fragments from the Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon to a mirror effect, Provost creates a hallucinatory scene of a woman's reverse chrysalis into an imploding butterfly. This ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Provost
Votes: 182
70. Hovering Over the Water (1986)
143 min | Drama, Romance
Laura Rossellini, a widow from Rome, vacations on the Algarve coast one hot summer. One day while sunbathing, she finds a wounded man named Robert drifting in the surf on a rubber raft. She... See full summary »
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Laura Morante, Philip J. Spinelli, Manuela de Freitas, Georges Claisse
Votes: 518
71. Looking for Mushrooms (1996)
15 min | Short
Bruce Conner reconstructs his own film Looking for Mushrooms (1962) by expanding each frame five times in length and adding footage of similar mushroom hunts he did in Frisco.
Director: Bruce Conner
Votes: 103
72. Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (1969)
78 min | Drama, Horror
There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other ... See full summary »
Director: Júlio Bressane | Stars: Márcia Rodrigues, Renata Sorrah, Antero de Oliveira, Vanda Lacerda
Votes: 553
73. Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy
Coming to you as if from a dream half-remembered, two oneiric fantasies by the great Chilean fabulist Raúl Ruiz. First, a great guide - with pages torn out - for beginners, this picture has... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Elsa Zylberstein, Lambert Wilson, Christian Vadim
Votes: 381
74. A La Mode (1959)
5 min | Animation, Short
An experimental short film centered around a collage of magazine and sound clips.
Director: Stan Vanderbeek
Votes: 181
75. Slow Action (2011)
45 min | Sci-Fi
Herzog-influenced imagining of ecological possibilities for four locations, anticipating Earth's impending post-societal collapse.
Director: Ben Rivers
Votes: 143
76. Memórias de um Estrangulador de Loiras (1971)
71 min | Horror
A serial killer kills blonde women.
Director: Júlio Bressane | Star: Guará Rodrigues
Votes: 83
77. 11 x 14 (1977)
81 min | Drama
One of most widely praised American avant-garde films in recent years, James Benning's 1977 feature is a laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences.
Director: James Benning | Stars: Serafina Bathrick, Ted Brady, Barbara Frankel, Rick Goodwin
Votes: 294
78. River of Gold (1998)
95 min | Drama
A look at jealousy in its many shapes through romances, riches and murders.
Director: Paulo Rocha | Stars: Isabel Ruth, Lima Duarte, Joana Bárcia, João Cardoso
Votes: 198
79. The Forgotten Space (2010)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary
Details the catastrophic effects globalization has wrought on the ship, truck and train industries. We visit displaced farmers and villagers in Holland and Belgium, underpaid truck drivers ... See full summary »
Directors: Noël Burch, Allan Sekula
Votes: 157
80. The Face You Deserve (2004)
108 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Francisco, behave! I Know it's your birthday, you are thirty now, it's carnival, you've dressed as a cowboy for the school party and you are surrounded by kids you hate. But that's no ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Gomes | Stars: José Airosa, Gracinda Nave, Sara Graça, Miguel Barroso
Votes: 461
81. Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (2007)
186 min | Documentary
Fengming looks back at over 30 years of her life...
Director: Wang Bing | Star: Fengming He
Votes: 199
82. Wrong Move (1975)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
A writer goes on a road trip across West Germany with a group of eclectic people he meets along the way.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech, Nastassja Kinski
Votes: 3,903
83. Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2006)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary on the influential musician Scott Walker.
Director: Stephen Kijak | Stars: Sara Kestelman, Arnie Potts, Jarvis Cocker, Scott Walker
Votes: 1,540
84. Unknown Pleasures (2002)
Unrated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
Two unemployed Chinese teenagers have trouble resisting the temptations of the Western world.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Wei Wei Zhao, Qiong Wu, Tao Zhao, Qing Feng Zhou
Votes: 2,549 | Gross: $0.01M
85. The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
91 min | Documentary
Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Jacques Duclos
Votes: 662
86. Change Nothing (2009)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Music
Intimate portrait of the French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Rodolphe Burger, Hervé Loos, Arnaud Dieterlen
Votes: 365
87. Dear Phone (1976)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short
A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Star: Peter Greenaway
Votes: 746
88. Hitlers Hitparade (2005)
76 min | Documentary, History, Music
Directors: Oliver Axer, Susanne Benze
Votes: 73
89. Lifesize (1974)
X | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Michel is a middle aged man with a troubled marriage. He feels lonely, has been unfaithful to his wife Isabelle in various occasions, and despite she seems to accept this situation, they ... See full summary »
Director: Luis García Berlanga | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Valentine Tessier, Rada Rassimov, Lucienne Hamon
Votes: 450
91. Water Wrackets (1975)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short
Hypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning music (not Michael Nyman for a change) form the backdrop to a documentary-style narration about the history of a ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Greenaway | Star: Colin Cantlie
Votes: 505
92. Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (1980)
124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Kilas is a pimp who lives happy with Pepsi-Rita, fading sex variety starlet, and both lives at the expense of his God-mother. Kilas is the elader of a small gang of tough guys, and the ... See full summary »
Director: José Fonseca e Costa | Stars: Mário Viegas, Lia Gama, Luís Lello, Lima Duarte
Votes: 268
93. Agosto (1988)
97 min | Drama
Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
Director: Jorge Silva Melo | Stars: Christian Patey, Olivier Cruveiller, Marie Carré, Manuela de Freitas
Votes: 64
94. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas, Pola Chapelle, Ken Jacobs
Votes: 1,251
95. The Metaphor (1980)
Unrated | 36 min | Documentary, Short
A short documentary about painting.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: King Vidor, Andrew Wyeth, Betsy Wyeth
Votes: 126
96. Spend It All (1972)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Portrait of the Cajun lifestyle in Southwest Louisiana.
Directors: Les Blank, Skip Gerson | Stars: Nathan Abshire, Glenn Allensan, Savy Augustine, Dewey Balfa
Votes: 396
97. Bezhin lug (1937)
31 min | Short, Drama
A Soviet farmer's son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Viktor Kartashov, Nikolay Khmelyov, Boris Zakhava, Yelizaveta Teleshyova
Votes: 680
98. Pola X (1999)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama, Romance
A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister, starting an unusual relationship with her and prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fiancée.
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Chuillot
Votes: 5,278 | Gross: $0.17M
99. Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn
Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.08M
100. Homework (1989)
86 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
In this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Babak Ahmadpoor, Farhang Akhavan, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, Abbas Kiarostami
Votes: 1,917
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