2021 - film festival
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1. Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2020)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
Katsuragi is a disillusioned office worker who drunkenly attempts to commit suicide. However, with the help of a mysterious saviour, he soon discovers there are fates even worse than death.
Director: Hideo Jôjô | Stars: Seiki Chiba, Takashi Kitadai, Sho Watanabe
Votes: 623
2. The End of Love (2019)
90 min | Drama, Romance
At first, they make love even if they are not in the same country. She's in Paris, he's in Tel Aviv. Time passes and over-communication kills their privacy. In the end, they fall in love for the first time.
Director: Keren Ben Rafael | Stars: Judith Chemla, Arieh Worthalter, Lenny Dahan, Noémie Lvovsky
Votes: 145
3. Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (2020)
113 min | Action, Drama, History
Seven of Hong Kong's leading filmmakers have come together to each direct a short film set in Hong Kong during one decade from the 1950s to the future.
Directors: Ann Hui, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui, Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Lawrence Ah-Mon, Emotion Cheung, Tat-Ming Cheung, Ho-Cheong Chui
Votes: 511
4. The Last City (2020)
100 min | Drama
An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war.
Director: Heinz Emigholz | Stars: John Erdman, Dorothy Ko, Jonathan Perel, Susanne Sachße
Votes: 54
5. Chess of the Wind (1976)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The first lady of a noble house has died and now there is conflict between the remainders for taking over her inheritance.
Director: Mohammad Reza Aslani | Stars: Fakhri Khorvash, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Akbar Zanjanpour, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Votes: 1,724
6. In the Mood for Love (2000)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Votes: 166,963 | Gross: $2.73M
7. Happy Together (1997)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen, Gregory Dayton
Votes: 34,065 | Gross: $0.19M
8. Marghe and Her Mother (2019)
101 min | Drama
Marghe, six years old daughter lives with her single mother Claudia who's been kicked out of her house because of payment difficulties, leaving Marghe to an old woman next door.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Danilo Acinapura, Raffaella Gallo, Ylenia Galtieri, Margherita Pantaleo
Votes: 66
9. I Am Not Alone (2019)
90 min | Documentary
On Easter 2018, a man puts on a backpack to walk all over Armenia. His mission is to inspire a velvet revolution which can overthrow the corrupt regime that enjoys absolute power in this post-Soviet nation.
Director: Garin Hovannisian | Stars: Nikol Pashinyan, Serzh Sargsyan, Valeriy Osipyan, Anna Hakobyan
Votes: 317
10. The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time (2019)
84 min | Drama
One morning, a man who loves his family very much goes to a town market to sell his horse with the other villagers. After exchanging affectionate glances with his wife, and leaving his 10-... See full summary »
Directors: Yerlan Nurmukhambetov, Lisa Takeba | Stars: Dulyga Akmolda, Madi Minaidarov, Mirai Moriyama, Adiya Mussina
Votes: 106
11. Asia (2020)
85 min | Drama
Despite living together, Asia barely interacts with her daughter Vika. Their routine is shaken when Vika's health deteriorates rapidly. Asia must step in and become the mother Vika so desperately needs
Director: Ruthy Pribar | Stars: Alena Yiv, Shira Haas, Tamir Mula, Gera Sandler
Votes: 717
12. Flee (2021)
PG-13 | 89 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography
FLEE tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time.
Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Stars: Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz
Votes: 19,517
13. Brother's Keeper (2021)
85 min | Drama, Thriller
Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy's desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a rigid bureaucracy.
Director: Ferit Karahan | Stars: Samet Yildiz, Ekin Koç, Mahir Ipek, Melih Selcuk
Votes: 3,280
14. Apples (II) (2020)
91 min | Drama
Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
Director: Christos Nikou | Stars: Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovassili, Anna Kalaitzidou, Argyris Bakirtzis
Votes: 5,460
15. About Endlessness (2019)
78 min | Drama, Fantasy
Roy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Jessica Louthander, Tatiana Delaunay, Anders Hellström, Bertil J. Nyberg
Votes: 7,777
16. Atlantis (2019)
108 min | Drama, War
A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych | Stars: Andriy Rymaruk, Liudmyla Bileka, Vasyl Antoniak, Lily Hyde
Votes: 2,671
17. Suzanna Andler (2021)
91 min | Drama
Trapped in marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman, a middle aged mother takes a break and goes with her young lover to a Riviera beach house where she plans a family vacation for the summer.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Niels Schneider, Nathan Willcocks, Julia Roy
Votes: 264
18. Marona's Fantastic Tale (2019)
Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Drama, Family
After an accident, a little dog remembers all the different masters she's had successively and loved unconditionally.
Director: Anca Damian | Stars: Lizzie Brocheré, Olimpia Melinte, Marius Manole, Bruno Salomone
Votes: 1,351
19. The Butterfly Murders (1979)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
A journalist attempting to solve a mystery in "Martial World" enlists the aid of a master fighter and a woman named Green Breeze. They go to a mysterious castle where they come across poisonous butterflies and a black-leather-clad killer.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Siu-Ming Lau, Michelle Yim, Shu-Tong Wong, Kuo-Chu Chang
Votes: 862
20. City Hall (2020)
272 min | Documentary
A look at Boston's city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
Director: Frederick Wiseman | Star: Marty Walsh
Votes: 722
21. Ah Ying (1983)
110 min | Drama
When romance starts to cool, Ah Ying applies for a job in a film centre. Instead of paying her for her work, the centre lets her attend its classes for free. She is later drawn into a ... See full summary »
Director: Allen Fong | Stars: Kwok-Lam Cha, Chi-Hung Chang, Ming-Cheung Chin, Pui Hui
Votes: 167
22. 2046 (2004)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Gong Li
Votes: 61,800 | Gross: $1.44M
23. Fallen Angels (1995)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung
Votes: 50,919
24. DAU. Natasha (2020)
138 min | Drama
Natasha works in the canteen of a secret Soviet research institute. She drinks a lot, likes to talk about love and embarks on an affair. State security intervenes. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative.
Directors: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, Jekaterina Oertel | Stars: Natalia Berezhnaya, Olga Shkabarnya, Vladimir Azhippo, Alexei Blinov
Votes: 1,564
25. Sabaya (2021)
90 min | Documentary
Film follows a group into Syria's Al-Hol, a dangerous camp in the Middle East, as they risk their lives to save a women being held by ISIS as abducted sex slaves.
Director: Hogir Hirori | Stars: Mahmud Resho, Siham, Zahra, Shadi
Votes: 743
26. Shen nu (1934)
TV-PG | 85 min | Drama
Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.
Director: Yonggang Wu | Stars: Lingyu Ruan, Tian Jian, Zhizhi Zhang, Keng Li
Votes: 2,475
27. ANIMA (2020)
120 min | Drama
In the woods of Inner Mongolia, Linzi and his older brother Tutu earn a meagre living as lumberjacks. Their difficult, but peaceful lives are upended when they develop an intense rivalry ... See full summary »
Director: Jinling Cao | Stars: Xi Qi, Chuan-jun Wang
Votes: 36
28. An Officer and a Spy (2019)
132 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Louis Garrel, Christophe Maratier, Pierre Poirot, Stéfan Godin
Votes: 21,102
29. Equinox Flower (1958)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
Votes: 4,859
30. Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (2021)
217 min | Documentary
How does one feel at home? In Stadtallendorf, a German city with a complex history of both excluding and integrating foreigners, genial teacher Dieter Bachmann offers his pupils the key to at least feeling as if they are at home.
Director: Maria Speth | Stars: Dieter Bachmann, Aynur Bal, Önder Cavdar
Votes: 937
31. The Edge of Daybreak (2021)
114 min | Drama, History
A dysfunctional family falls from grace in the shadow of war.
Director: Taiki Sakpisit | Stars: Chalad Na Songkhla, Manatsanun Phanlerdwongsakul, Sunida Ratanakorn
Votes: 87
32. Radiograph of a Family (2020)
82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
"Mother married a photo of Father," says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary. She's not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally... See full summary »
Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani | Stars: Farahnaz Sharifi, Hossein Khosrovani, Tayi, Firouzeh Khosrovani
Votes: 292
33. The Whaler Boy (2020)
93 min | Drama
A young hunter sets off on a journey to find a girl he saw on his computer.
Director: Philipp Yuryev | Stars: Vladimir Onokhov, Kristina Asmus, Vladimir Lyubimtsev, Nikolay Tatato
Votes: 1,578
34. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
121 min | Drama, Romance
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Votes: 9,818
35. All the Things We Never Said (2020)
91 min | Drama
Atsuhisa is an ordinary man living with his wife Natsumi and a five-year-old daughter Suzu. Atsuhisa and Natsumi have been friends with Takeda since high school. Once dreamed of becoming ... See full summary »
Director: Yûya Ishii | Stars: Taiga Nakano, Ryûya Wakaba, Subaru Andô, Hideko Hara
Votes: 68
36. Night Bus (2019)
20 min | Animation, Short, Horror
On a late-night bus, a panicked scream shatters the night's calm. A necklace is stolen, followed by a tragic and fatal road accident. The series of intriguing events that follows reveal love, hatred, and vengeance.
Director: Wen-Ming Hsieh | Stars: Shu-Fang Chen, Shang-Sing Guo, Yao-Ren Kuo, Yu Fang Lee
Votes: 132
37. Unfulfilled Dreams (2020)
115 min | Documentary
Seen from a daughter's point of view, Chu Tien-wen turns her parents' stories into a film after having found her father's diary that documents his journey from Nanking in China all the way ... See full summary »
Director: T'ien-wen Chu | Stars: Hsi-Ning Chu, Musa Liu, Cheng Ah, Ta-chuen Chang
Votes: 13
38. Ulbolsyn (2020)
71 min | Drama
Life in Karatas Village runs along an untroubled path, until its patriarchal way of life is challenged by Ulbolsyn, a woman whose coldblooded heart and blazing temperament are not afraid of setting everything on fire.
Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov | Stars: Asel Sadvakasova, Dinara Sagi, Yerbolat Alkozha, Berik Aytzhanov
Votes: 104
39. Collective (2019)
Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Crime
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
Director: Alexander Nanau | Stars: Dan Alexandru Condrea, Liviu Iolu, Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag
Votes: 13,442
40. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 51,957 | Gross: $0.75M
41. Cleo (I) (2019)
99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Can Cleo turn back time? It seems that misfortune has been haunting her loved ones since she was born. A legendary treasure sounds like the solution to her problems, but Cleo will have to let go of the past.
Director: Erik Schmitt | Stars: Marleen Lohse, Jeremy Mockridge, Max Mauff, Heiko Pinkowski
Votes: 608
42. Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
Not Rated | 128 min | Documentary, History
Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a... See full summary »
Director: Mads Brügger | Stars: Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza, U Thant
Votes: 2,793 | Gross: $0.09M
43. The Joke (1969)
80 min | Drama
In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years ... See full summary »
Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Josef Somr, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar, Jaroslava Obermaierová
Votes: 1,703
44. Larks on a String (1969)
94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Václav Neckár, Jitka Zelenohorská
Votes: 2,188
45. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror
A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault
Votes: 35,164 | Gross: $0.05M
46. From the East (1993)
107 min | Documentary
A look at life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Natalia Chakhovskaia
Votes: 950
47. The Meetings of Anna (1978)
128 min | Drama
Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to ... See full summary »
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 2,098
48. Damnation (1988)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer.
Director: Béla Tarr | Stars: Miklós Székely B., Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer, György Cserhalmi
Votes: 6,771
49. The Cave (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 107 min | Documentary, War
Amidst air strikes and bombings, a group of female doctors in Ghouta, Syria struggle with systemic sexism while trying to care for the injured using limited resources.
Director: Feras Fayyad | Stars: Amani Ballour, Salim Namour, Alaa, Samaher
Votes: 2,947
50. Saute ma ville (1971)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 1,225
51. La chambre (1972)
11 min | Short
In a 360° circular panoramic shot the camera slowly pans an entire apartment (or house). When it first passes the bedroom there is nobody there but each time it shows the room again Chantal... See full summary »
Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 1,024
52. Cinéma, de notre temps (1989– )
Documentary
"Cinema of Our Time" is a documentary series about contemporary filmmakers from around the world, created by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe, as a follow-up to the acclaimed initial series "Filmmakers of Our Time" (1964-1972).
Stars: Jean-Claude Dauphin, André S. Labarthe, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean Douchet
Votes: 188
53. Annette (2021)
R | 141 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell
Votes: 22,700
54. Moje slunce Mad (2021)
85 min | Animation, Drama
When Herra, a Czech woman, falls in love with Nazir, an Afghan man, she has no idea about the life that awaits her in post-Taliban Afghanistan, nor about the family she is about to join.
Director: Michaela Pavlátová | Stars: Zuzana Stivínová, Shahid Maqsoodi, Shamla Maqsoodi, Mohammad Aref Safai
Votes: 496
55. I'm Your Man (2021)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.
Director: Maria Schrader | Stars: Maren Eggert, Dan Stevens, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw
Votes: 12,637
56. Perfect Blue (1997)
R | 81 min | Animation, Crime, Drama
A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.
Director: Satoshi Kon | Stars: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura
Votes: 95,641 | Gross: $0.78M
57. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
R | 102 min | Drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Votes: 899,114 | Gross: $3.64M
58. Petite Maman (2021)
PG | 73 min | Drama, Fantasy
Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her age building a tree-house.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne
Votes: 17,718
59. Crocodile (1996)
102 min | Drama
A woman forms a twisted bond with a homeless violent thug who prevented her suicide.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Cho Jae-hyun, Jae-Hong Ahn, Jeon Moo-song, Yun-kyeong Woo
Votes: 1,849
60. Address Unknown (2001)
R | 117 min | Drama, War
Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea ... See full summary »
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Yang Dong-kun, Min-jung Ban, Kim Young-min, Pang Eun-jin
Votes: 3,886
61. Introduction (2021)
66 min | Drama
A young man travels from South Korea to Berlin to surprise his girlfriend.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Shin Seok-ho, Mi-so Park, Young-ho Kim, Gi Ju-bong
Votes: 1,117
62. Benedetta (2021)
Unrated | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 25,515
63. The Bow (2005)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
On a fishing boat at sea, a 60-year old man has been raising a girl since she was a baby. It is agreed that they will get married on her 17th birthday, and she is 16 now. They live a quiet and secluded life, renting the boat to day fishermen and practicing strange divination rites. Their life changes when a teenage student comes aboard...
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Han Yeo-reum, Seo Ji-seok, Jeon Gook-hwan, Seong-hwan Jeon
Votes: 11,800
64. It's a Flickering Life (2021)
125 min | Drama
In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.
Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Masaki Suda, Mei Nagano, Nobuko Miyamoto
Votes: 518
65. Swan Song (II) (2021)
R | 105 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair.
Director: Todd Stephens | Stars: Udo Kier, Jennifer Coolidge, Linda Evans, Michael Urie
Votes: 3,461
66. Wrath of Desire (2020)
118 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
After Phoenix Du kills a thug who broke into her apartment, she comes before Jade Liu, broken by her brother's suicide and Catholic upbringing. Jade has a night of passion with her that redirects both of their lives.
Director: Zero Chou | Stars: Peace Yang, Yu-Ting Hsu, Jiawei Weng, Shang-Ho Huang
Votes: 63
67. Frida Kahlo (2020)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Delving deeper than any film has done before, engaging with world-renowned Kahlo experts, exploring how great an artist she was, discover the real Frida Kahlo.
Director: Ali Ray | Star: Díana Bermudez
Votes: 164
68. Memoria (I) (2021)
PG | 136 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Agnes Brekke, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Jerónimo Barón
Votes: 11,156
69. Madalena (2021)
97 min | Drama
Murky and vindictive, the past doesn't refuses to be tamed or to leave in peace two Chinese immigrants in Macao whose meeting offers them the chance of a new life.
Director: Emily Chan | Stars: Louis Cheung, Chrissie Chau, Lam Sheung, Kou Cheng
Votes: 78
70. Drive My Car (2021)
Unrated | 179 min | Drama
A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Masaki Okada
Votes: 65,870
71. Zalava (2021)
93 min | Drama, Horror
Investigating reports of demonic possessions in a remote village, a skeptical military officer finds his beliefs tested by an enigmatic exorcist.
Director: Arsalan Amiri | Stars: Navid Pourfaraj, Pourya Rahimi Sam, Hoda Zeinolabedin, Baset Rezaei
Votes: 747
72. Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021)
106 min | Drama
A couple decide to leave the toxic pollution of their home city of Beirut, hoping to build a utopian existence in a pristine home in the mountains.
Director: Mounia Akl | Stars: Nadine Labaki, Yumna Marwan, Saleh Bakri, Nadia Charbel
Votes: 1,013
73. Memories (1995)
PG-13 | 113 min | Animation, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An animated science fiction anthology from the visionary anime director, Katsuhiro Otomo.
Directors: Kôji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura, Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Marc Swint, Robbie Daymond, Frank Todaro, Laura Post
Votes: 21,397
74. The Forbidden Reel (2019)
119 min | Documentary, History
Afghan filmmakers gave birth to an extraordinary national cinema and protected it from extremists. Afghan-Canadian director Ariel Nasr crafts a thrilling and utterly original story of modern Afghanistan.
Director: Ariel Nasr | Stars: Latif Ahmadi, Siddiq Barmak, Mariam Ghani, Yusuf Jannesar
Votes: 70
75. Yûko no tenbin (2020)
153 min | Drama
While documenting a controversial tragedy that shook her community, a filmmaker must put her morals to the test when a perverse secret in her own life is revealed.
Director: Yûjirô Harumoto | Stars: Ryô Ikeda, Yumi Kawai, Yôta Kawase, Tomoki Kimura
Votes: 423
76. Hold Me Tight (2021)
97 min | Drama
A woman one day simply walks out on her family. Or does she?
Director: Mathieu Amalric | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Arieh Worthalter, Anne-Sophie Bowen-Chatet, Sacha Ardilly
Votes: 1,959
77. Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2020)
83 min | Comedy
Fabrice went to the supermarket without his store's loyalty card. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
Director: François Desagnat | Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Julie Depardieu, Ramzy Bedia, Julie Gayet
Votes: 538
78. Hit the Road (2021)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Follows a chaotic, tender family that is on a road trip across a rugged landscape and fussing over the sick dog and getting on each others' nerves. Only the mysterious older brother is quiet.
Director: Panah Panahi | Stars: Pantea Panahiha, Mohammad Hassan Madjooni, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar
Votes: 6,489
79. Days (2020)
Unrated | 127 min | Drama
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Anong Houngheuangsy
Votes: 1,910
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