All Recommendations

Fitzcarraldo
7.6

Fitzcarraldo

1982

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
7.3

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

Heart of Glass
6.5

Heart of Glass

1976

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.

The God Who Wasn't There
6.0

The God Who Wasn't There

2005

Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whole.

Battleship Potemkin
7.6

Battleship Potemkin

1925

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

Pink Flamingos
6.2

Pink Flamingos

1972

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Balance
7.6

Balance

1989

The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.

The Big City
7.8

The Big City

1963

Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1996.

Meeting Gorbachev
6.6

Meeting Gorbachev

2019

Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of his country.

Burden of Dreams
7.6

Burden of Dreams

1982

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.

Tony Arzenta
6.2

Tony Arzenta

1973

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.

Within Our Gates
5.9

Within Our Gates

1920

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
6.7

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

1966

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

The Tell-Tale Heart
7.2

The Tell-Tale Heart

1953

One of the most discussed and imaginative cartoons of any era. It tells the famous Edgar Allan Poe story of the deranged boarder who had to kill his landlord, not for greed, but because he possessed an "evil eye." The killer is never seen but his presence is felt by the use light-and-shadow to give the impression of impending disaster.

Flirting
6.8

Flirting

1991

Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
6.9

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

1975

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer
6.2

If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer

2002

Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks.

People on Sunday
7.2

People on Sunday

1930

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

Underground: The Julian Assange Story
6.4

Underground: The Julian Assange Story

2012

In 1989, known as Mendax, Julian Assange and two friends formed a group called the International Subversives. Using early home computers and defining themselves as white hat hackers - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. In the eyes of the US Government, they were a major threat to national security.

Ballad of the Little Soldier
6.4

Ballad of the Little Soldier

1984

A group of Miskito Indians use Nicaraguan child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.