All Recommendations

Lemon Cake
9.0

Lemon Cake

1977

Road masters Abessalom, Beso and Gigla decide to enjoy lemon cake for dessert.

Throne of Blood
7.9

Throne of Blood

1957

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

Underground
7.7

Underground

1995

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Kin-dza-dza!
7.8

Kin-dza-dza!

1986

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

My Best Friend's Birthday
5.5

My Best Friend's Birthday

1987

My Best Friend's Birthday is a partially lost black-and-white amateur film. The original cut was about 70 minutes long but due to a fire only 36 minutes of the film survived. It is about Mickey, who has been dumped by his girlfriend, and Clarence, who's trying to give his friend an unforgettable birthday.

Return of Sabata
6.0

Return of Sabata

1971

Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...

Strike
7.3

Strike

1925

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.
7.6

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

1928

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

Last Year at Marienbad
7.4

Last Year at Marienbad

1961

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Bonanza: The Return
6.5

Bonanza: The Return

1993

A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
7.0

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

1964

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.7

Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

Babette's Feast
7.2

Babette's Feast

1987

A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.

Le Samouraï
7.8

Le Samouraï

1967

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

Lust for Life
7.2

Lust for Life

1956

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Yojimbo
8.1

Yojimbo

1961

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Django
7.2

Django

1966

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.

Vivre Sa Vie
7.7

Vivre Sa Vie

1962

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

L'Âge d'or
6.8

L'Âge d'or

1930

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

La Collectionneuse
6.9

La Collectionneuse

1967

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.