All Recommendations

The Pillow Book
6.4

The Pillow Book

1995

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

Drowning by Numbers
7.1

Drowning by Numbers

1988

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.

The Draughtsman's Contract
7.1

The Draughtsman's Contract

1982

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Gotham
5.7

Gotham

1988

A New York private eye searches for a socialite who supposedly drowned 10 years before.

Kuso
5.4

Kuso

2017

Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.

The Wishing Tree
6.9

The Wishing Tree

1976

Marita arrives at a small village in Georgia to live with her aunt. She meets a poor young lad, Gedia, and falls in love with him. But her relatives are determined to marry the girl off to a local rich man…

Mon oncle Antoine
6.9

Mon oncle Antoine

1971

Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.

Sweetgrass
6.8

Sweetgrass

2009

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

The Thin Match Man
6.3

The Thin Match Man

2009

Simone, an eleven years old, lives in the countryside with his irascible father, who constantly punishes him forbidding him to leave. However, the boy's thirst for adventure is such that just leaking. Then undertakes the search for a mythical being, Man Match, which can fulfill your deepest desires.

The Basket
6.5

The Basket

2018

A young girl who accidentally breaks her father's cherished watch sets out to sell homemade baskets to pay for its repair, but things don't go as planned in this story of mistake and forgiveness.

Youth Wars
9.0

Youth Wars

1991

A documentary about German gangs in Kiel in the early 90s.

McLibel
6.7

McLibel

2005

McLibel is a documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong for Spanner Films about the McLibel case. The film was first completed, as a 52 minute television version, in 1997, after the conclusion of the original McLibel trial. It was then re-edited to 85 minute feature length in 2005, after the McLibel defendants took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Ident
5.9

Ident

1990

Explores the nature of man, not only with feet of clay, but with a face of clay as well. Within a colourless city of walls, corridors, and small rooms, a man makes his way from home to work, then to a bar, and then, by a stroke of luck, into an outdoors of space, fresh air, and colour. Along the way, he changes his face to fit his surroundings, interacts with his dog, argues with co-workers, and gossips at a bar. His altering of his visage suggests a two-faced nature, and his stepping into the outdoors provides the ultimate test of his real identity.

The Worthless
6.2

The Worthless

1982

Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.

They Live
7.3

They Live

1988

A lone drifter stumbles upon a harrowing discovery -- a unique pair of sunglasses that reveals that aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

In the Shadow of the Moon
7.5

In the Shadow of the Moon

2007

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus interviews with the surviving astronauts, including Jim Lovell, Dave Scott, John Young, Gene Cernan, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, Charlie Duke and Harrison Schmitt.

She Is Conann
5.6

She Is Conann

2023

Traveling through the abyss, underworld dog Rainer recounts the six lives of Conann, perpetually put to death by her own future, across eras, myths and ages. From her childhood, a slave of Sanja and her barbarian horde, to her accession to the summits of cruelty at the doors of our world.

Selfie
7.2

Selfie

2019

Naples, Trajan's district. Initially it was intended for the inhabitants of the shantytowns on the seafront of Naples, who were homeless after the war. But it soon became a kind of ghetto. Alessandro and Pietro are two teenagers who film with an iPhone to tell their difficult neighborhood, their daily life, the friendship that binds them.

The Invisible Woman
5.9

The Invisible Woman

2013

In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.

The Ax
6.9

The Ax

2005

A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.