All Recommendations

Ivan's Childhood
7.8

Ivan's Childhood

1962

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

An Officer and a Spy
7.1

An Officer and a Spy

2019

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.

Village of Eight Gravestones
6.6

Village of Eight Gravestones

1977

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo

Prostitute Killers
4.5

Prostitute Killers

2000

Three men, fed up with prostitutes and their perceived role in breaking up happy marriages, decide to go out and hunt down as many prostitutes as they can find. When the police are unable to solve the case, the prostitutes themselves must band together to save themselves.

Pictures at an Exhibition
7.3

Pictures at an Exhibition

1966

A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the plastic surgeon, the fashion-obsessed woman, the rumor-monger, and others, leading to a concluding comment on the progress of civilization.

The Lobster
7.0

The Lobster

2015

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

House of Spoils
5.6

House of Spoils

2024

An ambitious chef opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self doubts… and a haunting presence who threatens to sabotage her at every turn.

The Seed of the Sacred Fig
7.6

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

2024

An investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears. Suspecting the involvement of his wife and their two daughters, he imposes drastic measures at home, causing tensions to rise. Step by step, social norms and the rules of family life are being suspended.

100 Feet
5.7

100 Feet

2008

After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.

Crash
6.4

Crash

1996

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims, and he begins to use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

Dear Comrades!
7.3

Dear Comrades!

2020

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.

Marathon Man
7.2

Marathon Man

1976

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

Black Sunday
7.5

Black Sunday

1960

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
7.0

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

2024

In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr. Big while trying to buy a fake ID, he steals drugs from him and seeks refuge in the Walled City, where he encounters Cyclone, a compassionate yet authoritative crime lord.

Inferno
6.7

Inferno

1980

A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.

The Nutty Professor
6.6

The Nutty Professor

1963

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

Ninotchka
7.5

Ninotchka

1939

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

The Wonders
6.8

The Wonders

2014

Gelsomina’s family works according to some special rules. First of all, Gelsomina, at twelve years of age, is head of the family and her three younger sisters must obey her: sleep when she tells them to and work under her watchful eye. But the world, the outside, mustn’t know anything about their rules, and must be kept away from them. They must learn to disguise themselves.

The Conformist
7.7

The Conformist

1970

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.