PdA's Anti-Canon, 2019 Edition
by Perception_de_Ambiguity | created - 29 Jul 2019 | updated - 09 Aug 2019 | PublicA ranked Top 300 list of my favorite films that are relatively little seen.
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The IMDb list includes some films that aren't in the letterboxd database at this time, and vice versa.
This list has become an annual tradition of mine; here are the links to the previous editions:
(IMDb)
2018: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls028845591/
2017: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls025056739/
2016: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls063998873/
2015: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls079727709/
2014: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls077590099/
2013: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls056860412/
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2018: https://letterboxd.com/systematicer/list/pdas-anti-canon-2018-edition/
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1. Reality's Invisible (1971)
53 min | Documentary
A short film which presents us footage of students making and discussing their work alongside figures like Gardner, theorist Rudolf Arnheim, artist Stan Vanderbeek, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and graphic designer Toshi Katayama.
Director: Robert E. Fulton | Star: Robert Gardner
Votes: 66
2. The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
91 min | Documentary
Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Jacques Duclos
Votes: 662
La société du spectacle / The Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord, 1974)
3. Lord of the Dance/Destroyer of Illusion (1985)
113 min | Documentary
Director: Richard Kohn | Stars: Peter Hudson, Trulshig Rinpoche
Votes: 21
4. Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971)
143 min | Documentary
This important film compiles "Magino Story" footage taken by Ogawa for a period of more than ten years after he moved to Magino village.
Director: Shinsuke Ogawa
Votes: 59
三里塚 第二砦の人々 / Narita: Peasants of the Second Fortress (小川紳介/Shinsuke Ogawa, 1971)
5. The Scoundrel (1935)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Fantasy
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Directors: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Stars: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper
Votes: 444
6. Illuminated Texts (1982)
180 min | Mystery
A montage provides a meditation on opposing extremes and the inevitability of destruction.
Director: R. Bruce Elder | Stars: Anna Pafomow, Henry Jesionka, R. Bruce Elder, Jim Smith
Votes: 65
Illuminated Texts (R. Bruce Elder, 1982)
7. The End of Time (2012)
TV-G | 109 min | Documentary
Explores our perception of time.
Director: Peter Mettler | Stars: Peter Mettler, Freya Blekman, Richie Hawtin, George Mikenberg
Votes: 421 | Gross: $0.00M
8. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
442 min | Biography, Drama
Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels
Votes: 906
9. Path of Cessation (1974)
55 min | Documentary
A dialogue with the Tibetan culture captured through photography.
Director: Robert E. Fulton
Votes: 33
10. Passage to Buddha (1993)
136 min | Drama
Seon-jae, a teenage boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother who abandoned him as a baby. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: ... See full summary »
Director: Jang Sun-woo | Stars: Mi-kyeong Won, Oh Tae-kyung, Kim Hye-seon, Hae-young Lee
Votes: 153
11. Scream of the Ants (2006)
85 min | Adventure, Drama
A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India. Searching the countryside for a guru called the "perfect man," who fobs ... See full summary »
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Mamhoud Chokrollahi, Mahnour Shadzi, Karl Maass, Tenzin Chogyal
Votes: 981
فریاد مورچه ها /Scream of the Ants (محسن مخملباف/Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 2006)
12. Life on a String (1991)
110 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string...
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Zhongyuan Liu, Lei Huang, Qing Xu, Yao Er Ga
Votes: 704
13. 50 Feet of String (2011)
53 min | Fantasy, Mystery
A 12 section film that invites viewers into a more visceral and less verbally analytical state of mind.
Director: Leighton Pierce
Votes: 75
14. New Old (1979)
67 min | Drama
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy comprising 'Visa De Censure No.X', 'Livre De Famille' and 'Anima Mundi'. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Clémenti | Stars: Nadine Alkan, Michelle Bernet, Maurice Béjart, Balthazar Clémenti
Votes: 107
New Old / New Old ou les chroniques du temps présent (Pierre Clémenti, 1979)
15. Go West (1923)
12 min | Short, Comedy, Western
A short film with an all animal cast about a young chimp who is kicked out of his home by his parents and heads west to make his fortune.
Director: Len Powers
Votes: 291
16. Rapture (1965)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell, Gunnel Lindblom
Votes: 1,124
17. Matalo! (Kill Him) (1970)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A gang of outlaws find themselves in conflict with a mysterious, boomerang-wielding drifter and a widower who arrive in the ghost town they have holed up in.
Director: Cesare Canevari | Stars: Lou Castel, Corrado Pani, Antonio Salines, Luis Dávila
Votes: 616
18. Breaking with Old Ideas (1976)
122 min | Drama
Set in the "cultural revolution" period of China, a college of labor is set up in a mountain area of Jiangxi Province. Long Guozheng, a veteran cadre of Chinese People's Anti-Japanese ... See full summary »
Director: Wenhua Li | Stars: Zhenqing Guo, Suya Wang, Xiying Wen, Zheng Zhang
Votes: 92
決裂 / Breaking with Old Ideas (People's Republic of China, 1976)
19. Mandara (1971)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama
Two student couples stumble upon a cult dedicated to promoting the primordial human state through rape and agriculture.
Director: Akio Jissôji | Stars: Kôji Shimizu, Akiko Mori, Ryô Tamura, Hiroko Sakurai
Votes: 540
20. Regarding Penelope's Wake (2002)
120 min
A two-hour film consisting of heavily edited frame by frame collage/montage/hand painted/ripped/cut/etched found footage culled from numerous sources
Director: Michele Smith
Votes: 13
Regarding Penelope’s Wake (Michele Smith, 2002
21. Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
180 min | Documentary
A filmmaker's inquiry into transcendence becomes a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times. From Toronto, the scene of his childhood, Peter ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Mettler | Stars: Justine Bellinsky, Govinda, Peter Mettler, Rani Mukerji
Votes: 612
22. Sanrizuka: Heta buraku (1973)
146 min | Documentary
Documentary on the life of the farmers of the Heta Village opposing their resettlement due to the construction of the Narita Airport.
Director: Shinsuke Ogawa | Star: Shinsuke Ogawa
Votes: 73
三里塚 辺田部落 / Narita: Heta Village / Sanrizuka: Heta buraku (小川紳介/Shinsuke Ogawa, 1973)
23. Naked Spaces: Living Is Round (1985)
135 min | Documentary
Explores the rhythm and ritual life in the rural environment of six West African countries: Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, and Senegal.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha | Stars: Barbara Christian, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Linda Peckham
Votes: 39
Naked Spaces: Living Is Round (Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1985)
24. Charles Manson Superstar (1989 Video)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
For forty years, Charles Manson has survived most of his life in what he calls 'the hallways of the all ways,' the reform schools, jails and prisons that have been his home and tomb. His ... See full summary »
Director: Nikolas Schreck | Stars: Charles Manson, Nikolas Schreck, Zeena Schreck, James N. Mason
Votes: 464
25. The Green Wall (1969)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple forsakes their urban existence for life in the exciting but dangerous Peruvian jungle.
Director: Armando Robles Godoy | Stars: Julio Alemán, Sandra Riva, Raúl Martin, Lorena Duval
Votes: 303
La muralla verde / The Green Wall (Armando Robles Godoy, 1969)
26. Summer Days with Coo (2007)
138 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A boy befriends an orphaned water spirit, or Kappa, he found dried up and buried in a riverbank. He and his family help the creature adjust to life in the modern world.
Director: Keiichi Hara | Stars: Kazato Tomizawa, Takahiro Yokokawa, Naoki Tanaka, Naomi Nishida
Votes: 2,155
27. Työmiehen päiväkirja (1967)
90 min | Drama
Leftist welder and right wing clerk get married. Soon enough they find themselves covered with financial and emotional problems.
Director: Risto Jarva | Stars: Elina Salo, Paul Osipow, Titta Karakorpi, Pentti Irjala
Votes: 195
Työmiehen päiväkirja / Not by Bread Alone / Diary of a Worker (Risto Jarva, 1967)
28. Nazar (1990)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
Based on F. Dostoevsky's "The Meek One", this is the saga of a Bombay-based antique dealer-cum-money lender, who at the age of 40, marries a woman who is 17, and brings her home to his ... See full summary »
Director: Mani Kaul | Stars: Shekhar Kapur, Shambhavi Kaul, Surekha Sikri, A.A. Baig
Votes: 142
29. La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (1973)
90 min | Comedy
Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is ... See full summary »
Director: René Viénet | Stars: Hung-Liu Chan, Ingrid Yin-Yin Hu, Jason Piao Pai, Raoul Curet
Votes: 290
La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? / Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (René Viénet, 1973)
30. Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (1969)
78 min | Drama, Horror
There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other ... See full summary »
Director: Júlio Bressane | Stars: Márcia Rodrigues, Renata Sorrah, Antero de Oliveira, Vanda Lacerda
Votes: 553
31. Possible Worlds (2000)
93 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Crime
A man lives in parallel worlds, falling in love with the same woman, while the police hunt down a serial killer who steals brains.
Director: Robert Lepage | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean McCann, Gabriel Gascon
Votes: 2,146
Possible Worlds (Robert Lepage, 2000)
32. Le clair de terre (1970)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Pierre Brumeu, a twenty-year-old young man, leads a drab life in Paris with his father, a man he does not understand very well, and his friends Michel and Sophie. Father and son live in the... See full summary »
Director: Guy Gilles | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Annie Girardot, Patrick Jouané, Elina Labourdette
Votes: 369
34. Episode 3: 'Enjoy Poverty' (2009)
90 min | Documentary
Dutch artist Renzo Martens spent three years traveling throughout the Democratic Republic of the Congo asking the question: "Who owns poverty?"
Director: Renzo Martens
Votes: 357
Episode 3: 'Enjoy Poverty' (Renzo Martens, 2009)
35. Katka (2010)
90 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Helena Trestikova is the author of 10 episodes from the series Women on the Brink of the New Millennium, intimate portraits of both successful women and women on the social periphery. The ... See full summary »
Director: Helena Trestíková
Votes: 330
36. Six et demi onze (1927)
84 min | Drama
A renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie, a singer, and gives up medicine to be with her. After a time however, she misses her old... See full summary »
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Edmond Van Daële, Suzy Pierson, Nino Constantini, René Ferté
Votes: 140
37. Caniba (2017)
Unrated | 92 min | Documentary
Caniba is a film that reflects on the discomforting significance of cannibalistic desire in human existence through the prism of one man, Issei Sagawa, and his mysterious relationship with his brother, Jun.
Directors: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel | Stars: Renée Hartevelt, Issei Sagawa, Jun Sagawa
Votes: 613
Caniba (Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2017)
38. Eldorado (1921)
100 min | Drama
Sibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Unable to keep with the costs of his son's medical bills, she asks for help to Estiria, her ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Ève Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot, Philippe Hériat
Votes: 491
39. Jago Hua Savera (1959)
94 min | Drama
Based on he daily lives of the fishermen of East Bengal.
Director: A.J. Kardar | Stars: Khan Ataur Rahman, Tripti Mitra, Kazi Khaliq, Zurain Rakshi
Votes: 143
جاگو ہوا سویرا / Day shall Dawn / Jago Hua Savera (Aeejay Kardar / A.J. Kardar, 1959)
40. Brutal Ardour (1978)
29 min | Short
Director: Manuel Huerga | Stars: Eulàlia Bes, Jorge de Juan, Bárbara de Lema, Bárbara de Lemus
Votes: 34
41. Absences répétées (1972)
78 min | Drama
Young man Francois Nole works in a Bank. Often skips a walk, and one day he never comes to work. He goes to bed and refuses stand. Francois is a heroin addict, who has lost the joy of life.... See full summary »
Director: Guy Gilles | Stars: Danièle Delorme, Nathalie Delon, Patrick Penn, Patrick Jouané
Votes: 161
42. This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama
In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder. Things complicate when their feeble-minded mother begins to suspect something.
Director: Michael Oblowitz | Stars: Billy Zane, Gina Gershon, Christian Durango, Sloan Cobb
Votes: 1,324 | Gross: $0.01M
43. Elsewhere (2001)
240 min | Documentary
During the year 2000 Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to a different destination each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria. Locations include Niger, Finland, Micronesia, Australia, China, Siberia or Greenland.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Votes: 143
44. Scissere (1982)
88 min | Drama
A recently released mental patient imagines himself living the lives of three different people he randomly encounters.
Director: Peter Mettler | Stars: Anthony Downes, Greg Krantz, Christie MacFadyen, Sandy MacFadyen
Votes: 62
45. The Super Cops (1974)
R | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
Director: Gordon Parks | Stars: Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle
Votes: 1,124
46. I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986)
89 min
Envisions an epic quest for transcendence and self-knowledge: Bill Viola describes this work as a "personal investigation of the inner states and connections to animal consciousness we all carry within."
Director: Bill Viola
Votes: 96
47. The Mind of Clay (1985)
92 min | Documentary, Drama
Director Mani Kaul poetically observes the ancient art of pottery and its deep cultural significance.
Director: Mani Kaul | Stars: Robin Das, Anita Kanwar, Ashok Sharma
Votes: 74
48. Rohfilm (1968)
20 min | Short
A black and white experimental short film directed by Birgit Hein and Wilhelm Hein.
Directors: Birgit Hein, Wilhelm Hein
Votes: 67
Rohfilm (w&b hein aka Wilhelm Hein & Birgit Hein, 1968)
49. Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.
Directors: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen
Votes: 1,334
50. Everything (I) (2017)
11 min | Animation, Short, Drama
It's a simulation of reality where you can see the world from everything's point of view - it's kind of a philosophy project in the form of a game. There is no narrative or story - just the world as it is.
Director: David O'Reilly | Star: Alan Watts
Votes: 42
51. Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
106 min | Documentary, History, War
This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Directors: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | Stars: Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu, Mircea Dinescu
Votes: 654
Videogramme einer Revolution (Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujica, 1992)
52. Temptress Moon (1996)
R | 130 min | Drama, Romance
Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older ... See full summary »
Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Kevin Lin, Saifei He
Votes: 2,037 | Gross: $1.08M
53. Critique of Separation (2001)
20 min | Short
A theory of Situationism is proposed through shots of Paris, a young woman, newsreel clips, extracts from classic films, photographs and newspaper images
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Caroline Rittener
Votes: 211
Critique de la séparation / Critique of Separation (Guy Debord, 1961)
Incidence of Catastrophe (Gary Hill, 1988)
55. Running Shadow (1972)
9 min | Short
Rapidly changing images of natural objects, scenery, animals, plants, and people flicker, flash, tumble, and cascade across the screen.
Director: Robert E. Fulton
Votes: 66
56. Film ist. (1998)
60 min | Documentary
Film ist. consists almost entirely of excerpts from various scientific films. This footage shows the flight of pigeons, intelligence test performed on apes, upside-down worlds and ... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Deutsch
Votes: 134
& "Film Ist. 7-12" (2002)
57. The World's Greatest Sinner (1962)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama
A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own ... See full summary »
Director: Timothy Carey | Stars: Timothy Carey, Gil Barreto, Betty Rowland, James Farley
Votes: 845
58. The Fourth Dimension (2001)
87 min | Documentary
This is an elegant meditation on time, travel, and ceremony in the form of a journey. In her first foray into digital video, Trinh T. Minh-ha deconstructs the role of ritual in mediating between the past and the present.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha | Star: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 85
59. Dying at Grace (2003)
148 min | Documentary
Director Allan King documents the final months of five terminally ill cancer patients at the Toronto Grace Health Centre.
Director: Allan King | Stars: Phyllis Bobbitt, Joyce Bone, Norman Collins, Lloyd Greenway
Votes: 434
60. Golven (1982)
92 min | Drama
Director: Annette Apon | Stars: Aat Ceelen, Thea Korterink, Michel van Rooy, Truus te Selle
Votes: 40
61. Alice in Wonderland (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Wilfrid Brambell
Votes: 969
62. Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company (2005)
112 min | Documentary
Elderly residents of a Toronto nursing home cope with loss, loneliness and other heartbreaking challenges of growing old, as the home's staff work tirelessly to provide an environment of dignified, compassionate care.
Director: Allan King | Stars: Claire Mandell, Sherry Mandell, Jeff Glickman, Sonny Max Glickman
Votes: 185
64. Jonaki (2018)
90 min | Drama
While Jonaki, an 80-year-old woman, searches for love in a strange world of decaying memories, her lover, now old and grey, returns to a world she is leaving behind.
Director: Aditya Vikram Sengupta | Stars: Lolita Chatterjee, Sahana Basu, Ratnabali Bhattacharjee, Jonaki Bhattacharya
Votes: 298
জোনাকি / Jonaki (আদিত্য বিক্রম সেনগুপ্ত/Aditya Vikram Sengupta, 2018)
65. The Savage Eye (1959)
68 min | Drama
This drama takes the form of a story told using documentary material as an intrinsic part of the narrative. In this journey through the dark side of 1950s urban life, the camera follows ... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick | Stars: Barbara Baxley, Gary Merrill, Herschel Bernardi, Jean Hidey
Votes: 336
66. Pop Skull (2007)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Pop Skull depicts the lonely and disjointed life of Daniel, a young Alabama pill addict, as his efforts to cope with the trials of his day-to-day life collide with the increasing influence ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Lane Hughes, Brandon Carroll, Maggie Gwin, Hannah Hughes
Votes: 466
67. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989)
75 min | Documentary, War
Documentary examines the 'blind spot' of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944.
Director: Harun Farocki | Stars: Ulrike Grote, Harun Farocki
Votes: 322
68. Boogiepop Never Laughs: Boogiepop Phantom (2000)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Horror
A light in the sky, followed by a strange aura and grisly murders. Each character tells their own connection to the event and to a similar murder spree 5 years ago. All of the different ... See full summary »
Stars: Kaori Shimizu, Crispin Freeman, Rachael Lillis, Megan Hollingshead
Votes: 1,086
69. Tableau noir (2013)
117 min | Documentary, Drama
Tableau noir chronicles life at a one-room school in the Swiss mountains during an academic year, giving an endearing portrait of the twelve pupils aged six to twelve who share the same ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Yersin | Stars: Gilbert Hirschi, Debora Ferrari, Sophie Jacot, Dylan Jacot
Votes: 67
Tableau noir / Tableau Noir - Eine Zwergschule in den Bergen (Yves Yersin, 2013)
70. Uski Roti (1970)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A woman waits for her truck driver husband, everyday, with his daily bread. Her concern for their dying relationship and her sister grows fast as she starts to doubt his loyalty.
Director: Mani Kaul | Stars: Gurdeep Singh, Garima, Savita Bajaj, Lakhanpal
Votes: 571
71. The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)
104 min | Action, Drama
A warlords' retainer offers a farmer the chance to become a samurai, but he is instead forced to serve as a double of the warlord at expense of his freedom.
Director: Umetsugu Inoue | Stars: Raizô Ichikawa, Hizuru Takachiho, Masayo Banri, Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Votes: 263
第三の影武者 / The Third Shadow Warrior / Daisan no kagemusha / The Third Shadow (井上梅次/Umetsugu Inoue, 1963)
72. Rose-France (1919)
70 min | Drama
A French chauvinistic propaganda film made during the Great War.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Claude-France Aïssé, Jaque Catelain, Baron Byron Khun de Prorak, Byron Kuhn
Votes: 56
73. Atlas (I) (2013)
77 min | Documentary
The renowned Antoine d'Agata, again and always, uses his sublime camera and whole being to reveal a parallel world of prostitution and drugs, punctuated by exhausted bodies and lost souls in Cambodia, Russia and India.
Director: Antoine d'Agata | Star: Antoine d'Agata
Votes: 109
74. L'ange (1982)
64 min | Animation, Fantasy
A surreal, nightmarish collection of imagery.
Director: Patrick Bokanowski | Stars: Maurice Baquet, Jean-Marie Bon, Martine Couture, Jacques Faure
Votes: 629
75. Die Katze (1988)
118 min | Crime, Thriller
Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realise is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Götz George, Gudrun Landgrebe, Joachim Kemmer, Heinz Hoenig
Votes: 972
76. Une femme a passé (1929)
65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The film tells the story of Frau Concha, a femme fatale, or as the story points out, a "fille perdue", a lost girl who has no feelings or scruples, toying with men as she pleases.
Director: René Jayet | Stars: Suzanne Talba, Gilbert Périgneaux, Camille Bardou, Jean Gérard
Votes: 90
77. Passion (1990)
54 min | Documentary, Biography
PASSION is a film diary in which Reble accompanies his unborn child through the year, following the seasons until his birth. Reble's unfamiliar chemistry generates slowly pulsating ... See full summary »
Director: Jürgen Reble
Votes: 43
78. Siddeshwari (1990)
123 min | Documentary
An impressionistic biographical look at Siddheshwari Devi (19081977), the classical Indian singer whose voice was appreciated by the maharajas and public alike. She was from Varanasi, India... See full synopsis »
Director: Mani Kaul | Stars: Mita Vashisht, Muhar Biswas, Ranjana Srivastava, Shravani Mukherjee
Votes: 99
79. In the Land of the Deaf (1992)
Unrated | 99 min | Documentary
With unerring curiousity and sensitivity, director Philbert portrays the difficulties and joys of being deaf, offering vivid portraits of people of all ages coping with and surmounting their challenges.
Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Jean-Claude Poulain, Abou Bakar, Anh Tuan, Betty
Votes: 372
80. Vampire Journals (1997 Video)
R | 82 min | Fantasy, Horror
Avenging vampire stalks a king of the vampires in Eastern Europe, slaughters anyone who gets in his way.
Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Jonathon Morris, David Gunn, Kirsten Cerre, Starr Andreeff
Votes: 1,854
81. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
116 min | Drama
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Miou-Miou, Jacques Denis
Votes: 1,182
82. Manuel on the Island of Wonders (1984)
130 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Manuel's fantasy travel through Time goes from Long Ago (Episode 1 - O jardim proibido / Le Jardin interdit) through Now (Episode 2 - O pique-nique dos sonhos / Le Pique-nique des rêves), ... See full summary »
Stars: Ruben de Freitas, Teresa Madruga, Fernando Heitor, Marco Paulo de Freitas
Votes: 256
83. The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998)
Not Rated | 50 min | History
An enigmatic pseudo-documentary covering the stories of a woman who kills her baby in her microwave, the Native American genocide, and nuclear war.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer | Stars: Jennifer Lee Carrell, J. Eric Marler, Darren Chadwick-Hussein
Votes: 70
84. Profit & Nothing But! Or Impolite Thoughts on the Class Struggle (2001)
52 min | Documentary
Documentary about the effects of market economy and globalization on director Raoul Peck's homeland, Haiti.
Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Serge Latouche, Bernard Maris, Gérald Mathurin, René Passet
Votes: 78
85. The Revolution Is Only a Beginning: Let's Continue Fighting (1968)
22 min | Short
Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May '68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the film Partner by Bertolucci.
Director: Pierre Clémenti | Stars: Tina Aumont, Yves Beneyton, Balthazar Clémenti, Margareth Clémenti
Votes: 74
86. On the Bowery (1956)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary, Drama
By focusing on the lives of three down-and-out alcoholic transients, the film creates a wrenching portrait of the tragic hopelessness of life on "The Bowery" in New York City.
Director: Lionel Rogosin | Stars: Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews, George L. Bolton
Votes: 1,158 | Gross: $0.01M
87. Die letzten Tage von Gomorrha (1974 TV Movie)
105 min | Sci-Fi
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Mascha Rabben, Matthias Fuchs, Ernst Jacobi, Consuela Neal
Votes: 25
88. The Parallel Street (1962)
86 min | Drama
Feature-documentary "pointing up a thousand facets of this world and probing to determine what may lie beneath the surface".
Director: Ferdinand Khittl | Stars: Friedrich Joloff, Ernst Marbeck, Wilfried Schröpfer, Herbert Tiede
Votes: 226
89. Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1964)
17 min | Short, Drama
A young boy, descending in to schizophrenia, withdraws in to a silent world of snow.
Director: Gene R. Kearney | Stars: Simon Gerard, Frank Nixon, Chase Crosby, Mary Muenzen
Votes: 41
90. Crime Without Passion (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.
Directors: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Stars: Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 595
91. Mirrored Mind (2004)
61 min | Drama
Renowned cyber-punk director Gakuryû Ishii strays from his roots, entering the realm of the subconscious with Mirrored Mind, a composed, contemplative and also a very personal film. Guiding... See full summary »
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Miwako Ichikawa, Yuki Inomata, Kou Machida, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Votes: 365
鏡心 / Mirrored Mind (extended cut) (石井聰亙/Sōgo Ishii aka 石井岳龍/Gakuryû Ishii, 2005
93. Soak the Rich (1936)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
Conservative millionaire Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak-the-rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate. He keeps apprised of the situation by having Captain Pettijohn report ... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Stars: Walter Connolly, John Howard, Mary Taylor, Lionel Stander
Votes: 56
94. Mickey One (1965)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
After the mob tries to kill him for an unknown reason, a comedian steals the identity of a homeless man and goes on the run.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield, Franchot Tone
Votes: 1,875
95. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee, Gérard Zalcberg
Votes: 1,483
96. A Safe Place (1971)
GP | 94 min | Drama
A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.
Director: Henry Jaglom | Stars: Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Phil Proctor
Votes: 1,332
97. Poem (1972)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
As a faithful young houseboy fully devotes himself to his spiritual duty, his teacher plans turning over his grandfather's mountain property to realtors for profit.
Director: Akio Jissôji | Stars: Masako Araki, Kanjûrô Arashi, Yasumi Hara, Shin Kishida
Votes: 400
98. By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
In 1970, She was student activist, a waitress who keeps changing her job, now a film director. All lives loosely connected to each others.
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong | Stars: Visra Vichit-Vadakan, Arak Amornsupasiri, Achtara Suwan, Inthira Charoenpura
Votes: 625
ดาวคะนอง / By the Time It Gets Dark (anocha suwichakornpong, 2016)
99. Odchádza clovek (1968)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary on Bulgarian funeral rites.
Director: Martin Slivka
Votes: 62
100. Specter of the Rose (1946)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music
Ballet dancer Andre Sanine (Ivan Kirov) may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. Andre is charming, if a little peculiar. Haidi (Viola Essen), a ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Hecht | Stars: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen
Votes: 272
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