PdA's Anti-Canon, 2016 Edition
by Perception_de_Ambiguity | created - 12 Sep 2016 | updated - 27 Sep 2016 | PublicThis is a Top 300 list of my favorite films that are relatively little seen (based on IMDb's number of votes).
The limit for feature length films is 1,300 votes, for documentary features it is 1,000 votes, and for short films it is 200 votes. 2015 and 2016 releases are also excluded.
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1. 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
2. Asphalt (1929)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to ... See full summary »
Director: Joe May | Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann
Votes: 1,687
3. 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
4. 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: 445
5. The Terrorizers (1986)
109 min | Crime, Drama
A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Cora Miao, Li-Chun Lee, Shih-Chieh King, Pao-Ming Ku
Votes: 5,500
6. 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
7. 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: 617
8. Brutal Ardour (1978)
29 min | Short
Director: Manuel Huerga | Stars: Eulàlia Bes, Jorge de Juan, Bárbara de Lema, Bárbara de Lemus
Votes: 34
9. 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
10. 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: 596
11. 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: 292
12. 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
13. Lucia (1968)
160 min | Drama
Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930s, and the 1960s.
Director: Humberto Solás | Stars: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Moure
Votes: 1,180
14. 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
15. 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: 162
16. 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
17. Sombre (1998)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Horror
A sexually frustrated serial killer takes a liking to a woman he comes across.
Director: Philippe Grandrieux | Stars: Marc Barbé, Elina Löwensohn, Géraldine Voillat, Coralie Trinh Thi
Votes: 1,885
18. 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
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. 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: 370
21. The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
94 min | Drama
A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Kazuo Goto, Sukio Fukuoka, Kenichi Fukuda, Hiroshi Isogai
Votes: 801
22. 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: 971
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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
26. Third Reich: The Rise & Fall (2010)
180 min | Documentary, History, War
THIRD REICH: THE RISE & FALL tells the story of Hitler's Germany through rarely seen films of the people who were there. Immersive and evocative, it takes viewers inside the Germany of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Tony Call, Dan Bittner, Geoffrey Cantor, Eliza Foss
Votes: 1,193
27. 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
28. JFK: 3 Shots That Changed America (2009 TV Movie)
240 min | Documentary, History
On November 22, 1963, three shots that killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy changes everything
Directors: Nicole Rittenmeyer, Seth Skundrick | Stars: John F. Kennedy, Jose Aleman, Joseph Alsop, James Barger
Votes: 246
29. Wings (1966)
85 min | Drama
A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the ... See full summary »
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Mayya Bulgakova, Sergey Nikonenko, Zhanna Bolotova, Panteleymon Krymov
Votes: 2,237
30. 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: 492
31. 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
32. 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: 1,159 | Gross: $0.01M
33. The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
R | 82 min | Horror
Newlywed Susan is haunted by visions of Mircalla Karnstein, a centuries-old bride who murdered her husband on their wedding night.
Director: Vicente Aranda | Stars: Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín, Alexandra Bastedo, Dean Selmier
Votes: 2,370
34. München - Geheimnisse einer Stadt (2000)
120 min | Documentary
Directors: Michael Althen, Dominik Graf | Stars: Artur Althen, Teresa Althen, Simon Baum, Jojo Beck
Votes: 122
35. The Possessed (1965)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
While visiting his favorite resort town during the off-season, a novelist investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
Directors: Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini | Stars: Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone, Valentina Cortese, Pia Lindström
Votes: 1,430
36. 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
37. The Faithful Heart (1923)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Léon Mathot, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële, Claude Benedict
Votes: 1,456
38. Models (1999)
118 min | Drama
Four models share their life experience.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Viviane Bartsch, Tanja Petrovsky, Lisa Grossmann, Elvyra Geyer
Votes: 1,183
39. Escape from Dartmoor (1930)
88 min | Crime, Drama
A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring, Anthony Asquith
Votes: 1,234
40. Cut-Throats Nine (1972)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
Bandits attack a wagonload of convicts, and only a sergeant, his daughter, and seven sadistic prisoners survive. The sergeant must get his prisoners to their destination while a web of lies, greed, and betrayal unfolds.
Director: Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent | Stars: Robert Hundar, Emma Cohen, Alberto Dalbés, Antonio Iranzo
Votes: 1,386
41. Happy End (1967)
73 min | Comedy, Crime
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Vladimír Mensík, Jaroslava Obermaierová, Josef Abrhám, Bohus Záhorský
Votes: 1,410
42. Chambre jaune (2002)
8 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Sandrine Laroche, Jean-Michel Vovk
Votes: 253
43. 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
44. Natsuyuki Rendezvous (2012)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Hazuki is secretly in love with his florist boss, but his chances of a successful romance seem slim when he not only has to overcome shyness, but also the possessive ghost of her dead husband.
Stars: Yûichi Nakamura, Sayaka Ôhara, Jun Fukuyama, Yumi Tôma
Votes: 200
45.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
Mars and Beyond
(1957)
Unrated | 53 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
With help of technical advisers Dr. Wernher von Braun, Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, and Dr. E. C. Slipher. Walt presents a humorous look at what man might find on Mars, with predictions for exploration of the planet with an atomic spaceship.
Director: Ward Kimball | Stars: Paul Frees, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, E.C. Slipher
Votes: 280
46. Big Celebrity Fame Zeppelin (2009)
2 min | Animation, Short
A spoof of the many celebrity and reality contest TV shows.
Director: David Firth | Stars: David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Olivia Colman, David Firth
Votes: 40
47. Ett drömspel (1963 TV Movie)
113 min | Drama, Fantasy
The god Indra's daughter descends to earth to experience firsthand people's living conditions. Bergman's first staging of Strindberg's play "Ett drömspel" ( Dream Play).
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Uno Henning, Allan Edwall, Olof Widgren
Votes: 274
48. 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: 1,336
49. 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
50. Mysteries of Lisbon (2011–2020)
Not Rated | 317 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
Stars: Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, João Arrais
Votes: 3,608 | Gross: $0.11M
51. Quick Billy (1971)
Not Rated | 56 min | Drama
A montage of images of film making is followed by a silent western story.
Director: Bruce Baillie
Votes: 172
52. Reign of Terror (1949)
Approved | 89 min | History, Romance, Thriller
Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart, Arlene Dahl
Votes: 2,120
53. Back and Forth (1969)
52 min | Documentary
A camera in a classroom continuously sways back and forth at various speeds as people occasionally move around the setting.
Director: Michael Snow | Stars: Allan Kaprow, Emmett Williams, Max Neuhaus, Joyce Wieland
Votes: 265
54. A New Life (2002)
102 min | Drama, Horror
The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.
Director: Philippe Grandrieux | Stars: Zachary Knighton, Anna Mouglalis, Marc Barbé, Zsolt Nagy
Votes: 1,137
55. Rockaby (2000 TV Short)
14 min | Short
An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she calls for more.
Director: Richard Eyre | Star: Penelope Wilton
Votes: 88
56. The Iron Rose (1973)
TV-MA | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Françoise Pascal, Hugues Quester, Natalie Perrey, Mireille Dargent
Votes: 2,296
57. De fördömda kvinnornas dans (1976)
24 min | Short
The film shows four women moving in a crowded, closed room to the music of Monteverdi. They represent women living by passing on a role that is passed down to them for generations. Two of ... See full summary »
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Nina Harte, Helene Friberg, Lena Wennergren, Lisbeth Zachrisson
Votes: 164
58. No Mercy, No Future (1981)
110 min | Drama
Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Elisabeth Stepanek, Nguyen Chi Danh, Karl Heinz Reimann, Jorge Reis
Votes: 138
59. Lovers and Lollipops (1956)
82 min | Romance, Drama
Ann, an attractive widowed New York model, lives in an apartment with her daughter Peggy. The courtship of Ann by visiting engineer Larry, and accompanying misadventures, are seen ... See full summary »
Directors: Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin | Stars: Lori March, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn, Bill Ward
Votes: 394
60. Warrendale (1967)
100 min | Documentary
Chronicles 7-weeks in the lives of 12 emotionally disturbed children and their therapist's experimental method of treatment at the Toronto-area Warrendale facility.
Director: Allan King | Star: Martin Fischer
Votes: 598
61. Crows (1994)
66 min | Drama
A thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining... See full summary »
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Karolina Ostrozna, Katarzyna Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska, Anna Prucnal
Votes: 699
62. Diably, diably (1991)
86 min | Drama
A film set in a small Polish village in the '60s that deals with a young girl's awakening sexuality. Mala, about 13, lives with her unmarried mother and has a boyfriend of her own age. The ... See full summary »
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Danuta Szaflarska, Monika Niemczyk, Jerzy Lapinski, Krzysztof Plewka
Votes: 125
63. The Touch (1971)
R | 115 min | Drama
A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Sheila Reid
Votes: 2,211
64. A Married Couple (1969)
97 min | Documentary
An "actuality drama" about a real-life marriage in crisis, in which the couple attempts to identify and resolve the conflicts and resentments that have driven them to the brink of separation.
Director: Allan King | Stars: Billy Edwards, Antoinette Edwards, Bogart Edwards, Merton
Votes: 643
65. Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931)
93 min | Drama
Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father.
Directors: Erich Engel, Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Anna Sten, Fritz Rasp, Bernhard Minetti
Votes: 230
66. Migrating Forms (1999)
80 min | Drama
A man and woman embark on a sexual journey to detach mind from body. The relationship slowly grows into one of emotional domination, physical disease, abandonment and the creation of personal pornography.
Director: James Fotopoulos | Stars: Preston Baty, Rebecca Lewis, Kiele Sanchez, Edward Flynn
Votes: 102
67. The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys (1996 Video)
88 min | Documentary
A documentary following Terry Gilliam through the creation of "12 Monkeys" (1995)
Directors: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe | Stars: Keith Fulton, Terry Gilliam, Charles Roven, Lloyd Phillips
Votes: 1,088
68. Traumnovelle (1969 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Dr. Fridolin's thoughts and psychological transformations over a two-day period after his wife confesses that she's had sexual fantasies involving another man. In this short time, he meets ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Glück | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Erika Pluhar, Helga Papouschek, Gertrud Kückelmann
Votes: 134
69. A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation (2010)
PG | 15 min | Animation, Short, Drama
When his father dies unexpectedly, a young man seeking to cope with his grief goes on a powerful emotional journey through time and space.
Directors: Stefan Leuchtenberg, Martin Wallner | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Ian McKellen
Votes: 145
70. Daïnah la métisse (1932)
51 min | Drama
Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer on board who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation... See full summary »
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Charles Vanel, Habib Benglia, Gaston Dubosc, Lucien Guérard
Votes: 275
71. 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: 1,089
72. 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
73. Le bonheur (1934)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Injured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Charles Boyer, Paulette Dubost, Jean Toulout
Votes: 260
74. The Doll (1919)
Not Rated | 66 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig, Victor Janson, Max Kronert
Votes: 2,360
75. The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera (1996)
55 min | Documentary, Biography
In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Simon | Stars: Samuel Fuller, Tim Robbins, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese
Votes: 401
76. Landläufiger Tod (1990 TV Movie)
170 min | Drama
Director: Michael Schottenberg | Stars: Hans Brenner, Mercedes Echerer, Helmut Griem, Karl Ferdinand Kratzl
Votes: 10
77. Demons (1971)
134 min | Drama, Horror
After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto | Stars: Katsuo Nakamura, Jûrô Kara, Yasuko Sanjo, Masao Imafuku
Votes: 2,860
78. The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
G | 90 min | Documentary, Drama
A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
Directors: Walon Green, Ed Spiegel | Stars: Lawrence Pressman, Conlan Carter, Ian McShane, Suzanne Pleshette
Votes: 961 | Gross: $0.04M
79. WataMote: No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (2013)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Kuroki Tomoko is a super popular female schoolgirl, with 50 years experience in dating and more than 100 boys - but just in the dating video games. In real life is a closed and shy person ... See full summary »
Stars: Izumi Kitta, Ayaka Asai, Monica Rial, Yûko Kurose
Votes: 2,438
80. 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: 1,336
81. Lodz Ghetto (1988)
103 min | Documentary
The Polish city of Lodz was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entire duration of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the subsequent horrors of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna | Stars: Jerzy Kosinski, Theodore Bikel, Julie Cohen, Lynn Cohen
Votes: 63
82. Yoiyami semareba (1969)
43 min | Short, Drama
When faced with an accidental gas leak, four bored students turn the situation into a game. The last one to leave the apartment gets a small sum of money.
Director: Akio Jissôji | Stars: Ben Hiura, Yumiko Mitome, Ren Saitô, Kôji Shimizu
Votes: 95
83. Ming Green (1966)
7 min | Short
An experimental short from Gregory J. Markopoulos which acquires it's title from the color of the walls of the apartment where it is filmed.
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos
Votes: 159
84. Windy Ledge Farm (1932)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Simple title cards link ten home movies shot at Maine's Windy Ledge Farm, at a neighbor's place, and visiting the Brownes in Chocorua, New Hampshire. We watch an uncle mow, farm hands ... See full summary »
Director: Elizabeth Woodman Wright
Votes: 54
85. Letter from a Filmmaker to His Daughter (2002)
50 min | Documentary
A playful, free and personal film in the form of a letter, a film interwoven with a thousand stories knit together with different textures, a book of images where a filmmaker shows the images and the stories he wants to share.
Director: Eric Pauwels
Votes: 138
86. Un lac (2008)
90 min | Drama
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Grandrieux | Stars: Dmitriy Kubasov, Natálie Rehorová, Aleksey Solonchev, Simona Huelsemann
Votes: 819
87. The Twelve Jurors (1963 TV Movie)
110 min | Crime, Drama
Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision.
Director: Günter Gräwert | Stars: Heini Göbel, Herbert Bötticher, Siegfried Lowitz, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 287
88. Au pan coupé (1967)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A young girl remembers her impossible love for a melancholic boy.
Director: Guy Gilles | Stars: Macha Méril, Patrick Jouané, Bernard Verley, Frédéric Ditis
Votes: 403
89. Deanimated (2002)
60 min | Comedy, Horror
The avant-garde filmmaker Martin Arnold subjects a legendary American horror movie of 1941 to radical cinematographic surgery.
Director: Martin Arnold
Votes: 39
90. Two for the Seesaw (1962)
Approved | 119 min | Drama, Romance
Robert Wise directs Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine in this spicy and poignant love story about a free-spirited Greenwich Village girl who hooks up with a brooding Nebraska lawyer. In HD.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan, Elisabeth Fraser
Votes: 2,055 | Gross: $3.82M
91. Forever Never Anywhere (2007)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
Never at the sea.
Director: Antonin Svoboda | Stars: Christoph Grissemann, Dirk Stermann, Heinz Strunk, Philip Bialkowski
Votes: 1,150
92. Fear of Fear (1975 TV Movie)
91 min | Drama
Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not ... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann
Votes: 1,997
93. The Lost Moment (1947)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet to find his lost love letters.
Director: Martin Gabel | Stars: Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring
Votes: 1,332
94. The Assassination of Ryoma (1974)
118 min | Action, Drama, History
The last three days in the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the warring Choshu and Satsuma clans in order to overthrow the Shogunate.
Director: Kazuo Kuroki | Stars: Yoshio Harada, Renji Ishibashi, Rie Nakagawa, Yûsaku Matsuda
Votes: 188
96. La mort d'un tueur (1964)
80 min | Drama
After five years in prison for robbery, a gangster comes home to find out who betrayed him to the police.Was it his best friend, who has hooked up with the sister for whom the former prisoner has an unnatural, incestuous love?
Director: Robert Hossein | Stars: Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Simón Andreu, Jean Lefebvre
Votes: 172
97. 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
98. Golven (1982)
92 min | Drama
Director: Annette Apon | Stars: Aat Ceelen, Thea Korterink, Michel van Rooy, Truus te Selle
Votes: 41
99. 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: 1,183
100. Set Me Free (1999)
94 min | Drama, Romance
In the year 1963, an awkward thirteen-year-old girl comes of age during her escapism into the world of cinema, with potentially dangerous results.
Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Alexandre Mérineau
Votes: 1,074 | Gross: $0.07M
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