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In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die.
7.8 | 1958 | Movie | 98min See more at IMDb TMDB

The Battle of Algiers
Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957.
8.1 | 1966 | Movie | 121min See more at IMDb TMDB







The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
8.1 | 1998 | Movie | 117min See more at IMDb TMDB





































The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
7.7 | 1974 | Movie | 110min See more at IMDb TMDB






Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
8.0 | 1982 | Movie | 158min See more at IMDb TMDB





The General
During Americaโs Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'โwith Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcarโand he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
8.1 | 1926 | Movie | 78min See more at IMDb TMDB

Goldfinger
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
7.7 | 1964 | Movie | 110min See more at IMDb TMDB

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men โ a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit โ comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
8.8 | 1966 | Movie | 161min See more at IMDb TMDB










Hoop Dreams
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program.
8.3 | 1994 | Movie | 170min See more at IMDb TMDB

Howards End
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
7.4 | 1992 | Movie | 142min See more at IMDb TMDB




















Late Spring
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life.
8.2 | 1949 | Movie | 108min See more at IMDb TMDB


Le Samouraรฏ
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.
8.0 | 1967 | Movie | 105min See more at IMDb TMDB






Lost in Translation
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
7.7 | 2003 | Movie | 102min See more at IMDb TMDB


























Mystery Train
In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
7.5 | 1989 | Movie | 110min See more at IMDb TMDB

























The Producers
Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back โ and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
7.5 | 1967 | Movie | 88min See more at IMDb TMDB


Raiders of the Lost Ark
When Dr. Indiana Jones โ the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist โ is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
8.4 | 1981 | Movie | 115min See more at IMDb TMDB



































The Spirit of the Beehive
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
7.8 | 1973 | Movie | 98min See more at IMDb TMDB








Sweet Smell of Success
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas.
8.0 | 1957 | Movie | 96min See more at IMDb TMDB













Umberto D.
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street.
8.2 | 1952 | Movie | 89min See more at IMDb TMDB














The Wizard of Oz
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives.
8.1 | 1939 | Movie | 102min See more at IMDb TMDB



















