
The Ballad of Narayama
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 Johnnie 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 | 67min 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
La Dolce Vita
Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
8.0 | 1960 | Movie | 174min See more at IMDb TMDB
The Last Temptation of Christ
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation.
7.5 | 1988 | Movie | 164min 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
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

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
25th Hour
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.
7.6 | 2002 | Movie | 135min 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
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns.
7.7 | 1944 | Movie | 103min See more at IMDb TMDB