1. Betty Blue, 1986
Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
Directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
3. Anaïs in Love, 2021
Directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Anaïs is thirty and broke. She has a lover, but she’s not sure she loves him anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her. But Daniel lives with Émilie – whom Anaïs also falls for. This is the story of a restless young woman. And the story of a profound desire.
Directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Anaïs is thirty and broke. She has a lover, but she’s not sure she loves him anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her. But Daniel lives with Émilie – whom Anaïs also falls for. This is the story of a restless young woman. And the story of a profound desire.
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, to a fishing village in the South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday.
5. Shoplifters, 2018
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda.
In Tokyo, a family lives together in poverty: Hatsue, an elderly woman who owns the home and supports them with her deceased husband's pension; Nobuyo, who works for an industrial laundry service; her husband Osamu, a day laborer forced to leave his job after twisting his ankle; Aki, who works at a JK peep shop; and Shota, a young boy.
6. Poetry, 2010
Directed by Lee Chang-dong
A sexagenarian South Korean woman enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson’s appalling wrongdoing.
7. Caramel, 2007
Directed by Nadine Labaki
In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.
Directed by Nadine Labaki
In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.
Directed by Faouzi Bensaïdi
1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family
facing its destiny.
9. The Dreamers 2003
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Together nothing is impossible. Together nothing is forbidden. When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a
middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
11. A Brighter Summer Day, 1991
Directed by Edward Yang
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Directed by Edward Yang
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
12. 9 Songs, 2004
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in
a vast music hall - London’s Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night’s end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
13. Tokyo Story, 1953
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don’t have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
14. Voices Through Time, 1996
Directed by Franco Piavoli
The passing of the seasons in the Mantua town of Castellaro follows the seasons of the life of its inhabitants. Thus, alongside the games of childhood, the first disappointments, the dances in the farmyard, the thwarted loves, the happy weddings and the nostalgia for the youth that fades away, life is always the same with television as its only companion.
15. Eureka, 1983
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife, a headstrong daughter, and Miami mobsters who want to build a casino.
Directed by Nicolas Roeg
After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife, a headstrong daughter, and Miami mobsters who want to build a casino.
Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itinerant grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up.
17. The Scent of Green Papaya, 1993
Directed by Trần Anh Hùng
In 1951, a young Vietnamese girl arrives at a Saigon household as their new servant.
Directed by Trần Anh Hùng
In 1951, a young Vietnamese girl arrives at a Saigon household as their new servant.
18. The August Virgin, 2019
Directed by Jonás Trueba
Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith.
She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover that she still has time, that an opportunity can still be given.
Directed by Jonás Trueba
Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith.
She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover that she still has time, that an opportunity can still be given.
19. A World Without Women, 2011
Directed by Guillaume Brac
A little sea resort on the Picardie coast, the last week of august. When handing over the keys to a rented apartment, Sylvain makes the acquaintance of two beautiful women. This is a fabulous occasion for him to escape his routine, single life in which women are a rarity, even if only for a few days. Quickly Sylvain’s new friends can’t do without him. Unfortunately, things get complicated when feelings and flirty Gilles, the local lady’s man, get mixed up in it all.
Directed by Fatih Akin
Can Daniel follow the sun from Hamburg to the Bosporus by Friday to meet his love?
21. Sound of the Sea, 2001.
Directed by Juan José Bigas Luna
It revolves around Ulises (Jordi Mollà), who comes to a fishing village to teach literature at a local high school. During his stay he falls in love with Martina (Leonor Watling), the daughter of his landlord. Sierra (Eduard Fernández), a rich businessman, also falls in love with her and fruitlessly tries to win her heart.
Directed by Juan José Bigas Luna
It revolves around Ulises (Jordi Mollà), who comes to a fishing village to teach literature at a local high school. During his stay he falls in love with Martina (Leonor Watling), the daughter of his landlord. Sierra (Eduard Fernández), a rich businessman, also falls in love with her and fruitlessly tries to win her heart.
Directed by Joachim Lafosse
Leila and Damien struggle with his bipolar disorder.
23. Maria, 2024
Directed by Dennis Lee
Set in the present day, the film revolves around a three-generation family using numerous flashbacks to childhood, with focus on the relationship between domineering Charles and his son Michael and sister-in-law Jane. A car accident on the way to a family reunion and the ensuing funeral set the scene for Michael to discover more about the inner lives and affairs of his family and a route to reconciliation.
Directed by Pablo Larraín
Maria Callas is one of the most iconic performers of the 20th century. The film follows the Greek-American soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye, reimagining the legendary diva in her final days as she reckons with her identity and life.
24. Fireflies in the Garden, 2008
Directed by Dennis Lee
Set in the present day, the film revolves around a three-generation family using numerous flashbacks to childhood, with focus on the relationship between domineering Charles and his son Michael and sister-in-law Jane. A car accident on the way to a family reunion and the ensuing funeral set the scene for Michael to discover more about the inner lives and affairs of his family and a route to reconciliation.
Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid
26. Inside Llewyn Davis, 2013
Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
27. Age of Consent, 1969
Directed by Michael Powell
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
Directed by Michael Powell
An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
Directed by Christian Petzold
Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea
to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.
29. Io Capitano, 2023
Directed by Matteo Garrone
Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies a labyrinth of checkpoints, the Sahara Desert, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean.
30. Love at Sea, 1965
Directed by Guy Gilles
During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a
distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers…
Directed by Guy Gilles
During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a
distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers…
31. Monday, 2020
Directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos
Directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos
Love is no small thing. A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?
32. Palo Alto, 2013
Directed by Gia Coppola
In every city some seek love, some look for trouble, others look for both. A lack of
parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.
33. Uraniya, 2006.
A group of young boys must decide whether to buy a TV set to watch the launch of Apollo 11 or visit Uranya to learn about the secrets of love.
34. Casa Grande, 2014
Directed by Fellipe Barbosa
Directed by Fellipe Barbosa
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes to the world beyond his ‘casa grande’ - not least that of the feisty, mixed-race firecracker Luiza. Cultures, classes and generations collide in this engrossing coming-of-age drama from Brazil.
35. Rust and Bone, 2012
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Directed by Jacques Audiard
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
36. Four Nights of a Dreamer, 1971
Directed by Robert Bresson
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris
with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
37. Chungking Express 1994
Directed by Wong Kar-wai
38. The Green Ray, 1986
Directed by Éric Rohmer
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long
summer vacation.
What a difference a day makes. Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Directed by Éric Rohmer
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long
summer vacation.
39. Oh the Days! 1978
Directed by Ahmed ElMaânouni
40. Room in Rome, 2010
Directed by Julio Medem
A night of passion that will change their lives. A hotel room in the center of Rome serves
as the setting for Alba and Natasha, two sexy and recently acquainted women, to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.
The young farmer Abdelwahad has been the head of the family since his father’s death. Struggling to feed his seven brothers, and discouraged by the lack of prospects, he becomes attracted by the offer of a relative to go and work in France.
Directed by Julio Medem
A night of passion that will change their lives. A hotel room in the center of Rome serves
as the setting for Alba and Natasha, two sexy and recently acquainted women, to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.
41. Stars at Noon, 2022
Directed by Claire Denis
A sumptuous tale of romance and espionage. In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.
Directed by Claire Denis
A sumptuous tale of romance and espionage. In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.
Directed by François Ozon
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France
meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Director Paula van der Oest
In Apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten) struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home.
44. Au hasard Balthazar, 1966
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45. The Four Feathers, 2002
46. Beau Travail, 1999
Directed by Claire Denis
Maybe freedom begins with remorse. Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup’s mind.
47. Atonement, 2007
Director Joe Wright
Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of
several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Director Branko Ivanda
The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live
between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.
49. Goodbye First Love, 2011
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
50. Pauline at the Beach, 1983
Directed by Éric Rohmer
Romance, wit, seduction and the foolishness of love. Marion is about to divorce from her husband and
takes her 15-year-old niece, Pauline, on a vacation to Granville. There, she meets an old love…
51. Fallen Angels, 1995
Directed by Wong Kar-wai
The night’s full of weirdos.
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
Directed by Wong Kar-wai
The night’s full of weirdos.
An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
52. Millennium Mambo, 2001
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
The moment that I am loved will become everything to me. Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
53. Coming Through the Rye, 2015
In 1969, the Holden Caulfield-obsessed Jamie Schwartz runs away from boarding school to find the reclusive author J.D. Salinger. Inspired by actual events, Jamie's search is a journey into the meaning of friendship, love and loss.
54. Rebel in the Rye, 2017
The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame
with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".
55. Malcolm & Marie, 2021
Directed by Sam Levinson
Madly in love. As a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning.
56. The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999
Directed by Anthony Minghella
How far would you go to become someone else. Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Directed by Anthony Minghella
How far would you go to become someone else. Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it’s better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
57. In the Mood for Love, 2000
Directed by Wong Kar-wai
Feel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode. In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouses are having an affair. As they spend time together, they develop feelings for each other, but their relationship remains chaste and unspoken, reflecting societal constraints and their own moral compass.
Directed by Wong Kar-wai
Feel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode. In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouses are having an affair. As they spend time together, they develop feelings for each other, but their relationship remains chaste and unspoken, reflecting societal constraints and their own moral compass.
58. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, 2006
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.
59. Kazantzakis, 2017
Biographical film of the life of the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis.
60. Arizona Dream, 1993
Director Emir Kusturica
A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.
Director Abbas Kiarostami
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
62. Wait Until Spring, Bandini, 1989
63. The Cranes Are Flying, 1957
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64. Amarcord, 1973
Director Federico Fellini
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65. Incendies, 2010.
66. Faust, 2011
Director Aleksandr Sokurov
A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.
67. Haloa, praznik kurvi, 1988.
Director Lordan Zafranovic
A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic attraction to each other. After some time, a tension develops between the young man, Meyra and Manfred.
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68. Happy End, 2017.
A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.
69. Sólo Dios sabe, 2006
70. Eternity and a Day, 1998
Famous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him
to take the boy home.
to take the boy home.
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71. Little England, 2013
72. Hiroshima mon amour, 1959
73. Baaria, 2009.
Director Giuseppe Tornatore
Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
74. Antichrist, 2009
Director Lars von Trier
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
75. Onirica, 2014
A promising professor of literature who survives a horrible car accident finds peace in sleep, where he can live a parallel life immersed in a dream-like dimension populated by strange visions and Dantean allegorical imagery.
76. tick, tick… BOOM! 2021
Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
The world will never be the same once you’ve seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump. A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
Director Mick Davis
How much time do we have to do something great? On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create
something great before time runs out.
something great before time runs out.
77. Forrest Gump, 1994
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
The world will never be the same once you’ve seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump. A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
78. Modigliani, 2004.
The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.
79. Séraphine, 2008
Directed by Martin Provost
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of the Great Depression and World War II.
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A trip to the pastoral countryside reveals a dark, sinister reality for a family from the city.
Directed by Martin Provost
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of the Great Depression and World War II.
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80. The Banishment, 2007
Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
81. The Mill and the Cross, 2011
Directed by Lech Majewski
What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland’s most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill and the Cross is a cinematic re-staging of Pieter Bruegel’s masterpiece “Procession to Calvary,” presented alongside the story of its creation.
82. Man with a Movie Camera, 1929
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
83. Theorem 1968
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
There are only 923 words spoken in “Teorema” – but it says everything! A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
Directed by Béla Tarr
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town’s source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a
villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
85. Mirror, 1975
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
86. From What Is Before, 2014
Directed by Lav Diaz
What was lost—and what was killed…The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.
Directed by Lav Diaz
What was lost—and what was killed…The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation No. 1081 putting the entire country under Martial Law.
87. Goltzius & the Pelican Company, 2012
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.
Directed by Laura Poitras
The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.
89. Venom and Eternity, 1951
Directed by Isidore Isou
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
Directed by Isidore Isou
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
Directed by Yuko Nakamura
Director Nakamura is mesmerized by a piece at the Teshima Art Museum called “Matrix,” a major work about the mysteries of existence by the artist Naito, and she goes
to cover her work. However, Naito calls off the shoot in the middle, saying that her creations are getting lost because of the filming. There, the film turns a new corner to depict the women who gather at the “Matrix."…
91. Vizantijsko plavo, 1993
92. 4 metà, 2022
In this rom-com challenging the concept of soulmates, parallel storylines portray four
single friends as they pair up in different couple combinations.
93. Mediterraneo (1991)
Director Gabriele Salvatores
94. Blow-up, 1966.
A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
95. Cinema Paradiso, 1988
Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
96. A man and a woman, 1966
A widow and a widower find their relationship developing into love, but their past tragedies prove hard to overcome, causing them to proceed with utmost delicacy.
97. Before the Rain, 1994.
Directed by Milcho Manchevski
Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.
When the professor and writer Lola Sánchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the Spanish Civil War, she researches and finds for the first time about the shooting of Rafael Sánchez Mazas. Lola has lost her passion for writing, and she becomes intrigued about Rafael, who was a writer and journalist that returned to Spain from the Italy of Mussolini and founded the fascist party Spanish Falange, becoming advisor of the leader Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera.
99. El Sur, 1983
Directed by Víctor Erice
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Never before had a man and a woman loved each other so intensely. A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and
ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
101. A Moment of Innocence, 1996
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf’s experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A semi-autobiographical account of Makhmalbaf’s experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.
Directed by György Fehér
In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession enshrouded by irresolution and despair, even long after he has been taken off the case. What emerges is not a crime story, but a harrowing venture through the darkness of the human soul.
103. Una, 1984
Director Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic
Directed by František Vláčil
Putting the ‘dark’ back in the Dark Ages. Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar’s daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
105. La Terra Trema, 1948
Directed by Luchino Visconti
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Directed by Luchino Visconti
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Directed by Louis Malle
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
107. Nostos: The Return, 1989
Directed by Franco Piavoli
At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles and he takes an internal journey of fleeting memories of his childhood, his parents, love for a beautiful girl, nostalgia for the past, regret for what he did, and the deep silence that envelops everything.
At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles and he takes an internal journey of fleeting memories of his childhood, his parents, love for a beautiful girl, nostalgia for the past, regret for what he did, and the deep silence that envelops everything.
108. Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life, 1995
Directed by Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school’s operation.
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109. Vreme čuda, 1989.
In September 1945, a fire burns down the school and the new Communist authorities get into the church, hang the flag of the Communist Party, and paint over frescoes--which miraculously restore themselves.
A young boy transforms his cloistered existence into a richly poetic emotional utopia through song and dance.
111. The VVitch: A New-England Folktale, 2015
An isolated Puritan family in 1630s New England comes unraveled by the forces of witchcraft and possession.
Directed by Philippe Grandrieux
The action unfolds in a country about which we know nothing, a land of snow and forests, somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, a young, pure-hearted man, is a woodcutter. Occasionally suffering from epileptic seizures
and overcome by an ecstatic state, he is one with the nature around him. Alexi is very close to his younger sister, Hege.
113. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970
Directed by Jaromil Jireš
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
114. The Fall, 2006
Directed by Tarsem Singh
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
Directed by Tarsem Singh
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
115. Lepota poroka, 1986
Director Zivko Nikolic
A conservative couple decides to leave their rural community and the wife reluctantly takes a job at a naturist resort. Soon their conservative lifestyle starts colliding with the unconventional one.
116. Humanité, 1999
Directed by Bruno Dumont
In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.
Directed by Bruno Dumont
In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.
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117. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, 1999
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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118. The Monk and the Demon, 2016
Director Nikolay Dostal
A new brother settles in the friary. But dark forces follow him into the monastery and from time to time they materialize as Legion. Legion has chosen Ivan as the object of his devilish work, tempting him in every possible way in an attempt to make him abandon the chosen path of God.
119. Henry & June, 1990
Anaïs Nin meets American writer Henry Miller in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening, which includes Henry and his wife June.
120. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
121. Yumeji, 1991
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
122. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
123. Cracks, 2009.
A look at the lives and relationships among girls at an elite boarding school.
124. Ask the Dust, 2006
Mexican beauty Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek) hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
125. Quills, 2000
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his. A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum’s resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Meet the Marquis de Sade. The pleasure is all his. A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum’s resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
126. Live Flesh, 1997
Director Pedro Almodóvar
127. Finding Forrester, 2000
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.
128. The Double Life of Véronique, 1991
129. Winter Sleep, 2014
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.
130. Days of Heaven, 1978
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
131. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1998
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.
132. The Lover, 1992
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
133. The Island, 2006
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
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Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce,
forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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135. The Return, 2003
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
136. Fitzcarraldo, 1982
Director Werner Herzog
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
137. Goya’s Ghosts, 2006
Directed by Miloš Forman
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
Directed by Miloš Forman
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
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138. The Horseman on the Roof, 1995
Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau
140. The Vanishing Point, 2007
Directed by Laurent de Bartillat
Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau and is certain that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be found in a few of his paintings. The further she explores this the more Professor Jean Dussart - for unclear reasons - tries to discourage her.
Directed by Laurent de Bartillat
Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau and is certain that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be found in a few of his paintings. The further she explores this the more Professor Jean Dussart - for unclear reasons - tries to discourage her.
141. The Color of Pomegranates, 1969
Directed by Sergei Parajanov
Directed by Sergei Parajanov
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova’s dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
142. Kuduz, 1989
Ex-con finds joy with new wife and stepdaughter until discovering her affair. Consumed by jealousy, he murders the lovers and flees to the mountains, evading capture for years.
Director Ademir Kenovic
Ex-con finds joy with new wife and stepdaughter until discovering her affair. Consumed by jealousy, he murders the lovers and flees to the mountains, evading capture for years.
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143. Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968
protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
144. A Summer's Tale, 1996
Director Éric Rohmer
145. The Fugitive Kind, 1960
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
146. Malèna, 2000
As Italy enters WWII, a teenage boy in a small, narrow-minded Sicilian town becomes obsessed with a young woman.
Directed by Federico Fellini
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
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148. The Salt of the Earth, 2014
Directors Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
149. Sin, 2019
Director Andrei Konchalovsky
The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
150. A Very Long Engagement, 2004
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151. And While We Were Here, 2012
152. Jovana Lukina, 1979
Jovana, a beautiful woman, resides with her husband in a mountainous and rocky region. A road adjacent to your home is traveled by travelers with diverse destinations.
153. Barry Lyndon, 1975
Director Stanley Kubrick
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
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154. Satyricon, 1969
Director Federico Fellini
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.
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155. A Woman Under the Influence, 1974
Director John Cassavetes
Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.
156. The Apu Trilogy, 1955, 1956, 1959.
Directed by Satyajit Ray
The Apu Trilogy is a celebrated series of three Indian Bengali-language drama films directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and The World of Apu (1959).
157. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, 1987
158. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, 1972
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
159. The Barber of Siberia, 1998
Director Nikita Mikhalkov
At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives.
160. Seeking fiancé all expenses paid, 2007.
Director Aline Issermann
Alexandra is getting ready to spend the summer with her family, but learns that her ex and his lovely "fiance" have also been invited. She soon meets an actor and hires him on the spot to play the role of her fiance.
Director Aline Issermann
Alexandra is getting ready to spend the summer with her family, but learns that her ex and his lovely "fiance" have also been invited. She soon meets an actor and hires him on the spot to play the role of her fiance.
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
The Three Colours trilogy is the collective title of three psychological drama films directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski: Three Colours: Blue (1993), Three Colours: White (1994), and Three Colours: Red (1994), represented by the Flag of France.
The Three Colours trilogy is the collective title of three psychological drama films directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski: Three Colours: Blue (1993), Three Colours: White (1994), and Three Colours: Red (1994), represented by the Flag of France.
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162. Léon: The Professional, 1994
Director Luc Besson
163. Tajvanska kanasta, 1985
A frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept the reality, he's constantly getting into conflicts with the people around him.
164. Arcadia 2024
Directed by Yorgos Zois
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Director Theodoros Angelopoulos
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in a windy autumn, matching the less-than-pleasant occasion: Yannis has been called to identify the victim of a tragic accident at the hospital of the small town.
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165. Ulysses' Gaze, 1995
Director Theodoros Angelopoulos
An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.
166. Breaking the Waves, 1996
Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.
The story starts in 1919 with some Greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small kids, Alexis and Eleni.
168. One Sings, the Other Doesn't, 1977
Director Agnès Varda
The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.
169. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
170. Paris, Texas, 1984
Directed by Wim Wenders
Travis Henderson is wandering through the West Texas desert, bewildered and holding an empty gallon water jug. He wanders into a convenience store, opens a freezer, and starts eating ice before losing consciousness. A doctor examines Travis and believes that he is mute. The doctor goes through Travis's wallet and finds a card with a phone number on it. He calls the number, which belongs to Walt Henderson, Travis's brother.
171. No Country for Old Men, 2007
Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
172. Turtles Can Fly, 2004
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
173. The Kite Runner, 2007
Amir lives in California with his wife Soraya. He receives a call from his uncle Rahim Khan who urges him to travel to Afghanistan and rescue the son of Amir's childhood servant and friend, Hassan.
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174. The Postman, 1994
Directed by Michael Radford
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Directed by Michael Radford
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino
In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he’s inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
176. The Before Trilogy, 1995, 2004, 2013
Directed by Richard Linklater
The Before Trilogy consists of three American romance films directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Beginning with Before Sunrise (1995), and continuing with two sequels, Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013).
Directed by Michael Haneke
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
178. Capernaum 2018
Directed by Nadine Labaki
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
179. Jamon Jamon 1992
Directed by Bigas Luna
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
180. Metropolitan, 1990
Directed by Whit Stillman
A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier’s socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.
181. Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003
Directed by Audrey Wells
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.
182. The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022
Directed by Martin McDonagh
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
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183. The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006
Directed by Ken Loach
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O’Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend’s farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
184. Certified Copy, 2010
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
185. One Day, 2011
Directed by Lone Scherfig
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
186. The Motorcycle Diaries 2004
Directed by Walter Salles
Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
187. While at War, 2019
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.
188. The Wild Pear Tree, 2018
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village, and to his father, a debt-ridden man with a gambling problem.
189. The Sea Inside, 2004
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.
190. From Dusk Till Dawn, 1996
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
One night is all that stands between them and freedom. But it’s going to be a hell of a night. After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious vampire clientele.
191. Melancholia, 2011
Directed by Lars von Trier
Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth…
192. Driving Miss Daisy, 1989
Directed by Bruce Beresford
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two very different characters, in a time when those types of relationships were shunned.
193. The House of the Spirits, 1993
Directed by Bille August
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
194. Mulholland Drive, 2001
Directed by David Lynch
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
195. The Piano, 1993
Directed by Jane Campion
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
196. The Exterminating Angel, 1962
Directed by Luis Buñuel
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
Directed by Juan José Campanella
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
198. Eternity, 2017
Directed by Óscar Catacora
A couple of elderlies try to survive in Los Andes of Peru while they wait for their son.
199. Foreign Land, 1995
Directed by Daniela Thomas, Walter Salles
During a time of political upheaval in Brazil, two strangers meet by coincidence in a foreign land and end up caught in the middle of a gem smuggling ring.
200. Elena, 2012
Directed by Petra Costa
Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actresses and heirs of the wounds of the Brazilian dictatorship. But Petra has only a few clues: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary…
201. Silent Light, 2007
Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
202. Garden of War, 1968
Directed by Neville D’Almeida
Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.
203. The Edge of Heaven, 2007
Directed by Fatih Akin
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
204. Russian Ark, 2002
Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
2000 cast members, 3 orchestras, 33 rooms, 300 years, ALL IN ONE TAKE. A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
Directed by Karim Aïnouz
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in her older sister the encouragement she needs to pursue her dream of becoming a professional pianist.
206. Roma, 2018
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals.In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
207. I Dream in Another Language, 2017
Directed by Ernesto Contreras
An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven’t spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.
208. Compasso de Espera, 1973
Directed by Antunes Filho
Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge’s situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.
209. Buccaneer Soul, 1993
Directed by Carlos Reichenbach
50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
210. Behind the Sun, 2001
Directed by Walter Salles
Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son’s death.
211. The History of Eternity, 2014
Directed by Camilo Cavalcante
In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
212. Medea, 1969
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Based on the plot of Euripides’ Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
213. Waiting for the Barbarians, 2019
Directed by Ciro Guerra
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
214. Embrace of the Serpent, 2015
Directed by Ciro Guerra
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
216. L’Avventura, 1960
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Claudia and Anna join Anna’s lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna’s disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
217. The Dawning of the Day, 2021
Directed by Asoka Handagama
Pablo arrives in British Ceylon from Burma to flee a traumatic relationship that had changed from love into passionate obsession. He notices a young pariah woman who empties his outhouse every morning. To Pablo she appears divine. In one morning, he takes her hand and leads her into his bed. Unable to believe or accept her bizarre fate, she remains passive throughout the series of events that unfold thereafter.
218. Cosmos, 2015
Directed by Andrzej Żuławski
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
It is preferable not to travel with a dead man. William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a journey to the spiritual world.
220. Persona, 1966
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman’s most personal and original film
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
222. Amélie, 2001
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
Directed by Wim Wenders
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds – with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk – that it might be possible for him to take human form.
224. The Revenant, 2015
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
225. The Master, 2012
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new “religion” he forms after World War II.
226. Black Narcissus, 1947
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
228. Like Water for Chocolate, 1992
Directed by Alfonso Arau
In Tita’s kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
229. Past Lives, 2023
Directed by Celine Song
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
230. Gabbeh, 1996
Gabbeh 1996
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh, while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.
Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
232. The Milk of Sorrow, 2009
Directed by Claudia Llosa
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. While living in constant fear and confusion due to this disease, she must face the sudden death of her mother. She chooses to take drastic measures to not follow in her mother’s footsteps.
Directed by Charlotte Wells
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
234. Paths of the Soul, 2015
Directed by Zhang Yang
Eleven Tibetans prostrate themselves every few steps during a 1,200-mile pilgrimage that lasts for seven months.
235. Taste of Cherry, 1997
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
236. Bitter Moon, 1992
Directed by Roman Polanski
A kinky voyage with a full head of steam.
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic’s wife.
237. Amores Perros, 2000
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man. Their lives are catapulted into unforeseen situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog.
238. Hit the Road, 2021
Directed by Panah Panahi
A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she’s not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.
239. Dead Poets Society, 1989
Directed by Peter Weir
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day,
courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
240. Anora, 2024
Directed by Sean Baker
A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.
241. Through the Olive Trees, 1994
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.
242. Perfect Days, 2023
Directed by Wim Wenders
Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.
243. Babylon, 2022
Directed by Damien Chazelle
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood’s transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
244. Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
245. American Beauty, 1999
Directed by Sam Mendes
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter’s attractive friend.
246. Pieta, 2012
Directed by Kim Ki-duk
A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
247. The Libertine, 2004
Directed by Laurence Dunmore
He didn’t resist temptation. He pursued it. The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life’s work.
248. You, 2007
Directed by François Delisle
Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her husband, her son and her profession to live this frenzy through to its conclusion. A quest for freedom and change that sends Michèle on a turbulent drift, but remains, nevertheless, intimate and personal.
249. Lie with Me, 2005
Directed by Clement Virgo
Sex brought them together, now it could tear them apart.
Happily unattached, the sexually voracious Leila satisfies her desires with a host of rapidly changing bed partners, unconcerned about the emotional consequences. But that all changes when she meets an artist looking for a deeper commitment.
250. Seobe, 1989
Directed by Aleksandar Petrović
Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.
251. The Pillow Book, 1995
Directed by Peter Greenaway
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
252. A Beautiful Mind, 2001
Directed by Ron Howard
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, he made a groundbreaking discovery early in his career and stands on the brink of international acclaim.
253. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008
Directed by David Fincher
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer.
254. Čudo neviđeno, 1984
Directed by Živko Nikolić
The peace of a small fishing village is shattered by the coming of a young, and stunningly beautiful, wife of a local guest-worker. She intends to live in her father’s house, which in the mean-time became a pub. From that moment her revenge begins, toying with to people, their passions and interests.
255. Eden, 2024
Directed by Ron Howard
In paradise, survival is the real challenge.
A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.
256. Night Train to Lisbon, 2013
Directed by Bille August
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for years and to embark on an enthralling adventure. In search of the author, Gregorius acts as detective, pulling together pieces of a puzzle that involves political and emotional intrigue and the highest possible stakes.
