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.
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.
25. Home for the Weekend, 2012
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.
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
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.
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
64. Amarcord, 1973
Director Federico Fellini
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
84. Satantango, 1994
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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