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  • Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui, and Gérard Lanvin in The Taste of Others (2000)

    1. The Taste of Others

    20001h 52mR78Metascore
    7.2 (11K)
    The lives of 6 people over 35 in Rouen, France, and their relationship to each other.
    DirectorAgnès JaouiStarsAnne AlvaroJean-Pierre BacriAlain Chabat
  • Kati Outinen and Markku Peltola in The Man Without a Past (2002)

    2. The Man Without a Past

    20021h 37mPG-1384Metascore
    7.6 (28K)
    M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.
    DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsMarkku PeltolaKati OutinenAnnikki Tähti
  • The Third Man (1949)

    3. The Third Man

    19491h 44mApproved97Metascore
    8.1 (191K)
    Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
    DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida Valli
  • Marisa Paredes and Cecilia Roth in All About My Mother (1999)

    4. All About My Mother

    19991h 41mR87Metascore
    7.8 (108K)
    A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.
    DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCecilia RothMarisa ParedesCandela Peña
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

    5. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

    20052h 1mR77Metascore
    7.3 (43K)
    Ranch foreman Pete Perkins looks to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend by burying him in his hometown in Mexico.
    DirectorTommy Lee JonesStarsTommy Lee JonesBarry PepperDwight Yoakam
  • Elijah Wood in Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

    6. Everything Is Illuminated

    20051h 46mPG-1358Metascore
    7.4 (61K)
    A young Jewish American man, with the help of an eccentric local, endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
    DirectorLiev SchreiberStarsElijah WoodEugene HutzBoris Lyoskin
  • Carmen Maura and Julieta Serrano in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

    7. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    19881h 28mR85Metascore
    7.5 (49K)
    A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
    DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MauraAntonio BanderasJulieta Serrano
  • Dodes'ka-den (1970)

    8. Dodes'ka-den

    19702h 20mNot Rated
    7.3 (8.1K)
    Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsYoshitaka ZushiKin SugaiToshiyuki Tonomura
  • El Hedi ben Salem and Brigitte Mira in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

    9. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

    19741h 33mNot Rated
    8.0 (25K)
    A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
    DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBrigitte MiraEl Hedi ben SalemBarbara Valentin
  • Roberto Benigni, Tom Waits, and John Lurie in Down by Law (1986)

    10. Down by Law

    19861h 47mR75Metascore
    7.6 (57K)
    Two men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state.
    DirectorJim JarmuschStarsTom WaitsJohn LurieRoberto Benigni
  • Yella Rottländer and Rüdiger Vogler in Alice in the Cities (1974)

    11. Alice in the Cities

    19741h 53mNot Rated78Metascore
    7.8 (14K)
    A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.
    DirectorWim WendersStarsYella RottländerRüdiger VoglerLisa Kreuzer
  • Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson in Hopscotch (1980)

    12. Hopscotch

    19801h 46mR
    7.1 (9.6K)
    Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.
    DirectorRonald NeameStarsWalter MatthauGlenda JacksonSam Waterston
  • Spirited Away (2001)

    13. Spirited Away

    20012h 4mPG96Metascore
    8.6 (923K)
    During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
    DirectorHayao MiyazakiStarsDaveigh ChaseSuzanne PleshetteMiyu Irino
  • Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

    14. Where the Green Ants Dream

    19841h 40mR
    6.9 (2.8K)
    A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsBruce SpenceWandjuk MarikaRoy Marika
  • Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katô, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, and Keiko Tsushima in Seven Samurai (1954)

    15. Seven Samurai

    19543h 27mNot Rated98Metascore
    8.6 (389K)
    Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko Tsushima
  • Shall We Dance? (1996)

    16. Shall We Dance?

    19962h 16mPG66Metascore
    7.7 (12K)
    A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.
    DirectorMasayuki SuôStarsKôji YakushoTamiyo KusakariNaoto Takenaka
  • Bagdad Cafe (1987)

    17. Bagdad Cafe

    19871h 35mPG71Metascore
    7.4 (16K)
    A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
    DirectorPercy AdlonStarsMarianne SägebrechtCCH PounderJack Palance
  • Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, and Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein (1974)

    18. Young Frankenstein

    19741h 46mPG83Metascore
    8.0 (177K)
    An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
    DirectorMel BrooksStarsGene WilderMadeline KahnMarty Feldman
  • Jules and Jim (1962)

    19. Jules and Jim

    19621h 45mNot Rated97Metascore
    7.7 (46K)
    Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
    DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJeanne MoreauOskar WernerHenri Serre
  • Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in Out of Africa (1985)

    20. Out of Africa

    19852h 41mPG69Metascore
    7.1 (90K)
    In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
    DirectorSydney PollackStarsMeryl StreepRobert RedfordKlaus Maria Brandauer
  • The Road Home (1999)

    21. The Road Home

    19991h 29mG71Metascore
    7.7 (14K)
    Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
    DirectorYimou ZhangStarsZiyi ZhangHonglei SunHao Zheng
  • Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris in Unforgiven (1992)

    22. Unforgiven

    19922h 10mR85Metascore
    8.2 (458K)
    Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a young would-be gunman calling himself "The Schofield Kid".
    DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan Freeman
  • The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

    23. The Darjeeling Limited

    20071h 31mR67Metascore
    7.2 (226K)
    A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.
    DirectorWes AndersonStarsOwen WilsonAdrien BrodyJason Schwartzman
  • The Chorus (2004)

    24. The Chorus

    20041h 37mPG-1356Metascore
    7.8 (70K)
    Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
    DirectorChristophe BarratierStarsGérard JugnotFrançois BerléandJean-Baptiste Maunier
  • Takashi Shimura in Ikiru (1952)

    25. Ikiru

    19522h 23mNot Rated92Metascore
    8.3 (98K)
    A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraNobuo KanekoShin'ichi Himori

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