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  • Gabriele Ferzetti and Monica Vitti in L'Avventura (1960)

    1. L'Avventura

    19602h 24mNot Rated
    7.7 (36K)
    A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
    DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsGabriele FerzettiMonica VittiLea Massari
  • Kin-dza-dza! (1986)

    2. Kin-dza-dza!

    19862h 15mPG-13
    7.8 (15K)
    Two Russians push the wrong button on a strange device and end up on the telepathic planet Pluke with its strange societal norms.
    DirectorGeorgiy DaneliyaStarsStanislav LyubshinEvgeniy LeonovYuriy Yakovlev
  • Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Stéphane Freiss in Five Times Two (2004)

    3. Five Times Two

    20041h 30mR62Metascore
    6.6 (11K)
    Five stages in the romance between a woman and a man.
    DirectorFrançois OzonStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiStéphane FreissFrançoise Fabian
  • Sung Hyun-ah in Time (2006)

    4. Time

    20061h 37mNot Rated73Metascore
    7.1 (13K)
    To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
    DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsHa Jung-wooPark Ji-yeonBaek Gwang-Doo
  • Wings of Desire (1987)

    5. Wings of Desire

    19872h 8mPG-1379Metascore
    7.9 (81K)
    An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
    DirectorWim WendersStarsBruno GanzSolveig DommartinOtto Sander
  • Liv Tyler in Stealing Beauty (1996)

    6. Stealing Beauty

    19961h 58mR60Metascore
    6.5 (32K)
    After her mother commits suicide, a young woman travels to Italy in search of love, truth and a deeper connection with herself.
    DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJeremy IronsLiv TylerCarlo Cecchi
  • Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann in Persona (1966)

    7. Persona

    19661h 23mNot Rated86Metascore
    8.0 (137K)
    A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha Krook
  • All That Jazz (1979)

    8. All That Jazz

    19792h 3mR72Metascore
    7.8 (38K)
    Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
    DirectorBob FosseStarsRoy ScheiderJessica LangeAnn Reinking
  • Solaris (1972)

    9. Solaris

    19722h 47mPG93Metascore
    7.9 (102K)
    A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
    DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsNatalya BondarchukDonatas BanionisJüri Järvet
  • Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

    10. Coffee and Cigarettes

    20031h 35mR65Metascore
    7.0 (69K)
    A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
    DirectorJim JarmuschStarsBill MurrayTom WaitsRoberto Benigni
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Breathless (1960)

    11. Breathless

    19601h 30mNot Rated96Metascore
    7.7 (91K)
    A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
    DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergRichard Balducci
  • Johnny Depp in Arizona Dream (1993)

    12. Arizona Dream

    19932h 22mR62Metascore
    7.2 (47K)
    A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.
    DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsJohnny DeppJerry LewisFaye Dunaway
  • Underground (1995)

    13. Underground

    19952h 47mNot Rated79Metascore
    8.0 (63K)
    Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.
    DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicLazar RistovskiMirjana Jokovic
  • La Dolce Vita (1960)

    14. La Dolce Vita

    19602h 54mNot Rated95Metascore
    8.0 (83K)
    A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
    DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk Aimée
  • Pina (2011)

    15. Pina

    20111h 43mPG83Metascore
    7.6 (16K)
    A tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.
    DirectorWim WendersStarsPina BauschRegina AdventoMalou Airaudo
  • Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

    16. Eyes Wide Shut

    19992h 39mTV-MA69Metascore
    7.5 (402K)
    A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsTom CruiseNicole KidmanTodd Field
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    17. 2001: A Space Odyssey

    19682h 29mG84Metascore
    8.3 (757K)
    When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam Sylvester
  • Robert De Niro, James Woods, William Forsythe, Brian Bloom, Adrian Curran, James Hayden, Rusty Jacobs, and Scott Tiler in Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

    18. Once Upon a Time in America

    19843h 49mR75Metascore
    8.3 (397K)
    A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
    DirectorSergio LeoneStarsRobert De NiroJames WoodsElizabeth McGovern
  • Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, and Conrad Veidt in Casablanca (1942)

    19. Casablanca

    19421h 42mPG100Metascore
    8.5 (635K)
    A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul Henreid
  • Audrey Tautou in Amélie (2001)

    20. Amélie

    20012h 2mR70Metascore
    8.3 (821K)
    Despite being caught in her imaginative world, young waitress Amelie decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey during which she finds true love.
    DirectorJean-Pierre JeunetStarsAudrey TautouMathieu KassovitzRufus
  • Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Edward Binns, John Fiedler, E.G. Marshall, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Jack Warden, and Robert Webber in 12 Angry Men (1957)

    21. 12 Angry Men

    19571h 36mApproved97Metascore
    9.0 (933K)
    The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
    DirectorSidney LumetStarsHenry FondaLee J. CobbMartin Balsam
  • Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men (2007)

    22. No Country for Old Men

    20072h 2mR92Metascore
    8.2 (1.1M)
    Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
    DirectorsEthan CoenJoel CoenStarsTommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh Brolin
  • Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, and Edward Burns in Saving Private Ryan (1998)

    23. Saving Private Ryan

    19982h 49mR91Metascore
    8.6 (1.6M)
    Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose comrades have been killed in action.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom Sizemore
  • Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Joe Pantoliano, and Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix (1999)

    24. The Matrix

    19992h 16mR73Metascore
    8.7 (2.2M)
    When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
    DirectorsLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne Moss
  • Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994)

    25. Forrest Gump

    19942h 22mPG-1382Metascore
    8.8 (2.4M)
    The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
    DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary Sinise

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