Modern movies worth watching (70x-90x)

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.

A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.

An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

A newly admitted mental patient helps his docile companions defy the tyrannical head nurse.

In Detroit, a pop-culture enthusiast steals cocaine from his new wife's pimp and tries to sell it in Hollywood, prompting the mobsters who own the drugs to pursue the couple.

Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.

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.

A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.

A disheveled man desperately searches New York City for his young daughter.

Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.

Alvin Straight, a 73-year-old, learns that his estranged brother, Lyle is critically ill. Unable to drive, Alvin embarks on a journey from Iowa to Mt. Zion, by riding a lawn mower. Will he succeed?

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Ten years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan.

A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.