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World Cinema

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  • Three... Extremes (2004)

    1. Three... Extremes

    20042h 5mR66Metascore
    6.9 (21K)
    An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.
    DirectorsFruit ChanPark Chan-wookTakashi MiikeStarsBai LingLee Byung-hunKyôko Hasegawa
  • Dumplings (2004)

    2. Dumplings

    20041h 31mNot Rated
    6.7 (11K)
    Aunt Mei's famous homemade dumplings provide amazing age-defying qualities popular with middle-aged women. But her latest customer - a fading actress - is determined to find out what the secret ingredient is.
    DirectorFruit ChanStarsBai LingMiriam YeungSum-Yeung Wong
  • The Great Yokai War (2005)

    3. The Great Yokai War

    20052h 4mPG-1363Metascore
    6.3 (2.8K)
    A young boy is chosen as the defender of good and must team up with Japan's ancient spirits and creatures of lore to attempt to destroy the forces of evil.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyûnosuke KamikiHiroyuki MiyasakoChiaki Kuriyama
  • Dark Water (2002)

    4. Dark Water

    20021h 41mPG-13
    6.7 (36K)
    A mother going through a divorce moves into a run down apartment with her daughter. A persistent leak from above, visions of a missing girl, and other eerie phenomena become increasingly menacing as clues to a past tragedy come to light.
    DirectorHideo NakataStarsHitomi KurokiRio KannoMirei Oguchi
  • Mail (2004)

    5. Mail

    20041h 50mNot Rated
    5.4 (119)
    A detective and his assistant help send restless spirits into the spiritual world.
    DirectorIwao TakahashiStarsYû AbiruUrara AwataAkira Kubo
  • Cécile de France in High Tension (2003)

    6. High Tension

    20031h 31mR42Metascore
    6.7 (81K)
    Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
    DirectorAlexandre AjaStarsCécile de FranceMaïwennPhilippe Nahon
  • Kim Kap-su, Yum Jung-ah, Lim Soo-jung, and Moon Geun-young in A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

    7. A Tale of Two Sisters

    20031h 54mR65Metascore
    7.1 (72K)
    After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Su-mi reunites with her sister, Su-yeon, and they return to live at their country home. But strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion.
    DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsLim Soo-jungYum Jung-ahKim Kap-su
  • Lee Yeong-ae in Lady Vengeance (2005)

    8. Lady Vengeance

    20051h 55mR75Metascore
    7.5 (90K)
    After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.
    DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsLee Yeong-aeChoi Min-sikYea-young Kwon
  • Tadanobu Asano in Ichi the Killer (2001)

    9. Ichi the Killer

    20012h 9m55Metascore
    6.9 (62K)
    As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsTadanobu AsanoNao ÔmoriShin'ya Tsukamoto
  • Anatomy (2000)

    10. Anatomy

    20001h 43mR33Metascore
    6.0 (14K)
    A cute med student starts a summer course at Heidelberg University. David's on her dissection table. She met him the day before on the train. Something's wrong.
    DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsFranka PotenteBenno FürmannAnna Loos
  • Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

    11. Ju-on: The Grudge

    20021h 32mR48Metascore
    6.7 (51K)
    A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
    DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsMegumi OkinaMisaki ItôMisa Uehara
  • Franco Nero in Django (1966)

    12. Django

    19661h 31mR75Metascore
    7.2 (33K)
    A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
    DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsFranco NeroJosé CanalejasJosé Bódalo
  • Irreversible (2002)

    13. Irreversible

    20021h 37mNot Rated51Metascore
    7.3 (157K)
    Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order.
    DirectorGaspar NoéStarsMonica BellucciVincent CasselAlbert Dupontel
  • Battle Royale (2000)

    14. Battle Royale

    20001h 54mNot Rated81Metascore
    7.5 (202K)
    In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
    DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô Yamamoto
  • Ivana Baquero in Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

    15. Pan's Labyrinth

    20061h 58mR98Metascore
    8.2 (729K)
    In 1944 Spain, a girl is sent to live with her ruthless stepfather. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks.
    DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi López
  • Ananda Everingham and Natthaweeranuch Thongmee in Shutter (2004)

    16. Shutter

    20041h 37mNot Rated
    7.0 (52K)
    When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.
    DirectorsBanjong PisanthanakunParkpoom WongpoomStarsAnanda EveringhamNatthaweeranuch ThongmeeAchita Sikamana
  • Suicide Club (2001)

    17. Suicide Club

    20011h 39mR
    6.5 (23K)
    A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
    DirectorSion SonoStarsRyô IshibashiMasatoshi NagaseMai Hôshô
  • Song Kang-ho in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

    18. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

    20022h 9mR59Metascore
    7.5 (79K)
    A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.
    DirectorPark Chan-wookStarsSong Kang-hoShin Ha-kyunBae Doona
  • Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)

    19. Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman

    20071h 30mNot Rated
    5.4 (3.4K)
    A suburban town in Japan is the victim of what is supposedly just an urban legend, a woman's spirit with a horribly disfigured face who is intent on kidnapping children for unknown reasons.
    DirectorKôji ShiraishiStarsEriko SatôHaruhiko KatôChiharu Kawai
  • Karen Lancaume in Baise-moi (2000)

    20. Baise-moi

    20001h 17mNot Rated35Metascore
    4.5 (19K)
    Two young women, marginalized by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence.
    DirectorsVirginie DespentesCoralie Trinh ThiStarsRaffaëla AndersonKaren LancaumeCéline Beugnot
  • The Eye (2002)

    21. The Eye

    20021h 39mR66Metascore
    6.6 (31K)
    A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she will be able to see again. She gets more than she bargained for upon realizing she can also see ghosts.
    DirectorsDanny PangOxide Chun PangStarsAngelica LeeChutcha RujinanonLawrence Chou
  • Funny Games (1997)

    22. Funny Games

    19971h 48mNot Rated69Metascore
    7.5 (92K)
    Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
    DirectorMichael HanekeStarsSusanne LotharUlrich MüheArno Frisch
  • Reincarnation (2005)

    23. Reincarnation

    20051h 36mR
    6.1 (7K)
    A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
    DirectorTakashi ShimizuStarsYûkaKarinaKippei Shîna
  • Paolo Bonacelli in Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

    24. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

    19751h 57mTV-MA
    5.8 (70K)
    In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of torture.
    DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo Quintavalle
  • Béatrice Dalle and Alysson Paradis in Inside (2007)

    25. Inside

    20071h 22mR
    6.7 (47K)
    Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
    DirectorsAlexandre BustilloJulien MauryStarsAlysson ParadisJean-Baptiste TabourinClaude Lulé

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