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  • 77 titles
  • Salvatore Papa in Dante's Inferno (1911)

    1. Dante's Inferno

    19111h 11m
    7.0 (3.8K)
    1911 silent film and Italy's first full-length feature film, loosely adapted from "Inferno", the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". It chronicles Dante's travel through the Circles of Hell, guided by the poet Virgil.
    DirectorsFrancesco BertoliniAdolfo PadovanGiuseppe de LiguoroStarsSalvatore PapaArturo PirovanoGiuseppe de Liguoro
  • Intolerance (1916)

    2. Intolerance

    19162h 43mPassed99Metascore
    7.7 (17K)
    Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRobert HarronMae Marsh
  • Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Vladimir Stenberg, and Georgii Stenberg in October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)

    3. October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

    19281h 35m
    7.4 (8.8K)
    A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
    DirectorsGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsBoris LivanovNikolay PopovVasili Nikandrov
  • Stéphane Audran, Paul Frankeur, Fernando Rey, and Delphine Seyrig in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

    4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

    19721h 42mPG93Metascore
    7.7 (49K)
    A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFernando ReyDelphine SeyrigPaul Frankeur
  • L'Age d'Or (1930)

    5. L'Age d'Or

    19301h 3mNot Rated
    7.2 (15K)
    A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsGaston ModotLya LysCaridad de Laberdesque
  • Beauty and the Beast (1946)

    6. Beauty and the Beast

    19461h 33mNot Rated92Metascore
    7.9 (29K)
    A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
    DirectorsJean CocteauRené ClémentStarsJean MaraisJosette DayMila Parély
  • Marie Déa, María Casares, Jean Marais, and François Périer in Orpheus (1950)

    7. Orpheus

    19501h 52mNot Rated
    7.8 (14K)
    A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
    DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean MaraisFrançois PérierMaría Casares
  • The Blood of a Poet (1932)

    8. The Blood of a Poet

    193255mNot Rated67Metascore
    7.2 (7.7K)
    Told in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.
    DirectorJean CocteauStarsEnrique RiveroLee MillerPauline Carton
  • Entr'acte (1924)

    9. Entr'acte

    192422mShort
    7.3 (4.3K)
    An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
    DirectorRené ClairStarsJean BörlinInge FrïssFrancis Picabia
  • Margot Grahame and Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)

    10. The Informer

    19351h 31mApproved65Metascore
    7.4 (7.6K)
    In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston Foster
  • Aldo Fabrizi in Rome, Open City (1945)

    11. Rome, Open City

    19451h 43mNot Rated
    8.0 (32K)
    During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
    DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsAnna MagnaniAldo FabriziMarcello Pagliero
  • Paisan (1946)

    12. Paisan

    19462hApproved
    7.6 (10K)
    American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
    DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsCarmela SazioGar MooreWilliam Tubbs
  • Lamberto Maggiorani and Enzo Staiola in Bicycle Thieves (1948)

    13. Bicycle Thieves

    19481h 29mNot Rated
    8.2 (185K)
    In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
    DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella Carell
  • Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie (1962)

    14. Vivre sa vie

    19621h 25mNot Rated
    7.8 (36K)
    Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
    DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsAnna KarinaSady RebbotAndré S. Labarthe
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina in Pierrot le fou (1965)

    15. Pierrot le fou

    19651h 50mPG-13
    7.4 (39K)
    Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
    DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAnna KarinaGraziella Galvani
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Breathless (1960)

    16. Breathless

    19601h 30mNot Rated
    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
  • Jean-Claude Brialy and Laurence de Monaghan in Claire's Knee (1970)

    17. Claire's Knee

    19701h 45mGP
    7.5 (13K)
    On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
    DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Claude BrialyAurora CornuBéatrice Romand
  • My Night at Maud's (1969)

    18. My Night at Maud's

    19691h 45mGP
    7.8 (15K)
    A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
    DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Louis TrintignantFrançoise FabianMarie-Christine Barrault
  • Le Beau Serge (1958)

    19. Le Beau Serge

    19581h 38mNot Rated
    7.1 (3.9K)
    After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
    DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsGérard BlainJean-Claude BrialyMichèle Méritz
  • Nightcap (2000)

    20. Nightcap

    20001h 41mNot Rated83Metascore
    6.7 (6.2K)
    In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller and they live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.
    DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertJacques DutroncAnna Mouglalis
  • Eiji Okada and Emmanuelle Riva in Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

    21. Hiroshima Mon Amour

    19591h 30mNot Rated
    7.8 (38K)
    A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
    DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsEmmanuelle RivaEiji OkadaStella Dassas
  • Sandrine Bonnaire in Vagabond (1985)

    22. Vagabond

    19851h 45mNot Rated
    7.6 (15K)
    A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
    DirectorAgnès VardaStarsSandrine BonnaireMacha MérilStéphane Freiss
  • Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and JR in Faces Places (2017)

    23. Faces Places

    20171h 34mPG94Metascore
    7.8 (14K)
    Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
    DirectorsJRAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaJRJeannine Carpentier
  • Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

    24. Cléo from 5 to 7

    19621h 30mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.8 (30K)
    Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
    DirectorAgnès VardaStarsCorinne MarchandAntoine BourseillerDominique Davray
  • Sans Soleil (1983)

    25. Sans Soleil

    19831h 40mNot Rated
    7.7 (13K)
    A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.
    DirectorChris MarkerStarsAmilcar CabralFlorence DelayArielle Dombasle

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