The World of Cinema Essential Movies

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.

Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.

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.

In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.

The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

The traumatized survivors of a murderous bus hijacking come together and take a road trip to attempt to overcome their damaged selves. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.

Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.

The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies.

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.

A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.

A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.

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.

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.

When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.

After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.

In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

During Spanish Civil War, young Fando navigates parents' clashing ideologies after father's arrest. Explores his imagination, friendships, views on sex and death amid family upheaval. Questions mother, seeks father's fate.

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

A group of actresses performing in a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" get caught up in a web of romantic intrigue and revelation.