My top 50 movies

In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.

Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

The daily routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

At an opulent gourmet restaurant, a woman carries on an affair with deadly consequences.

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

Plagued with infertility, the inhabitants of Mâcon are naturally involved in the spectacle that is a masque about the miracle child born to a virgin mother.

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies.

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.

An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show.

A woman employs a gay man to spend four nights at her house to watch her when she's "unwatchable".

Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.

A group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.

In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.

Though it has been five years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Yasuko, her uncle and aunt are forced to deal with the ordeals of the disaster, along with many others like them.

Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments.

After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.