A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan. Year 1959.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: Masaki Kobayashi |
| Writer: Zenzô Matsuyama, Masaki Kobayashi, Jumpei Gomikawa |
| Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima |
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws. Year 1970.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Masahiro Shinoda |
| Writer: Mokuami Kawatake, Shûji Terayama |
| Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Shôichi Ozawa |
An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom. Year 1954.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Jacques Becker |
| Writer: Albert Simonin, Jacques Becker, Maurice Griffe |
| Actors: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll |
Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner. Year 1967.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Musical |
| Director: Jacques Demy |
| Writer: Jacques Demy |
| Actors: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac |
The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous “Ruby Glass”. Year 1976.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Werner Herzog |
| Writer: Herbert Achternbusch, Werner Herzog |
| Actors: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz |
A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent. Year 1983.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Pedro Almodóvar |
| Writer: Pedro Almodóvar |
| Actors: Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Will More, Laura Cepeda |
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. Year 1976.
| Generes: Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Roman Polanski |
| Writer: Roland Topor, Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski |
| Actors: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas |
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides. Year 1976.
| Generes: Drama, History |
| Director: Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Writer: Franco Arcalli, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Actors: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda |
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse. Year 1980.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
| Director: Federico Fellini |
| Writer: Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi, Brunello Rondi |
| Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers |
A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo. Year 1955.
| Generes: Drama, Romance |
| Director: Mikio Naruse |
| Writer: Fumiko Hayashi, Yôko Mizuki |
| Actors: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada |
A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. Year 1994.
| Generes: Biography, Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi |
| Writer: Antonio Skármeta, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli |
| Actors: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta |
A family’s attempt at matchmaking their oldest daughter and the conflicts that follow. Year 1956.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Musical |
| Director: Usmar Ismail |
| Writer: M. Alwi Dahlan, Usmar Ismail |
| Actors: Chitra Dewi, Indiati Iskak, Mieke Wijaya |
The final student of a dying martial arts master is instructed to locate the previous five students and defeat any evil ones among them. Year 1978.
| Generes: Action, Drama, Mystery |
| Director: Cheh Chang |
| Writer: Kuang Ni, Cheh Chang |
| Actors: Sheng Chiang, Chien Sun, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok |
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day. Year 1933.
| Generes: Short, Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Jean Vigo |
| Writer: Jean Vigo |
| Actors: Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre |
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past. Year 1960.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Antonio Pietrangeli |
| Writer: Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Antonio Pietrangeli |
| Actors: Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo |
Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband. Year 1965.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
| Director: Federico Fellini |
| Writer: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano |
| Actors: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu |