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1. Strange Days (1995)
R | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore
Votes: 78,441 | Gross: $7.92M
2. All Creatures Welcome (2018)
87 min | Documentary
A documentary about Germany's hacker group Chaos Computer Club.
Director: Sandra Trostel | Stars: Markus Beckedahl, Anna Biselli, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Dirke Engling
Votes: 31
3. Making Mr. Right (1987)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A reclusive scientist, Jeff Peters (Malkovich), builds a robot, Ulysses, which looks exactly like himself and is set to go on a long-term space mission. Since the (real) scientist seems to ... See full summary »
Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly, Ben Masters
Votes: 3,109 | Gross: $1.58M
4. Holy Smoke (1999)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
Ruth's been brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India. Her parents in Sydney hire a specialist in reversing this. Ruth is tricked to return to Australia and is isolated in an outback cabin with the specialist. It gets messy.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Sophie Lee
Votes: 15,650 | Gross: $1.76M
5. Elegy (I) (2008)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood," thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper
Votes: 23,214 | Gross: $3.58M
6. An Education (2009)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams
Votes: 138,165 | Gross: $12.57M
7. Hannah Arendt (2012)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama
A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Julia Jentsch
Votes: 12,025 | Gross: $0.71M
8. Carte Blanche (III) (2011)
91 min | Documentary
They don't wear uniforms or carry weapons; they have no bodyguards. Yet their missions take them to the most dangerous places on Earth. As investigators of the International Criminal Court ... See full summary »
Director: Heidi Specogna
Votes: 19
9. Cahier africain (2016)
118 min | Documentary
It all started with a small exercise book. Its page were checkered with the courageous testimonies of 300 Central African women, girls and men. They reveal what Congolese mercenaries did to... See full summary »
Director: Heidi Specogna | Star: Salena Godden
Votes: 37
10. Der Fischer und seine Frau (2005)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Otto (Ulmen) and his friend Leo (Verhoeven) are German veterinarians, travelling Japan looking for Fish to buy and sell. They meet young German fashion designer Ida (Lara) and they both ... See full synopsis »
Director: Doris Dörrie | Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian Ulmen, Simon Verhoeven, Zoe Hüttenhain
Votes: 837
11. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
Not Rated | 136 min | Documentary
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.
Director: Sophie Fiennes | Star: Slavoj Zizek
Votes: 7,529 | Gross: $0.07M
12. Free the Mind (2012)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Adventure
In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world's leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and ... See full summary »
Director: Phie Ambo | Stars: Richard Davidson, Emma Seppala, John Osborne, Deborah Alagna
Votes: 415 | Gross: $0.16M
13. Sugar Coated (2015)
90 min | Documentary
How the food industry sugar-coated science, sweetened the food supply, and seduced a planet, one spoonful at a time.
Director: Michèle Hozer | Stars: Gary Taubes, Robert Lustig, Craig Wilcox, Alexis Gomez
Votes: 895
14. Fed Up (2014)
PG | 92 min | Documentary
An examination of America's obesity epidemic and the food industry's role in aggravating it.
Director: Stephanie Soechtig | Stars: Michele Simon, Katie Couric, Bill Clinton, Michael Pollan
Votes: 12,356 | Gross: $1.54M
15. Citizenfour (2014)
R | 114 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
Director: Laura Poitras | Stars: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum
Votes: 57,989 | Gross: $2.80M
16. Capernaum (2018)
R | 126 min | Drama
While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad
Votes: 105,448 | Gross: $1.66M
17. Generation Wealth (2018)
R | 105 min | Documentary
A documentary that investigates the pathologies that have created the richest society the world has ever seen.
Director: Lauren Greenfield | Stars: Lauren Greenfield, Bret Easton Ellis, Paris Cronin, Mijanou
Votes: 5,620 | Gross: $0.24M
18. Ghost in the Machine (1993)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An electric surge causes a serial killer's soul to end up in a computer system.
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey, Ted Marcoux, Wil Horneff
Votes: 4,171 | Gross: $5.09M
19. Orlando (1992)
PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville
Votes: 18,723 | Gross: $5.29M
20. Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies (2008)
80 min | Documentary
A substantial part of life is claimed by boredom. Beauty, love, work.. sometimes it just isn't worth getting out of bed. A girl in a strawberry pie factory, a stressed desert nomad, a Wall ... See full summary »
Director: Coco Schrijber | Star: John Malkovich
Votes: 145
21. Finsterworld (2013)
91 min | Drama
A number of individuals in Germany whose lives are connected in some ways, and all of them have dark sides which may shock us to the core.
Director: Frauke Finsterwalder | Stars: Gisela Aderhold, Christoph Bach, Margit Carstensen, Jakub Gierszal
Votes: 2,032
22. The Voices (2014)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A likable guy pursues his office crush with help from his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date.
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver
Votes: 62,607
23. The Wolfpack (2015)
R | 90 min | Documentary, Biography
Confined in an apartment from a New York housing project, the six Angulo brothers learned everything they know about the world through watching films and spend their time reenacting their favorite movies with intricate homemade costumes.
Director: Crystal Moselle | Stars: Mukunda Angulo, Narayana Angulo, Susanne Angulo, Bhagavan Angulo
Votes: 13,515 | Gross: $1.30M
24. Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free (2016)
113 min | Biography, Drama, History
Born 1861, Lou Andreas Salomé shuns tradition in pursuit of intellectual perfection, inflaming the hearts and minds of the 19th century's greatest thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud.
Director: Cordula Kablitz-Post | Stars: Nicole Heesters, Katharina Lorenz, Liv Lisa Fries, Helena Pieske
Votes: 636 | Gross: $0.01M
25. Detroit (2017)
R | 143 min | Crime, Drama, History
Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore
Votes: 55,961 | Gross: $16.79M
26. Real Genius (1985)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
An uptight teenage prodigy enters a top engineering college, but feels awkward among the freewheeling students. When a professor aims to turn their laser project into a military weapon, he and his offbeat roommate plot to ruin the plan.
Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Val Kilmer, Stacy Peralta, Daniel Ades, Andres Aybar
Votes: 37,760 | Gross: $13.00M
27. Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance, Thriller
An American computer wiz who works at a New York bank is suddenly thrust into the world of international espionage after she inadvertently receives a coded message from a British spy.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane
Votes: 20,763 | Gross: $25.59M
28. Big (1988)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard
Votes: 240,024 | Gross: $114.97M
29. XXY (2007)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
The story of an intersex fifteen-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.
Director: Lucía Puenzo | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Germán Palacios, Carolina Pelleritti
Votes: 14,930 | Gross: $0.05M
30. Waste Land (2010)
Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
Directors: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim | Star: Vik Muniz
Votes: 9,362 | Gross: $0.19M
31. Ginger & Rosa (2012)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event that comes to redefine their relationship.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Annette Bening, Oliver Platt
Votes: 11,775 | Gross: $1.01M
32. RBG (2018)
PG | 98 min | Documentary, Biography
The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West | Stars: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ann Kittner, Harryette Helsel, Nina Totenberg
Votes: 15,065 | Gross: $14.02M
33. Gayby Baby (2015)
PG | 85 min | Documentary, Family
GAYBY BABY follows the lives of four kids - Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham - whose parents all happen to be gay. As they each wrestle with personal change, the outside world wrestles with the ... See full summary »
Director: Maya Newell | Stars: Ebony, Graham, Gus, Matt
Votes: 849
34. American Vagabond (2013)
85 min | Documentary
American Vagabond is a cinematic feature documentary about gay youth living without a home in the shadows of a promised city. It's a story about a modern Western society in which ... See full summary »
Director: Susanna Helke | Stars: James Temple, Tyler Johnson, Sandy Temple, Jim Temple
Votes: 155
35. Komunia (2016)
72 min | Documentary, Drama
'Communion' reveals the beauty of the rejected, the strength of the weak and the need for change when change seems impossible. This crash course in growing up teaches us that no failure is final. Especially when love is in question.
Director: Anna Zamecka | Stars: Nikodem Kaczanowski, Ola Kaczanowski, Marek Kaczorowski
Votes: 418
36. InnSaei (2016)
75 min | Documentary
A story of soul searching, science, nature, and creativity, "InnSæi" takes us on a global journey to uncover the art of connecting within in today's world of distraction and stress.
Directors: Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir, Kristín Ólafsdóttir | Stars: Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir, Kristín Ólafsdóttir, Bill George, Iris Bohnet
Votes: 1,230
37. Nackt (2002)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Three couples meet for dinner and talk about love and sex.
Director: Doris Dörrie | Stars: Heike Makatsch, Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Jürgen Vogel
Votes: 2,348
38. The Green Planet (1996)
99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
On a distant planet, rural vegans master telepathy and mental power to travel interstellar etc. Mila is sent to Earth to report back. She lands in Paris - quite a cultural shock. Earthlings are strange.
Director: Coline Serreau | Stars: Coline Serreau, Vincent Lindon, James Thierrée, Samuel Tasinaje
Votes: 5,539
39. Nothing Personal (I) (2009)
85 min | Drama
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her ... See full summary »
Director: Urszula Antoniak | Stars: Lotte Verbeek, Stephen Rea, Tom Charlfa, Ann Marie Horan
Votes: 5,376
40. Stories We Tell (2012)
PG-13 | 108 min | Documentary
A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Michael Polley, John Buchan, Mark Polley, Joanna Polley
Votes: 14,116 | Gross: $1.60M
41. Jennifer's Body (2009)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Horror
A newly-possessed high-school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons
Votes: 151,333 | Gross: $16.20M
42. Somewhere (2010)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Chris Pontius, Erin Wasson
Votes: 46,706 | Gross: $1.77M
43. Point Break (1991)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty
Votes: 202,363 | Gross: $43.22M
44. Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
R | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History
Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
Director: Susanna White | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Louisa Krause, Boots Southerland, Chaske Spencer
Votes: 8,425 | Gross: $0.06M
45. Winter's Bone (2010)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone
Votes: 150,569 | Gross: $6.53M
46. The Competition (2016)
Not Rated | 121 min | Documentary
An all-access tour behind the scenes at France's premiere film school, La Fémis.
Director: Claire Simon | Stars: Alain Bergala, Xanaë Bove, Emmanuel Chaumet, Claire Childeric
Votes: 360 | Gross: $0.02M
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