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51. The Last Leaf (1983)
Unrated | 24 min | Drama, Short
An Easter Parable: As lingering pneumonia takes her will to live, a young girl decides that she will die when the last leaf drops from a dying vine outside her window. Her neighbor, an ... See full summary »
Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Hermione Baddeley, Pat Billingsley, Art Carney, Jane Kaczmarek
Votes: 91
52. The Virgin's Bed (1969)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A loose Biblical allegory starring the legendary model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Zouzou, Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel
Votes: 445
53. Parable of the Sower (2020 Video)
2 min | Short
A retelling of the Bible tale Matthew 13:4-9.
Director: Michael Kern | Stars: Michael Kern, Anni Davey, Ross K. Foad, Owen Richards
54. Well Wishes (2015)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
After losing his job on a coin-toss a man concocts a fantastical plan to build an enterprise of harvesting coins from wishing fountains.
Director: Anderson Boyd | Stars: Shane Callahan, Cullen Moss, Don Henderson Baker, Anna Stromberg
Votes: 461
55. Civilization (1915)
85 min | Drama, War
Christ takes on the form of a pacifist count to end a senseless war.
Directors: Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, Raymond B. West, Walter Edwards, David Hartford, Jay Hunt, J. Parker Read Jr. | Stars: Howard Hickman, Enid Markey, Lola May, Kate Bruce
Votes: 414
56. The Wolves of Kromer (1998)
Not Rated | 82 min | Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Once upon a time in the village of Kromer lived two beautiful young wolves. Cocksure Gabriel takes newcomer Seth under his paw and helps reconcile him to the vilification associated with ... See full summary »
Director: Will Gould | Stars: Boy George, James Layton, Lee Williams, Margaret Towner
Votes: 786 | Gross: $0.01M
57. How Do You Spell God? (1996 TV Movie)
32 min | Animation, Family, History
Children from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds offer candid views on God, miracles, prayer, angels and faith.
Director: Ellen Goosenberg Kent | Stars: Zane Carney, Hayden Panettiere, Fred Savage
Votes: 47
58. Passport to Destiny (1944)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, War
A British cleaning woman believes a glass eye has magical powers that will protect her from harm. She travels from London to Berlin and manages to obtain a job as a cleaning woman at Hitler's headquarters. However, her assassination plan is foiled. But, she and other secret agents manage to escape to London during RAF bombing raid of the Reich Chancery.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Elsa Lanchester, Gordon Oliver, Lenore Aubert, Lionel Royce
Votes: 364
59. Tian luo da po wu hang zhen (1977)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Fantasy
In this kung fu fantasy, a daring duel of powers between the fairies finds the young mortal Cheung rescuing the Sky Mussel Fairy. His bravery is not repaid, however, as Cheung is driven out... See full summary »
Director: Ling Shang | Stars: On-On Yu, Siu-Tin Yuen, Little Unicorn, Yuan-Shen Huang
Votes: 70
60. The Catherine Wheel (1982 TV Movie)
74 min | Music
A video version of Twyla Tharp's Broadway interpretive dance featuring music composed by Talking Heads frontman David Byrne.
Director: Twyla Tharp | Stars: Sara Rudner, Jennifer Way, Tom Rawe, Kate Glasner
Votes: 41
61. Creation of Adam (1994)
93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
On the same day, Andrei's wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she's attracted to him, he's assigned a new project under the direction of Philip (a well-dressed, ... See full summary »
Director: Yury Pavlov | Stars: Saulius Balandis, Sergey Vinogradov, Irina Metlitskaya, Anzhelika Nevolina
Votes: 62
62. Zywot Mateusza (1968)
80 min | Drama
Mateusz is a weird man living a peaceful life in a remote country house by the lake. When a stranger is attracted to his beloved sister, his life starts falling apart.
Director: Witold Leszczynski | Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Anna Milewska, Wirgiliusz Gryn, Aleksander Fogiel
Votes: 495
63. La Gioconda está triste (1977)
47 min | Drama, Fantasy
The Mona Lisa loses her famous smile, and so does the rest of the world...
Director: Antonio Mercero | Stars: Alfonso Godá, Luis García Ortega, Walter Vidarte, Lorenzo Ramírez
Votes: 49
64. Krynytsya dlya sprahlykh (1965)
70 min | Drama
The old man who lives a secluded life in the desert, alone with only his memories and photographs.
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Dmitri Milyutenko, Larisa Kadochnikova, Feodosiya Litvinenko, Nina Alisova
Votes: 428
65. An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (1997)
154 min | Fantasy, Mystery
In a tiny Central European village, voracious wolves kill the members of a ceremony, except the bride who is saved by the 10-year-old groom's brother. That day, she gives birth to a girl ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Jakubisko | Stars: Deana Horváthová, Milan Bahúl, Joachim Kemmer, Klára Issová
Votes: 359
66. Poor Liza (2000)
105 min | Drama
A beautiful peasant girl is romanced and abandoned by a young nobleman.
Director: Slava Tsukerman | Stars: Barbora Bobulova, Elena Doronina, Ben Gazzara, Lee Grant
Votes: 65
67. Auandar Anapu (el que cayó del cielo) (1975)
102 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Director: Rafael Corkidi | Stars: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Aurora Clavel, Jorge Humberto Robles, Patricia Luke
Votes: 30
68. Feng yue qi tan (1972)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Shen Wang, Wu Chi Liu, Betty Pei Ti, Ching Tien
Votes: 135
69. The Tied-Up Balloon (1967)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A large balloon suddenly appears above villages and fields and grabs the attention of the peasants. They start liking the sudden guest from nowhere for the beauty of the free existence. A policeman comes and the dreams of freedom vanish.
Director: Binka Zhelyazkova | Stars: Georgi Kaloyanchev, Grigor Vachkov, Ivan Bratanov, Georgi Georgiev-Getz
Votes: 213
70. The Baldlands (2015)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
When Baldness becomes a capital crime in New Zealand there is only one way out. Follow the struggles of four balding man in this imaginative dystopian black comedy as they attempt to avoid prison and find hope somewhere in The Baldlands.
Director: Bernie Rao | Stars: Murray Davidson, Christopher David Jacobs, Kimberly Buchan, Steven Macnamara
Votes: 12
71. În fiecare zi Dumnezeu ne saruta pe gura (2001)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of ... See full summary »
Director: Sinisa Dragin | Stars: Dan Condurache, Ana Ciontea, Horatiu Malaele, Dan Astileanu
Votes: 238
72. Gifts from Eykis
Action, Adventure, Comedy | Announced
An intelligent female being from another Universe can save the world before it's too late by sharing her secret gifts with the professor who found and fell in love with her.
Star: Wayne Dyer
73. Moteris ir keturi jos vyrai (1983)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Story set in a Baltic fishermen's settlement at the turn of the 20th century. The film's heroine keeps losing one husband after another, but there's always someone from the family to come and take care of her children and her house.
Director: Algimantas Puipa | Stars: Jurate Onaityte, Antanas Surna, Vidas Petkevicius, Saulius Balandis
Votes: 130
74. Tricks from the Bible (2006 TV Movie)
65 min | Comedy, Mystery
Magicians Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod turn their attention to stories from the Old Testament, and perform illusions based on some of the mystical feats recorded in the text.
Director: Simon Dinsell | Stars: Barry Jones, Stuart MacLeod, Oliver Tobias, Mark 'Bez' Berry
Votes: 27
75. Das Tripas Coração (1992)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do ... See full summary »
Director: Joaquim Pinto | Stars: Elsa Batalha, Manuel Wiborg, Leonor Silveira, Armando Cortez
Votes: 29
76. Is It Always Right to Be Right? (1970)
8 min | Animation, Short
The world is divided into factions, on opposite sides of issues; each side is, of course, right. And so the gap between the people grows, until someone challenges the absolutist view of what's "right."
Director: Lee Mishkin | Stars: Orson Welles, Diana Hale
Votes: 413
77. Sami's Cock (2010)
5 min | Short, Drama
Sami's Cock is an animal parable written by an Iraqi writer in Baghdad where he explains the entire Iraq situation through a parable about a rooster.
Director: George Larkin | Stars: Jamila Alina, C.S. Lee, Silas Weir Mitchell, Navid Negahban
Votes: 16
78. Ladder of Philosophy
Documentary, History | Announced
Four philosophers - an atheist, an agnostic, a Christian, and a Hindu - settle down to discuss life, reason, faith, and whatever else comes to mind.
Director: Martin Horlacher | Star: Martin Horlacher
79. Hidden Treasure (2007 Video)
13 min | Short, Comedy
A real estate agent discovers oil on an ugly property and must convince his wife and friends that it's real. Based on the parable of the Hidden Treasure from Matthew 13:44.
Director: Thomas Purifoy | Stars: Joshua Childs, Melissa Ausin, Evelyn Blythe, Matthew Carlton
Votes: 7
80. Progulka po eshafotu (1992)
123 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Two people in love find a hut in the woods, where they decide to overnight. The hut was on the shore of a lake and the beautiful view was only spoilt by an axe stuck in the wooden ... See full summary »
Director: Isaakas Fridbergas | Stars: Dmitriy Pevtsov, Olga Drozdova, Boris Plotnikov, S. Adoev
Votes: 113
81. That Something (1920)
Drama
Edwin Drake, disowned by his wealthy father for lack of self-sufficiency, is unable to get a job and becomes a tramp. But after a prophetic vision, he discovers his better self and his ... See full summary »
Director: Margery Wilson | Stars: Charles Meredith, Margery Wilson, Nigel De Brulier, Eugenia Drake
82. Chameleon (2017)
23 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Unable to fit into the corporate machine, a desperate man is willing to do anything to make his dreams of power a reality even if it means losing himself completely.
Director: Trevvor Riley | Stars: Spiros Psihos, Michael Sean Erickson, Roger Duplease, Michael Crate
Votes: 19
84. The Lion's Den (1919)
Passed | 50 min | Drama
Reverend Sam Webster admonishes his parishioners for their failure to finance a boys' club to keep the boys from frequenting the town's pool halls. The richest man in town, Grocer Stedman, ... See full summary »
Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Bert Lytell, Alice Lake, Joseph Kilgour, Edward Connelly
85. Deliverance (II) (2021)
6 min | Short, Drama
Two monks on a mission choose very different paths.
Director: Zachary Coffin | Stars: Sanjay Nath, Zachary Coffin, Ishit Yamini
Votes: 16
86. The Good Samaritan (1998)
12 min | Drama, Short
Director: Alisa Anglesey | Stars: Duff Clawson, Richard Losee, Marvin Hardy, Walter Wright
87. American Dirge (2023)
83 min | Documentary, Drama, Mystery
"American Dirge" is a cathartic journey of a man traveling through two battered souls - the American back country and his own.
Director: Joerg Steineck | Stars: Joshua D. Sanchez, Chris Cockrell, Caspar Vondj
88. Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (1958 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Stars: Käthe Reichel, Elisabeth Goebel, Hans Elwenspoek, Rolf Boysen
Votes: 19
89. Samaritan (II) (2006)
13 min | Short, Drama
A teenage boy watches his father and youth leader pass by a hurt man, only to see the man helped by someone he didn't expect to help him.
Director: Thomas Purifoy | Stars: Haithem Badrani, Joe Keenan, Cheyton Flanigan, Steve Flanigan
Votes: 5
90. The Fall (II) (2013)
17 min | Short, Drama
A couple is on vacation with their car. They drive past green hills and small roads. Suddenly the man realizes he lost his way. They drive into a forest. How thin is the layer veneer of civilization?
Director: Kristof Hoornaert | Stars: Geert Van Rampelberg, Natali Broods, Luca De Clercq
Votes: 61
91. Ichthys (2005)
TV-G | 16 min | Animation, Short
Tells the story of the eternal issue of human fate, hope, waiting and fulfilment. It shows an individual totally abandoned in his pursuit to fulfil his dreams, without significant influence on his fate...but only seemingly.
Director: Marek Skrobecki
Votes: 137
92. Shi xiong di nu hai chu mo (1960)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director: Wui Ng | Stars: Ying Cheung, Yim-Hing Law, Yiu-Lam Chan, Mang-Ha Cheng
93. La Deuda (2021)
TV-14 | 15 min | Short, Drama
A young Mexican boy tries to save his beloved pet goat from a debt collector.
Director: Jeff Prahl | Stars: Saul Martinez, Paco Mufote, Samuel Valdez, Elmer Tabanico
Votes: 35
94. The Improbable Son (2009 TV Movie)
36 min | Family
"The Improbable Son" is a lovable clown who takes his inheritance and ventures off on the journey of a lifetime, leaving family and friends in search of 'true happiness'. Set in the heart ... See full summary »
Directors: Yvonne Ainsworth, Allie Spencer | Stars: Abigail Ainsworth, Dominic Ainsworth, Nathanael Ainsworth, Kathryn Allwood
95. Karnabal (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Jaumet is about lo live his most unforgettable adventure. Traveling by car, he arrives in a village whose inhabitants are quite outlandishly, as if they were plunged in a rare carnival behavior.
Director: Carles Mira | Stars: Jaume Bernadet, Jordi Bulbena, Ramon Calduch, Montserrat Català
Votes: 15
96. Kolobok, kolobok!.. (1988)
10 min | Animation, Short
The parable of a wasted life is a new interpretation of an old fairy tale.
Director: Boris Akulinichev
Votes: 17
97. Kaïn (2009)
16 min | Short, Drama
Kain reflects in a contemplative way on our human condition. It's an audiovisual meditation on the cruelty and suffering of our tragic humanity. A short film about guilt and the birth of conscience.
Director: Kristof Hoornaert | Stars: Bart Desloovere, Kevin Plet
Votes: 52
98. Long Before When We Were the Birds (1982)
16 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Having disobeyed the leader, free birds were seduced by a golden cage. Based on a gypsy story.
Director: Garri Bardin | Stars: Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya, Rozaliya Erdenko, Boris Tashkentskiy, Nikolay Erdenko
Votes: 62
99. Vau-Vau (1964)
10 min | Animation, Short
A dog is scaring and making fun of all the other animals, until a surprising opponent appears.
Director: Boris Kolar
Votes: 44
100. Il tempo dell'inizio (1974)
127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.
Director: Luigi Di Gianni | Stars: Sven Lasta, Rada Rassimov, Jean Martin, Claudio Camaso
Votes: 52