World Cinema, a list by Orpheus

7.3

/6519/

74

/142/

71

/51/

3.6

/17990/

94

/16/

83

/11/

82

/6/

After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.

85

IMDb 72

7.5

/15412/

74

/459/

72

/266/

4.0

/153479/

98

/189/

92

/7/

91

/41/

4.0

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.

73

7.3

/2874/

73

/62/

70

/53/

3.8

/22768/

90

/40/

81

/8/

2.0

Johanne falls in love with her teacher and records her fantasies and feelings in writing. Together with her mother and grandmother, they debate the literary potential and whether to publish it.

75

6.6

/1408/

62

/33/

68

/10/

3.5

/7531/

95

/43/

80

/13/

3.5

Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.

86

IMDb 26

7.9

/27840/

78

/679/

77

/284/

4.2

/341725/

97

/218/

94

/51/

86

/44/

4.0

age 14+

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.

74

6.6

/568/

59

/10/

69

/9/

3.8

/6253/

97

/29/

76

/6/

3.0

As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.

79

7.4

/5092/

75

/187/

73

/94/

3.9

/50422/

98

/102/

84

/35/

77

/18/

3.0

age 15+

A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei to open a noodle stand at a vibrant night market, but family secrets and tradition test their fresh start.

76

59

7.1

/1597/

74

/92/

75

/28/

3.8

/18146/

95

/37/

70

/7/

In the conservative northwestern region of Argentina, Julieta finds herself accused of infanticide after a medical emergency. Facing a miscarriage of justice that lands her in prison for a crime she didn’t commit, her only hope is getting the chance to challenge her conviction in a courtroom battle with the help of Soledad, a fearless lawyer who risks everything to defend her. Their fight for justice will slowly begin to fuel a growing movement for solidarity and women’s rights.

69

6.0

/1050/

48

/20/

57

/12/

3.2

/7401/

80

/60/

80

/17/

4.0

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.

74

48

6.6

/714/

65

/18/

66

/12/

3.6

/5374/

98

/45/

81

/16/

16-year-old Lucia joins the Catholic school choir where she befriends senior Ana-Maria. During a choir retreat Lucia's attraction to a restoration worker creates tension with Ana-Maria and challenges her faith.

73

6.6

/1294/

57

/57/

68

/77/

3.5

/6909/

79

/48/

97

/8/

74

/12/

3.0

A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter.

71

6.4

/3791/

61

/222/

68

/84/

3.5

/52548/

93

/102/

56

/23/

76

/25/

3.5

Ryōsuke Yoshii, an ordinary reseller, carelessly earns grudges by people and becomes entangled in a life-threatening struggle.

75

7.0

/1382/

64

/37/

67

/32/

3.4

/10759/

95

/55/

80

/19/

3.5

Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.

79

64

7.2

/2251/

74

/67/

72

/41/

3.7

/32776/

100

/25/

83

/7/

In the name of economic recovery, the Brazilian Government created a perennial system of compulsory vertical isolation for seniors over 80 to be confined in a colony. Teca is 77 and lives in the village of Muriti, in the Amazon, when she is surprised by the announcement of the age reduction, including her age group. Cornered, Teca makes an intriguing journey hidden from the officers amidst rivers, boats and the underworld to clandestinely try to fulfill her last dream, to take a plane ride.

74

70

7.0

/13116/

61

/953/

69

/312/

3.6

/130354/

93

/112/

73

/23/

81

/22/

A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.

71

49

6.7

/809/

63

/27/

60

/21/

3.4

/5975/

92

/38/

80

/10/

A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.

80

6.7

/2297/

65

/91/

68

/41/

3.7

/20843/

99

/73/

87

/25/

4.0

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.

77

64

7.3

/3410/

73

/29/

72

/29/

3.7

/2267/

88

/26/

98

/56/

62

/6/

In 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child, Charlie returns in the hopes of finding a connection to his roots, but what he finds instead is a country crushed under Soviet rule. After being unjustly imprisoned, Charlie falls into despair, until he discovers that he can see into a nearby apartment from his cell window - the home of a prison guard.

67

6.2

/1880/

58

/89/

63

/88/

3.2

/23114/

85

/40/

65

/13/

3.0

Liane, 19 years old, daring and fiery, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become “someone”, she sees reality TV as her opportunity to be loved... Fate smiles upon her when she auditions for “Miracle Island”.

74

6.5

/1248/

62

/31/

69

/18/

3.5

/7599/

95

/59/

86

/18/

3.0

Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after a newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite the risks.

70

6.2

/2582/

61

/109/

63

/75/

3.2

/23481/

82

/119/

85

/50/

73

/25/

3.0

age 15+

An aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel.

82

7.6

/6032/

75

/372/

74

/337/

4.1

/81562/

100

/61/

83

/16/

3.5

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane recounts his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers, but Souleymane is not ready.

76

7.0

/33577/

70

/1847/

73

/810/

3.7

/332194/

96

/138/

87

/16/

70

/23/

3.0

age 17+

In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.

68

6.6

/2284/

58

/95/

66

/52/

3.5

/11696/

86

/28/

69

/10/

2.5

Two married, heterosexual chimney sweeps face experiences that unsettle their views on sexuality and identity. One has a same-sex encounter without considering it either as an expression of homosexuality or infidelity. The other finds himself in dreams where he is seen as a woman.

72

6.5

/2610/

63

/66/

66

/41/

3.4

/19140/

91

/64/

82

/17/

3.0

In 1917 Burma (now Myanmar), a British diplomat is set to marry his fiancée, but after a sudden panic, escapes to Singapore, sending her on what evolves into a chase across Asia.

75

6.9

/3891/

66

/182/

66

/216/

3.3

/20660/

97

/64/

75

/17/

74

/12/

3.5

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.

80

6.9

/2909/

73

/104/

73

/37/

3.8

/26834/

95

/84/

73

/16/

84

/24/

4.0

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-strange walking tour of Winnipeg historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.

77

64

7.0

/1803/

66

/115/

71

/75/

3.7

/11122/

100

/26/

83

/7/

Lesia, a teenager, is taken by a man to a villa where her fugitive father and his men are hiding. A war erupts, leading to death and a chase where father and daughter bond.

64

59

6.1

/2939/

57

/239/

59

/303/

3.3

/34657/

81

/26/

65

/7/

Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.

88

8.1

/142205/

83

/2590/

79

/937/

4.3

/720960/

97

/205/

97

/182/

85

/43/

4.0

age 14+

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

79

6.9

/6607/

67

/232/

70

/290/

3.6

/32148/

93

/72/

93

/25/

85

/16/

3.5

In the last days of the Second World War, a deserting soldier disrupts a tranquil and isolated mountain community. For one family, his arrival brings excitement and romance, but tragedy lies in wait.

66

49

7.1

/1575/

62

/41/

65

/32/

3.5

/6111/

71

/21/

61

/7/

Adi, a gay teenager, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.

71

51

6.6

/1007/

67

/44/

55

/23/

3.7

/5029/

100

/27/

68

/6/

Left to their own devices by their absent mother, Laura and her two sisters revel in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate.

72

63

6.7

/4211/

62

/198/

64

/142/

3.6

/37437/

94

/111/

65

/16/

83

/25/

Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn.

74

7.0

/3403/

68

/253/

69

/228/

3.7

/28565/

98

/46/

66

/4/

79

/14/

3.0

A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of two chemists.

80

66

7.4

/9412/

74

/209/

73

/128/

3.6

/35111/

100

/40/

88

/8/

80

/8/

Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.

83

7.5

/18760/

74

/773/

75

/408/

4.0

/104872/

97

/160/

94

/24/

84

/30/

3.5

Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.

73

6.5

/4121/

68

/386/

68

/169/

3.2

/6634/

94

/33/

91

/14/

65

/7/

3.0

A poor young man is wrongly charged with drug trafficking after being deceived. An ex-prosecutor investigates the case, uncovers a corrupt lawyer team's scheme, and restores justice despite obstruction from evil forces.

79

7.5

/18890/

73

/723/

75

/310/

3.9

/116151/

92

/110/

86

/40/

82

/22/

3.0

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

67

6.7

/3476/

69

/313/

68

/145/

3.6

/17358/

82

/34/

67

/10/

2.0

Mady, a student, works as a locksmith by night. He helps Claire get into her apartment and soon realizes that she lied to him about her identity and robbed something that belonged to a dangerous man, Yannick. Mady gets embroiled in a manhunt and will have one night to prove his innocence.

63

6.2

/617/

55

/22/

57

/7/

3.3

/5063/

65

/23/

66

/7/

3.0

A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.

74

7.0

/4717/

70

/152/

70

/78/

3.8

/40369/

72

/60/

76

/21/

75

/14/

3.5

In the sweltering back kitchen of a Times Square restaurant, undocumented cook Pedro is caught between mounting pressures at work and a complicated romance with waitress Julia. When money goes missing, suspicion spreads, igniting tensions that threaten to upend the fragile hopes of the staff.

74

57

7.0

/1720/

67

/41/

71

/39/

3.7

/10074/

88

/24/

74

/6/

Two young skaters, polar opposites in personality, team up to train for an ice-dancing competition, their growing bond blurring the lines between partners and more as winter unfolds.

67

6.3

/2798/

58

/105/

68

/58/

3.6

/41605/

86

/49/

37

/22/

65

/13/

3.5

Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.

68

45

6.6

/587/

58

/19/

64

/22/

3.4

/1986/

83

/24/

72

/7/

In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.

75

48

6.8

/473/

62

/15/

72

/13/

3.8

/5654/

100

/31/

76

/8/

After a scandal breaks out among several students involved in the production of a skit, a lecturer at a South Korean women's college brings in her uncle, a famous actor, to bring the work to fruition.

83

7.6

/45326/

78

/5110/

79

/1882/

4.1

/316852/

97

/88/

94

/49/

75

/10/

3.5

age 13+

Edmond Dantès becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.

66

55

6.6

/4170/

62

/189/

63

/102/

3.4

/20080/

85

/41/

52

/4/