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poster
Criterion Channel
90
8.4
/25112/
81
/540/
82
/501/
4.5
/62599/
100
/33/
93
/343/

Woman in the Dunes (1964)
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
poster
GuideDoc
88
8.3
/30015/
79
/725/
78
/782/
4.3
/87525/
98
/43/
88
/577/
96
/16/

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
poster
87
8.0
/104627/
79
/2457/
78
/2080/
4.2
/213062/
96
/163/
92
/7559/
90
/31/
cc age 15+

Persepolis (2007)
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.0
/139317/
80
/2615/
81
/2356/
4.4
/395286/
91
/58/
93
/1489/
86
/18/

Persona (1966)
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
8.0
/37827/
77
/722/
79
/711/
4.2
/65342/
94
/35/
92
/474/

The Exterminating Angel (1962)
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
poster
86
7.9
/31339/
76
/775/
76
/702/
4.2
/60590/
96
/67/
92
/419/
92
/19/

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
poster
Disney Plus
86
8.0
/107809/
78
/2072/
77
/1728/
4.2
/152298/
95
/112/
91
/1579/
86
/32/
cc age 13+

The Straight Story (1999)
A retired farmer and widower in his seventies named Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.8
/14393/
76
/290/
76
/279/
4.1
/34774/
97
/33/
89
/209/

Orpheus (1950)
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
poster
Kanopy
85
7.7
/50114/
73
/918/
74
/878/
4.0
/98803/
98
/60/
88
/744/
93
/12/

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/56920/
79
/1119/
79
/1056/
4.3
/171047/
100
/30/
91
/543/
82
/14/

Mirror (1975)
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.2
/26359/
80
/660/
80
/433/
4.4
/125883/
89
/19/
88
/179/
92
/15/

Close-Up (1990)
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
poster
84
7.9
/422632/
76
/10823/
78
/6833/
4.3
/1116364/
84
/264/
87
/10342/
87
/38/
cc age 18+

Mulholland Drive (2001)
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
poster
Peacock Premium
84
8.4
/1211479/
81
/29859/
82
/18537/
4.2
/2909361/
84
/111/
93
/28531/
68
/26/
cc age 15+

The Shining (1980)
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
84
8.4
/1421183/
83
/32269/
81
/15834/
4.2
/1728001/
93
/184/
94
/27543/
83
/34/
cc age 17+

Memento (2000)
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
poster
Fandor
83
7.6
/56330/
71
/1236/
73
/1380/
3.8
/138723/
100
/26/
85
/1343/

Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.6
/26723/
74
/521/
74
/528/
4.1
/59111/
93
/58/
84
/612/

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
poster
Kanopy
83
8.2
/44265/
80
/1188/
78
/753/
4.3
/85110/
91
/23/
91
/1147/

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
83
7.7
/632175/
77
/35927/
75
/13977/
4.0
/1227764/
92
/290/
86
/4641/
78
/42/
cc age 17+

Ex Machina (2015)
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.7
/12809/
70
/244/
75
/252/
3.9
/19162/
93
/44/
86
/308/

Pandora's Box (1929)
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
poster
Kanopy
82
8.2
/12004/
81
/243/
78
/240/
4.4
/40688/
100
/5/
62
/5/
91
/20/

I Am Cuba (1964)
Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.5
/17140/
75
/497/
74
/371/
4.3
/89414/
95
/64/
77
/145/
94
/16/

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.7
/18362/
73
/300/
74
/315/
4.0
/24765/
85
/26/
91
/244/

The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
poster
Kanopy
82
8.4
/39708/
81
/1433/
80
/665/
4.2
/37155/
75
/77/
87
/439/
65
/24/

Samsara (2011)
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
poster
HBO Max
81
8.0
/1019934/
79
/49864/
77
/14364/
3.9
/3696169/
83
/513/
90
/3233/
74
/68/
cc age 13+

Dune (2021)
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
poster
81
7.1
/6017/
72
/212/
77
/163/
4.0
/39221/
100
/6/
77
/30/
72
/4/

On the Silver Globe (1989)
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.5
/25384/
73
/593/
71
/485/
4.0
/56460/
88
/43/
86
/541/

Santa Sangre (1989)
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
6.9
/16595/
68
/290/
68
/308/
3.7
/33205/
93
/27/
78
/559/

Weekend (1967)
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
poster
80
7.4
/72057/
71
/1264/
73
/1333/
3.8
/138571/
87
/52/
84
/1447/
82
/15/

Blow-Up (1966)
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
8.0
/17369/
79
/474/
78
/291/
3.6
/8389/
93
/598/
cc age 15+

Something the Lord Made (2004)
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
79
7.8
/11764/
77
/280/
78
/273/
4.2
/52860/
86
/7/
90
/103/
6.9
/2890/

The Face of Another (1966)
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.
poster
Cultpix
79
7.7
/51874/
75
/1349/
75
/992/
4.1
/147865/
84
/25/
88
/1358/
76
/11/

The Holy Mountain (1973)
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/41592/
76
/1597/
76
/1067/
4.0
/252435/
91
/33/
87
/9231/
73
/13/
cc age 13+

Fantastic Planet (1973)
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.3
/115220/
73
/3840/
74
/3121/
3.9
/528007/
94
/64/
83
/3124/
79
/11/

Suspiria (1977)
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
poster
79
8.2
/279955/
79
/4394/
80
/3811/
4.3
/386144/
91
/65/
93
/3299/
78
/16/
cc age 14+

The Elephant Man (1980)
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
poster
79
7.6
/216692/
74
/4941/
72
/2477/
3.9
/234636/
93
/92/
90
/7076/
79
/31/
cc age 15+

Run Lola Run (1998)
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/20354/
78
/1640/
75
/535/
4.1
/86605/
70
/10/
90
/42/
8.2
/222871/

Redline (2009)
A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs every five years, but in order to participate he must overcome the mafia, the government and even love.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.2
/141846/
71
/3624/
73
/2669/
3.8
/501245/
87
/84/
82
/4766/
87
/15/
cc age 16+

Eraserhead (1977)
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
poster
Kanopy
80
78
7.6
/16138/
75
/338/
73
/319/
4.1
/87030/
94
/17/
83
/162/

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
poster
Kanopy
80
78
7.7
/12955/
76
/296/
74
/259/
4.2
/43933/
88
/16/
86
/245/

Sans Soleil (1983)
A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
poster
78
8.0
/89237/
81
/2535/
79
/1603/
4.1
/114174/
73
/30/
89
/4368/
47
/13/

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
poster
Hoopla
77
6.8
/19977/
67
/1383/
68
/523/
3.8
/143014/
92
/92/
69
/111/
80
/14/

Mad God (2021)
A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
77
7.6
/11051/
75
/201/
77
/509/
3.9
/26255/
100
/16/
88
/56/

Accattone (1961)
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.3
/1344/
72
/71/
72
/29/
3.6
/3744/
93
/60/
90
/26/
71
/17/

Kusama: Infinity (2018)
Now one of the world’s most celebrated artists, Yayoi Kusama broke free of the rigid society in which she was raised, and overcame sexism, racism, and mental illness to bring her artistic vision to the world stage. At 88 she lives in a mental hospital and continues to create art.
poster
77
7.5
/15831/
74
/774/
77
/541/
4.1
/130217/
82
7.7
/69863/

Angel's Egg (1985)
In the ruins of a strange city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms. She bonds with a boy who is searching for a bird he saw in a dream.
poster
The Roku Channel
77
7.5
/103811/
75
/3025/
75
/1542/
4.2
/262872/
69
/193/
71
/3840/
67
/34/

Synecdoche, New York (2008)
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
77
7.3
/191990/
72
/4443/
71
/2414/
3.7
/148136/
88
/58/
85
/6594/
72
/23/
cc age 16+

Pi (1998)
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.3
/656/
75
/44/
68
/26/
3.4
/795/
91
/23/
74
/6/

M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity (2018)
A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts of his lectures.
poster
76
7.4
/74535/
73
/1766/
72
/1181/
3.8
/54135/
80
/61/
89
/3272/
73
/16/
cc age 16+

The City of Lost Children (1995)
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.


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