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Kanopy
92
8.6
/398827/
84
/5714/
84
/4089/
4.6
/399556/
100
/103/
97
/6724/
98
/7/
cc age 13+

Seven Samurai (1954)
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
poster
Kanopy
90
8.3
/101068/
82
/1733/
83
/1288/
4.5
/179186/
98
/57/
96
/1465/
92
/20/
cc age 11+

Ikiru (1952)
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
poster
Kanopy
90
8.1
/76834/
81
/1455/
82
/1179/
4.4
/137727/
100
/52/
93
/872/
100
/19/

Tokyo Story (1953)
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
poster
90
8.3
/548379/
81
/9139/
81
/6011/
4.3
/573015/
98
/98/
94
/10882/
97
/32/
cc age 14+

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
poster
The Roku Channel
89
8.1
/67483/
79
/1163/
80
/1056/
4.4
/135962/
98
/63/
93
/953/
98
/21/

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.1
/30397/
79
/526/
78
/723/
4.3
/46189/
98
/41/
93
/453/
92
/9/

Umberto D. (1952)
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.0
/131951/
77
/2047/
81
/2473/
4.3
/245034/
97
/62/
91
/2559/
93
/23/

8½ (1963)
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.0
/133632/
79
/2254/
80
/2278/
4.3
/261175/
99
/72/
94
/2056/
cc age 13+

The 400 Blows (1959)
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
88
8.2
/191214/
80
/2690/
81
/2588/
4.3
/254338/
99
/67/
94
/2156/
cc age 12+

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
poster
87
8.1
/10522/
79
/278/
75
/213/
4.2
/19771/
100
/21/
92
/142/

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.0
/139405/
80
/2615/
81
/2360/
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
Kanopy
87
8.1
/214452/
78
/3483/
81
/3261/
4.3
/373390/
93
/73/
93
/3121/
88
/15/
cc age 13+

The Seventh Seal (1957)
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
poster
Kanopy
87
8.1
/138376/
80
/3157/
81
/2136/
4.4
/638134/
95
/58/
93
/1255/
81
/13/

Paris, Texas (1984)
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.0
/155382/
78
/3266/
81
/2424/
4.4
/339604/
100
/47/
92
/1588/
85
/17/

Stalker (1979)
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
86
8.3
/775621/
79
/19245/
80
/12312/
4.2
/1342485/
90
/164/
88
/17084/
84
/25/
cc age 12+

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
8.3
/5521/
79
/122/
78
/99/
4.2
/13227/
93
/27/
92
/28/

The Big City (1963)
After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.1
/123634/
79
/1690/
80
/1767/
4.3
/165103/
94
/49/
94
/1307/
88
/17/

Wild Strawberries (1957)
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
8.1
/22311/
81
/567/
78
/421/
4.4
/119522/
100
/11/
91
/86/

Where Is The Friend's House? (1987)
An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
poster
Kanopy
86
7.9
/104346/
77
/2268/
77
/1773/
4.2
/193288/
92
/66/
89
/1488/
93
/8/

Solaris (1972)
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/60108/
78
/887/
79
/918/
4.4
/90103/
96
/46/
93
/674/

Andrei Rublev (1966)
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
poster
Kanopy
85
8.1
/222452/
82
/5111/
81
/4417/
4.5
/934809/
96
/73/
95
/2372/
cc age 16+

La Haine (1995)
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/56959/
79
/1124/
80
/1057/
4.3
/172040/
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
8.0
/42978/
79
/716/
78
/808/
4.2
/96769/
100
/27/
93
/335/

Ivan's Childhood (1962)
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.2
/26380/
80
/660/
79
/436/
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
Kanopy
85
7.9
/34585/
78
/611/
77
/596/
4.3
/86899/
88
/43/
90
/293/
85
/21/

The Sacrifice (1986)
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
poster
Plex
84
8.0
/85278/
77
/1427/
80
/1998/
4.3
/143802/
95
/77/
90
/1537/
95
/13/
cc age 15+

La Dolce Vita (1960)
Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
8.1
/41699/
81
/795/
80
/678/
4.5
/128943/
85
/33/
92
/358/

Autumn Sonata (1978)
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.
poster
Peacock Premium
84
8.4
/1212439/
81
/29859/
82
/18549/
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
Kanopy
83
7.7
/29926/
75
/858/
75
/440/
4.1
/91978/
93
/27/
85
/519/
83
/15/

My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.9
/32782/
77
/532/
78
/589/
4.3
/75437/
88
/25/
90
/236/
74
/9/

Nostalgia (1983)
Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
78
7.4
/13822/
74
/254/
71
/188/
4.1
/32119/
97
/32/
84
/126/
87
/19/

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
77
8.0
/8856/
76
/134/
77
/266/
4.1
/12251/
100
/12/
92
/61/
82
/7/

Shoeshine (1946)
Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
76
7.7
/11646/
76
/234/
74
/200/
4.2
/38817/
88
/16/
88
/51/

Through the Olive Trees (1994)
When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.4
/4747/
74
/122/
70
/129/
3.8
/3954/
93
/28/
74
/36/
68
/11/

Stations of the Cross (2014)
Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Paul and their traditionalist interpretation of Catholicism. Everything that Maria thinks and does must be examined before God. And since the Lord is a strict shepherd, she lives in constant fear of committing some misconduct...
poster
Kanopy
74
7.3
/25035/
72
/542/
71
/375/
3.7
/10942/
87
/77/
80
/230/
68
/24/

Bullhead (2011)
A young cattle farmer is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious beef trader.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.4
/9045/
68
/128/
73
/133/
3.8
/14161/
85
/53/
80
/124/
86
/21/

Ten (2002)
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
poster
73
7.3
/9217/
71
/496/
73
/349/
3.7
/88063/
90
/41/
73
/37/
70
/12/
7.2
/19106/

Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.7
/42847/
77
/918/
76
/681/
4.3
/185472/
83
/40/
83
/383/
80
/22/

Taste of Cherry (1997)
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
71
7.9
/8887/
79
/196/
76
/167/
4.3
/37970/

Life, and Nothing More… (1992)
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
69
7.4
/7766/
74
/131/
70
/156/
3.8
/15628/
92
/12/
83
/34/

The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a steamroller in their upscale Moscow neighborhood.
poster
Kanopy
68
6.1
/7137/
61
/582/
60
/235/
3.3
/18570/
92
/87/
62
/38/
72
/18/

The Beta Test (2021)
An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.
poster
Hulu
66
7.0
/253608/
70
/6522/
67
/2077/
3.7
/613181/
72
/172/
74
/51145/
64
/36/
cc age 11+

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
poster
Kanopy
65
7.5
/74112/
74
/1342/
72
/1856/
3.5
/43117/
45
/76/
89
/2753/
45
/30/

Love Me If You Dare (2003)
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
6.2
/15679/
64
/1048/
61
/344/
3.4
/38463/
78
/100/
57
/131/
63
/23/

The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
poster
76
59
7.4
/2260/
75
/143/
76
/73/
4.0
/53598/

Possibly in Michigan (1983)
A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.
poster
Hulu
57
4.6
/16063/
50
/2088/
51
/405/
2.4
/44129/
71
/92/
53
/71/
63
/16/
cc age 15+

Ash (2025)
On the mysterious planet of Ash, Riya awakens to find her crew slaughtered. When a man named Brion arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues while Riya and Brion must decide if they can trust one another to survive.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
56
5.8
/3033/
57
/170/
58
/76/
3.0
/7634/
80
/61/
57
/23/
56
/5/

Koko-di Koko-da (2019)
As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.
poster
The Roku Channel
60
53
6.8
/5058/
65
/125/
61
/80/
3.3
/1598/
57
/14/
65
/141/
43
/5/

Gardens of the Night (2008)
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.


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