My Favorite Photoplays
by Perception_de_Ambiguity | created - 29 Aug 2013 | updated - 3 weeks ago | PublicStarted in 2010 this list of films (and in a number of cases works kindred to this medium) are favorites that I have accumulated since then.
As opposed to having them ranked according to some notions of preference any given new favorite is added to the top of the list, hence it starts with most recent additions and goes back in time. This also makes it function as a sort of chronicle of my adventures in film that may or may not exhibit some personal evolution or at least reflect some changes of interests, preoccupations, tastes, etc. over the years.
It mostly comprises of first-time viewings, but also features rewatches in cases where I hadn't held the film in high personal regard before but which upon rewatch made a big impression on me. Those rewatches I have marked with a "°" in the comments.
Within "[ ]" I added "personalized genre descriptions".
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Not listed on IMDb:
EstrellarSe (2022, Amadalia Liberté - CL, 13 min)
Tease Me Ready (2022, Bea Blue - DE, 14 min)
Apeiron (Eurico Coelho, 1992)
Supersurface: An Alternative Model for Life on Earth (Superstudio, 1972)
Self-Encounter: A Study in Existentialism (with Hazel E. Barnes) (by KRMA-TV Denver, 1962)
Nawi (David & Judith MacDougall, 1970)
Episode: 1 (Renzo Martens, 2003)
Psychedelic Trip Music And Visuals 2018 (HD) PART 4 (sans soundtrack) (published by sd3345 on Dec 6, 2015)
Munchsferatu (Julien Lahmi, 2017)
El Guincho - Bombay (Canada, 2010)
Couch Gag for The Sampsans Epasode Numbar 553 "Clown in the Dumps" (Don Hertzfeldt, 2014)
Fame (Steven Klein)
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Added to IMDb at a later point (hence listed out of order):
Heliopolis Heliopolis (Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy, 2017)
DECK (Leighton Pierce, 2018) [not opened up for voting]
Safe Condition: Document in the Past Perfect (Lars Mathisen, 1994)
Samouraï / Samurai (Johanna Vaude, 2002)
Blade Runner [alternative final cut by Johanna Vaude] / Blade Runner Tribute / Blade Runner par Johanna Vaude - Blow up / Remember futur replications of human experiences (Johanna Vaude, 2013)
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1. Private Universe (2012)
83 min | Documentary, Family, History
Covering a span of 35 years in the life of Honza, a man born 'on camera' in 1974.
Director: Helena Trestíková | Stars: Samuel Jirásek, Jan Kettner, Petr Kettner, Eva Kettnerová
Votes: 84
2. Top of the Heap (1972)
R | 90 min | Drama
A D.C. black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent personal crusade against criminals punctuated by feverish psychedelic dream visions.
Director: Christopher St. John | Stars: Christopher St. John, Paula Kelly, Florence St. Peter, Leonard Kuras
Votes: 398 | Gross: $0.26M
3. Galaxie (1966)
82 min
In 1966, Gregory Markopoulos filmed portraits of notable figures in the New York art world, including painters, poets, critics, filmmakers, and choreographers. Markopoulos populated his ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos | Stars: Parker Tyler, Storm De Hirsch, Amy Taubin, Donald Droll
Votes: 22
4. The Illiac Passion (1967)
90 min | Drama
Prometheus engages in repeated scenes of bisexuality in this independent feature from the New York underground.
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos | Stars: Richard Beauvais, David Beauvais, Robert Alvarez, Taylor Mead
Votes: 43
6. Ming Green (1966)
7 min | Short
An experimental short from Gregory J. Markopoulos which acquires it's title from the color of the walls of the apartment where it is filmed.
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos
Votes: 159
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7. Twice a Man (1963)
49 min | Drama
Paul Klib stars in this experimental film in which he is loved by his stepmother as well as another man (Albert Torgessen). He sees his stepmother as both a young woman ( Olympia Dukakis ) and an older one (Violet Roditi).
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos | Stars: Olympia Dukakis, Paul Kilb, Gerard Malanga, Violet Roditi
Votes: 171
°
8. Swain (1950)
24 min | Short
Features a dreamlike narrative of a young man's ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape.
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos | Stars: Gregory J. Markopoulos, Mary Zelles
Votes: 17
9. River (2023)
86 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
On a calm winter's day, a mountain inn becomes trapped in a time loop.
Director: Junta Yamaguchi | Stars: Riko Fujitani, Manami Honjô, Gôta Ishida, Yoshimasa Kondô
Votes: 930
10. Answering the Sun (2022)
Not Rated | 59 min | Animation
The invitation is to squint our eyes and allow the most amazing trips to unfold. The work is a bombardment of colored fields and a wall of sound, followed by a hallucinatory, silent inky-black sequence.
Director: Rainer Kohlberger
Votes: 26
11. The Boy and the Heron (2023)
PG-13 | 124 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki, Aimyon
Votes: 51,165
12. Du sang, de la volupté et de la mort, part III: Charmides (1948)
15 min | Short
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos
Votes: 21
13. Du sang, de la volupté et de la mort, part II: Lysis (1948)
30 min | Short
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos | Star: Gregory J. Markopoulos
Votes: 19
14. Du sang, de la volupté et de la mort, part I: Psyche (1948)
25 min | Short
Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos' developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the Hollywood hills, the film was inspired by an unfinished novella by Pierre Louÿs.
Director: Gregory J. Markopoulos | Stars: George Emmons, Ann Wells
Votes: 23
15. Babylon (I) (2022)
R | 189 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 167,901
°
16. Kino Wien Film (2018)
97 min | Documentary
Vienna's Cinemas is a journey through Vienna's movie theaters from 1896 to today. Told through the stories of movie theater owners, projectionists and technicians, audience members, an ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Rosdy | Stars: Wolfram Berger, Kirk Douglas, Christian Dörfler, Herbert Dörfler
Votes: 19
17. Les jeux sont faits (1947)
105 min | Drama, Fantasy
Two people learn to love each other in the afterlife and get a second chance.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Micheline Presle, Marcello Pagliero, Marguerite Moreno, Charles Dullin
Votes: 260
18. Bad Living (2023)
127 min | Drama
Follows five women who fight for the stability of a hotel they inherited, living an "old and irresolvable conflict," with many conversations that have been postponed and much that remains to be said within a family.
Director: João Canijo | Stars: Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco, Madalena Almeida, Cleia Almeida
Votes: 572
19. Beau Is Afraid (2023)
R | 179 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Nathan Lane
Votes: 60,759
20. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 731,015 | Gross: $326.11M
21. Space Adventure Cobra (1982)
Not Rated | 99 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
After two years in hiding, a famed space pirate with a "psychogun" for a left arm joins a bounty huntress on a quest to save her world, only to find himself battling an old enemy.
Director: Osamu Dezaki | Stars: Shigeru Matsuzaki, Akiko Nakamura, Toshiko Fujita, Yoshiko Sakakibara
Votes: 2,311
22. The Roads to Freedom (1970)
559 min | Drama, War
Dramatisation of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy.
Stars: Michael Bryant, Daniel Massey, Alison Fiske, Georgia Brown
Votes: 172
23. Triangle of Sadness (2022)
R | 147 min | Comedy, Drama
A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.
Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Thobias Thorwid, Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Jiannis Moustos
Votes: 178,446
24. The Kingdom (1994–2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Doctors at an ultramodern hospital in Denmark become convinced, by way of weird, inexplicable happenings, that the place is haunted.
Stars: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Nørby, Søren Pilmark
Votes: 20,360 | Gross: $0.09M
The Kingdom: Exodus (2022)
25.
Love, Death & Robots (2019– )
Episode:
Jibaro
(2022)
TV-MA | 17 min | Animation, Short, Action
A deaf knight and a siren of myth become entwined in a deadly dance. A fatal attraction infused with blood, death and treasure.
Directors: Jerome Denjean, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Alberto Mielgo | Stars: Girvan 'Swirv' Bramble, Rosario Dawson, Joe Manganiello
Votes: 15,428
26. The Lover (1992)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jane March, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Jeanne Moreau, Frédérique Meininger
Votes: 23,510 | Gross: $4.90M
27. Athena (2022)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
Director: Romain Gavras | Stars: Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek
Votes: 22,357
28. Blonde (2022)
NC-17 | 167 min | Drama, History
The story of American actress Marilyn Monroe, covering her love and professional lives.
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Ana de Armas, Lily Fisher, Julianne Nicholson, Tygh Runyan
Votes: 72,021
29. Ishi no uta (1963 TV Movie)
24 min | Documentary
While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say "the stone is coming to life". This paradox provided Matsumoto with the best metaphor for what making a film is all about.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Votes: 96
30. THX 1138 (1971)
R | 86 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In the 25th century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie
Votes: 54,641 | Gross: $2.44M
° The George Lucas Director's Cut (2004)
31. Civilisation (1969–1970)
TV-G | 698 min | Documentary, History, Music
Sir Kenneth Clarke walks through the ages exploring the glorious rise of civilization in Western man.
Stars: Kenneth Clark, Ian Richardson, Ronald Lacey, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 1,069
32. Nine Inch Nails: We're in This Together (1999 Music Video)
6 min | Music, Thriller
A promotional video for Nine Inch Nails' 1999 single "We're in This Together."
Director: Mark Pellington | Star: Trent Reznor
Votes: 142
director's cut / extended version (7 min 53 sec)
33. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
R | 128 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
Votes: 238,565 | Gross: $82.52M
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34. The Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)
64 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery
Mr Toomey obsessively tears paper to control his childhood monsters, but when he wakes mid-flight to Boston to find most of the other passengers disappeared, he must confront the paper nightmare which threaten to rip everything apart.
Directors: Aristotelis Maragkos, Tom Holland | Stars: Bronson Pinchot, Kate Maberly, Dean Stockwell, David Morse
Votes: 297
35. Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements (1931)
54 min | Documentary
Without sound, in three movements. Title cards declare that what a person likes and his manner of liking them reveals character. There are long looks at forms and rhythms. The film begins ... See full summary »
Director: Henwar Rodakiewicz
Votes: 159
36. The Inside Outtakes (2022 Video)
TV-MA | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Exactly one year after the release of the one man show, "Bo Burnham: Inside" (made in one room, by one person, throughout the pandemic,) comes a series of unseen outtakes, deleted scenes, ... See full summary »
Director: Bo Burnham | Stars: Bo Burnham, David The Spider, Unnamed Spider
Votes: 1,917
37. Ride or Die (2021)
TV-MA | 142 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.
Director: Ryûichi Hiroki | Stars: Kiko Mizuhara, Honami Satô, Shinya Niiro, Shunsuke Tanaka
Votes: 2,537
38. Toutes les nuits (2001)
112 min | Drama
Re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution to the May 68 generation through a chronicle of the parallel lives of a pair of childhood friends: pragmatic Henri and idealistic Jules.
Director: Eugène Green | Stars: Alexis Loret, Adrien Michaux, Christelle Prot, Anna Bielecka
Votes: 318
39. All Light, Everywhere (2021)
Unrated | 105 min | Documentary
A far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras.
Director: Theo Anthony | Stars: Theo Anthony, Keaver Brenai, Robert Cunniff, Ross McNutt
Votes: 883
40. Shiki Natsuko (1980)
120 min | Drama, Romance
A 20-year-old woman feels entrapped in her relationship with her current boyfriend - she wants out of her "nowhere" life and into something better. To that end, she hooks up with a ... See full summary »
Director: Yôichi Higashi | Stars: Setsuko Karasuma, Hitomi Kageyama, Akiko Kana, Mitsuko Ota
Votes: 113
41. Egotic World (2000)
30 min | Short
Narrative of a 17-year-old boy who is entrapped inside an abode, inside a hole in the earth that is actually located in an industrial belt. He escapes from this zone for three days of ... See full summary »
Director: Vipin Vijay
Votes: 6
42. The Keep (1983)
R | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow
Votes: 14,316 | Gross: $3.76M
35mm Fanres Grindhouse Scan
43. Atarashî kamisama (1999)
99 min | Comedy, Documentary
Karin and her "comrade" Ito have started a band, playing nationalist punk music. Left-wing filmmaker TSUCHIYA decides to give Karin a video camera to film herself and her daily life. Camera... See full summary »
Director: Yutaka Tsuchiya | Stars: Karin Amemiya, Hidehito Itô, Yutaka Tsuchiya
Votes: 53
44. Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute (1971)
72 min | Drama
A young girl, already a jaded sexual veteran, embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery to find out the true reasons for her dissatisfaction and total desensitization.
Directors: Masao Adachi, Haruhiko Arai | Stars: Aki Sasaki, Hiroshi Saitô, Makiko Kim, Yûji Aoki
Votes: 440
45. Don't Look Up (2021)
R | 138 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn humankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 602,206
46. The Matrix Resurrections (I) (2021)
R | 148 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
Director: Lana Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff
Votes: 279,774
48. The Green Knight (2021)
R | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Director: David Lowery | Stars: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury
Votes: 118,128
49. Cocoon (1995)
20 min | Short
A short, silent, black and white story about life, survival, death; animals, objects, trees; young and old. It is mostly an aggregation of a bunch of good photos, which is not surprising, as Ceylan is also a photographer.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Turgut Toprak
Votes: 2,885
51. Doctor Faustus (1967)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man sells his soul to the devil in order to have the woman he loves.
Directors: Richard Burton, Nevill Coghill | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Andreas Teuber, Ram Chopra
Votes: 1,343
52. Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)
70 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future.
Director: Junta Yamaguchi | Stars: Kazunari Tosa, Riko Fujitani, Gôta Ishida, Masashi Suwa
Votes: 8,091
53. The Card Counter (2021)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
William Tell is an ex-military interrogator living under the radar as a low-stakes gambler. When he encounters a young man looking to commit revenge against a mutual enemy, he takes him on the casino circuit to set him on a new path.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 43,034
54. Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts (2016)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Made without camera or film, Austrian artist Rainer Kohlberger's algorithm-based abstractions engulf the cinema space with their light rhythms and optical vibrations.
Director: Rainer Kohlberger
Votes: 15
55. The South (1988)
R | 127 min | Drama
The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando E. Solanas | Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz
Votes: 1,067
56. Just a Beginning (2010)
97 min | Documentary
"Just A Beginning" follows a nursery school class for a period of two years. But this is a very unusual class as the children, aged three to five study... philosophy!
Directors: Pierre Barougier, Jean-Pierre Pozzi
Votes: 154
57. The Education of Fredrick Fitzell (2020)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a chance encounter with a man forgotten from his youth, Fred literally and metaphorically journeys into his past.
Director: Christopher MacBride | Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Liisa Repo-Martell, Maika Monroe, Hannah Gross
Votes: 7,125
58. N: O: T: H: I: N: G (1968)
36 min | Short
An experimental short film primarily consisting of flickering color screens with the occasional image of a light bulb or chair displayed.
Director: Paul Sharits
Votes: 91
59. Midsommar (2019)
R | 148 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper
Votes: 403,832 | Gross: $27.33M
60. Faust Sonnengesang II (2015)
180 min | Drama
Director: Werner Fritsch | Star: Michael Altmann
Votes: 6
61.
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989–1999)
Episode:
Les signes parmi nous
(1999)
38 min | Documentary
An 8-part documentary chronically the history of cinema: "All the Histories", "A Single History", "Only Cinema", "Deadly "Beauty", "The Coin of the Absolute", "A New Wave", "The Control of the Universe", and "The Signs Among Us".
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 686
62. Cockroach (2020)
93 min | Documentary
In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to face trial in mainland China. The controversial ... See full summary »
Director: Ai Weiwei
Votes: 48
63. Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1990 TV Movie)
137 min | Drama
Two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness.
Director: Samuel Beckett | Stars: Lawrence Held, Bud Thorpe, Alan Mendell, Rick Cluchey
Votes: 46
64. Number Two (1975)
88 min | Documentary, Drama
An analysis of the power relations in an ordinary family.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey, Alexandre Rignault, Rachel Stefanopoli
Votes: 1,056
65. Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres (1978)
70 min | Documentary
The Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy talks about his life and work. Footage of Cairo, Gharb Assouan, New Gourna, Kom-Ombo.
Directors: Borhane Alaouié, Lotfi Thabet | Star: Hassan Fathy
Votes: 21
66. Paris Is Us (2019)
83 min | Drama
Anna misses the flight she should have taken to find Greg in Barcelona. The plane crashes.
Director: Elisabeth Vogler | Stars: Noémie Schmidt, Grégoire Isvarine, Marie Mottet, Lou Castel
Votes: 1,509
67. Pain Is... (1998)
80 min | Documentary
Combines interviews, archival footage and Dwoskin's thoughtful remarks to arrive at a scrupulous anatomy of pain (disease, dental work and sadomasochism). Chats with chronic pain patients or those who are exacting it as an act of pleasure.
Director: Stephen Dwoskin | Stars: Stephen Dwoskin, Astley Harvey
Votes: 40
68. Voyage au Congo (1927)
94 min | Documentary
A love partner of the writer André Gide, as well as his travel companion in their journey to the French colonies of Central Africa, Marc Allégret decided to film their 11-month wandering in... See full summary »
Director: Marc Allégret
Votes: 55
69. The Flying Fish (2019)
21 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
The journey of a flying fish marks the beginning of the transition to a new era.
Director: Murat Sayginer
Votes: 36
71. News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital (2008 Video)
570 min | Documentary
Director Alexander Kluge provides his own take of Eisenstein's unfinished filming of Karl Marx's Capital, a subject that the Russian director and James Joyce had debated in 1927.
Director: Alexander Kluge | Stars: Oksana Bulgakova, Dietmar Dath, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Durs Grünbein
Votes: 70
72. The Image Threads (2011)
Not Rated | 102 min | Fantasy, Romance
A computer teacher, his black-magician grandfather and a female cyber-creature -- a series of pre-destined rendezvous, both on line and offline, over the shreds of mnemonic time and space, ... See full summary »
Director: Vipin Vijay | Star: Sandeep Chattopadhyay
Votes: 39
73. Mare's Tail (1968)
143 min
It begins with a meditative, vibrating drone in the dark auditorium and ends with a word scratched onto the film strip: REFLECT - an invitation to viewers to think about what they have seen... See full summary »
Director: David Larcher
Votes: 16
74. The Unknown Craftsman (2017)
92 min
Director: Amit Dutta | Stars: Sunil Rana, Nitin Goel, Rahat Mahajan, Dolly Rana
Votes: 26
75. Operation Naked (2016 TV Movie)
50 min | Sci-Fi
Michelle Spark develops a new technology: data glasses. The device can recognize faces and connect them with online information. The impact of this invention becomes evident when a private secret of one citizen is broadcast to the public.
Director: Mario Sixtus | Stars: Sarah-Rebecca Gerstner, Gabor Biedermann, Sinan Al-Kurikchi, Hans Hohlbein
Votes: 59
76. Keep That Dream Burning (2017)
8 min | Documentary, Short
Rainer Kohlberger applied various algorithms to extract the noise from a vast number of action films and used this to reduce the dramaturgy of the narrative to its essence.
Director: Rainer Kohlberger
Votes: 20
78. The Giant (II) (2019)
Unrated | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A teenager's small town life is changed forever when a series of murders begin on the same night that her missing boyfriend suddenly reappears.
Director: David Raboy | Stars: Odessa Young, Ben Schnetzer, Jack Kilmer, Madelyn Cline
Votes: 475
79. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
R | 134 min | Drama, Thriller
Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
Votes: 100,118
80. World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (2020)
34 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A hidden memory sends David across the far reaches of time and space to solve a deadly mystery involving his time-traveling future selves.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Julia Pott, Jack Parrett
Votes: 614
81. Chromo sud (1968)
21 min | Short
Director: Étienne O'Leary | Stars: Anne-Marie, Michel Auder, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, Margareth Clémenti
Votes: 40
82. Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World (1988)
240 min
Director: R. Bruce Elder
Votes: 11
83. Faust Sonnengesang (2011)
180 min | Drama
Mephisto, associated with the more apocalyptic nightmares and Walpurgis Night visions, and Mephista appear in multiple guise, speak with ever different voices, help memorizing those moments... See full summary »
Director: Werner Fritsch | Stars: Maria Happel, Corinna Harfouch, Jens Harzer, Irm Hermann
Votes: 25
84. Homeo (1967)
38 min | Short
"Homeo: Minor death: Coming back from goin' home" - A travelogue of sorts, O'Leary second work blends cityscapes, nature, summer holidays, and charismatic portraits all together, with ... See full summary »
Director: Étienne O'Leary | Stars: Michel Asso, Michel Auder, Yves Beneyton, Dennis Berry
Votes: 37
85. Umbra (I) (2019)
20 min | Documentary, Short
An exploration of various optical phenomena that occur in nature - ancient and natural projections.
Directors: Florian Fischer, Johannes Krell
Votes: 19
86. Le message des Tibétains (1966)
Documentary
Director: Arnaud Desjardins | Stars: His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trizen, The Dalai Lama, Arnaud Desjardins, Dilgo Khyentse
Votes: 8
87. With History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 4 (2017)
24 min | Short
In a world where drones take on the role of spirits and co-exist with living species, Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai tackles the subject of death.
Director: Korakrit Arunanondchai | Star: Korakrit Arunanondchai
88. The Flow of Zen (1969)
15 min | Short
An exercise in meditation through flowing waters and colors, narrated by Alan Watts. Buddhist chants synchronized with striking psychedelic pictures, turn the mind inward and induce a state of meditation which is basic to Zen teaching.
Director: Alan W. Watts | Star: Alan W. Watts
Votes: 8
89. Le Horla (1966)
38 min | Short, Mystery
A man who lives by himself becomes increasing concerned that he is not alone.
Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet | Star: Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 172
90. Mediterranean (1963)
44 min | Documentary, Short
A short film documenting the seas and shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet
Votes: 886
91. God Only Knows (1994)
90 min | Documentary
Tribute to the poet Francis Ponge whom Jean-Daniel Pollet considers as "natural".
Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet | Star: Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 70
92. Valley of the Gods (2019)
TV-14 | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer, creating a fascinating, mysterious and idiosyncratic vision of America.
Director: Lech Majewski | Stars: Josh Hartnett, John Malkovich, Bérénice Marlohe, Keir Dullea
Votes: 1,142
93. Neon Parallel 1996 (2015)
11 min | Short
Director: Jon Rafman | Stars: Ece Kilaner, Sandy Simona
Votes: 12
94. Yakona (2014)
85 min | Documentary, History
Yakona, meaning "water rising" in the language of the indigenous people of the San Marcos River in Texas. This multi-award winning film is a visual journey through the crystal clear waters ... See full summary »
Directors: Paul Collins, Anlo Sepulveda | Stars: Tony Two Hawks Molina, Jeremy Gutierrez, Jacqueline Claire, Tina Rodriguez
Votes: 41
95. Inventing the Future (2020)
98 min | Documentary, History
A lightning fast montage plays against a reading of a text calling for a futuristic economy , with automation eliminating unnecessary work and a universal basic income helping to reinvent new forms of the self and of society.
Director: Isiah Medina | Stars: Erik Berg, Kelley Dong, Alexandre Galmard, Dahyeon Eunice Hwang
Votes: 39
96. Devs (2020)
TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A computer engineer investigates the secretive development division in her company, which she believes is behind the disappearance of her boyfriend.
Stars: Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jin Ha, Cailee Spaeny
Votes: 48,049
97. Humming, Fast and Slow (2013)
9 min | Animation, Short
The screen is divided again and again until the picture arranged in ever changing strips bursts into whirring dynamic.
Director: Rainer Kohlberger
Votes: 12
98. Yi ge si zhe dui sheng zhe de fang wen (1988)
105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director: Jianzhong Huang | Stars: Lantian Chang, Li Da, Yuan Ji, Fang Bing Ling
Votes: 29
一个死者对生者的访问 / Yi ge shi zhe dui sheng zhe de fang wen / Questions for the Living / A Dead Man Visits the Living
99. Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing (1988)
281 min
Director: R. Bruce Elder | Stars: R. Bruce Elder, Seth Feldman, Ellen Ladowsky, Yasmina Ramzy
Votes: 8
100. The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets (2018)
10 min | Documentary, Short
The 1996 discovery of the Kennewick Man is examined in a deconstruction of indigenous identity and anthropological ethics.
Directors: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Jackson Polys
Votes: 92
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