LW's Favorite Obscure Movies
by vaal | created - 25 Jul 2014 | updated - 12 hours ago | PublicMy favorite films with less than 400 checks on Icheckmovies.com
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1. Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama
About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.
Director: Yong-Kyun Bae | Stars: Yi Pan-Yong, Sin Won-Sop, Hae-Jin Huang, Su-Myong Ko
Votes: 1,449
2. A Borrowed Life (1994)
167 min | Drama
Autobiographical story about the life of a poor family in the Taiwanese countryside during the 1940s and 1950s as the Japanese rule of the island ends and nationalist forces of Kwomintang arrive when the Communists take the mainland.
Director: Nien-Jen Wu | Stars: Akio Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Jun Fu, Yung-Feng Lee
Votes: 333
3. The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
105 min | Drama
When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left her with nothing but debt and married children who are unwilling to support her--except for her most thoughtful son, just returned from China.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino, Ayako Katsuragi
Votes: 1,437
4. Jakten (1959)
94 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Two men attracted to the same woman are attending a trip with her in the Mountains during the bird hunting season. A triangular love drama ending with tragedy. Or is it, really?
Director: Erik Løchen | Stars: Rolf Søder, Bente Børsum, Tor Stokke, Harald Aimarsen
Votes: 472
5. Long Gone (2003)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary about 6 tramps who hop trains in America.
Directors: Jack Cahill, David Eberhardt | Stars: Jessie, Horizontal John, Joshua Long Gone, New York Slim
Votes: 125
6. Zebraman (2004)
115 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A down-and-out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Shô Aikawa, Kyôka Suzuki, Atsuro Watabe, Yui Ichikawa
Votes: 3,664
7. French Roast (2008)
TV-PG | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight businessman discovers he forgot to bring his wallet and bides his time by ordering more coffee.
Director: Fabrice Joubert
Votes: 3,003
8. Dirty Ho (1979)
R | 103 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.
Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo, Hou Hsiao
Votes: 1,482
9. At Berkeley (2013)
244 min | Documentary
The University of California at Berkeley, the oldest and most prestigious member of a ten campus public education system, is also one of the finest research and teaching facilities in the ... See full summary »
Director: Frederick Wiseman | Star: Anahid Modrek
Votes: 709 | Gross: $0.01M
10. Hana and Alice (2004)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Anne Suzuki, Yû Aoi, Tomohiro Kaku, Sei Hiraizumi
Votes: 4,914
11. The Coward (1965)
70 min | Drama, Romance
A chance meeting rekindles old memories between a screenwriter and his ex-girlfriend, who is by now married to a well-to-do man.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Santi Chatterjee
Votes: 2,417
12. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
PG | 107 min | Drama
A Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Ken Takakura, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Terajima, Ken Nakamoto
Votes: 5,631 | Gross: $0.25M
13. Stolen Desire (1958)
92 min | Comedy
A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Osamu Takizawa, Shin'ichi Yanagisawa, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kô Nishimura
Votes: 683
14. Too Late Blues (1961)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Music
Ghost is an ideological musician who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. However, when he meets and falls in love with beautiful singer Jess ... See full summary »
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Bobby Darin, Stella Stevens, Everett Chambers, Nick Dennis
Votes: 1,529
15. In the Heat of the Sun (1994)
134 min | Drama, Romance
Beijing, 1970s. Now that the CR has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery referred to as "girls."
Director: Wen Jiang | Stars: Yu Xia, Wei Chen, Shaobo Dai, Hua Fang
Votes: 5,534
16. Eastern Condors (1987)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, War
A group of Asian prisoners is recruited, trained, armed and sent to Vietnam to destroy a cache of American weapons left behind after the Vietnam War, before the Vietcong discovers its location.
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Biao Yuen, Haing S. Ngor, Ching-Ying Lam
Votes: 2,881
17. A Kind of Loving (1962)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Bert Palmer
Votes: 2,692 | Gross: $0.00M
18. The Castle of Purity (1973)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife)... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Diana Bracho
Votes: 2,390
19. Re:Born (2016)
Not Rated | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A legend covert soldier with a mysterious past now decides to once again unleash his beast inside of him to stand up for what he cares about.
Director: Yûji Shimomura | Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Yura Kondo, Takumi Saitô, Hitomi Hasebe
Votes: 1,633
20. The Red Squirrel (1993)
114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A suicidal, has-been rock star tells an amnesiac woman they are longtime lovers after he witnesses her crash her motorcycle.
Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Emma Suárez, Nancho Novo, María Barranco, Karra Elejalde
Votes: 4,845
21. Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore (2014)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Musical
When violence is the only life you know, will love save you or just unravel everything?
Director: Khavn | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nathalia Acevedo, Elena Kazan, Brenda Mage
Votes: 464
22. My Young Auntie (1981)
Not Rated | 121 min | Action, Comedy
Cheng Tai-Nan (Kara Hui) is an honest and faithful servant of a dying patriarch who wants nothing more than to protect his vast wealth from his selfish, conniving nephew, Yung-Sheng. ... See full summary »
Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Chia-Liang Liu, Kara Wai, Hou Hsiao, Lung-Wei Wang
Votes: 941
23. Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Music
The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
Directors: Bert Stern, Aram Avakian | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, Chuck Berry, Chico Hamilton
Votes: 1,944
24. Duel to the Death (1983)
R | 86 min | Action, Drama
The best sword master from China vs the best sword master from Japan. Who will win?
Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Norman Chu, Damian Lau, Flora Chong-Leen, Paul Chang Chung
Votes: 2,366
25. Haze (2005)
Not Rated | 49 min | Horror, Mystery
A man wakes up to find himself locked in a cramped concrete maze of corridors, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there or how he got there. He has a terrible stomach injury and is slowly bleeding to death.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Takahiro Murase, Takahiro Kandaka, Masato Tsujioka
Votes: 3,102
26. Manipulation (1991)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A discarded cartoon character and some spilt ink combine and interact as if the cartoonist had drawn their actions. Discovering them, the cartoonist then joins in the interaction.
Director: Daniel Greaves
Votes: 627
27. How I Celebrated the End of the World (2006)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
In Communist-era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom.
Director: Cãtãlin Mitulescu | Stars: Dorotheea Petre, Timotei Duma, Ioan Albu, Sergiu Anghel
Votes: 3,231
28. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
96 min | Drama, Mystery, War
One woman's search to find the truth about her husband's death in World War II.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Sachiko Hidari, Shinjirô Ebara, Isao Natsuyagi
Votes: 1,170
29. Anche libero va bene (2006)
108 min | Drama
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Director: Kim Rossi Stuart | Stars: Alessandro Morace, Kim Rossi Stuart, Barbora Bobulova, Marta Nobili
Votes: 2,676
30. Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy
When thugs prey upon innocent factory workers, a small-time scammer trains for revenge by studying the moves of Shaolin temple monks.
Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Chia-Hui Liu, Lung-Wei Wang, Hou Hsiao, Lun Hua
Votes: 4,240
31. Rendez-vous in Paris (1995)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Clara Bellar, Antoine Basler, Mathias Mégard, Judith Chancel
Votes: 2,513 | Gross: $0.73M
32. Lambert the Sheepish Lion (1951)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A mix-up by Mr. Stork finds a little lion cub in the care of a gentle flock of sheep. But when a hungry wolf begins to stalk the herd, will Lambert find the courage to protect his mama?
Directors: Jack Hannah, Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Sterling Holloway, June Foray, Stan Freberg, James MacDonald
Votes: 2,609
33. Massacre Gun (1967)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Crime
Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) ... See full summary »
Director: Yasuharu Hasebe | Stars: Jô Shishido, Hideaki Nitani, Yôko Yamamoto, Jirô Okazaki
Votes: 544
34. Intimate Lighting (1965)
TV-PG | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
One of the most important films of the Czech New Wave 60s, it was ranked among the top ten domestic films of all time. In this original sad comedy set in a small town, two classmates meet ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Karel Blazek, Zdenek Bezusek, Vera Kresadlová, Jan Vostrcil
Votes: 1,661
35. The Traveler (1974)
83 min | Drama
A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Masud Zandbegleh, Hassan Darabi, Mostafa Tari, Hasan Arab
Votes: 2,150
36. Tiger Bay (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell
Votes: 3,165
37. The Concrete Jungle (1960)
TV-14 | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Margit Saad
Votes: 1,764
38. Wooden Crosses (1932)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, War
World War 1 begins and a young man enlists to fight for his country.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Gabriel Gabrio, Charles Vanel, Raymond Aimos
Votes: 1,694
39. Legend of the Mountain (1979)
Not Rated | 192 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains.
Director: King Hu | Stars: Chun Shih, Feng Hsu, Sylvia Chang, Hui-Lou Chen
Votes: 1,206 | Gross: $0.01M
40. The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray
Votes: 2,845
41. The Woman Who Left (2016)
TV-MA | 226 min | Drama
After 30 years of wrongful imprisonment, a woman plans to take revenge on her former lover.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa, Nonie Buencamino
Votes: 1,627 | Gross: $0.00M
42. All I Desire (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Lyle Bettger, Marcia Henderson
Votes: 2,446
43. Raining Stones (1993)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Gemma Phoenix, Ricky Tomlinson
Votes: 4,921 | Gross: $0.09M
44. The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Gino Cervi, Andrea Checchi, Ivan Desny
Votes: 2,259
45. Tales of Ginza (1955)
117 min | Drama
When she was a little girl, Wakako Kyoguku's portrait was painted by a talented young artist. Years later, she takes it to an art gallery in Ginza, in hopes of reuniting with the creator whom she never knew the name.
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Tatsuya Mihashi, Yumeji Tsukioka, Mie Kitahara, Seizaburô Kawazu
Votes: 274
46. My Way Home (1965)
108 min | Drama, War
In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform ... See full summary »
Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: András Kozák, Sergey Nikonenko, Béla Barsi, Jurij Bodovszkij
Votes: 790
47. Electra (I) (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli, Theano Ioannidou
Votes: 1,814
48. The Browning Version (1994)
R | 97 min | Drama
On the verge of forced resignation, a strict old-fashioned teacher rethinks his life.
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands
Votes: 3,579 | Gross: $0.46M
49. The Bride with White Hair (1993)
92 min | Action, Fantasy, Romance
Cho Yat-Hang, the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against an evil cult, falls in forbidden love with Lien Ni-Chang, a killer for the evil cult.
Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Francis Ng, Elaine Lui
Votes: 3,843
50. Heroes of the East (1978)
R | 105 min | Action, Comedy
A Chinese man (Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issuing a challenge to her that is misinterpreted ... See full summary »
Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Chia-Hui Liu, Yuka Mizuno, Yasuaki Kurata, Naozo Kato
Votes: 2,668
51. The Shower (1979)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Country boy Suk-ie learns the meaning of love and loss when he meets city girl Yeon-ie.
Director: Young Nam Ko | Stars: Yeong-su Lee, Yun-suk Jo, Shin-jae Kim
Votes: 233
52. Martial Club (1981)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama
Wong Fei-Hong and his once-rival, now friend, find themselves and their martial arts schools pitted against a rival school which uses a Kung Fu expert from the North to do their dirty work.
Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Chia-Hui Liu, Kara Wai, Te-Lo Mai, Hou Hsiao
Votes: 620
53. Man Without a Star (1955)
Approved | 89 min | Western
Sharpshooting drifter Dempsey Rae comes back to Wyoming to work for beautiful rancher Reed Bowman. But Reed's plan to fence in her land's wide open spaces angers other ranchers and soon embroils Dempsey in a bloody range war.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor, William Campbell
Votes: 3,944
54. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 2,169
55. Juha (1999)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, André Wilms, Markku Peltola
Votes: 3,019
56. Black & White & Sex (2012)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
Angie is a prostitute, a chameleon - a butterfly. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her.
Director: John Winter | Stars: Katherine Hicks, Anya Beyersdorf, Valerie Bader, Roxane Wilson
Votes: 1,087
57. The Whole Shootin' Match (1978)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
Lloyd (Lou Perry) and Frank (Sonny Davis), two lifelong friends and self-styled entrepreneurs in Austin, try to find the get-rich-quick scheme that will actually get them rich. Lloyd has ... See full summary »
Director: Eagle Pennell | Stars: Lou Perryman, Sonny Carl Davis, Doris Hargrave, Eric Henshaw
Votes: 424
58. The Fifth Seal (1976)
116 min | Drama, War
In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
Director: Zoltán Fábri | Stars: Lajos Öze, László Márkus, Ferenc Bencze, Sándor Horváth
Votes: 5,913
59. Witchhammer (1970)
107 min | Drama, History, Horror
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr, Sona Valentová
Votes: 2,840
60. The Forest of Love (2019)
TV-MA | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A small group of student filmmakers and a shy young girl with strict parents are simultaneously manipulated, seduced and abused by an older man. They follow his bidding, even when murder is involved.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Kippei Shîna, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Kyoko Hinami, Eri Kamataki
Votes: 2,960
61. 88:88 (2012)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
When rendered powerless by an outside force, a young woman must find a way to fight back.
Director: Joey Ciccoline | Stars: Ramon De Ocampo, Rachael Kahne, Robin Moore, Erin Tawlks
Votes: 144
62. Tiger Cage (1988)
TV-MA | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A team of cops get brutally exposed to violence after raiding a drug operation and discovering a link between few members of the police force and an American crime syndicate dealing with drug trafficking.
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen | Stars: Jacky Cheung, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Simon Yam, Man-Tat Ng
Votes: 1,169
63. The Holy Mountain (1926)
100 min | Drama
Diotima meets Karl in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. When Karl's friend, Vigo, meets her, he mistakenly believes she is in love with him. Karl then believes that she is betraying him with his friend.
Directors: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen, Frida Richard
Votes: 922
64. Framed (1947)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mike Lambert, seeking a mining job, instead becomes the patsy for a femme-fatale's schemes.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 2,291
65. Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Drama, War
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton
Votes: 2,113
66. Throw Down (2004)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A former Judo champion is given the chance to redeem himself after he befriends a competitor and an aspiring singer.
Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying, Tony Ka Fai Leung
Votes: 2,496
67. Pit Stop (1969)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Grant Willard sponsors drivers in a "new" form of race car driving called The Figure Eight. The rise and fall of one such driver is the whole story behind PIT STOP.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Richard Davalos, Ellen Burstyn, Sid Haig
Votes: 1,084
68. Love & Peace (2015)
117 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Bullied and diminished by his fellow employees, demure and bashful Ryoichi Suzuki finds support in an unusual friendship with a turtle. Together they will share many adventures and finally conquer the world.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Hiroki Hasegawa, Kumiko Asô, Motoki Fukami, Suidôbashi Hakase
Votes: 1,308
69. The Suitor (1962)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy
Pierre is a shy man whose sole focus in life is studying astrology in solitude, which is often difficult since he still lives at and studies in his parents' house. His parent's would rather... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: France Arnel, Pierre Étaix, Laurence Lignières, Claude Massot
Votes: 1,072
70. Warriors Two (1978)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A bank cashier discovers a plot to kill the mayor. His attempt to warn the mayor is foiled, and he almost gets killed, but a mumbling Shaolin disciple rescues him and takes him to his master to teach him a formidable form of kung fu.
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Ka-Yan Leung, Ho Wang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Chia-Yung Liu
Votes: 1,574
71. H-8... (1958)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
A bus and a truck are destined to collide with each other on a highway. Their passengers go on about their lives without knowing what will happen.
Director: Nikola Tanhofer | Stars: Boris Buzancic, Djurdja Ivezic, Antun Vrdoljak, Vanja Drach
Votes: 1,694
72. The Noose (1958)
96 min | Drama
One day in the life of an alcohol addict. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when she's at work, Kuba is home alone, and it becomes hard not to resist the temptation.
Director: Wojciech Has | Stars: Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Slaska, Teresa Szmigielówna, Tadeusz Fijewski
Votes: 1,234
73. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Yukie Kagawa, Kayoko Shiraishi
Votes: 3,379
74. Guns at Batasi (1964)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, War
Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton
Votes: 1,958
75. Ex Libris (2017)
197 min | Documentary
A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
Director: Frederick Wiseman | Stars: Paul Holdengräber, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Edmund de Waal
Votes: 1,413 | Gross: $0.16M
76. Breathless (2008)
Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama
A bitter loan shark strikes a friendship with a troubled schoolgirl as he faces his own troubled past with his abusive father.
Director: Yang Ik-joon | Stars: Kim Kkobbi, Hwan Lee, Yang Ik-joon, Jeong-soon Park
Votes: 5,564
77. Pool of London (1951)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
When their ship docks the crew disembark as usual to pick up their lives in postwar London. For one of them his petty smuggling turns more serious when he finds himself caught up with a robbery in the City.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw, Renée Asherson, Earl Cameron
Votes: 1,183
78. Station Six Sahara (1963)
99 min | Drama
A beautiful blonde (Baker) joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
Director: Seth Holt | Stars: Carroll Baker, Peter van Eyck, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 523
79. Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
Not Rated | 80 min | Western
A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Mazzola
Votes: 2,414
80. The Death of Louis XIV (2016)
115 min | Biography, Drama, History
Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.
Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Patrick d'Assumçao, Marc Susini, Bernard Belin
Votes: 2,593 | Gross: $0.04M
81. Mist (1967)
79 min | Drama
A married man who moved to live in Seoul for a better life visits the small town where he grew up and falls in love with a local girl.
Director: Kim Soo-yong | Stars: Shin Seong-il, Yun Jeong-hie, Bin-hwa Lee, Nak-hun Lee
Votes: 116
82. A Whisker Away (2020)
TV-PG | 104 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Miyo Sasaki is in love with her classmate Kento Hinode and tries repeatedly to get Kento's attention by transforming into a cat, but at some point, the boundary between herself and the cat becomes ambiguous.
Directors: Jun'ichi Satô, Tomotaka Shibayama | Stars: Mirai Shida, Natsuki Hanae, Johnny Yong Bosch, Bob Buchholz
Votes: 13,906
83. The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama
With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so ... See full summary »
Director: Anh Hung Tran | Stars: Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Quynh Nhu, Khanh Le, Quang Hai Ngo
Votes: 3,971 | Gross: $0.46M
84. L'amour d'une femme (1953)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
Marie Prieur, a young doctor, decides to settle down on Ushant, a remote island belonging to Brittany. Little by little she manages to be accepted by the population. One day she meets André... See full summary »
Director: Jean Grémillon | Stars: Micheline Presle, Massimo Girotti, Gaby Morlay, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 301
85. Failan (2001)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A marriage of convenience between a petty gangster and an illegal immigrant he has never met has unforeseen consequences for them both.
Director: Hae-sung Song | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Cecilia Cheung, Son Byung-ho, Kong Hyeong-jin
Votes: 6,226
86. The Edge of the World (1937)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, History, Romance
A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Eric Berry
Votes: 1,995
87. The Boys from Fengkuei (1983)
99 min | Drama
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of ... See full summary »
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Doze Niu, Shih Chang, Chung-Hua Tou, Li-Yin Yang
Votes: 1,917
88. Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (1937)
71 min | Comedy, Drama
An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, ... See full summary »
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitô, Michiko Kuwano, Shûji Sano
Votes: 1,297
89. Bleak Night (2010)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama
Three best friends, Ki-tae, Dong-yoon, and Hee-june; they thought their friendship would last forever. A few tiny cracks of distrust start to develop among these best friends. Ki-tae and ... See full summary »
Director: Yoon Sunghyun | Stars: Lee Jehoon, Park Jeong-min, Seo Jun-yeong, Shin Woon-seob
Votes: 1,310
90. La deuxième nuit (2016)
75 min | Documentary
On the death of his mother, a filmmaker makes a film to see how much her disappearance has changed his vision of the world. It is an opportunity for him to look back over his relationship ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Pauwels
Votes: 111
91. Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A team of archaeologists in Mexico encounter an amorphous, blob-like monster that appears to be connected with the collapse of the Mayan civilization.
Directors: Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava | Stars: John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, Gérard Herter, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Votes: 1,621
92. Bird of Paradise (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,576
93. Christmas in August (1998)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Hahn Suk-Kyu suffers from a fatal disease. He meets Shim Eun-Ha and falls in love with her. Will their love story have a tragic ending?
Director: Hur Jin-ho | Stars: Han Suk-kyu, Shim Eun-ha, Shin Goo, Oh Ji-hye
Votes: 3,920
94. Death in the Garden (1956)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Adventurer Shark comes to a small village near a diamond-miners' camp, and local police arrest him, accusing him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. The police also ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli
Votes: 2,612
95. Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956)
81 min | Drama
A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence and passion for their future as they get on the bus for Tsukishima and get off at Suzaki. Across ... See full summary »
Director: Yûzô Kawashima | Stars: Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu, Tatsuya Mihashi
Votes: 821
96. 24 City (2008)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Drama
When a factory is being torn down in Chengdu, China, workers reflect on their experiences and the importance of the factory in their lives.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Jianbin Chen, Joan Chen, Liping Lü, Tao Zhao
Votes: 2,339
97. Poor Cow (1967)
Approved | 101 min | Drama
A young woman lives a life full of bad choices. At a young age she has a baby by an abusive thief who quickly lands in prison. When her son goes missing, she gets to grips with what is most important to her.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Terence Stamp, Carol White, John Bindon, Queenie Watts
Votes: 1,990
98. The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
A film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she can ... See full summary »
Director: Marzieh Makhmalbaf | Stars: Fatemeh Cherag Akhar, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh, Ameneh Passand
Votes: 1,992 | Gross: $0.34M
99. The Prodigal Son (1981)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy
A young man discovers that his reputation as a fearsome martial artist is manufactured by his rich father, after meeting a real martial arts master, who's also a master thespian, and is determined to apprentice under him to learn kung fu.
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Biao Yuen, Ching-Ying Lam, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Frankie Chan
Votes: 3,540
100. Mr. Majestyk (1974)
PG | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell
Votes: 9,831 | Gross: $0.13M
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