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1. Love Letter (1953)
98 min | Drama, Romance
Explores the wounds of war, the limits of love and the need to forgive. A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Jûkichi Uno, Jûzô Dôsan
Votes: 516
2. I, the Worst of All (1990)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 719 | Gross: $0.05M
3. Enchanted Desna (1964)
81 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
An abstract depiction of the childhood of Aleksandr Dovzhenko.
Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Evgeniy Samoylov, Vladimir Goncharov, Evgeniy Bondarenko, Zinaida Kirienko
Votes: 223
4. Khake Sar Beh Mohr (1977)
90 min | Drama
A young woman in pre-revolution Iran is caught between the traditional values of her small village and her own yearnings for independence and individuality. Her persistent refusal of ... See full summary »
Director: Marva Nabili | Star: Flora Shabaviz
Votes: 116
5. Mikey and Nicky (1976)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama
Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.
Director: Elaine May | Stars: Rose Arrick, Carol Grace, William Hickey, Sanford Meisner
Votes: 7,167
6. Krane's Confectionery (1951)
103 min | Drama
A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life.
Director: Astrid Henning-Jensen | Stars: Rønnaug Alten, Erik Hell, Wenche Foss, Harald Heide Steen
Votes: 90
7. The Girls (1968)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Three Swedish stage actresses give differing interpretations of the classic Aristophanes play "Lysistrata."
Director: Mai Zetterling | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gunnar Björnstrand
Votes: 918
8. Diary for My Children (1984)
Unrated | 106 min | Biography, Drama
Having lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Ágnes Csere, Anna Polony, Teri Földi
Votes: 1,014
9. Långt borta och nära (1976)
98 min | Drama
Mania Becker starts working in a mental hospital which she hasn't any experience in. She meets a young man who has stopped talking. He has been considered an interesting case and Mania ... See full summary »
Director: Marianne Ahrne | Stars: Lilga Kovanko, Robert Farrant, Jan-Erik Lindqvist, Helge Skoog
Votes: 76
10. Germany Pale Mother (1980)
152 min | Drama, History, War
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas
Votes: 846
11. Mossane (1996)
105 min | Drama
Mossane is a beautiful 14-year-old girl who has just reached marriageable age in a village in Senegal. She has many suitors, including a simple-minded farmer's son who plans to drag her ... See full summary »
Director: Safi Faye | Stars: Magou Seck, Isseu Niang, Moustapha Yade, Abou Camara
Votes: 138
12. Kur po Xhirohej një film (1981)
59 min | Family
A child actor copes with the separation of his parents.
Director: Xhanfize Keko | Stars: Gentian Basha, Violetta Dede, Viktor Zhusti, Marieta Ljarja
Votes: 23
13. The Holy Girl (2004)
R | 106 min | Drama
16-year-old Amalia looks to save the soul of a middle-aged doctor.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta, María Alché
Votes: 4,306 | Gross: $0.30M
14. Sambizanga (1972)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.
Director: Sarah Maldoror | Stars: Elisa Andrade, Domingos de Oliveira, Jean M'Vondo, Dino Abelino
Votes: 773
15. Zabitá nedele (1990)
78 min | Drama
It's Sunday morning. The church bells call people to the Mass, but the army officer Arnost is still sleeping in his austere and shabby room in the barracks. He wakes slowly, and attunes ... See full summary »
Director: Drahomíra Vihanová | Stars: Ivan Palúch, Míla Myslíková, Otakar Zebrák, Petr Skarke
Votes: 138
16. The Arch (1968)
94 min | Drama
A woman falls in love with a visiting cavalry captain, but chooses to suppress it for the sake of her daughter.
Director: Shu Shuen Tong | Stars: Lisa Lu, Roy Chiao, Hilda Chow Hsuan, Szu-yun Chen
Votes: 245
17. 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)
122 min | Drama, Romance
After marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Jennifer Kendal, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Geoffrey Kendal
Votes: 433
18. Poslednata duma (1973)
118 min | Drama
A film about the last days of six women - six political prisoners. Each of them expects the coming execution in her own way. A film about human deeds under extreme circumstances.
Director: Binka Zhelyazkova | Stars: Iana Guirova, Tzvetana Maneva, Aneta Petrovska, Emilia Radeva
Votes: 59
19. The Last Stage (1948)
110 min | Drama, History, War
Female prisoners of various ethnic background struggle to survive the hardships of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Director: Wanda Jakubowska | Stars: Wanda Bartówna, Huguette Faget, Tatyana Guretskaya, Antonina Gordon-Górecka
Votes: 764
20. Adoption (1975)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh, Péter Fried, László Szabó
Votes: 1,487
21. The Girls (1978)
100 min
A rather sad tale of impossible love from first-time director Sumitra Peries, wife of famed Sri Lankan director Lester James Peries. A boy and girl fall for each other though they know this... See full summary »
Director: Sumitra Peries | Stars: Joe Abeywickrama, Shyama Anandan, Vasanthi Chathurani, Trelicia Gunawardena
Votes: 34
22. Khovanschina (1959)
130 min | Drama, Musical
An opera about the Moscow uprising of 1682. Reacting against Westernization, boyar Ivan Khovansky raises a rebellion against regent Sofia Alekseyevna and the two young Tsars Peter I and Ivan V.
Director: Vera Stroyeva | Stars: Aleksey Krivchenya, Anton Grigoryev, Aleksei Maslennikov, Daniel Bedrosyan
Votes: 60
23. Araya (1959)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish... See full summary »
Director: Margot Benacerraf | Stars: José Ignacio Cabrujas, Laurent Terzieff
Votes: 841
24. Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2000)
82 min | Documentary
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and hierarchical relationships among a committed group of filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man - Ogawa Shinsuke.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Chiho Fuseya, Hiroo Fuseya, Yukimo Fuseya, Sumiko Haneda
Votes: 26
25. Chircales (1972)
42 min | Documentary, Short
This film documents the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, using the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. ... See full summary »
Directors: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva
Votes: 169
26. Tomka and His Friends (1977)
74 min | Drama, Family, War
The Wehrmacht arrives in a small Albanian town after Italy capitulates to the Allies. Tomka and his gang decide to exact revenge when the German soldiers set up camp on their football pitch.
Director: Xhanfize Keko | Stars: Sotiraq Çili, Zehrudin Dokle, Pavlina Oça, Xhelal Tafaj
Votes: 363
27. Mabel's Blunder (1914)
13 min | Short, Comedy
Mabel is engaged to Harry, the boss's son. The boss has an eye for Mabel too, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Director: Mabel Normand | Stars: Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, Charley Chase, Charles Bennett
Votes: 447
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