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by ab9666702 | created - 02 Feb 2018 | updated - 23 Nov 2020 | PublicIt showcases my favourite unique,unconventional ,unusual and innovative movies of all time.
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1. The Weakness of the Bolshevik (2003)
95 min | Drama
Based on a novel by Lorenzo Silva, this movie deals with the unusual and tragic relationship between a frustrated businessman and a 14-year-old student. After crashing into the rear of the ... See full summary »
Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca | Stars: Luis Tosar, Mar Regueras, María Valverde, Rubén Ochandiano
Votes: 2,363
2. Aparajita Tumi (2012)
130 min | Drama
This film explores the depths of what, on the surface, seems to be a picture-perfect family of Indians in America.
Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury | Stars: Gregory Anderson, Arianna Arias, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee
Votes: 271
3. Japanese Story (2003)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. ... See full summary »
Director: Sue Brooks | Stars: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Lynette Curran, Matthew Dyktynski
Votes: 6,751 | Gross: $0.65M
4. Kissing My Sister (2000 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Teen brother and sister who rarely get to see each other fall in love with one another one summer.
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Florian Heiden, Alexandra Schalaudek, August Zirner, Christian Wunderlich
Votes: 284
5. Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
One day in the life of Anders, a young recovering drug addict, who takes a brief leave from his treatment center to interview for a job and catch up with old friends in Oslo.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Hans Olav Brenner, Ingrid Olava, Malin Crépin
Votes: 29,596 | Gross: $0.10M
6. Garage Olimpo (1999)
R | 98 min | Drama
In the 70's, eighteen year-old Maria Fabiani lives with her French mother Diane in an old house in Buenos Aires, subletting rooms and giving classes to illiterate adults in the slums. One ... See full summary »
Director: Marco Bechis | Stars: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echevarría, Enrique Piñeyro, Pablo Razuk
Votes: 2,864
7. Lantana (2001)
R | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.
Director: Ray Lawrence | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Blake, Kerry Armstrong
Votes: 20,217 | Gross: $4.46M
8. The Brawler (2017)
Not Rated | 154 min | Action, Drama, Sport
A boxer struggles to make his mark in the boxing world.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Vineet Kumar Singh, Jimmy Shergill, Zoya Hussain, Ravi Kishan
Votes: 8,640 | Gross: $0.08M
9. Amer (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
As a young girl Ana was a rebellious child. She was also tormented by images of death and a shadowy, ominous figure in black. Now an adult, she is once again tormented by shadowy, other-worldly forms.
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Stars: Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud, Marie Bos, Biancamaria D'Amato
Votes: 6,569
10. High Art (1998)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson, Gabriel Mann
Votes: 11,108 | Gross: $1.93M
11. A Week Alone (2008)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of children, age 7 through 14, are left home alone at a house in a secluded community in the countryside. Their innocence is gradually corrupted as they experiment with ... See full summary »
Director: Celina Murga | Stars: Natalia Gomez Alarcon, Ignacio Giménez, Lucas Del Bo, Gastón Luparo
Votes: 494
12. Sicilian Ghost Story (2017)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Against a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.
Directors: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza | Stars: Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari, Andrea Falzone
Votes: 2,393 | Gross: $0.02M
13. The Cement Garden (1993)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
Director: Andrew Birkin | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew Robertson, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin
Votes: 5,322 | Gross: $0.32M
14. Snowland (2005)
142 min | Drama, Romance
In the snowy landscape of Lapland, a newly-widowed writer discovers the traces of a bygone love story through which she finds a way back to her own life.
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Julia Jentsch, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Mühe
Votes: 391
15. The Tribe (2014)
Unrated | 126 min | Crime, Drama
A deaf boy joins a boarding school for similar children. Confronted by the violent and criminal antics of some of the other boys and girls, he struggles to conform and join the 'tribe'.
Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi | Stars: Hryhoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Oleksandr Dsiadevych
Votes: 11,990 | Gross: $0.15M
16. A Whole Night (1982)
90 min | Drama
Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Aurore Clément, Tchéky Karyo, Angelo Abazoglou, Frank Aendenboom
Votes: 1,011
17. Karwaan (2018)
Not Rated | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two friends and a chirpy teenager take a road trip from Bangalore to Kochi.
Director: Akarsh Khurana | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Dulquer Salmaan, Mithila Palkar, Amala Akkineni
Votes: 17,642 | Gross: $0.18M
18. One Thousand Ropes (2017)
98 min | Drama
When a father reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter, he is given a rare chance to reshape the future of his family in unexpected ways.
Director: Tusi Tamasese | Stars: Frankie Adams, Lagi Farani, Beulah Koale, Nathaniel Lees
Votes: 146
19. Twentynine Palms (2003)
Unrated | 119 min | Drama, Horror
David, an American photographer, and his Russian girlfriend Katia are scouting locations for a photo shoot. During the day, they drive through some of the wildest, most bizarre desert landscapes, but their luck begins to run out.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissak
Votes: 5,088 | Gross: $0.05M
20. Upstream Color (2013)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Director: Shane Carruth | Stars: Amy Seimetz, Frank Mosley, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig
Votes: 34,944 | Gross: $0.44M
21. My Skinny Sister (2015)
95 min | Drama
Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal.
Director: Sanna Lenken | Stars: Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Annika Hallin, Henrik Norlén
Votes: 1,773
22. Music Teacher (2019)
101 min | Drama, Romance
A dejected small-town music teacher grapples with guilt and regret when his ex-pupil who once loved him returns home as the star he always wanted to be.
Director: Sarthak Dasgupta | Stars: Divya Dutta, Neena Gupta, Manav Kaul, Amrita Bagchi
Votes: 763
23. Touch Me Not (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives.
Director: Adina Pintilie | Stars: Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis, Christian Bayerlein, Grit Uhlemann
Votes: 3,025 | Gross: $0.01M
24. Autoerotic (2011)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Follow four interconnected Chicago couples as they explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration.
Directors: Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard | Stars: Amy Seimetz, Lane Hughes, Megan Mercier, Kate Lyn Sheil
Votes: 677
25. An Easy Girl (2019)
TV-MA | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Naima is 16 and lives in Cannes. She has given herself the summer to choose what she wants to do with her life. Then her cousin Sofia, with her alluring lifestyle, arrives to spend the holidays with her.
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski | Stars: Mina Farid, Zahia Dehar, Benoît Magimel, Nuno Lopes
Votes: 6,212
26. Chemical Hearts (2020)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A teenage boy falls in love with a troubled girl who transfers to his high school.
Director: Richard Tanne | Stars: Lili Reinhart, Austin Abrams, Sarah Jones, Adhir Kalyan
Votes: 16,215
27. Una (2016)
R | 94 min | Drama
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at her much-older former lover's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of their dark past threaten to unravel his new life. What follows is an ... See full summary »
Director: Benedict Andrews | Stars: Ruby Stokes, Rooney Mara, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendelsohn
Votes: 11,557
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