Beyond the Cannon Ballot
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1. The Cigarette (1919)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama
A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Andrée Brabant, Gabriel Signoret, Jules Raucourt, Genevieve Williams
Votes: 380
2. Christopher Strong (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler
Votes: 1,672
3. The Dybbuk (1937)
Unrated | 108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
The mystical love story between Chonen, a poor Talmud student, and Lea, a girl from a wealthy family, depicts the traditional folk culture of Polish Jews before WW2.
Director: Michal Waszynski | Stars: Avrom Morewski, Ajzyk Samberg, Mojzesz Lipman, Lili Liliana
Votes: 716
4. Café Paradis (1950)
97 min | Drama
This is the story of two different men and their struggle against alcoholism.
Directors: Bodil Ipsen, Lau Lauritzen | Stars: Poul Reichhardt, Ib Schønberg, Ingeborg Brams, Karin Nellemose
Votes: 216
5. Awaara (1951)
193 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A poor young man named Raj joins a criminal gang to feed his mother. But when he falls in love with Rita, he decides to reform himself for her.
Director: Raj Kapoor | Stars: Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Prithviraj Kapoor, K.N. Singh
Votes: 4,498
6. Lovers and Lollipops (1956)
82 min | Romance, Drama
Ann, an attractive widowed New York model, lives in an apartment with her daughter Peggy. The courtship of Ann by visiting engineer Larry, and accompanying misadventures, are seen ... See full summary »
Directors: Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin | Stars: Lori March, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn, Bill Ward
Votes: 394
7. Saladin (1963)
TV-MA | 194 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
After Saladin's victory over the King of Jerusalem, a peace treaty is signed between them, but the commander of the Crusader army, Renaud de Chatillon, slaughters a group of pilgrims going to Mecca. Saladin then decides to take revenge.
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Ahmad Mazhar, Salah Zulfikar, Nadia Lutfi, Mohamed Abdel Gawad
Votes: 2,886
8. Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
When a group of northern soccer fans are down in London for the Cup Final one of their number winds up with a lady of the night. As they talk, the unsophisticated and naive lad starts to believe he has found true love.
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Diane Cilento, Thora Hird, Michael Medwin
Votes: 310
9. Elsa la rose (1966)
Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short
The story of a poet's (Louis Aragon) love for his wife, the writer Elsa Triolet.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Louis Aragon, Michel Piccoli, Elsa Triolet
Votes: 556
10. A Time for Burning (1967)
58 min | Documentary
During the civil rights movement, a Lutheran minister in Nebraska sets out to integrate his church.
Directors: Barbara Connell, Bill Jersey | Stars: Ernie Chambers, Ray Cristensen, Bill Youngdahl
Votes: 226
11. Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street (1968)
79 min | Romance
In Moscow from a distant village comes a rustic Russian woman. The first person she meets is a surprisingly intelligent cab driver. They meet by chance and do not even go out on a date, yet... See full summary »
Director: Tatyana Lioznova | Stars: Tatyana Doronina, Oleg Efremov, Vyacheslav Shalevich, Alevtina Rumyantseva
Votes: 1,201
12. The Year of the Cannibals (1969)
GP | 88 min | Drama
The streets of a big city are full of dead bodies but people seem not to notice and pass by indifferently. At the behest of the authorities, the bodies of those citizens who were killed ... See full summary »
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Britt Ekland, Pierre Clémenti, Tomas Milian, Delia Boccardo
Votes: 515
13. You and Me (1971)
97 min | Drama
Because of the failed marriage neurosurgeon Pyotr going through an identity crisis by trying to solve accepting a job in far Siberia .
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Leonid Dyachkov, Yuriy Vizbor, Alla Demidova, Natalya Bondarchuk
Votes: 439
14. Daughter-in-Law (1972)
81 min | Drama
A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day.
Director: Khodzha Kuli Narliyev | Stars: Maya-Gozel Aimedova, Khodzhan Ovezgelenov, Khodzhaberdy Narliyev, Khommat Mullyk
Votes: 147
15. Fatma 75 (1975)
60 min | Documentary, History
History of the status of women in Tunisia from 1930 to 1975.
Director: Selma Baccar | Stars: Jalila Baccar, Bchira Ben Mourad
Votes: 22
16. 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
17. A Dream Is What You Wake Up From (1978)
50 min | Documentary, Drama
Explores the role of Black families in American society.
Directors: Larry Bullard, Carolyn Y. Johnson
Votes: 53
18. Old Boyfriends (1979)
R | 103 min | Drama
When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out the former boyfriends who left the biggest impacts on her life, mostly in negative ways.
Director: Joan Tewkesbury | Stars: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, John Belushi, Keith Carradine
Votes: 601
19. A Woman Like Eve (1979)
113 min | Drama
Young mother of two Eva is send on holiday to France by her husband to relief her stress. There she meets lesbian Liliane who lives in a commune.
Director: Nouchka van Brakel | Stars: Monique van de Ven, Maria Schneider, Marijke Merckens, Peter Faber
Votes: 509
20. Chan Is Missing (1982)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Mystery
Two cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew, Peter Wang
Votes: 1,854
21. Sheer Madness (1983)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly ... See full summary »
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen
Votes: 297
22. Isabel on the Stairs (1984)
69 min | Drama
Isabel and her mother Rosita flee to East Germany from Chile after the Pinochet coup. Amidst the prejudice many of their new neighbors harbor, Isabel waits on the stairs in hopes of intercepting news of her father.
Director: Hannelore Unterberg | Stars: Irina Gallardo, Francisco Medina, Teresa Polle, Jenny Gröllmann
Votes: 24
23. The Official Story (1985)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, History
During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana
Votes: 10,869 | Gross: $0.03M
24. Oriana (1985)
88 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana
Director: Fina Torres | Stars: Doris Wells, Daniela Silverio, Rafael Briceño, Mirtha Borges
Votes: 447
25. Sacrificed Youth (1986)
92 min | Drama
A young girl from the city is sent out to work in a village of Dai people in China's cultural revolution. Here she learns to enjoy being young and gains a new outlook on life.
Director: Nuanxing Zhang | Stars: Fengxu Li, Yuanzheng Feng, Tao Song, Jianguo Guo
Votes: 142
26. Little Dorrit (1987)
G | 357 min | Drama, Romance
Arthur returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison.
Director: Christine Edzard | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall
Votes: 1,238 | Gross: $1.03M
27. No Address (1988)
56 min | Documentary
Native Canadians come to Montreal and find themselves homeless, hungry, and isolated. Alcoholism, drug abuse, and monotony reinforce their poverty.
Director: Alanis Obomsawin
Votes: 9
28. Pestonjee (1988)
Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Drama
Piroj and Pesi are best friends. They both meet the same girl for marriage but Pesi ends up marrying her. Later Piroj finds out that Pesi is having an affair. Piroj confronts Pesi but realizes things are complicated.
Director: Vijaya Mehta | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Cyprus Dastoor, Dady Dustoor, Anupam Kher
Votes: 310
29. Celia (1989)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.
Director: Ann Turner | Stars: Rebecca Smart, Nicholas Eadie, Victoria Longley, Mary-Anne Fahey
Votes: 1,504
30. Danzón (1991)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday ... See full summary »
Director: María Novaro | Stars: María Rojo, Carmen Salinas, Tito Vasconcelos, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 688 | Gross: $0.36M
31. Darkness in Tallinn (1993)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
In August, 1991, Estonia reclaims its independence from the USSR and brings to its national bank nearly $1 billion in gold bullion hidden in Paris for 50 years. Russian mobsters have a bold... See full summary »
Director: Ilkka Järvi-Laturi | Stars: Ivo Uukkivi, Milena Gulbe, Monika Mäger, Enn Klooren
Votes: 512
32. The War Room (1993)
PG | 96 min | Documentary, History
A documentary of the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran it.
Directors: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Heather Beckel, Paul Begala
Votes: 4,431 | Gross: $0.90M
33. These Hands (1993)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary
Surveys a typical workday in the lives of impoverished women in Tanzania who manually mine gravel used for making concrete for urban building projects.
Director: Flora M'mbugu-Schelling
Votes: 24
34. Le grand blanc de Lambaréné (1995)
Not Rated | 94 min | Biography, Drama
Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. Like FRANTZ FANON... See full summary »
Director: Bassek Ba Kobhio | Stars: André Wilms, Marisa Berenson, Alex Descas, Elizabeth Bourgine
Votes: 70
35. When the Stars Meet the Sea (1996)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
This film is one of the most magical to come out of Africa, hardly surprising since Madagascar is unlike anywhere else on earth. Raymond Rajaonarivelo follows his epic first film on the ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Rajaonarivelo | Stars: Jean Rabenjamina, Joseph Rainizatilehy, Aimée Razatindrataranoa, Louis Vahandanitra
Votes: 46
36. Destiny (1997)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida, Safia El Emari
Votes: 3,201
37. Destiny (1997)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Two young high school boys, Manga and Sory, are gay and in love in Guinea. This is their story.
Director: Muhammad Camara | Stars: Cécile Bois, Mamady Mory Camara, Muhammad Camara, Koumba Diakite
Votes: 196
38. Melody (1997)
148 min | Drama, Musical
Mansi and Bansi come to Mumbai after their parents' deaths. All they have as a legacy is a love for music instilled in them by their father Vrindavan, and their divine voices. After their ... See full summary »
Director: Sai Paranjpye | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Aruna Irani, Zakir Hussain, Ayesha Dharker
Votes: 152
39. What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices from Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003)
78 min | Documentary
A look at playwright Eve Ensler's writing workshop inside Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women.
Directors: Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz, Gary Sunshine | Stars: Mary Alice, Glenn Close, Eve Ensler, Hazelle Goodman
Votes: 112
40. The Night of Truth (2004)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
La Nuit de la Vérité is situated in an imaginary West African country. After ten years of civil war between the government army of the Nayak, led by 'Le président', and the Bonande rebels ... See full summary »
Director: Fanta Régina Nacro | Stars: Moussa Cissé, Georgette Paré, Adama Ouédraogo, Naky Sy Savane
Votes: 343
41. Control Room (2004)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
A documentary on perception of the United States's war with Iraq, with an emphasis on Al Jazeera's coverage.
Director: Jehane Noujaim | Stars: Samir Khader, Josh Rushing, George W. Bush, Hassan Ibrahim
Votes: 5,265 | Gross: $2.59M
42. Mukhsin (2006)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An endearing coming-of-age film - riding a bike, flying a kite, climbing trees, being raised by goofy yet loving parents and a friendship that lasts a lifetime. Written and directed by the late Yasmin Ahmad.
Director: Yasmin Ahmad | Stars: Mohd Syafie Naswip, Sharifah Aryana, Salehuddin Abu Bakar, Yasmin Ahmad
Votes: 485
43. United Red Army (2007)
Not Rated | 190 min | Crime, Drama
The film outlines Japanese students movements in the 60s, then shows the formation of the Japanese United Red Army, a communist armed resistance group.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Maki Sakai, Arata Iura, Akie Namiki, Gô Jibiki
Votes: 882 | Gross: $0.00M
44. Waiting for Men (2007)
56 min | Documentary
In Mauritania, a country seemingly bound by tradition and male dominance, three women speak freely about sex, love and money.
Director: Katy Ndiaye
Votes: 19
45. Jennifer's Body (2009)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Horror
A newly-possessed high-school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody, Johnny Simmons
Votes: 151,393 | Gross: $16.20M
46. Elena (II) (2012)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the ... See full summary »
Director: Petra Costa | Stars: Li An, Elena Andrade, Petra Costa
Votes: 2,051
47. Second Coming (2014)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A look at the life and struggles of a family living in London.
Director: Debbie Tucker Green | Stars: Nadine Marshall, Idris Elba, Kai Francis Lewis, Sharlene Whyte
Votes: 669
48. The Second Mother (2015)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Director: Anna Muylaert | Stars: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila
Votes: 16,724 | Gross: $0.38M
49. The Last of Us (2016)
95 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
N is coming from the desert to reach North Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. He steals a boat, but it soon sinks into the middle of the sea, then embarks in an imaginary ... See full summary »
Director: Alaeddine Slim | Stars: Jahwar Soudani, Fethi Akkari, Jihed Fourti, Slim Majdoub
Votes: 202
50. By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
In 1970, She was student activist, a waitress who keeps changing her job, now a film director. All lives loosely connected to each others.
Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong | Stars: Visra Vichit-Vadakan, Arak Amornsupasiri, Achtara Suwan, Inthira Charoenpura
Votes: 625
51. Heal the Living (2016)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
A single devastating event intertwines inextricably the lives of an unfortunate teenager, a weary woman with a critical degenerative heart condition and a team of compassionate doctors; all perfect strangers, perfectly interconnected.
Director: Katell Quillévéré | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners
Votes: 3,564 | Gross: $0.00M
52. Hooligan Sparrow (2016)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
A human rights activist and filmmaker travels to Hainan Province to seek justice for six elementary school girls who were sexually abused, while being followed by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors.
Director: Nanfu Wang | Stars: Ye Haiyan, Huang, Wang Jianfen, Tang Jitian
Votes: 545
53. The Levelling (2016)
R | 83 min | Drama
Somerset, October 2014. When Clover Catto (Ellie Kendrick) receives a call telling her that her younger brother Harry (Joe Blakemore) is dead, she must return to her family farm and face ... See full summary »
Director: Hope Dickson Leach | Stars: Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden, Joe Blakemore
Votes: 2,785 | Gross: $0.00M
54. Bad Black (2016)
Not Rated | 68 min | Action
A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid named Wesley Snipes.
Director: Nabwana I.G.G. | Stars: Bisaso Dauda, Nakaye Jane, Kabuye John, Alan Hofmanis
Votes: 1,116
55. Birds of Passage (2018)
Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
Directors: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra | Stars: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez
Votes: 13,140 | Gross: $0.51M
56. Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)
90 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Best friends in their last year of high school realise there is no such thing as being together forever.
Directors: Tatsuya Ishihara, Yasuhiro Takemoto, Naoko Yamada | Stars: Atsumi Tanezaki, Nao Tôyama, Miyu Honda, Konomi Fujimura
Votes: 2,263
57. Jallikattu (2019)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A portrait of a remote village where a buffalo escapes and causes a frenzy of ecstatic violence.
Director: Lijo Jose Pellissery | Stars: Antony Varghese, Chemban Vinod Jose, Sabumon Abdusamad, Jaffer Idukki
Votes: 9,051
58. Invisible Life (2019)
R | 139 min | Drama
Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão, António Fonseca
Votes: 9,670
59. Identifying Features (2020)
99 min | Drama
A mother travels across Mexico in search for her son whom authorities say died while trying to cross the borders into the United States.
Director: Fernanda Valadez | Stars: Mercedes Hernández, David Illescas, Juan Jesús Varela, Ana Laura Rodríguez
Votes: 2,446
60. Neptune Frost (2021)
105 min | Musical, Sci-Fi
An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.
Directors: Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams | Stars: Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Diogène Ntarindwa, Bertrand Ninteretse
Votes: 1,061
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