best ones watched in 2022
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1. Blue Rita (1977)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Nightclub owner and erotic dancer Rita Blue uses her place as a front for working undercover as a spy. Motivated by her vehement hatred of men that stems from having been sexually abused as... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Martine Fléty, Sarah Strasberg, Dagmar Bürger, Pamela Stanford
Votes: 639
2. Mr. Klein (1976)
PG | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear his name?
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto
Votes: 8,896 | Gross: $0.03M
3. Rio das Mortes (1971 TV Movie)
84 min | Comedy
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Michael König, Günther Kaufmann, Katrin Schaake
Votes: 746
4. Al otro lado del espejo (1973)
82 min | Drama, Horror
A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Emma Cohen, Robert Woods, Françoise Brion, Philippe Lemaire
Votes: 430
5. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, RZA
Votes: 67,487 | Gross: $1.97M
6. Keiko (1979)
119 min | Drama
Follows the daily life of Keiko, a lonely young woman seeking for love in a cafe she frequents.
Director: Claude Gagnon | Stars: Junko Wakashiba, Akiko Kitamura, Takuma Ikéuchi, Toshio Hashimoto
Votes: 61
7. Titane (2021)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for ten years.
Director: Julia Ducournau | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh
Votes: 56,151
8. Fai in fretta ad uccidermi... ho freddo! (1967)
99 min | Comedy, Crime
Giovanna and Franco are a pair of lovers who live by tricking people into presenting themselves as brothers and sisters.
Director: Francesco Maselli | Stars: Monica Vitti, Jean Sorel, Roberto Bisacco, Daniela Surina
Votes: 75
9. Mothers of America (1969)
R | 94 min | Action, Adventure
Having established Femina, a secret city populated entirely by beautiful women, Sumuru plots to wage a war against all men.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Shirley Eaton, Richard Stapley, George Sanders, Maria Rohm
Votes: 1,242
10. Love - Zero = Infinity (1994)
63 min | Horror
Takeshi, an alienated young man spends his lonely days obsessively following total strangers. He is employed to observe the movements of a beautiful but disturbed doctor, whose behavior is causing concern.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Kiyomi Itô, Takeshi Itô, Ryûmei Homura, Masaru Hiramatsu
Votes: 166
11. The Washing Machine (1993)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine and is drawn into a web of deceit and murder by the dead man's lover, Vida, and her two sisters, Sissy and Ludmilla,
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Philippe Caroit, Ilaria Borrelli, Katarzyna Figura, Barbara Ricci
Votes: 888
12. Anarchy in Japan-Suke (1999)
68 min | Drama
MIZUKI is infertile. Desperate for a child, she kidnaps a baby boy from the car of a couple who are screwing outside. Mizuki raises the boy and names him YOSHIKI. Eight years later, Mizuko ... See full summary »
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Yumeka Sasaki, Kazuhiro Sano, Yukiko Izumi, Natsuko Sawada
Votes: 135
13. Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968)
X | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
Director: Susumu Hani | Stars: Haruo Asanu, Kazuko Fukuda, Kuniko Ishii, Ichirô Kimura
Votes: 928
14. Survey Map of a Paradise Lost (1988)
66 min | Horror, Mystery
Reporter Nukada's next big assignment is the secret world of Japanese phone sex clubs. He gets in touch with Midori, a part-time employee at the Banana Club.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Rio Yanagawa, Kazuhiro Sano, Kiyomi Itô, Tôru Nakane
Votes: 141
15. Lost virgin: Yamitsuki enjo kôsai (2002)
71 min | Drama
Director: Toshiki Satô | Stars: Nikki Sasaki, Daishi Matsunaga, Chika Saitô, Mami Sakura
Votes: 47
16. Love for an Idiot (1967)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
A 31-year-old man is manipulated by a much younger woman.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Michiyo Yasuda, Shôichi Ozawa, Masakazu Tamura, Isao Kuraishi
Votes: 216
17. A Queda (1978)
120 min | Drama
This sequel to "Os Fuzis" follows the story of a hard working operator who dies on a work related accident due to the precarious conditions established in the place. But when his superiors ... See full summary »
Directors: Ruy Guerra, Nelson Xavier | Stars: Nelson Xavier, Leonidas Bayer, Carlos Alberto Baía, Hugo Carvana
Votes: 147
18. Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
65 min | Drama, Horror
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, seventeen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Mimi Kozakura, Michio Akiyama, Yôko Yamamoto, Seshio Zenbei
Votes: 2,696
19. News from Home (1976)
85 min | Documentary
Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 2,808
20. The Addiction (1995)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror
A New York philosophy grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then tries to come to terms with her new lifestyle and frequent craving for human blood.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra, Edie Falco
Votes: 11,520 | Gross: $0.30M
21. Fat Girl (2001)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
Two sisters confront their sexual attitudes and experiences while on a family holiday.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero De Rienzo, Arsinée Khanjian
Votes: 12,821 | Gross: $0.72M
22. Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Watch as the life of a leader of a menacing group of deviants, explodes in a spectacle of debauchery. Accidentally filmed from beginning to end, on purpose.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole
Votes: 4,460 | Gross: $0.03M
23. A Gentle Woman (1969)
88 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier
Votes: 3,058
24. Naked Blood (1996)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Misa Aika, Yumika Hayashi, Mika Kirihara, Sadao Abe
Votes: 2,264
25. Amen. (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 14,977 | Gross: $0.27M
26. Brief Crossing (2001)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filipi, Laëtitia Lopez
Votes: 1,975
27. Model Shop (1969)
M | 97 min | Drama, Romance
George is unemployed, broke, about to be drafted to Vietnam, and suddenly madly in love with the divine Lola, a woman he has only briefly glimpsed. Now George searches for his potential amour through the City of Angels.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole
Votes: 2,136
28. A Mulher de Todos (1969)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
Director: Rogério Sganzerla | Stars: Helena Ignez, Jô Soares, Stênio Garcia, Paulo Villaça
Votes: 354
29. The Chambermaid Lynn (2014)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama
In this coming out story with a difference, Lynn - a painfully shy hotel maid with OCD - voyeuristically watches a guest's encounter with a dominatrix. She then decides to hire the call girl to help her shed her own inhibitions.
Director: Ingo Haeb | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Lena Lauzemis, Steffen Münster, Christian Aumer
Votes: 973
30. Sex Is Comedy (2002)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger
Votes: 3,011 | Gross: $0.04M
31. Seishun no satsujinsha (1976)
132 min | Crime, Drama
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Director: Kazuhiko Hasegawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Mieko Harada, Etsuko Ichihara, Ryôhei Uchida
Votes: 369
32. Madame Satã (2002)
Unrated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Lázaro Ramos, Marcelia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui, Fellipe Marques
Votes: 3,154 | Gross: $0.20M
33.
Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (1993–1994)
Episode:
Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles
(1994)
59 min | Drama
A semi autobiographical look at a young woman, like the director herself, growing up in Belgium in the heady era of the late 1960s.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Circé Lethem, Julien Rassam, Joëlle Marlier, Cynthia Rodberg
Votes: 397
34. Hail Mary (1985)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Manon Andersen
Votes: 3,730
35. Dead of Summer (1970)
89 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Joyce is alone in her luxurious apartment in Morocco, trying to cool down during a heat wave but also suffering from anxiety and sexual frustration. She holds a party, goes to the beach, and meets her physician. But where's her husband?
Director: Nelo Risi | Stars: Jean Seberg, Luigi Pistilli, Lilia Nguyen, Gianni Belfiore
Votes: 118
36. Irma Vep (1996)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
A Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les vampires (1915), but petty intrigues and clashing egos plague the production.
Director: Olivier Assayas | Stars: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler
Votes: 9,723 | Gross: $0.19M
37. 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: 296
38. The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 3,949
39. Bôkô honban (1987)
57 min | Drama, Horror
Eiji a teenager eager to follow in his late fathers scientific footsteps, perfects one of his old experiments to diminish the barrier between pain and pleasure.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Nanako Fujitani, Yui Hoshikawa, Yutaka Ikejima, Narutoshi Ishikawa
Votes: 183
40. Special Section (1975)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In occupied France during World War II a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 1,591
41. Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Berta Socuéllamos, Jose Antonio Valdelomar González, Jesús Arias, José María Hervás Roldán
Votes: 1,778
42. Fun for Three (1974)
87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After her recent release from a deep psychiatric care institution, a Libertine-styled countess goes back to her very evil ways and fixes her eyes on a pretty girl with the intention to destroy her after fully corrupting her body and soul.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Howard Vernon, Tania Busselier
Votes: 417
43. Baba Yaga (1973)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror
A photographer finds herself falling under the spell of a witch.
Director: Corrado Farina | Stars: Carroll Baker, George Eastman, Isabelle De Funès, Ely Galleani
Votes: 2,243
44. Vibrator (2003)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
After meeting a handsome truck driver (Nao Omori) in the midst of an urban mini-mart, a 30-something freelance writer (Shinobu Terajima) embarks on a life-changing emotional journey of sexual self-discovery.
Director: Ryûichi Hiroki | Stars: Shinobu Terajima, Nao Ômori, Riho Makise, Jun Murakami
Votes: 970
45. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The delirious journey of a mentally disordered man, who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava, Rita Macedo, Ariadne Welter
Votes: 5,889
46. The Devil, Probably (1977)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano
Votes: 4,732 | Gross: $0.03M
47. Shinjuku, Messy District: I'll Be There (1977)
87 min
Director: Chûsei Sone | Stars: Miyako Yamaguchi, Moeko Ezawa, Jun Aki, Machiko Aoki
Votes: 50
48. The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History, Music
A look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Eugene Tatu, Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline
Votes: 4,868
49. Romance (1999)
R | 84 min | Drama, Romance
Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stévenin, François Berléand, Rocco Siffredi
Votes: 12,019 | Gross: $1.28M
50. A Tale of Sorrow (1977)
93 min | Drama
A female golfer who has exceeded expectations to reach the top not only has to contend with being in-demand, but also with the men in her life, her neigbours, her brother and not to mention a stalker.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Kuniko Ashihara, Kyôko Enami, Chieko Harada, Yoshio Harada
Votes: 295
51. Angel Guts: Red Classroom (1979)
79 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
When a writer for a porn magazine, watches a "rape" porn that is set in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress, Nami, and tries to find her. He meets her by chance as he arrives for a shoot at a hotel.
Director: Chûsei Sone | Stars: Yûki Mizuhara, Keizô Kanie, Jun Aki, Ken Mizoguchi
Votes: 353
52. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Ieremia, Nicodim Ungureanu, Olimpia Malai
Votes: 10,485
53. Dry Lake (1960)
89 min | Drama
An alienated young man flirts with extremism during a major student protest.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Shin'ichirô Mikami, Shima Iwashita, Kayoko Honoo, Hizuru Takachiho
Votes: 203
54. Duck in Orange Sauce (1975)
106 min | Comedy
When facing a request of divorce, Livio accepts, but sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover.
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Barbara Bouchet, John Richardson
Votes: 668
55. Oasis of Fear (1971)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Two hippies find themselves on the run from the law and soon end up going undercover in a villa owned by a mysterious woman.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Irene Papas, Ray Lovelock, Ornella Muti, Michel Bardinet
Votes: 1,065
56. Love Toy (1971)
76 min | Thriller
A compulsive gambler gambles away his own nubile teen daughter. She becomes his opponent's sex slave.
Director: Doris Wishman | Stars: Bernard Marcel, Pat Happel, Uta Erickson, Larry Hunter
Votes: 351
57. Angel Guts 5: Red Vertigo (1988)
74 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.
Director: Takashi Ishii | Stars: Mayako Katsuragi, Naoto Takenaka, Hirofumi Kobayashi, Jun Izumi
Votes: 267
58. Kinjirareta tekunikku (1966)
75 min | Drama
After meeting a prostitute, a former boxer recalls his past life.
Director: Kan Mukai | Stars: Shûsaku Mutô, Chikako Natsumi, Kaoru Miya, Kôhei Tsuzaki
Votes: 47
59. Web of Passion (1959)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama
A wealthy wine grower has trouble with his wife, his children, his best friend, and his mistress across the way, who is murdered.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Madeleine Robinson, Antonella Lualdi, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Dacqmine
Votes: 1,414
60. Bellissima (1951)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli
Votes: 5,387
61. Hijirimen bakuto (1972)
86 min | Action, Crime, Drama
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Eiko Nakamura, Bunta Sugawara, Sanae Tsuchida, Reiko Ike
Votes: 83
62. 36 fillette (1988)
88 min | Drama, Romance
A night in the life of a young woman who wishes to learn and experience more of life. The men she meets have as much to learn from her as they can offer her, or more.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Delphine Zentout, Etienne Chicot, Olivier Parnière, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Votes: 1,394 | Gross: $0.41M
63. Sale comme un ange (1991)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A middle-aged tough cop, George, is trying to help and protect a criminal, Manoni, that he has known since they were both young. He orders his younger colleague and friend, Didier, who has ... See full summary »
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Lio, Nils Tavernier, Roland Amstutz
Votes: 352
64. Il Grido (1957)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriella Pallotta, Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray
Votes: 5,445
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