1. Ichi the Killer (殺し屋1)
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
It has an average vote of 6.99 on TMDB.
2. The Happiness of the Katakuris (カタクリ家の幸福)
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
It has an average vote of 6.989 on TMDB.
3. Three... Extremes (쓰리, 몬스터)
An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors: "Dumplings", directed by Fruit Chan of Hong Kong; "Cut", directed by Park Chan-Wook of Korea; "Box", directed by Miike Takashi of Japan. The first film "Dumplings" was extended and turned into a full-length theatrical film of the same name.
It has an average vote of 6.81 on TMDB.
4. 13 Assassins (十三人の刺客)
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
5. Together (Tillsammans)
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
It has an average vote of 6.993 on TMDB.
6. Men Behind the Sun (黑太陽731)
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.
It has an average vote of 6.129 on TMDB.
7. Dead or Alive (DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者)
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
8. The Bird People in China (中国の鳥人)
Wada, a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza, who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing.
It has an average vote of 7.21 on TMDB.
9. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle)
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
It has an average vote of 7.42 on TMDB.
10. Borderland
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.
It has an average vote of 5.345 on TMDB.
11. Summer Interlude (Sommarlek)
A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.
It has an average vote of 7.415 on TMDB.
12. Survive Style 5+ (SURVIVE STYLE5+)
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
It has an average vote of 7.249 on TMDB.
13. Noriko's Dinner Table (紀子の食卓)
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. Burnt Offerings
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
It has an average vote of 6.539 on TMDB.
15. Wittgenstein
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
16. Bottom of the World
On their road trip through the southwestern desert, Alex and his girlfriend Scarlett arrive in a town in the middle of nowhere and take a room in a mysterious hotel so that Scarlett, who is feeling increasingly ill, can get some rest.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
17. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Una lucertola con la pelle di donna)
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
18. Vada Chennai (வடசென்னை)
A young carrom player in North Chennai becomes a reluctant participant in a war between two feuding gangsters.
It has an average vote of 7.814 on TMDB.
19. Kuroneko (藪の中の黒猫)
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
20. I Am Divine
Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image, gender identity, sexuality, and preconceived notions of beauty, Divine succeeded in becoming an internationally recognized icon, recording artist, and character actor of stage and screen. Glenn went from the often-mocked, schoolyard fat kid to underdog royalty, standing up for millions of gay men and women, drag queens and punk rockers, and countless other socially ostracized misfits and freaks. With a completely committed in-your-face style, he blurred the line between performer and personality, and revolutionized pop culture.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
