1. Just Don't Think I'll Scream (Ne croyez surtout pas que je hurle)
January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
2. Camp Victory, Afghanistan
Camp Victory, Afghanistan is the true story of the American Exit Strategy. Using 300 hours of footage shot over the course of three years, the film follows a battle-tested Afghan General and the steady stream of U.S. National Guard soldiers deployed to train the men of his newly formed battalion. It is the first film to examine the reality of building a functioning Afghan military-- but it is also a story about friendship and the unlikely bonds that form across cultural, political and social barriers.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
3. Ronnie O'Sullivan: The Edge of Everything
Ronnie O’Sullivan hasn’t had the most harmonious relationship with the media over the years, but his attempt to win the Snooker World Championship for a record 7th time in 2021 apparently proved to good an opportunity to pass up.
It has an average vote of 7.75 on TMDB.
4. Aznavour by Charles (Le Regard de Charles)
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
5. Is This Love? (Aşk Bu Mu?)
Umut has been a thief since he was a kid. He constantly seeks the opportunity of his life and his family. He can't find either. Gülüm is a young girl who has no problems in her life, who has completed her schooling on time and is only a step away from her dreams. But before she takes that step towards her dreams, she hangs and falls. It is understood that Gülüm has liver failure. She'll die if she doesn't have a liver transplant. The fate of Umut and Gülüm merge at this point. Umut found the opportunity he had waited for the rest of his life. But this opportunity drags Umut into very difficult situations, and finds itself in a position that risks the lives of all loved ones. For Umut to come out of this vortex, he has to make very serious decisions. And love is worth everything? Is this love?
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. Duck Pimples
Donald has an unpleasant evening when a mysterious book salesman comes to his door then disappears leaving Donald with a collection of whodunnit novels. He reads one and gets so fully involved in it that it appears that the characters are actually coming out of the book and into his living room getting him involved in the murder caper. Finally the author of the book, J. Harold King, steps forth and claims Donald innocent. The characters return to the novel from whence they came leaving Donald wondering if it was really just his "imagination"
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
7. The Custodian (El custodio)
Living the mundane existence of a professional bodyguard, always in the shadows of his clients, Ruben decides to make a change that will finally give him a personal connection outside of his solitary world.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
8. Jenin, Jenin (جنين، جنين)
Mohammed Bakri's documentary "Jenin, Jenin" is a heart-rending depiction of the aftermath of Israel's destruction of Jenin refugee camp in 2002, where every scene and interview is profound and distressing in equal measure.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
9. On achève bien les gros (On achève bien les gros)
Gabrielle Deydier has been obese since she was a teenager. For years she suffered from abuse and discrimination - until she decided to stop apologizing for being fat. Because: It is not true that obesity results from uncontrolled gluttony or weak will. About the fight against a society hostile to fat and untenable prejudices.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
10. Technoboss (Technoboss)
The start of Luís Rovisco’s old age isn’t exactly cheerful. Already in his sixties, he’s still roaming the country by himself, carrying out his tasks — increasingly less real — as sales director for the company SegurVale. Sadness, resignation? Not with the songs Luís makes up behind the wheel, and that take over this film from start to finish.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
11. Le char et l'olivier, une autre histoire de la Palestine (Le char et l'olivier, une autre histoire de la Palestine)
(Le char et l'olivier, une autre histoire de la Palestine)
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
12. Express Yourself: Die Tänzer der Queen of Pop
(Express Yourself: Die Tänzer der Queen of Pop)
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
13. Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl))
The story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write and skateboard in Kabul.
It has an average vote of 7.288 on TMDB.
14. The Cave
Deep beneath the surface in the Syrian province of Ghouta, a group of female doctors have established an underground field hospital. Under the supervision of paediatrician Dr. Amani and her staff of doctors and nurses, hope is restored for some of the thousands of children and civilian victims of the ruthless Syrian civil war.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
15. Port Authority
Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
16. The Edge of Democracy (Democracia em Vertigem)
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
17. Horses of God (Les Chevaux de Dieu)
The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
18. Camille (Camille)
Camille, a young idealistic photojournalist, goes to the Central African Republic to cover the civil war that is brewing up. What she sees there will change her destiny forever.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
19. June Again
A woman experiences a medical miracle, after which she has only a few days to bring together her estranged children, save the family's wallpaper business and rekindle an old flame.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
20. Marie Curie (Marie Curie)
The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.
It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.
