1. Shadowboxing (Бой с Тенью)
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected...
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
2. À propos de Nice (À propos de Nice)
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
It has an average vote of 6.869 on TMDB.
3. V.I.P. Cop. New Year's Eve Mayhem (Полицейский с Рублёвки. Новогодний беспредел)
On the eve of the new year, the Barvikha Severnoe police station is threatened with closure. To save his own department, a police officer from Rublyovka Grisha Izmailov is forced to go to extreme measures and, together with operatives, decides to rob a bank. He is counting on the fact that his colleagues, together with the head of the department, Yakovlev, will easily disclose this matter, the money will be returned back, and everyone will keep their work next year. But everything is not going the way Grisha planned ...
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
4. The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)
A Swedish peasant family, ravaged by poverty, privation and misery in mid-19th century Sweden, set out on a perilous journey to America in hope of a better life.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
5. A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s'est échappé)
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
It has an average vote of 7.935 on TMDB.
6. La Jetée (La Jetée)
A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.
It has an average vote of 7.874 on TMDB.
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc)
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
8. Un Chien Andalou (Un chien andalou)
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
It has an average vote of 7.446 on TMDB.
9. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!)
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them has to go to Leningrad but another one goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
10. The Cameraman
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
It has an average vote of 7.886 on TMDB.
11. Behemoth (悲兮魔兽)
Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.
It has an average vote of 7.554 on TMDB.
12. Voyage in Time (Tempo di viaggio)
The travels in Italy of director Andrei Tarkovsky in preparation for the making of his film Nostalghia.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
13. The Organizer (I compagni)
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia is sent by the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle
It has an average vote of 7.486 on TMDB.
14. Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond)
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
15. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d'un rêveur)
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
16. Augustine (Augustine)
Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
17. Délits flagrants (Délits flagrants)
This documentary is a collection of footage of 14 suspects being 'interviewed' by the deputy public prosecutors.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
18. Kino Eye (Киноглаз)
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all to "buy from the cooperative" as opposed to the Public Sector, promoting temperance, and helping poor widows. Experimental portions of the film, projected in reverse, feature the un-slaughtering of a bull and the un-baking of bread.
It has an average vote of 6.803 on TMDB.
19. The Merchants of Cool
A documentary on the marketing of pop culture to Teenagers.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
20. The Great White Silence
Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica as part of Captain Scott's ill-fated South pole expedition and shot the footage that makes up this extraordinary documentary.
It has an average vote of 7.744 on TMDB.