1. The Keys of the Kingdom
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
It has an average vote of 6.978 on TMDB.
2. The Tarnished Angels
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
It has an average vote of 6.62 on TMDB.
3. Flights in Dreams and in Reality (Полеты во сне и наяву)
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
4. The Cars That Ate Paris
After the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays for a while in the rural Australian town of Paris as the guest of the mayor, who hopes he will become a permanent member of the Paris population. Arthur soon realizes the quaint hamlet has a sinister secret: they orchestrate car accidents and rob the victims. Survivors are brought to the local hospital, lobotomized, and used for a local doctor's experiments.
It has an average vote of 5.494 on TMDB.
5. A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (リップヴァンウィンクルの花嫁)
A woman hires actors and strangers to pretend to be her friends and family at her wedding.
It has an average vote of 6.912 on TMDB.
6. Blow-Up
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
It has an average vote of 7.372 on TMDB.
7. Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore)
Paola is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana . In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise. But when the challenge of being together falls away, will the passion start to wane? A masterpiece of intensity and finely-wrought emotion.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
8. The Naked Kiss
A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.
It has an average vote of 6.994 on TMDB.
9. L'Avventura (L'avventura)
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
It has an average vote of 7.518 on TMDB.
10. Brigadoon
Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
11. Cosa fai a Capodanno? (Cosa fai a Capodanno?)
A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy.
It has an average vote of 4.9 on TMDB.
12. Gertrud (Gertrud)
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
13. Drowning by Numbers
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
14. Mamma Roma (Mamma Roma)
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
It has an average vote of 7.863 on TMDB.
15. Il Grido (Il Grido)
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
16. L'Eclisse (L'eclisse)
This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
It has an average vote of 7.743 on TMDB.
17. Code Unknown (Code inconnu)
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
18. Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas)
Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. Sculptor Ramón Acín, a good friend, buys a lottery ticket and promises Buñuel that he will pay for his next movie if he wins the prize.
It has an average vote of 6.985 on TMDB.
19. Pieces (Mil gritos tiene la noche)
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
20. A Difficult Life (Una vita difficile)
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
It has an average vote of 8.097 on TMDB.