1. The Tobacconist (Der Trafikant)
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
2. An Impudent Girl (L'Effrontée)
Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
3. On the Other Side of the Tracks (De l'autre côté du périph)
Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.
It has an average vote of 5.569 on TMDB.
4. The Dream Team (Les seigneurs)
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.
It has an average vote of 5.013 on TMDB.
5. Mood Indigo (L'Écume des jours)
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
It has an average vote of 6.153 on TMDB.
6. Gemma Bovery (Gemma Bovery)
Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
7. So Happy Together (Tellement proches)
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont invités à dîner chez son beau-frère, Jean-Pierre à Créteil. C'est vrai, Alain en a marre de ces dîners familiaux, mais il ne sait pas encore ce qui l'attend véritablement ce soir-là... Ni les jours qui suivent
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
8. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
It has an average vote of 6.852 on TMDB.
9. Electrick Children
Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, and finds glorious rock & roll thereupon. Weeks later, Rachel realizes a miracle has occurred - and the cassette tape must have something to do with it. She leaves her family and runs away to the closest city: Las Vegas. There she searches for the singer of the band on the cassette tape.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
10. Sidetracked (Las ovejas no pierden el tren)
A rural couple in crisis, who have a brother and sister with urban problems, and all of them trying to find a solution.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
11. Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
12. We Are Young. We Are Strong. (Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark.)
On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese men, women and children on what has since become known as "The Night of the Fire." The riots became a symbol for xenophobia in the just recently reunited Germany. This film recounts the incident from the perspectives of three very different characters.
It has an average vote of 6.815 on TMDB.
13. Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
The remarkable life story of the pre-war Polish artist Stanislav Szukalski, documented by the American friends he made late in life.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
14. Eisenstein in Guanajuato
In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
15. Frau Ella (Frau Ella)
A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
16. Two Lives (Zwei Leben)
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?
It has an average vote of 6.636 on TMDB.
17. Tokyo Fiancée (Tokyo Fiancée)
A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
18. Gone With the Wind (Autant en emporte le vent)
Autant en emporte le vent is a French musical adaptation of the 1936 Margaret Mitchell novel Gone with the Wind produced by Dove Attia and Albert Cohen in 2003, with music and lyrics by Gérard Presgurvic and staging and choreography by Kamel Ouali.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
19. Sister Smile (Sœur Sourire)
A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
It has an average vote of 6.513 on TMDB.
20. Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani (Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani)
A crowd-sourced documentary with clips filmed all on the same day.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
