1. 2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure (2084: Video clip pour une réflexion syndicale et pour le plaisir)
Filmed on the 100th anniversary of the labour union laws in France, the quasi-science fiction film is set in 2084. A robot moderator helps us look 'back' at the contemporary labour situation and different directions the movement could take.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
2. The Days to Come (Els dies que vindran)
Pure and honest, this intimate glimpse of future parenthood. Not least because protagonists Maria Rodríguez and David Verdaguer surrender themselves entirely to the process: during shooting, they really are expecting their first child. 'Els dies que vindran' captures all the beautiful and difficult moments of pregnancy.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
3. The Comedians of Comedy: Live at the El Rey
For the final show of their successful "Comedians of Comedy" tour, "alternative" stand-up comics Maria Bamford, Brian Posehn and Patton Oswalt pull out all the stops in a grand finale-worthy performance that finds humor in unexpected places. Taped live at Los Angeles's El Rey Theater and featuring fellow funnyman Bob Odenkirk, this farewell gig is sure to please fans who like their laughs with bite.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
4. Free to Go (Interlude) (Free to Go (Interlude))
Energy pictures; mindful kinesis. Light and shadow vigorously conjoin, conjuring delusion of depth and duration, fiction of space and time. The fool’s paradise of the illusory window is savored and shattered and seen for what it is.
It has an average vote of 8.7 on TMDB.
5. A Grin Without a Cat (Le fond de l'air est rouge)
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
6. The Lovely Month of May (Le Joli Mai)
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
7. Project Nim
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
8. The Earrings of Madame de... (Madame de…)
In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
It has an average vote of 7.596 on TMDB.
9. La Bête Humaine (La Bête humaine)
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.
It has an average vote of 7.055 on TMDB.
10. I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba)
Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.
It has an average vote of 7.828 on TMDB.
11. Stroszek (Stroszek)
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
It has an average vote of 7.374 on TMDB.
12. Opening Night
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.
It has an average vote of 7.541 on TMDB.
13. Love Letter (ラブレター)
Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that their old house is gone, Hiroko records the address listed under his name in his yearbook and sends him a letter. Surprisingly, she receives a reply, and discovers it came from his old classmate, a girl who also happens to also be called Itsuki Fujii.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
14. Brainstorm
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
It has an average vote of 6.207 on TMDB.
15. The Green Ray (Le Rayon vert)
A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
It has an average vote of 7.444 on TMDB.
16. Satantango (Sátántangó)
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
It has an average vote of 8.138 on TMDB.
17. Body Heat
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
It has an average vote of 7.006 on TMDB.
18. Last Year at Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad)
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
It has an average vote of 7.425 on TMDB.
19. Last Summer (L'été dernier)
One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.
It has an average vote of 5.939 on TMDB.
20. Russian Ark (Русский ковчег)
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.