1. Sympathy for the Underdog (博徒外人部隊)
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
2. Harry and Tonto
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States, visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
It has an average vote of 7.019 on TMDB.
3. Objective, Burma!
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
4. Dodes'ka-den (どですかでん)
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
It has an average vote of 7.082 on TMDB.
5. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum)
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
It has an average vote of 6.908 on TMDB.
6. The Prince and the Pauper
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when they are separated and each must live the other's life.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
7. The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
8. Escape from Zahrain
Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot pursuit. All the performances are magnificent: Sal Mineo showing his acting talents, Jack Warden in a wiseguy performance as an employee of Zahrain oil who was involved in embezzlement, Anthony Caruso as a slimy psychotic and the underrated Madlyn Rhue as a nurse who becomes emotionally involved in the proceedings.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
9. A Bright Shining Lie
Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally with the way the war is being run and is forced to leave the military. Returning to Vietnam as a civilian working with the Army, he comes to despise some South Vietnamese officers while he takes charge of some of the U.S. forces and continues his liaisons with Vietnamese women.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
10. Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
A number of slaves risk their lives to escape their masters with their only help coming from the famous secret slave escape network.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
11. Guns of the Magnificent Seven
In this third remake of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's hugely influential The Seven Samurai, the seven gunslingers liberate Mexican political prisoners, train them as fighters and assist them in a desperate attack on a Mexican fortress in an attempt to free a revolutionary leader.
It has an average vote of 5.206 on TMDB.
12. The Night of the Generals
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
It has an average vote of 6.758 on TMDB.
13. The Widow Couderc (La Veuve Couderc)
The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
14. Vice Versa
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
It has an average vote of 5.798 on TMDB.
15. Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い)
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
16. The Bridge at Remagen
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
It has an average vote of 6.712 on TMDB.
17. Compulsion
Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.
It has an average vote of 7.051 on TMDB.
18. Carancho (Carancho)
Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for won’t let him off that easily.
It has an average vote of 6.71 on TMDB.
19. Max Manus: Man of War (Max Manus)
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus , after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
It has an average vote of 7.07 on TMDB.
20. Dororo (どろろ)
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge the death of her parents.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
