1. Paternel (Paternel)
(Paternel)
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
2. Slave of the Cannibal God (La montagna del dio cannibale)
A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
It has an average vote of 5.215 on TMDB.
3. A Wounded Fawn
A local museum curator who is dipping her toe back into the dating pool is targeted by a charming serial killer. When a fateful romantic getaway between the two becomes a tense game of cat and mouse, both must confront the madness within him.
It has an average vote of 5.477 on TMDB.
4. Memory Lane (De terugreis)
A bitter-aged man reluctantly drives to Spain to pay a last visit to a dying friend, along with his wife who's suffering from dementia. But as their journey unfolds, he slowly starts to soften up and rediscovers the meaning of love.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. Occupied City
The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
6. The Apologies
A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama school audition while he goes off to save his doomed production in New York.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
7. Lies We Tell
An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
8. Maria Montessori (La Nouvelle femme)
Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
9. The Monk and the Gun (The Monk and the Gun)
Kingdom of Bhutan, 2006. Modernization has finally arrived. Bhutan becomes the last country in the world to connect to the internet and television, and now the biggest change of all: democracy. To teach the people how to vote, the authorities organize a mock election, but the locals seem unconvinced. Travelling to rural Bhutan where religion is more popular than politics, the election supervisor discovers that a monk is planning a mysterious ceremony for the election day.
It has an average vote of 6.781 on TMDB.
10. How It Ends
A woman scores an invite to one last wild party before the world ends. However, making it there won't be easy after her car is stolen and the clock is ticking on her plan to tie up loose ends with friends and family.
It has an average vote of 5.015 on TMDB.
11. Twilight
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
It has an average vote of 6.036 on TMDB.
12. Abe
A 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn tries to unite his half-Israeli and half-Palestinian family through cooking.
It has an average vote of 6.978 on TMDB.
13. The Last Stop in Yuma County
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-gotten fortune.
It has an average vote of 6.88 on TMDB.
14. The Taste of Things (La passion de Dodin Bouffant)
Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
15. Et plus si affinités (Et plus si affinités)
(Et plus si affinités)
It has an average vote of 6.816 on TMDB.
16. Fitting In
A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
17. Terrestrial Verses (آیه های زمینی)
A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. Progressing along a rough timeline from birth to death, each story is shot in a static camera angle as a single petitioner negotiates with an authority figure hovering just outside of frame, who is practiced in the language of doublespeak.
It has an average vote of 7.042 on TMDB.
18. Hit the Road (جاده خاکی)
A chaotic family is on a road trip across a rugged landscape. In the back seat, Dad has a broken leg, Mom tries to laugh when she's not holding back tears, and the youngest keeps exploding into car karaoke. Only the older brother is quiet.
It has an average vote of 6.951 on TMDB.
19. Finally Dawn (Finalmente l'alba)
A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.
It has an average vote of 6.058 on TMDB.
20. Love & Revolution (Te estoy amando locamente)
Seville, 1977. At a time when homosexuality is a crime, Reme, a traditional mother moved by the love of her son, an adolescent aspiring artist, will become involved in the Andalusian LGBTQ+ movement, paradoxically born in the bosom of the Church.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
