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Big Deal on Madonna Street
(I soliti ignoti)
Inept criminals gather a team together to try and dig a tunnel into a pawnshop and rob a safe.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1958
- Director Mario Monicelli
- Cast Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto, Rossana Rory, Carla Gravina, Claudia Cardinale
- Genre Comedy, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Sacrifice
(Offret)
To avert the end of the world, Alexander promises God that he'll give up everything he values in life, including his beloved son.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden, France, United Kingdom • 1986
- Director Andrei Tarkovsky
- Cast Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sven Wollter, Valérie Mairesse
- Genre Drama
- Available on Klassiki, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Le Deuxième Souffle
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1966
- Director Jean-Pierre Melville
- Cast Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Christine Fabréga, Michel Constantin, Raymond Pellegrin, Marcel Bozzuffi
- Genre Action, Drama, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel, TCM, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Marketa Lazarová
A compelling, stripped-down, and surreal account of the shift from Paganism to Christianity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1967
- Director František Vláčil
- Cast Josef Kemr, Magda Vášáryová , Naďa Hejná, František Velecký, Karel Vašíček
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Kwaidan
(怪談)
Bizarre, unearthly, terrifying— a nation's legend, an author's imagination, a director's creation manifest in the superlative— Kwaidan
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarou Mikuni, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Ranko Akagi, Fumie Kitahara
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Earrings of Madame de...
(Madame de…)
It was her vanity that destroyed her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1953
- Director Max Ophüls
- Cast Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Jean Galland, Mireille Perrey
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
The Face of Another
(他人の顔)
A man with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyō, Mikijiro Hira, Kyōko Kishida, Eiji Okada, Miki Irie
- Genre Drama, Science Fiction
- Available on Criterion Channel
Kanal
(Kanał)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 1957
- Director Andrzej Wajda
- Cast Teresa Iżewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczysław Gliński, Tadeusz Gwiazdowski, Stanisław Mikulski, Emil Karewicz
- Genre War, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Il Posto
(Il posto)
A coming-of-age film about a young man beginning his career at a large, bureaucratic company.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1961
- Director Ermanno Olmi
- Cast Loredana Detto, Sandro Panseri, Tullio Kezich, Mara Revel, Guido Spadea, Corrado Aprile
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Kanopy
Simon of the Desert
(Simón del desierto)
Sacrifice and Temptation
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico • 1965
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santoveña, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Francisco Reiguera, Luis Aceves Castañeda
- Genre Comedy, Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel
Pixote
(Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 1980
- Director Héctor Babenco
- Cast Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino, Zenildo Oliveira Santos, Claudio Bernardo
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video
Love
(Szerelem)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hungary • 1971
- Director Károly Makk
- Cast Mari Törőcsik, Darvas Lili, Darvas Iván, Orsolya Erzsi, László Mensáros
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Él
Another film masterpiece by the director of the prize-winning 'The Young and the Damned'
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico • 1953
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena, Manuel Dondé, Rafael Banquells
- Genre Drama, Thriller, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Panic
(Panique)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1947
- Director Julien Duvivier
- Cast Michel Simon, Viviane Romance, Paul Bernard, Charles Dorat, Lucas Gridoux, Lita Recio
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel
Muddy River
(泥の河)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1981
- Director Kôhei Oguri
- Cast Takahiro Tamura, Mariko Kaga, Nobutaka Asahara, Makiko Shibata, Minoru Sakurai, Yumiko Fujita
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Landscape in the Mist
(Τοπίο στην ομίχλη)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Greece, France, Italy • 1988
- Director Theo Angelopoulos
- Cast Michalis Zeke, Tania Palaiologou, Stratos Tzortzoglou, Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Ilias Logothetis
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cría cuervos…
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain • 1976
- Director Carlos Saura
- Cast Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall, Florinda Chico, Ana Torrent, Conchita Pérez, Mayte Sánchez
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
Siberiade
(Сибириада)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Soviet Union • 1979
- Director Andrei Konchalovsky
- Cast Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitali Solomin, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Vladimir Samoylov
- Genre War, Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Video
Kabuliwala
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- India • 1957
- Director Tapan Sinha
- Cast Chhabi Biswas, Oindrila Tagore, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Manju Dey, Kali Bannerjee
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cléo from 5 to 7
(Cléo de cinq à sept)
A young singer awaiting life-changing medical results embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1962
- Director Agnès Varda
- Cast Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck, Michel Legrand, José Luis de Vilallonga
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Kanopy
Pandora's Box
(Die Büchse der Pandora)
Lulu is seductive, beautiful, and most of all, deadly.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1929
- Director G.W. Pabst
- Cast Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts
- Genre Drama, Romance, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, JustWatchTV
Sans Soleil
(Sans soleil)
This experimental essay-film weaves together narratives from across the world.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1983
- Director Chris Marker
- Cast Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Riyoko Ikeda, Charlotte Kerr, Alexandra Stewart
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, DocAlliance Films
Vivre Sa Vie
(Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux)
A young Parisian woman’s existential crisis — and eventual turn to sex work.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1962
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe, Guylaine Schlumberger, Gérard Hoffman, Monique Messine
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Kanopy
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
(Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
A breathtaking journey into the heart of darkness.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany, Mexico • 1972
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera
- Genre Adventure, Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor Amazon Channel, History Vault, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Shout! Factory TV, Freevee, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
The Fire Within
(Le Feu follet)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1963
- Director Louis Malle
- Cast Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps, Jean-Paul Moulinot, Mona Dol
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV
Hiroshima Mon Amour
(Hiroshima mon amour)
The story of a young French actress and her affair with a Japanese man while on assignment in Hiroshima.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Japan • 1959
- Director Alain Resnais
- Cast Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
- Genre Drama, History, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Amarcord
In an Italian seaside town, Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various eccentrics as they engage in absurd behavior.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1973
- Director Federico Fellini
- Cast Bruno Zanin, Armando Brancia, Pupella Maggio, Giuseppe Ianigro, Nando Orfei, Stefano Proietti
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Germany, Year Zero
(Germania anno zero)
The country is obliterated, the buildings are dilapidated and the people are desolated.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, Germany • 1948
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne, Heidi Blänkner
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Pelle the Conqueror
(Pelle Erobreren)
A father and son attempt to make a new life for themselves on the Danish island of Bornholm.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Sweden • 1987
- Director Bille August
- Cast Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath, Kristina Törnqvist, Astrid Villaume
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Kanopy
The Silence
(Tystnaden)
Two estranged sisters stop to stay in a nearly deserted hotel while not able to speak the town's language.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Sweden • 1963
- Director Ingmar Bergman
- Cast Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindström, Kotti Chave
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube
The Elementary School
(Obecná škola)
A group of undisciplined elementary schoolers living near Prague in the post-war period get a strict new teacher.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1991
- Director Jan Svěrák
- Cast Václav Jakoubek, Radoslav Budáč, Jan Tříska, Zdeněk Svěrák, Libuše Šafránková, Daniela Kolářová
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Apple TV
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed)
This earliest surviving animated feature film tells the story of a heroic prince attempting to save his sister from an evil sorcerer.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1926
- Director Lotte Reiniger
- Cast Dana Dempsey
- Genre Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Kanopy
Le Corbeau
An essential piece of French cinema banned after the Liberation.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1943
- Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Cast Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Sylvie
- Genre Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
- Available on Criterion Channel
Stray Dog
(野良犬)
During a sweltering summer, a rookie detective searches Tokyo’s streets for his stolen Colt pistol.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1949
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku, Noriko Honma
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on fuboTV, Criterion Channel, Crackle, Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel
My Sweet Little Village
(Vesničko má středisková)
When a corrupt politician attempts to take advantage of mentally disabled Otik, his entire village rallies together to stop him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1985
- Director Jiří Menzel
- Cast János Bán, Marián Labuda, Rudolf Hrušínský, Petr Čepek, Libuše Šafránková, Jan Hartl
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Apple TV, Amazon Video
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
(L'albero degli zoccoli)
When the family of man was still--- a family.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1978
- Director Ermanno Olmi
- Cast Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Nazarin
(Nazarín)
A Motion Picture For Ever...
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico • 1959
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo, Ignacio López Tarso, Ofelia Guilmáin, Luis Aceves Castañeda
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Boys of Paul Street
(A Pál utcai fiúk)
The most extraordinary battle ever fought by the bravest army that ever had to be home for dinner.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hungary, United States • 1969
- Director Zoltán Fábri
- Cast Mari Törőcsik, Sándor Pécsi, László Kozák, Anthony Kemp, William Burleigh, John Moulder-Brown
- Genre Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Ballad of Narayama
(楢山節考)
Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It…
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1983
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejo, Shoichi Ozawa, Fujio Tokita
- Genre Drama
- Available on ARROW, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Sundays and Cybele
(Cybèle ou les dimanches de ville d'Avray)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Austria • 1962
- Director Serge Bourguignon
- Cast Hardy Krüger, Nicole Courcel, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel, André Oumansky, Anne-Marie Coffinet
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
(Иван Грозный. Сказ второй: Боярский заговор)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Soviet Union • 1958
- Director Sergei Eisenstein
- Cast Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Amvrosi Buchma, Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Genre History, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Kanopy
Fanny
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1932
- Director Marc Allégret
- Cast Orane Demazis, Raimu, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe, Auguste Mouriès, Marcel Maupi
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
Le Notti Bianche
(Le notti bianche)
A lonely city transplant and a sheltered girl begin a tentative romance.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1957
- Director Luchino Visconti
- Cast Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena, Maria Zanoli, Elena Fancera
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Diary of a Country Priest
(Journal d'un curé de campagne)
An inexperienced, sickly priest struggles to navigate the rural French community he is assigned to serve.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1951
- Director Robert Bresson
- Cast Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel, Rachel Bérendt, Nicole Maurey, Nicole Ladmiral
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Tokyo Olympiad
(東京オリンピック)
This definitive portrait of the Olympics includes an epic pole-vaulting match between West Germany and America, and a marathon through Tokyo's streets.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1965
- Director Kon Ichikawa
- Cast Abebe Bikila, Ahmed Issa, Yoshinori Sakai, Joe Frazier, Emperor Hirohito of Japan
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
The House Is Black
(خانه سیاه است)
A look at life and suffering in a leper colony with a focus on the beauty of creation.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1963
- Director Forugh Farrokhzad
- Cast Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Mansouri
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel
U.S. Go Home
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1994
- Director Claire Denis
- Cast Alice Houri, Jessica Tharaud, Grégoire Colin, Martine Gautier, Vincent Gallo, François Jandin
- Genre TV Movie, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
(残菊物語)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1939
- Director Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kōkichi Takada, Gonjurô Kawarazaki, Kakuko Mori, Tokusaburo Arashi, Yōko Umemura
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Plex, Plex Channel
Mamma Roma
A former sex worker attempts to make a new life for herself, despite the looming threats of her past.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1962
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
El sur
The daughter of a scientist with mystical powers attempts to discover the secrets he's been keeping from her
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, France • 1983
- Director Víctor Erice
- Cast Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Icíar Bollaín, Lola Cardona, Rafaela Aparicio, Aurore Clément
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
My Night at Maud's
(Ma nuit chez Maud)
The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during one night with a divorced woman.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1969
- Director Éric Rohmer
- Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan, Guy Léger
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
A City of Sadness
(悲情城市)
In the midst of political upheaval in post-World War II Taiwan, four sons reach tragic fates
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong, Taiwan • 1989
- Director Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Cast Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hsin Shu-Fen, Chan Chung-Yung, Jack Kao, Tai Bo, Li Tian-Lu
- Genre Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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