Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Lena Dunham
Actors: Grace Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Lena Dunham
About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Lena Dunham
Actors: Grace Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Lena Dunham
About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Wes Anderson
Actors: Anjelica Huston, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 (107,524 users)
Original Title: Kagemusha
Genres: Drama, History, War
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.
IMDb Rating: 7.9/10 (12,915 users)
Original Title: Nema-ye Nazdik
Genres: Crime, Drama
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Actors: Abolfazl Ahankhah, Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Pretending to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf making his next movie, Ali Sabzian enters the home of a well-to-do family in Teheran, promising it a prominent part in his next movie. The actual people involved in the incident re-enact the actual events, followed by the footage from the actual trial that took place.
Genre: Drama
Director: Francesco Rosi
Actors: José Gómez Sevillano, Miguel Mateo ‘Miguelín’, Pedro Basauri ‘Pedrucho’
A farm boy arrives in Barcelona with dreams of becoming a bullfighter, succeeds to the top of his sport, and then faces tragic danger.
IMDb Rating: 6.6/10 (129 users)
Genres: Crime, Drama
Director: Bob Rafelson
Actors: Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Jack Nicholson
‘It’s Monopoly out there’. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island – asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly – real life reduced to radio drama.
Genres: Drama, Romance
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Marlon Brando
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence, a sex-starved woman whose husband Jabe M. Torrance is dying of cancer upstairs. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family, who covets his snakeskin jacket as much as his body and tries to seduce him in the cemetery. Val is more attracted to the mature Lady and gets her pregnant.
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10 (1,944 users)
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
Two Americans sharing a flat in Paris, playwright Tom Chambers and painter George Curtis, fall for free-spirited Gilda Farrell. When she can’t make up her mind which one of them she prefers, she proposes a “gentleman’s agreement”: She will move in with them as a friend and critic of their work, but they will never have sex. But when Tom goes to London to supervise a production of one of his plays, leaving Gilda alone with George, how long will their gentleman’s agreement last?
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 from 1,810 users
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Actors: Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara and Isao Tamagawa
The number-three-ranked hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, which puts him into conflict with a mysterious woman whose death wish inspires her to surround herself with dead butterflies and dead birds. Worse danger comes from his own treacherous wife and finally with the number-one-ranked hit-man, known only as a phantom to those who fear his unseen presence.
IMDb Rating: 7.3/10 (2,973 users)
Genre: Drama
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage.
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10 (14,750 users)
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