Movies by Lists - Akira Kurosawas List of His 100 Favorite Movies (100 [102]) 
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| 3 Penny Opera, The [Die 3 Groschen-Oper]In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'. | 1931 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical | 7.3 (2.2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| 400 BlowsA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. | 1959 | François Truffaut (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (113.8K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Adultress, The [Thérèse Raquin]A truck driver kills the husband of the woman he loves, and becomes the object of blackmail. | 1953 | Marcel Carné (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (1.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Annie HallAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages. | 1977 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.0 (260.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol]Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cellmate, Francis (Alain Delon), to assist him in pulling off one final sco | 1963 | Henri Verneuil | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (3.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Bagdad Cafe [Out of Rosenheim]A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter. | 1987 | Percy Adlon | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (13.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Barry LyndonAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 8.1 (161.6K votes) | 185 | 20211228 |
| Ben HurAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. | 1959 | William Wyler (*) | Adventure, Drama, History | 8.1 (232.2K votes) | 212 | 20211228 |
| Bicycle Thief [Ladri di Biciclette]In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it. | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama | 8.3 (158.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Big Sleep, ThePrivate detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. | 1946 | Howard Hawks (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (83.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Birds, TheA wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 7.7 (182.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Blue Mountains [Aoi sanmyaku]When a post-war high school girl is seen with an older boy many find the nontraditional notion unacceptable and try to trick the girl and also assail her right to continue the relationship. Cue her teacher who not only supports th... | 1949 | Tadashi Imai | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (200 votes) | 92 | 20240501 |
| Bonnie and ClydeBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. | 1967 | Arthur Penn (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (109.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| BreathlessA small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.8 (78.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man And GirlA frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences. | 1919 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (10.1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Brother [Otôto]Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother. | 1960 | Kon Ichikawa (*) | Drama | 6.9 (445 votes) | 98 | 20220731 |
| Buddies [A un]The film tells story of a close friendship undone by love. | 1989 | Yasuo Furuhata | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (111 votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, TheHypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders. | 1920 | Robert Wiene (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (61.7K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Capricious Young Man [Akanishi Kakita]Akanishi Kakita moved from the countryside to a big city. Although he comes from the samurai class, he now lives in poverty among the common people in times of rebellion, but the failed Kakita is not skilled in martial arts. | 1936 | Mansaku Itami | Drama | 6.2 (105 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Carmen Comes Home [Karumen kokyô ni kaeru]A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she's a stripper. | 1951 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Comedy | 6.6 (594 votes) | 86 | 20220414 |
| Charge of the Light Brigade, TheIn 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences. | 1968 | Tony Richardson | Drama, History, War | 6.6 (3.4K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Congress Dances [Der Kongress tanzt]Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815. | 1931 | Erik Charell | Comedy, History, Musical | 7.1 (532 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Conversation PieceA reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence. | 1974 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (4.5K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Daddy Long LegsA wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow orph | 1955 | Jean Negulesco | Musical, Romance | 6.7 (3.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Day of The Jackal, TheIn the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle. | 1973 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (40K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Dead, TheGabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them. | 1987 | John Huston (*) | Drama | 7.3 (7.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Distant Cry from Spring, A [Haruka naru yama no yobigoe]A mysterious stranger appears at the door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter. The young widow who owns the farm puts him up in the barn. At dawn, he helps to deliver a calf and, just as mysteriously and distantly, | 1980 | Yôji Yamada | Drama | 7.6 (572 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler [Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit]Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him. | 1922 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (8.2K votes) | 242 | 20211228 |
| Earth [Tsuchi]The setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. The film depicts the events of a year during the Meiji era and occurrences and actualities of the farmers of the period. The family ha | 1939 | Tomu Uchida | Drama | 7.4 (71 votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| Fall Of The House Of UsherAllan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death. | 1928 | Jean Epstein | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.3 (3.9K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Fanny and AlexanderTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls. | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 8.1 (62.4K votes) | 188 | 20211228 |
| Fireworks [Hana-bi]Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions. | 1997 | Takeshi Kitano (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.7 (29.8K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| FitzcarraldoThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle. | 1982 | Werner Herzog (*) | Adventure, Drama | 8.1 (34K votes) | 158 | 20211228 |
| Floating Clouds [Ukigumo]A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo. | 1955 | Mikio Naruse (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (2.7K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. | 1971 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| GloriaWhen a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York. | 1980 | John Cassavetes (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (9.7K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part II, TheThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.0 (1.2M votes) | 202 | 20211228 |
| Godzilla [Gojira]American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast. | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (32.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Gold Rush, TheA prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall. | 1925 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western | 8.2 (108.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Grand Illusion, The [La Grande Illusion]During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress. | 1937 | Jean Renoir (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (35.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| In The Heat of The NightA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case. | 1967 | Norman Jewison (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (73.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| It's a Wonderful LifeAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. | 1946 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy | 8.6 (438.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 [Ivan Groznyy]During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. | 1944 | Sergei Eisenstein | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (9.9K votes) | 95 | 20220414 |
| Johnny Got His GunDuring World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life. | 1971 | Dalton Trumbo | Drama, War | 7.9 (16.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Journey to Italy [Viaggio in Italia]An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples. | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (10.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Killing Fields, TheA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians. | 1984 | Roland Joffé (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (54.5K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| King of ComedyRupert Pupkin is a passionate yet unsuccessful comic who craves nothing more than to be in the spotlight and to achieve this, he stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself. | 1982 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (98.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| La Belle NoiseuseThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored. | 1991 | Jacques Rivette (*) | Drama | 7.6 (8K votes) | 238 | 20211228 |
| La StradaA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. | 1954 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.0 (61.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Last Year at MarienbadIn a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before. | 1961 | Alain Resnais (*) | Drama, Mystery | 7.8 (22K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Late Spring [Banshun]Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father. | 1949 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Drama | 8.3 (16.5K votes) | 108 | 20220315 |
| Lawrence of ArabiaThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. | 1962 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, War | 8.3 (284.5K votes) | 228 | 20211228 |
| Les CousinsA pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved. | 1959 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Drama | 7.3 (2.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Life of Oharu, The [Saikaku Ichidai Onna]Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society. | 1952 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama | 8.1 (6.8K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Long Absence, The [Une aussi longue absence]Thérèse Langlois, who runs a small café in the suburbs of Paris, lives alone, awaiting her long lost husband. One day she thinks she recognizes him in a tramp walking past her establishment. It must be said that her spouse has not sh | 1961 | Henri Colpi | Drama, Mystery | 7.0 (739 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Lover Divine [Leise flehen meine Lieder]Franz Schubert works as school teacher, yet his mind and soul are in music. When he is engaged as a pianist for an aristocratic soirée he doesn't suspect how this will change his life forever and even determine his unfinished symp... | 1933 | Willi Forst | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.0 (137 votes) | 85 | 20240501 |
| Lullaby of the Earth [Daichi no komoriuta]The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies. | 1976 | Yasuzô Masumura | Drama | 6.6 (181 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| MASHThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. | 1970 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.4 (71.2K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Merry Christmas Mr. LawrenceDuring W.W. II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British P.O.W. and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid blood-shed. | 1983 | Nagisa Ôshima | Drama, War | 7.3 (17.1K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Midnight CowboyA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. | 1969 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama | 7.8 (108.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| MoroccoA cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself. | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (6.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| My Darling ClementineAfter their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family. | 1946 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.8 (23.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| My Neighbor TotoroWhen two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby. | 1988 | Hayao Miyazaki (*) | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 8.2 (320.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| NinotchkaA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. | 1975 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 8.7 (970.7K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| OrphéeA poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld. | 1950 | Jean Cocteau (*) | Fantasy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (11.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| OrpheusA poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld. | 1950 | Jean Cocteau (*) | Fantasy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (11.9K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Our Neighbor, Miss Yae [Tonari no Yae-chan]Keitaro (Obinata Den) is a law student and Yaeko (Aizome Yumeko) is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko (Okada Yoshiko) has a b | 1934 | Yasujirô Shimazu | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (228 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Padre PadroneThe son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him. | 1977 | Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Paris, TexasTravis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family. | 1984 | Wim Wenders (*) | Drama | 8.1 (102K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Pather PanchaliImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. | 1955 | Satyajit Ray (*) | Drama | 8.4 (30.2K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Proud Ones, TheMarshal Cass Silver has to deal with his old nemesis, a corrupt gambler, and his hired guns come to town as well as recurring bouts of blindness. | 1956 | Robert D. Webb | Western | 7.0 (1.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Purple Noon [Plein Soleil]Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess. | 1960 | René Clément (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (15.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Red DesertIn an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages. | 1964 | Michelangelo Antonioni (*) | Drama | 7.6 (15.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Running on EmptyThe eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own. | 1988 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.6 (17.2K votes) | 116 | 20230806 |
| Sandakan 8 [Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo]A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan | 1974 | Kei Kumai | Drama, History, War | 7.5 (580 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo [Tange Sazen yowa - Hyakuman ryô no tsubo]A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it. | 1935 | Sadao Yamanaka | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Solaris [Solyaris]A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane. | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (88.3K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| Spirit of the Beehive, The [El espíritu de la colmena]In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world. | 1973 | Víctor Erice | Drama, Fantasy | 7.9 (18.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Stella DallasA working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future. | 1937 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (5.3K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Stowaway in the Sky [Le voyage en ballon]A young boy sneaks onto his grandfather's hot air balloon and together they travel over France. | 1960 | Albert Lamorisse | Adventure, Family | 6.5 (164 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Stranger Than ParadiseA New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure. | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (36.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Streetcar Named Desire, ADisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. | 1951 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 8.0 (105.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Summer at Grandpa's, A [Dong dong de jiàqi]A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents. | 1984 | Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Drama | 7.7 (1.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Sun Legend of the Shogunate's Last Days [Bakumatsu taiyôden]In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times. | 1957 | Yûzô Kawashima | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (1.2K votes) | 110 | 20220315 |
| Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era, A [Bakumatsu taiyôden]In the last days of the Shogunate, a resourceful grifter seeks to outwit competing prostitutes, rebellious samurai and other inhabitants of a brothel in order to survive the hardened times. | 1957 | Yûzô Kawashima | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (1.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Thin Man, TheFormer detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Mystery | 8.0 (28.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Third Man, ThePulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. | 1949 | Carol Reed (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (167.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Travelling Players, The [O thiasos]Greece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players. | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos (*) | Drama, History, Music, War | 8.0 (3.8K votes) | 230 | 20211228 |
| Trip to Bountiful, TheIn 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time. | 1985 | Peter Masterson | Drama | 7.5 (4.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Un Chien AndalouLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery. | 1929 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Short, Fantasy, Horror | 7.7 (48.8K votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
| Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano, An [Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino]In Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries. | 1977 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Drama | 7.8 (3.3K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Whales of August, TheTwo aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine. | 1987 | Lindsay Anderson (*) | Drama | 7.3 (4.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| What Ever Happened to Baby JaneA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. | 1962 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.0 (54.8K votes) | 134 | 20220414 |
| When Father Was Away on Business [Otac na sluzbenom putu]A family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split. | 1985 | Emir Kusturica (*) | Drama | 7.8 (9.3K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Where Is the Friend's House [Khane-ye doust kodjast]8 year old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. Determinedly, the conscientious boy sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring... | 1987 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Drama, Family | 8.1 (14.8K votes) | 83 | 20220731 |
| Whos Afraid of Virginia WoolfA bitter middle-aged couple, her derisive of his lowly position at a New England college, ask a new colleague and his wife over for drinks, and use them to fuel anguish and emotional pain toward each other through a distressing night | 1966 | Mike Nichols (*) | Drama | 8.0 (73.6K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| WitnessWhen a young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder while visiting Philadelphia with his mother, police detective John Book tries to protect the boy until an attempt on Book's life forces him into hiding in Amish country. | 1985 | Peter Weir (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (92.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Young Lions, TheThe lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII. | 1958 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Action, Drama, War | 7.2 (7.9K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| Zazie Dans le MetroWith her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country-girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike, under her uncle's not-so-watchful eye. Can a little girl cause so much chaos in the heart of the | 1960 | Louis Malle (*) | Comedy, Fantasy | 7.0 (6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Tsuzurikata kyôshitsu | 1938 | Kajirô Yamamoto | Drama | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| La traviata | 1982 | Franco Zeffirelli | Drama, Music | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |