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1. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)

12 | 1 hr 36 min | Drama, Fantasy, War

Rated on 21 Aug 2006

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito

Votes: 21,022

 

2. Fawlty Towers (1975–1979)

PG | 30 min | Comedy

Rated on 12 Apr 2007

Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

Stars: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth

Votes: 85,142

 

3. Antonio das Mortes (1969)

18 | 1 hr 40 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

In this sequel to "Black God, White Devil", Antonio das Mortes must return back to action after killing the last of the Cangaceiros 29 years ago, when a new outlaw appears, who will eventually reveal as an idealist and mark him profoundly.

Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos, Hugo Carvana

Votes: 1,752

 

4. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)

A | 3 hr 9 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 30 Nov 2002

The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her.

Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir

Votes: 18,306

 

5. Citizen Kane (1941)

A | 1 hr 59 min | Drama, Mystery

Rated on 15 Oct 2000

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.

Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead

Votes: 405,577

 

6. The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)

U | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Rated on 13 Jun 2015

A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.

Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg

Votes: 724,732

 

7. Andrei Rublev (1966)

AA | 3 hr 25 min | Biography, Drama, History

Rated on 11 Dec 2013

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev

Votes: 47,386

 

8. Match Point (2005)

12A | 2 hr 4 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Rated on 24 Dec 2006

At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode

Votes: 206,857

 

9. After the Wedding (2006)

15 | 2 hr | Drama

Rated on 07 Jun 2007

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård, Neeral Mulchandani

Votes: 32,113

 

10. Central Station (1998)

15 | 1 hr 50 min | Drama

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Soia Lira

Votes: 36,583

 

11. I, Claudius (1976)

15 | 11 hr 9 min | Biography, Drama, History

Rated on 13 Jun 2015

The history of the Roman Empire as experienced by one of its rulers.

Stars: Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed

Votes: 15,808

 

12. Black God, White Devil (1964)

1 hr 55 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Rated on 28 Jul 2006

After killing his employer when said employer tries to cheat him out of his payment, a man becomes an outlaw and starts following a self-proclaimed saint.

Director: Glauber Rocha | Stars: Geraldo Del Rey, Yoná Magalhães, Othon Bastos, Maurício do Valle

Votes: 4,155

 

13. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)

U | 2 hr 2 min | Biography, Drama, History

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham

Votes: 4,186

 

14. Zelig (1983)

PG | 1 hr 19 min | Comedy

Rated on 22 Jan 2010

"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Patrick Horgan, John Buckwalter

Votes: 39,998

 

15. A Royal Affair (2012)

15 | 2 hr 17 min | Biography, Drama, History

Rated on 13 Jun 2015

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm

Votes: 44,416

 

16. Nights of Cabiria (1957)

X | 1 hr 50 min | Drama

Rated on 30 Jan 2007

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray

Votes: 43,116

 

17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

X | 2 hr 13 min | Drama

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco

Votes: 922,107

 

18. The Jewel in the Crown (1984)

15 | 12 hr 58 min | Drama, History, Romance

Rated on 13 Jun 2015

The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape, ... See full summary »

Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Geraldine James, Wendy Morgan, Judy Parfitt

Votes: 1,947

 

19. The Party (1968)

U | 1 hr 39 min | Comedy

Rated on 12 Apr 2007

A clerical mistake results in a bumbling Indian film star being invited to an exclusive Hollywood party instead of being fired.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Natalia Borisova, Jean Carson

Votes: 38,200

 

20. Friends (1994–2004)

15 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Rated on 13 Jun 2015

Follows the personal and professional lives of six twenty to thirty-something-year-old friends living in Manhattan.

Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 831,070

 

21. Macaroni (1985)

PG | 1 hr 45 min | Comedy, Drama

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades, only to discover that old friends have involved him in a massive hoax.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Isa Danieli

Votes: 680

 

22. What Time Is It There? (2001)

7 | 1 hr 56 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 21 Aug 2006

A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.

Director: Ming-liang Tsai | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Ching Lu, Tien Miao

Votes: 4,594

 

23. The Fireman's Ball (1967)

U | 1 hr 13 min | Comedy, Drama

Rated on 18 Oct 2006

A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha, Frantisek Debelka

Votes: 9,649

 

24. Autumn Sonata (1978)

AA | 1 hr 32 min | Drama, Music

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk

Votes: 27,409

 

25. 8 Women (2002)

15 | 1 hr 51 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

Rated on 22 Jan 2010

One murdered man, eight women, each seeming to be eager than the others to know the truth. Gimme, gimme, gimme some clues to make up my mind. And eventually enter the truth. Oh, thou cruel woman!

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve

Votes: 29,392

 

26. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

15 | 3 hr 8 min | Drama

Rated on 13 Jun 2015

Two young Swedish children experience the many comedies and tragedies of their family, the Ekdahls.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt

Votes: 57,967

 

27. Adam's Apples (2005)

11 | 1 hr 34 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Rated on 22 Jan 2010

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro, Paprika Steen

Votes: 45,918

 

28. American Beauty (1999)

18 | 2 hr 2 min | Drama

Rated on 09 Sep 2000

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley

Votes: 1,073,774

 

29. Malady of Love (1987)

7 | 2 hr 2 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

Mad love. Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 203

 

30. Through the Olive Trees (1994)

U | 1 hr 43 min | Drama

Rated on 22 Jul 2000

A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).

Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai

Votes: 6,590

 

31. The Phantom of the Opera (1990– )

15 | 2 hr 48 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

Christine Daaé, a talented young singer, after being discovered by the known playboy Comte Philippe de Chagny, is sent to the Paris Opera House by her new patron to be classically trained. ... See full summary »

Stars: Teri Polo, Charles Dance, Burt Lancaster, Adam Storke

Votes: 1,473

 

32. Amadeus (1984)

PG | 2 hr 40 min | Biography, Drama, History

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice

Votes: 370,532

 

33. Damage (1992)

18 | 1 hr 51 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée despite the dangers of discovery.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves

Votes: 16,488

 

34. Breaking the Waves (1996)

18 | 2 hr 39 min | Drama

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr

Votes: 62,643

 

35. Dr. Strangelove (1964)

A | 1 hr 35 min | Comedy

Rated on 12 Apr 2007

An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 452,403

 

36. Falling in Love (1984)

PG | 1 hr 46 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

Although they live married lives, two strangers keep running into each other, starting a friendship that could blossom into so much more.

Director: Ulu Grosbard | Stars: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek

Votes: 12,805

 

37. Green Card (1990)

15 | 1 hr 47 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Andie MacDowell, Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman

Votes: 22,599

 

38. Viridiana (1961)

X | 1 hr 30 min | Drama

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo

Votes: 22,439

 

39. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

PG | 1 hr 50 min | Comedy, Crime

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first.

Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers

Votes: 64,985

 

40. Big Love (2006–2011)

PG | 1 hr | Drama

Rated on 13 Jun 2015

A polygamist and his relationship with his three wives.

Stars: Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin

Votes: 20,070

 

41. A Blonde in Love (1965)

15 | 1 hr 22 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama

Rated on 09 Sep 2000

A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since the local boys have... See full summary »

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt, Vladimír Mensík, Josef Sebánek

Votes: 7,707

 

42. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

U | 2 hr 17 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber

Votes: 22,598

 

43. The Great Dictator (1940)

U | 2 hr 5 min | Comedy, Drama, War

Rated on 12 Apr 2007

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 204,152

 

44. Babel (I) (2006)

15 | 2 hr 23 min | Drama

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Mohamed Akhzam

Votes: 290,199

 

45. Tess (1979)

A | 3 hr 6 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin

Votes: 15,325

 

46. Moulin Rouge! (2001)

12 | 2 hr 7 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.

Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 267,422

 

47. The Conformist (1970)

X | 1 hr 53 min | Drama

Rated on 11 Nov 2009

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio

Votes: 27,283

 

48. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003)

15 | 1 hr 43 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 23 Dec 2012

A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.

Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Kim Ki-duk, Yeong-su Oh, Jong-ho Kim, Kim Young-Min

Votes: 77,777

 

49. Ginger and Fred (1986)

15 | 2 hr 5 min | Comedy, Drama

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Friedrich von Ledebur

Votes: 4,791

 

50. Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

AA | 2 hr 3 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Rated on 16 Feb 2005

A wealthy plantation owner is captivated by a mysterious woman with a shady past.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière

Votes: 6,014

 

51. The Odyssey (1997)

12 | 2 hr 56 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

The warrior King Odysseus leaves his idyllic life in the kingdom of Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. After winning the war, he now must endure a lengthy, ten-year journey to return, and ... See full summary »

Stars: Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters

Votes: 13,837

 

52. The Man Without a Past (2002)

12 | 1 hr 37 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

M arrives in Helsinki only to be viciously attacked by thugs and pronounced dead by medics. He revives but with no memory of his past or his identity. He rebuilds his life from scratch, but the past inevitably catches up with him.

Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Annikki Tähti, Juhani Niemelä

Votes: 22,148

 

53. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

X | 1 hr 32 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Rated on 03 Sep 2003

A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.

Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason

Votes: 82,330

 

54. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

18 | 2 hr 39 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field, Sydney Pollack

Votes: 305,106

 

55. Serge (1960)

U | 1 hr 20 min | Comedy, Drama

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

The mother of a 5 years old Seryozha remarries. This man becomes a friend and a confident, an adult who see Seryozha not as a child, but as a person.

Directors: Georgiy Daneliya, Igor Talankin | Stars: Boris Barkhatov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Natalya Chechyotkina

Votes: 563

 

56. The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

U | 1 hr 58 min | Drama

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi

Votes: 8,905

 

57. Barry Lyndon (1975)

A | 3 hr 5 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger

Votes: 150,794

 

58. Summer with Monika (1953)

PG | 1 hr 36 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell

Votes: 12,894

 

59. The Story of Adele H (1975)

12 | 1 hr 36 min | Biography, Drama, History

Rated on 16 Feb 2005

Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley

Votes: 7,407

 

60. Sliding Doors (1998)

15 | 1 hr 39 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel.

Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 63,781

 

61. Amy Foster (1997)

12 | 1 hr 55 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Rated on 09 Sep 2000

The of story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy.

Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen, Kathy Bates

Votes: 3,095

 

62. Broken Flowers (2005)

15 | 1 hr 46 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Julie Delpy

Votes: 98,536

 

63. HouseSitter (1992)

PG | 1 hr 42 min | Comedy, Romance

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

Con artist Gwen moves into Newton's empty home without his knowledge and begins setting up house, posing as his new wife.

Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana Delany, Julie Harris

Votes: 22,682

 

64. A Single Man (2009)

12A | 1 hr 39 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.

Director: Tom Ford | Stars: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult

Votes: 106,336

 

65. Good Will Hunting (1997)

15 | 2 hr 6 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård

Votes: 866,193

 

66. Betty Blue (1986)

18 | 3 hr 5 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 24 Jan 2007

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon, Consuelo De Haviland

Votes: 18,145

 

67. The 400 Blows (1959)

A | 1 hr 39 min | Crime, Drama

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble

Votes: 105,994

 

68. Always (1989)

PG | 2 hr 2 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Rated on 06 Sep 2000

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman

Votes: 28,084

 

69. Forrest Gump (1994)

12 | 2 hr 22 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate and other historical events unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

Votes: 1,819,882

 

70. Svart katt, vit katt (1998)

15 | 2 hr 7 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

Matko and his son Zare live on the banks of the Danube river and get by through hustling and basically doing anything to make a living. In order to pay off a business debt Matko agrees to marry off Zare to the sister of a local gangster.

Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Branka Katic, Florijan Ajdini

Votes: 51,043

 

71. Cries and Whispers (1972)

X | 1 hr 31 min | Drama

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin

Votes: 30,411

 

72. Persona (1966)

X | 1 hr 25 min | Drama, Thriller

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand

Votes: 104,093

 

73. Okay (2002)

15 | 1 hr 37 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

A bittersweet comedy with dogma star Paprika Steen in the strong leading role.

Director: Jesper W. Nielsen | Stars: Paprika Steen, Troels Lyby, Ole Ernst, Nicolaj Kopernikus

Votes: 1,479

 

74. A Special Day (1977)

AA | 1 hr 46 min | Drama

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd

Votes: 12,022

 

75. Italienska för nybörjare (2000)

15 | 1 hr 52 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Anette Støvelbæk, Peter Gantzler

Votes: 12,818

 

76. Goya's Ghosts (2006)

15 | 1 hr 53 min | Biography, Drama, History

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid

Votes: 29,453

 

77. The Secret of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (2016 TV Movie)

1 hr 29 min | Documentary

Rated on 09 Oct 2016

Ian Hislop and John Eliot Gardiner reveal the story behind Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Described as the 'greatest 'great' piece ever written,' its opening notes are among the most ... See full summary »

Director: Guy Evans | Stars: John Eliot Gardiner, Ian Hislop

Votes: 26

 

78. Dead Man (1995)

18 | 2 hr 1 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Rated on 16 Feb 2005

On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange aboriginal American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen

Votes: 90,780

 

79. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

A | 1 hr 45 min | Drama

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.

Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry

Votes: 134,008

 

80. Cinema Paradiso (1988)

PG | 2 hr 35 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 09 Sep 2000

A filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli

Votes: 232,186

 

81. The Apple (1998)

PG | 1 hr 26 min | Drama

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf | Stars: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Naderi, Ghorban Ali Naderi, Azizeh Mohamadi

Votes: 2,226

 

82. Pushwagner (2011)

1 hr 13 min | Documentary

Rated on 06 Oct 2012

A personal portrait of a small man with a great personality. The directors followed the artist Pushwagner for three years. He is an artist who is in danger of losing everything.

Directors: Even Benestad, August Baugstø Hanssen | Star: Hariton Pushwagner

Votes: 223

 

83. Masjävlar (2004)

11 | 1 hr 38 min | Comedy, Drama

Rated on 02 Jul 2007

Mia, who's living in Stockholm, comes home to her small childhood town to celebrate her father's birthday. There she finds herself looked down-upon by her oldest sister; and she has to ... See full summary »

Director: Maria Blom | Stars: Sofia Helin, Kajsa Ernst, Ann Petrén, Lars-Gunnar Aronsson

Votes: 3,662

 

84. Dirty Dancing (1987)

15 | 1 hr 40 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Rated on 09 Sep 2000

Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.

Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes

Votes: 204,955

 

85. Lost in Translation (2003)

15 | 1 hr 42 min | Comedy, Drama

Rated on 16 Feb 2005

A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris

Votes: 417,177

 

86. Elsker dig for evigt (2002)

15 | 1 hr 53 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.

Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Paprika Steen

Votes: 9,650

 

87. Show Me Love (1998)

15 | 1 hr 29 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Erica Carlson, Mathias Rust

Votes: 49,981

 

88. The Fisher King (1991)

15 | 2 hr 17 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Rated on 09 Sep 2000

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi

Votes: 79,710

 

89. Jules and Jim (1962)

X | 1 hr 45 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 16 Feb 2005

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino

Votes: 37,858

 

90. Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

PG | 1 hr 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blanck

Votes: 17,434

 

91. Serendipity (2001)

PG | 1 hr 30 min | Comedy, Romance

Rated on 16 Feb 2005

A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.

Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Bridget Moynahan

Votes: 104,281

 

92. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

12 | 2 hr | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Rated on 15 Jan 2005

A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang

Votes: 254,017

 

93. Il Postino (1994)

U | 1 hr 48 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Rated on 09 Sep 2000

A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

Directors: Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi | Stars: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa

Votes: 33,745

 

94. Regarding Henry (1991)

12 | 1 hr 48 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 09 Sep 2000

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Michael Haley, Stanley Swerdlow

Votes: 29,649

 

95. Underground (1995)

15 | 2 hr 50 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Rated on 11 Oct 2001

A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.

Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac

Votes: 55,380

 

96. Marie Antoinette (2006)

12A | 2 hr 3 min | Biography, Drama, History

Rated on 22 Jan 2007

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, Steve Coogan

Votes: 102,167

 

97. Pride & Prejudice (2005)

U | 2 hr 9 min | Drama, Romance

Rated on 23 Feb 2007

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?

Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland

Votes: 260,884

 

98. Scoop (2006)

12 | 1 hr 36 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Rated on 22 Jan 2010

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Jim Dunk, Robert Bathurst

Votes: 80,993

 

99. The English Patient (1996)

15 | 2 hr 42 min | Drama, Romance, War

Rated on 09 Sep 2000

At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas

Votes: 179,368

 

100. Idiot (2003– )

9 hr 10 min | Drama

Rated on 27 Jun 2007

The thrilling drama based on the world's greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss psycho-clinic to face the glamorous world of St Petersburg. ... See full summary »

Stars: Igor Ivanov, Marietta Melrose, Evgeniy Mironov, Vladimir Mashkov

Votes: 1,815