1.

Ming wang xing shi ke (2018)

110 min | Drama

6,3

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Four people go to remote mountains in Hubei province to survey exterior views for a new movie. They
get lost in the mountain and have to face darkness and daze of themselves.

Director: Ming Zhang | Stars: Jiamei Feng, Jiawen Li, Xinran Li, Dan Liu

Votes: 104

2. Underground Fragrance (2015)

75 min | Drama

6,2

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The lives of three people entwine in Beijing's Underground City.

Director: Peng Fei Song | Stars: Ze Ying, Wenjie Luo, Fuyu Zhao, Xiaohui Li

Votes: 97
3. Jia (II) (2015)

280 min | Drama

8,6

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Liu and Deng are a couple both in their 70s who have been married for nearly half a century and lived
in a small inland city of China. The family of Liu and Deng is a typical ordinary ... See full summary »

Director: Shumin Liu | Stars: Shoufang Deng, Lijie Liu, Xiaomin Liu, Jiangsheng Jiang

Votes: 38

4. Shi ren chu chai le (2015)

103 min | Documentary

6,9

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In all its simplicity, a completely unique film, shot more than 10 years ago and only now edited. A poet
sets off on a 'business trip' through inhospitable Xinjiang. The physically ... See full summary »

Director: Anqi Ju | Star: Xianbo Hou

Votes: 58

5. Han jia (2010)

91 min | Drama

6,4

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An ordinary village in Northern China, the last day of the winter vacation. Four idle, aimless
adolescents gather at Zhou Zhixin's home, a friend who lives with his father, brother and ... See full
summary »

Director: Hongqi Li | Stars: Jinfeng Bai, Lei Bao, Hui Wang, Ying Xie

Votes: 221
6. Maha samut lae susaan (2015)

105 min | Drama

6,5

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Laila sets out on a road trip to Pattani, one of the three southernmost Thai provinces, to visit her long-
lost aunt. Her brother and his friend are tagging along. The three take off from ... See full summary »

Director: Pimpaka Towira | Stars: Heen Sasithorn, Aukrit Pornsumpunsuk, Yosawat Sitiwong,
Pattanapong Sriboonrueang

Votes: 75

7. By the time it gets dark (2016)

105 min | Drama

6,5

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73 Metascore

In 1970, She was student activist, a waitress who keeps changing her job, now a film director. All lives
loosely connected to each others.

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong | Stars: Visra Vichit-Vadakan, Arak Amornsupasiri, Achtara

Suwan, Inthira Charoenpura

Votes: 402
8. The Rules for Everything (2017)

87 min | Comedy, Drama

7,1

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When 10 year old Storm's father disappears, and her mother dwells into making instruction films with
an eastern European guru, she has to decide which rules the world has to come down to, not to
completely become a chaos.

Director: Kim Hiorthøy | Stars: Natalie Press, Tindra Hillestad Pack, Pavle Heidler, Ingrid Olava

Votes: 227

9. Los exiliados románticos (2015)

70 min | Drama

6,2
Rate

Vito, Luis and Francesco are three Spanish friends around thirty who travel by van to Paris for no
apparent reason, just looking for a reunion with their respective ancient, idyllic and yet... See full
summary »

Director: Jonás Trueba | Stars: Renata Antonante, Francesco Carril, Vahina Giocante, Miren Iza

Votes: 325

10. Intimidation (1960)

65 min | Action, Crime

7,1

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A bank manager is blackmailed into robbing his own bank.

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara | Stars: Kô Nishimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Mari Shiraki, Jun Hamamura

Votes: 467
11. Seishun no mon (1981)

140 min

6,9

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The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner.

Directors: Kinji Fukasaku, Koreyoshi Kurahara | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kôichi
Satô, Kaoru Sugita

Votes: 28

12. Ai no kawaki (1966)

98 min | Drama

7,2

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Etsuko, after her husbands death, moves in with her in-laws. With ambivalence, she finds herself
sexually involved with her father-in-law. She then finds herself desiring young gardener Saburo, who
has a relationship with the maid Miyo.

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara | Stars: Nobuo Nakamura, Ruriko Asaoka, Akira Yamanouchi, Yûko
Kusunoki

Votes: 296
13. From what is before (2014)

338 min | Drama

7,8

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88 Metascore

The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the
forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and ... See full
summary »

Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Perry Dizon, Roeder, Hazel Orencio, Karenina Haniel

Votes: 489

14. Melancholia (2008)

450 min | Drama

7,4
Rate

Three people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.

Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Angeli Bayani, Perry Dizon, Roeder, Dante Perez

Votes: 331

15. Batang West Side (2001)

315 min | Crime, Drama

7,3

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A Filipino teenager is shot to death on the sidewalk of New Jersey, USA. An investigation starts into
his death. His family members and friends are interviewed. Along the way, we find out ... See full
summary »

Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Yul Servo, Joel Torre, Gloria Diaz, Angel Aquino

Votes: 116
16. Jidan he shitou (2012)

97 min | Drama

5,9

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Set in her home village in rural Hunan province, Egg and Stone is a powerful autobiographical portrait
of a 14-year-old girl's attempts to come to terms with her emerging sexual maturity.

Director: Ji Huang | Stars: Yixiang Huang, Xiaolin Liu, Pingao Xiao, Baiyu Yao

Votes: 51

17. Burger Boy's (1999)

103 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

5,8

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Four high school friends hatch a plan for a farcical heist that sends them spiraling into a series of
surreal events littered with clowns, fast food, and 'rakenrol', in an even more absurd nation of squalor
and entertainment.

Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Gerald Madrid, Marcus Madrigal, Marco Salvador, Tricia Roman

Votes: 18

18. Hubad sa ilalim ng buwan (1999)

110 min | Drama

6,9

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A priest estranged from the holy vows, marries Clara and starts raising a family. After several
incidents, he becomes wracked with melancholia and wanders aimlessly, unable to come to terms with
his personal truths.

Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Klaudia Koronel, Joel Torre, Elizabeth Oropesa, Isabel Granada

Votes: 86
19. Sho o suteyo machi e deyô (1971)

137 min | Drama, Music

Rate

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with
various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

Director: Shûji Terayama | Stars: Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Yukiko Kobayashi, Fudeko Tanaka

Votes: 1.269

20. Jal al-ji-do mot-ha-myeon-seo (2009)

126 min | Drama

6,9

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Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director.

Director: Sang-soo Hong | Stars: Tae-woo Kim, Ji-won Uhm, Hyun-Jung Go, Hyeong-jin Kong

Votes: 643
21. Kokoro (1973)

90 min | Drama

7,5

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Kokoro is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man
and an enigmatic elder scholar whom he calls Sensei. Haunted by tragic secrets that have ... See full
summary »

Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Anri, Noboru Matsuhashi, Kazunaga Tsuji

Votes: 78

22. Barber Yoshino (2004)

96 min | Comedy

5,1
Rate

In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut
known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day, a drastic change occurs when a transfer student
with bleached hair comes from Tokyo.

Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Kazuyuki Asano, Hôshi Ishida, Masaki Miura, Shinnosuke Miyao

Votes: 427

23. Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)

90 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

7,2

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Bus conductor Tomiko falls in love with driver Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being a
serial killer who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.

Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Rena Komine, Tadanobu Asano, Kotomi Kyôno, Tomoka Kurotani

Votes: 573
24. Barren Illusion (1999)

95 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

6,6

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In future Japan, a dangerous pollen falls upon Tokyo, endangering its populace. Two people volunteer
to become tests subject for a drug that could possibly provide a cure.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Shinji Aoyama, Shirô Atami, Shingo Ichizawa, Kazushige Inami

Votes: 284

25. Hanare banareni (2012)

100 min | Drama, Romance

6,8

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Three young people in Tokyo. Kuro is a girl working a part-time job at a bakery. Eito is a
photographer. Gou is a theater director. These three individuals meet by coincidence and, as a means to
escape reality, begin living together at a deserted inn near the sea.

Director: Daisuke Shimote | Stars: Daisuke Iijima, Hikari Kajiwara, Airi Kido, Wakana Matsumoto

Votes: 45

26. Kurôn wa kokyô wo mezasu (2008)

110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

6,5

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The Clone Returns Home is a compelling meditation on the paradox of life and death, and the meaning
of love and family. Set in an imaginary - yet utterly imaginable - future, this quietly ... See full
summary »

Director: Kanji Nakajima | Stars: Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Eri Ishida, Hiromi Nagasaku, Kyûsaku Shimada

Votes: 574
27. Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember (2016)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

5,7

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A bunch of 10-year-old kids rob pedestrians and kill without mercy. But after a failed bank robbery, the
dangerous game comes to an end with twenty years of imprisonment. After two decades,... See full
summary »

Director: Khavn | Stars: Khavn, Dido de la Paz, Daniel Palisa, Bing Austria

Votes: 106

28. Desaparadiso (2015)

75 min | Drama

4,2

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What can a family do if someone disappears in a dictatorship? You can't go to the police for help or
information. Many families were affected in this way by the cruelty of the Marcos ... See full
summary »

Director: Khavn | Stars: Dante Perez, Chris Pasturan, Raye Lucero, Ian Lomongo

Votes: 11
29. Wo zhe yang guo le yi sheng (1985)

152 min | Drama

7,1

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This film tells of a woman's never-ending struggle to keep herself and her family fed and clothed.

Director: Yi Chang | Stars: Hui-Shan Yang, Hsiang-Ping Hu, Li-Chun Lee, Ming Liu

Votes: 125

30. Dao cao ren (1987)

94 min | Comedy, Drama, History

7,3

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Chronicles the last days of Japanese rule in a Taiwanese village, in a quasi-comical style.

Director: Toon Wang | Stars: Chun-Fang Chang, Po-Chou Chang, Sheng-Li Cho, Chun-Hsiung Ko

Votes: 199

31. Xiang jiao tian tang (1989)

116 min | Drama

7,7

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"Door Latch" and his friend followed the KMT army and moved to Taiwan in 1949. They conceal their
real name and get many trials and afflictions to adapt the circumstances in that special ... See full
summary »

Director: Toon Wang | Stars: Shih Chang, Kai-Chun Chen, Lung Fang, Wei Ho

Votes: 81
32. Wu yan de shan qiu (1992)

165 min | Drama, History

7,9

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In the 1920's, when Taiwan is Japan's colony, the small town Chiu-Fen was famous of its gold mines.
Escaping from the landlord's control, Chu and Wei join the gold rush in Chiu-Fen, hoping ... See full
summary »

Director: Toon Wang | Stars: Xianmei Chen, Pin-Yuan Huang, Chang-Bin Jen, Chia-Chia Peng

Votes: 174

33. Hong shi zi (1996)

168 min | Drama, History

7,4

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In 1949, the Communists take over mainland. The refugees and the military arrive in the Keelung
Harbor in Taiwan. While the father holds secret meetings with other generals in attempt to ... See full
summary »

Director: Toon Wang | Stars: Shih Chang, Jing-ping Chao, Cheer Chen, Li-Hua Chen

Votes: 53
34. Ce ma ru lin (1985)

115 min | Action, Adventure

Rate

Bandits trying to survive at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Director: Toon Wang | Stars: Ju-Feng Ma, Emily Y. Chang, Bing-Chen Teng, Jui Wang

Votes: 69

35. Jia ru wo shi zhen de (1981)

99 min | Drama

7,5

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Add a Plot

Director: Toon Wang | Stars: Kuan-Chen Hu, Alan Tam

Votes: 66

36. Choh chin luen hau dik yi yan sai gaai (1997)

99 min | Drama

6,8

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Director Eric Kot discusses the process of developing a love story, playing with various probabilities,
and highlighting character feelings. These monologues are intercut with dramatizations of his evolving
narrative.

Director: Eric Kot | Stars: Calvin Choi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Vincent Kok, Eric Kot

Votes: 208
37. Er zi de da wan ou (1983)

105 min | Drama

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Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold
War period.

Directors: Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Chuang-Hsiang Tseng, Jen Wan | Stars: Bor Jeng Chen, Li-Yin Yang,
Kuo-Feng Tseng, Te-Nan Lai

Votes: 472

38. Il cielo (1962)

87 min | Drama, War

7,4

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Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.

Director: Takis Kanellopoulos | Stars: Aimilia Pitta, Faidon Georgitsis, Takis Emmanuel, Eleni
Zafeiriou

Votes: 166
39. Sonia (1980)

75 min | Drama, Romance

6,6

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Add a Plot

Director: Takis Kanellopoulos | Stars: Antigoni Doudoumi, Spyros Fokas, Kostas Lahas, Lina
Lambraki

Votes: 9

40. Tarde Para Morir Joven (2018)

110 min | Drama

6,7

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80 Metascore

During the summer of 1990 in Chile, people begin to feel a growing sense of freedom and three
teenagers face their first loves and fears.

Director: Dominga Sotomayor Castillo | Stars: Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro,
Matías Oviedo