1.
Breaking the Waves (1996)
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. (159 mins.)
Director: Lars Von Trier
2.
Festen (1998)
At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed. (105 mins.)
3.
Submarino (2010)
Two brothers meet at their mother's funeral, each in his way on a path of self-destruction, both haunted by a tragedy in their youth. (105 mins.)
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
4.
Auf der anderen Seite (2007)
A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend. (116 mins.)
Director: Fatih Akin
5.
Soul Kitchen (2009)
In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef. (99 mins.)
Director: Fatih Akin
6.
Τρέξε Λόλα Τρέξε (1998)
A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket. (81 mins.)
Director: Tom Tykwer
7.
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. (147 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
8.
Tillsammans (2000)
Elisabeth tires of her husband Rolf, so she packs her bags, takes the kids and goes to her brother Göran... (106 mins.)
Director: Lukas Moodysson
9.
Fucking Åmål (1998)
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. (89 mins.)
Director: Lukas Moodysson
10.
A Kiss at Midnight (2008 TV Movie)
They say the cobbler's children go barefoot, but must the matchmaker's children go motherless? After...
Director: Bradford May
11.
Two Lovers (2008)
A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor. (110 mins.)
Director: James Gray
12.
8MM (1999)
A private investigator is hired to discover if a "snuff film" is authentic or not. (123 mins.)
Director: Joel Schumacher
13.
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. (111 mins.)
Director: Mike Figgis
14.
Το Κορίτσι Που Άφησα Πίσω (1999)
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s. (127 mins.)
Director: James Mangold
15.
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
A group of male friends become obsessed with a group of mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents after one of them commits suicide. (97 mins.)
Director: Sofia Coppola
16.
Χαμένοι στη Μετάφραση (2003)
A fading movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected young wife meet as strangers in Tokyo and form an unlikely bond. (101 mins.)
Director: Sofia Coppola
17.
La fille sur le pont (1999)
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows... (90 mins.)
Director: Patrice Leconte
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Swimming Pool (2003)
A British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics. (102 mins.)
Director: François Ozon
20.
8 femmes (2002)
One murdered man, eight women, each seeming to be more 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! (111 mins.)
Director: François Ozon
21.
Caché (2005)
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. (117 mins.)
Director: Michael Haneke
22.
Mon meilleur ami (2006)
Catherine, refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
Director: Patrice Leconte
23.
Les voleurs (1996)
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son... (117 mins.)
Director: André Téchiné
24.
La séparation (1994)
One night at the cinema, Pierre reaches for out to take Anne's hand. She is annoyed and rebuffs him... (88 mins.)
Director: Christian Vincent
25.
La veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000)
In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man. (112 mins.)
Director: Patrice Leconte
26.
Le placard (2001)
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work. (84 mins.)
Director: Francis Veber
27.
Η Θάλασσα Μέσα Μου (2004)
The real-life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die. (125 mins.)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
28.
Ημερολόγια Μοτοσυκλέτας (2004)
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling. (126 mins.)
Director: Walter Salles
29.
La mala educación (2004)
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends. (106 mins.)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
30.
Mammoth (2009)
While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid's family struggles to deal with her absence. (125 mins.)
Director: Lukas Moodysson
31.
Babel (2006)
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. (143 mins.)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
32.
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home. (106 mins.)
Director: Ken Loach
33.
Χαμένες Αγάπες (2000)
A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love. (154 mins.)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
34.
Θέλω και τη Μαμά σου (2001)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. (106 mins.)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
35.
Great Expectations (1998)
Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love. (111 mins.)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
36.
Ημέρα Εκπαίδευσης (2001)
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears. (122 mins.)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
37.
Πριν Το Ηλιοβασίλεμα (2004)
It's nine years after Jesse and Celine first met; now, they encounter one another on the French leg of Jesse's book tour. (80 mins.)
Director: Richard Linklater
38.
Before Sunrise (1995)
A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one romantic evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together. (105 mins.)
Director: Richard Linklater
39.
Gattaca (1997)
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel. (106 mins.)
Director: Andrew Niccol
40.
The Believer (2001)
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic worldview. Based on the true story of a KKK member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter. (102 mins.)
Director: Henry Bean
41.
Se epikindyni trohia (2000)
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative... (115 mins.)
Director: James Gray
42.
Μονομάχος (2000)
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. (155 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
43.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. (121 mins.)
Director: Terry George
44.
Walk the Line (2005)
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. (136 mins.)
Director: James Mangold
45.
Reservation Road (2007)
On a warm September evening, college professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their daughter Emma are attending a recital... (102 mins.)
Director: Terry George
46.
It's All About Love (2003)
It's All About Love is the story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse... (104 mins.)
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
47.
Amelie (2001)
Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love. (122 mins.)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
48.
À la folie... pas du tout (2002)
A young woman who is in love with a married doctor becomes dangerous when her attempts to persuade him to leave his wife are unsuccessful. However, when things are seen from his point of view, the real situation becomes clear. (92 mins.)
Director: Laetitia Colombani
49.
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life. (97 mins.)
Director: Stephen Frears
50.
Αγάπα Με Αν Τολμάς (2003)
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless... (93 mins.)
Director: Yann Samuell
51.
The Beach (2000)
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it. (119 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle
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Amen. (2002)
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to concentration camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana gives him a hand. (132 mins.)
Director: Costa-Gavras
54.
Birthday Girl (2001)
A thirtysomething bank clerk from St Albans has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his Russian mail-order bride. (93 mins.)
Director: Jez Butterworth
55.
Το Πέμπτο Στοιχείο (1997)
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay. (126 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
56.
Τροία (2004)
An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved. (163 mins.)
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
57.
4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (2007)
Drama about a woman who assists her friend to arrange an illegal abortion in 1980's Romania. (113 mins.)
Director: Cristian Mungiu
58.
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Successful black woman traces her birth mother to a lower-class white woman, who denies it; emotions run high as everyone's secrets are exposed. (142 mins.)
Director: Mike Leigh
59.
Το Τσακάλι (1997)
An imprisoned IRA sniper is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job. (124 mins.)
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
60.
Paris, je t'aime (2006)
Through the neighborhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened. (120 mins.)
Director: Olivier Assayas, Frédéric Auburtin
61.
Ο Ταξιτζής (1976)
A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process. (113 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
62.
Καληνύχτα, Και Καλή Τύχη (2005)
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. (93 mins.)
Director: George Clooney
63.
Sånger från andra våningen (2000)
A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion... (98 mins.)
Director: Roy Andersson
64.
The International (2009)
An Interpol agent attempts to expose a high-profile financial institution's role in an international arms dealing ring. (118 mins.)
Director: Tom Tykwer
65.
Το Μυστικό του Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years. (134 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
66.
Θα Χυθεί Αίμα (2007)
A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. (158 mins.)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
67.
Ο Βράχος (1996)
A renegade general and his group of U.S. Marines take over Alcatraz and threaten San Francisco Bay with biological weapons. A chemical weapons specialist and the only man to have ever escaped from the Rock attempt to prevent chaos. (136 mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
68.
Σχετικά με τον Σμιντ (2002)
A man upon retirement embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected. (125 mins.)
Director: Alexander Payne
69.
Mothers and Daughters (2004)
A black comedy set in the contrasting worlds of a dilapidated North London council house, a middle class... (83 mins.)
Director: David Conolly, Hannah Davis
70.
Pos teleiose afto to kalokairi (2010)
A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel... (130 mins.)
Director: Aleksey Popogrebskiy
71.
Epikindyni siopi (2010)
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal. (112 mins.)
Director: Larysa Kondracki
72.
Dyskoloi apohairetismoi: O babas mou (2002)
In 1969 Athens, a 10 year old boy struggles to come to terms with the sudden death of his father. (113 mins.)
Director: Penny Panayotopoulou
73.
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. (111 mins.)
Director: Nicholas Ray
74.
Το Πείραμα (2001)
The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab...
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
75.
The Truman Show (1998)
An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a TV show. (103 mins.)
Director: Peter Weir
76.
Το Κύμα (2008)
A high school teacher's unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. (107 mins.)
Director: Dennis Gansel
77.
Εχθρός προ των Πυλών (2001)
A Russian sniper and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad. (131 mins.)
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
78.
La dolce vita (1960)
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome. (174 mins.)
Director: Federico Fellini
79.
Frost/Nixon (2008)
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. (122 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
80.
Dirty Harry (1971)
When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. (102 mins.)
Director: Don Siegel
81.
Mi m' afiseis pote (2010)
The story of three friends who are tragically born to lead short lives, and the love triangle that forms between them in their brief time together. (103 mins.)
Director: Mark Romanek
82.
Tickets (2005)
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was... (109 mins.)
Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach
83.
La notte (1961)
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship. (115 mins.)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
84.
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect, or to start a war? (134 mins.)
Director: John McTiernan
85.
Babel (2006)
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. (143 mins.)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
86.
Boy A (2007)
The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child. (106 mins.)
Director: John Crowley
87.
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Afentika gia skotoma (2011)
Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness. (98 mins.)
Director: Seth Gordon
89.
Μια Φορά (2006)
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story. (85 mins.)
Director: John Carney
90.
Ο Άνθρωπος Χωρίς Παρελθόν (2002)
The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki... (97 mins.)
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
91.
Agorokoritso (2011)
A 10-year-old girl, settling into her new neighborhood outside Paris, is mistaken for a boy and has to live up to this new identity since it's too late for the mistake to be clarified. (82 mins.)
Director: Céline Sciamma
92.
Gönül yarasi (2005)
Idealist Nazim returns home to his family in Istanbul after a 15-year gap away teaching in a remote Turkish village in eastern Turkey... (142 mins.)
Director: Yavuz Turgul
93.
50/50 (2011)
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease. (100 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Levine
94.
Wasted Youth (2011)
Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family. (122 mins.)
Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Jan Vogel
95.
Enas horismos (2011)
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease. (123 mins.)
Director: Asghar Farhadi
96.
O dromos tou hrimatos (2011)
Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the financial crisis. (107 mins.)
Director: J.C. Chandor
97.
Oi protarides (2010)
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover. (105 mins.)
Director: Mike Mills
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98.
My Name Is Joe (1998)
Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic... (105 mins.)
Director: Ken Loach
99.
Raining Stones (1993)
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor... (90 mins.)
Director: Ken Loach
100.
This Is England (2006)
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows. (101 mins.)
Director: Shane Meadows
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