Best World Movies
Best World Movies I've seen
This list contains the very very best movies...I'm quite sure these are the best...Filtered from more than 600 movies....
I excluded Korean, Pinoy, Japanese, Romanian, canadian and chinese movies 'cause i already created a separate list for those...Hello Ghost,Hero,The Death of Mr. Lazarescu are exceptions.... This movies gets me every time... report me if there is any erroneousness i can accept suggestions.......
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Masterpiece Movies
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This list contains the very very best movies...I'm quite sure these are the best...Filtered from more than 600 movies....
I excluded Korean, Pinoy, Japanese, Romanian, canadian and chinese movies 'cause i already created a separate list for those...Hello Ghost,Hero,The Death of Mr. Lazarescu are exceptions.... This movies gets me every time... report me if there is any erroneousness i can accept suggestions.......
Speciality of my list (only added the 1990's & 2000's movies)
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Masterpiece Movies
Best Animated Movies
Best Asian Gangster Movies
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1.
The Secret in Their Eyes
(2009)
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later. (129 mins.)
Director: Juan José Campanella
2.
I Stand Alone
(1998)
A horse meat butcher's life and mind begins to breakdown as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter. (93 mins.)
Director: Gaspar Noé
“ Last one word lifts this film.... ” - Yogesh-Odyssey-Opera
3.
Persepolis
(2007)
Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. (96 mins.)
Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
4.
Léon: The Professional
(1994)
A professional assassin rescues a teenage girl whose parents were killed in a police raid. (110 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
“ I 've watched it more than 20 times... Superb movie...jean reno is the best... ” - Yogesh-Odyssey-Opera
5.
Max Manus: Man of War
(2008)
The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons. (118 mins.)
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
“ Hennie's wonderful... ” - Yogesh-Odyssey-Opera
6.
Son of the Bride
(2001)
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother... (123 mins.)
Director: Juan José Campanella
7.
Life Is Beautiful
(1997)
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp. (116 mins.)
Director: Roberto Benigni, Rod Dean
“ wonderful movie...even beast will cry... ” - Yogesh-Odyssey-Opera
8.
All About My Mother
(1999)
Young Esteban want to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by the mother Manuela. (101 mins.)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
9.
Amores Perros
(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
“ new type of cinema... ” - Yogesh-Odyssey-Opera
10.
The Nasty Girl
(1990)
When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her. (94 mins.)
Director: Michael Verhoeven
11.
Hero
(2002)
One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China. (99 mins.)
Director: Yimou Zhang
12.
Evil
(2003)
Erik is expelled from school for fighting. He ends up at a private boarding school where the senior students control the young ones... (113 mins.)
Director: Mikael Håfström
13.
Downfall
(2004)
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. (156 mins.)
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
“ My God... Is he the real Hitler or not? ” - Yogesh-Odyssey-Opera
14.
Pan's Labyrinth
(2006)
In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. (118 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
15.
Beaufort
(2007)
The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000. (131 mins.)
Director: Joseph Cedar
16.
In a Better World
(2010)
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait. (119 mins.)
Director: Susanne Bier
17.
Biutiful
(2010)
This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move. (148 mins.)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
18.
In Darkness
(2011)
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. (145 mins.)
Director: Agnieszka Holland
19.
Ajami
(2009)
Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami. (124 mins.)
Director: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
20.
Footnote
(2011)
Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak. (103 mins.)
Director: Joseph Cedar
21.
Thalapathi
(1991)
Surya (Rajnikanth) is an orphan raised in a slum. He finds a friend in the local Godfather (Mamooty)...
Director: Mani Ratnam
22.
Oldboy
(2003)
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days. (120 mins.)
Director: Chan-wook Park
23.
The Milk of Sorrow
(2009)
Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the... (95 mins.)
Director: Claudia Llosa
24.
Paradise Now
(2005)
Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. (90 mins.)
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
25.
Amélie
(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
26.
The Sea Inside
(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
27.
12
(2007)
12 jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather. (159 mins.)
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
28.
The Counterfeiters
(2007)
The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936... (98 mins.)
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
29.
Children of Heaven
(1997)
When Ali loses his sister's shoes, the two decide to share his to avoid getting in trouble. (89 mins.)
Director: Majid Majidi
30.
City of God
(2002)
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. (130 mins.)
Director: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
31.
My Father and My Son
(2005)
Sadik is one of the rebellious youth who has been politically active as a university student and became a left-wing journalist in the 70's... (108 mins.)
Director: Çagan Irmak
32.
Black Book
(2006)
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. (145 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
33.
My Name Ain't Johnny
(2008)
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s. (124 mins.)
Director: Mauro Lima
34.
The Barbarian Invasions
(2003)
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son. (99 mins.)
Director: Denys Arcand
35.
The Lizard
(2004)
Reza is a petty thief who escapes jail by posing as a mullah. When he has to stay in disguise longer than he expected... (115 mins.)
Director: Kamal Tabrizi
36.
Prisoner of the Mountains
(1996)
Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son. (99 mins.)
Director: Sergey Bodrov
37.
A Little Thing Called Love
(2010)
Nam is talented and funny, but with plain looks. She falls in love with the older Shone, one of the best-looking guys in school. Will she get her first love? (118 mins.)
Director: Puttipong Pormsaka Na-Sakonnakorn, Wasin Pokpong
38.
Headhunters
(2011)
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary. (100 mins.)
Director: Morten Tyldum
“ My name is Roger brown.... Hennie is wonderful... ” - Yogesh-Odyssey-Opera
39.
Bad Education
(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
40.
Revanche
(2008)
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable. (121 mins.)
Director: Götz Spielmann
41.
Grave of the Fireflies
(1988)
A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister's struggle to survive in Japan during World War II. (89 mins.)
Director: Isao Takahata
42.
Hello Ghost
(2010)
A man's failed suicide attempt enables him to see ghosts. (111 mins.)
Director: Young-Tak Kim
43.
Indochine
(1992)
This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. An unmarried French woman who works in the rubber fields... (159 mins.)
Director: Régis Wargnier
44.
A Place in the World
(1992)
Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto... (120 mins.)
Director: Adolfo Aristarain
45.
Schtonk!
(1992)
Fritz is a falsifier drawing a picture of Eva Braun, the girlfriend of Adolf Hitler. He meets Hermann... (115 mins.)
Director: Helmut Dietl
46.
[Rec]
(2007)
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying. (78 mins.)
Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
47.
Show Me Love
(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
48.
Irreversible
(2002)
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. (97 mins.)
Director: Gaspar Noé
49.
Malèna
(2000)
A woman provokes sensual awakenings in a group of adolescent boys. (109 mins.)
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
50.
The Best of Youth
(2003)
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s. (180 mins.)
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
51.
Live and Become
(2005)
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews. In turn they are secretly carried to Israel... (140 mins.)
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
52.
Ring
(1998)
A mysterious video kills whoever views it, unless that viewer can solve its mystery. (96 mins.)
Director: Hideo Nakata
53.
Life Is Beautiful
(1997)
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp. (116 mins.)
Director: Roberto Benigni, Rod Dean
55.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(2009)
A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing -- or dead -- for forty years by a young female hacker. (152 mins.)
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
56.
La Femme Nikita
(1990)
Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin. (118 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
57.
Les visiteurs
(1993)
A medieval nobleman and his squire are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer... (107 mins.)
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré
58.
Bread and Tulips
(2000)
After being forgotten in a highway café during a bus trip, a housewife decides to start a new life by herself in Venice. (114 mins.)
Director: Silvio Soldini
59.
Cinema Paradiso
(1988)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist. (155 mins.)
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
60.
Mid-August Lunch
(2008)
Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only... (75 mins.)
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
61.
Queen Margot
(1994)
Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family. (162 mins.)
Director: Patrice Chéreau
62.
La Haine
(1995)
After local youth Abdel is beaten unconscious by police, a riot ensues on his estate during which a policeman loses his gun. The gun is found by Vinz who threatens he will kill a cop if Abdel dies. (98 mins.)
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
63.
Welcome to the Sticks
(2008)
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while... (106 mins.)
Director: Dany Boon
64.
The Dinner Game
(1998)
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest... (80 mins.)
Director: Francis Veber
65.
The Crimson Rivers
(2000)
Parisian murder detective commissioner Pierre Niemans is called to Gueron, a self-sufficient, prestigious university in a mountain valley... (106 mins.)
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
66.
8 Women
(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
67.
Ha-Chayim Al-Pi Agfa
(1993)
The film takes place in Tel Aviv, much of it in a fictitious local pub called Barbie, a satirical nickname... (100 mins.)
Director: Assi Dayan
68.
Caché (Hidden)
(2005)
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. (117 mins.)
Director: Michael Haneke
69.
Anthony Zimmer
(2005)
In Nice, the international police force and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer, an intelligent... (89 mins.)
Director: Jérôme Salle
70.
A Prophet
(2009)
A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin. (155 mins.)
Director: Jacques Audiard
71.
Delicatessen
(1991)
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants. (99 mins.)
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
73.
Red Like the Sky
(2006)
A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound. (96 mins.)
Director: Cristiano Bortone
74.
The Man Who Will Come
(2009)
Winter 1943. Martina is small child, who stopped talking since the death of her infant brother some years before... (115 mins.)
Director: Giorgio Diritti
75.
The Son's Room
(2001)
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident. (99 mins.)
Director: Nanni Moretti
76.
Everybody's Fine
(2009)
A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children. (99 mins.)
Director: Kirk Jones
77.
Fill the Void
(2012)
A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence... (90 mins.)
Director: Rama Burshtein
78.
Il Divo
(2008)
The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946. (110 mins.)
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
79.
Little Girl
(2009)
A circus woman and her husband find a two year old girl in the trailer park where they are living. With the help of another child, they search for her mother. (100 mins.)
Director: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
80.
The Consequences of Love
(2004)
An introvert man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid. (100 mins.)
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
81.
The First Beautiful Thing
(2010)
A misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother. (122 mins.)
Director: Paolo Virzì
82.
La nostra vita
(2010)
Claudio, a construction worker, works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child... (98 mins.)
Director: Daniele Luchetti
83.
Anche libero va bene
(2006)
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man. (108 mins.)
Director: Kim Rossi Stuart
84.
Beyond the Sea
(2004)
A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin (Spacey) specifically, and his relationship with his wife Sandra Dee (Bosworth). (118 mins.)
Director: Kevin Spacey
85.
The Human Resources Manager
(2010)
A tragi-comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article. (103 mins.)
Director: Eran Riklis
86.
Waltz with Bashir
(2008 Documentary)
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict. (90 mins.)
Director: Ari Folman
88.
Nina's Tragedies
(2004)
The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows. (106 mins.)
Director: Savi Gavison
89.
Late Marriage
(2001)
Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married... (102 mins.)
Director: Dover Koshashvili
90.
Yana's Friends
(1999)
Three parallel strories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks. (90 mins.)
Director: Arik Kaplun
91.
Sh'Chur
(1994)
A Westernized teenager struggles to come to terms with the white magic practiced by members of her family. (100 mins.)
Director: Shmuel Hasfari
92.
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
(2008)
A middle-aged man who lost his love for life rediscovers it by assuming a new identity in order to rekindle the romantic spark in his marriage. (167 mins.)
Director: Aditya Chopra
93.
What a Wonderful Place
(2005)
Sergey works for Franko and is responsible for the girls, Franko pays him to watch the girls. Sergey does not treat them very well. (104 mins.)
Director: Eyal Halfon
94.
The Lookout
(2007)
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist. (99 mins.)
Director: Scott Frank
95.
Run Lola Run
(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
96.
The Harmonists
(1997)
Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists"... (126 mins.)
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
97.
Head-On
(2004)
In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life... (121 mins.)
Director: Fatih Akin
98.
The Baader Meinhof Complex
(2008)
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. (150 mins.)
Director: Uli Edel
99.
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
(2005)
Mr. Lazarescu, a 63 year old lonely man feels sick and calls the ambulance. When it arrives, the paramedic... (150 mins.)
Director: Cristi Puiu