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The Sight & Sound Top 250

The Sight & Sound Top 250

The 250 films that drew the most votes in Sight & Sound's 2022 critics' poll, from Jeanne Dielman and Vertigo down. Every one has a trailer and, where it exists, a place to stream it in the US.

  1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles poster
    Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
    Chantal Akerman · 258 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.
  2. Vertigo poster
    Vertigo (1958)
    Alfred Hitchcock · 244 critic votes
    Streaming on Fawesome, YouTube TV
    A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
  3. Citizen Kane poster
    Citizen Kane (1941)
    Orson Welles · 211 critic votes
    Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
  4. 2001: A Space Odyssey poster
    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    Stanley Kubrick · 190 critic votes
    Streaming on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max, Philo
    Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
  5. Tokyo Story poster
    Tokyo Story (1953)
    Yasujirō Ozu · 187 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
  6. In the Mood for Love poster
    In the Mood for Love (2000)
    Wong Kar-wai · 172 critic votes
    Free on Shout! Factory TV · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.
  7. The Godfather poster
    The Godfather (1972)
    Francis Ford Coppola · 140 critic votes
    Streaming on MGM Plus, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel
    Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
  8. Beau Travail poster
    Beau Travail (1999)
    Claire Denis · 133 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
  9. Mulholland Drive poster
    Mulholland Drive (2001)
    David Lynch · 125 critic votes
    Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
  10. Man with a Movie Camera poster
    Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
    Dziga Vertov · 117 critic votes
    Free on JustWatch TV, Darkroom, Tubi TV · Streaming on GuideDoc, Kanopy, Fawesome
    A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
  11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans poster
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
    F. W. Murnau · 114 critic votes
    Free on Public Domain Movies, JustWatch TV, Darkroom · Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome
    A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
  12. Close-up poster
    Close-up (1990)
    Abbas Kiarostami · 111 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
  13. Singin' in the Rain poster
    Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen · 110 critic votes
    Streaming on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
  14. Persona poster
    Persona (1966)
    Ingmar Bergman · 108 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
  15. The Rules of the Game poster
    The Rules of the Game (1939)
    Jean Renoir · 101 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel
    The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.
  16. Apocalypse Now poster
    Apocalypse Now (1979)
    Francis Ford Coppola · 99 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels, Howdy Amazon Channel
    At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
  17. Seven Samurai poster
    Seven Samurai (1954)
    Akira Kurosawa · 98 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex · Streaming on Kanopy, fuboTV, Criterion Channel
    A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
  18. 8½ poster
    8½ (1963)
    Federico Fellini · 95 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex · Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
  19. Cléo from 5 to 7 poster
    Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
    Agnès Varda · 92 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
  20. The Mirror poster
    The Mirror (1975)
    Andrei Tarkovsky · 91 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Criterion Channel
    A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
  21. Taxi Driver poster
    Taxi Driver (1976)
    Martin Scorsese · 91 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel
    Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
  22. Meshes of the Afternoon poster
    Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
    Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied · 89 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel
    A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
  23. The Searchers poster
    The Searchers (1956)
    John Ford · 89 critic votes
    Streaming on Fawesome, YouTube TV
    As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
  24. The Passion of Joan of Arc poster
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
    Carl Theodor Dreyer · 88 critic votes
    Free on JustWatch TV, Darkroom, Tubi TV · Streaming on Criterion Channel, FlixFling, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
  25. Do the Right Thing poster
    Do the Right Thing (1989)
    Spike Lee · 86 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free · Streaming on ALLBLK Apple TV channel, ALLBLK Amazon channel
    Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
  26. Au Hasard Balthazar poster
    Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
    Robert Bresson · 82 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
  27. Playtime poster
    Playtime (1967)
    Jacques Tati · 81 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel
    Clumsy Monsieur Hulot finds himself perplexed by the intimidating complexity of a gadget-filled Paris. He attempts to meet with a business contact but soon becomes lost. His roundabout journey parallels that of an American tourist, and as they weave through the inventive urban environment, they intermittently meet, developing an interest in one another. They eventually get together at a chaotic restaurant, along with several other quirky characters.
  28. Late Spring poster
    Late Spring (1949)
    Yasujirō Ozu · 80 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Cineverse, Plex Channel · Streaming on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel
    Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.
  29. The Night of the Hunter poster
    The Night of the Hunter (1955)
    Charles Laughton · 79 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free · Streaming on MGM Plus, Kanopy, fuboTV
    In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
  30. Breathless poster
    Breathless (1960)
    Jean-Luc Godard · 79 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
  31. Pather Panchali poster
    Pather Panchali (1955)
    Satyajit Ray · 77 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu, as well as Harihar's elderly aunt Indir. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life, while their parents suffer the daily indignities heaped upon them.
  32. Stalker poster
    Stalker (1979)
    Andrei Tarkovsky · 77 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
  33. Barry Lyndon poster
    Barry Lyndon (1975)
    Stanley Kubrick · 76 critic votes
    An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
  34. Bicycle Thieves poster
    Bicycle Thieves (1948)
    Vittorio De Sica · 75 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Criterion Channel
    Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
  35. Rashomon poster
    Rashomon (1950)
    Akira Kurosawa · 75 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Plex · Streaming on Kanopy, fuboTV, Criterion Channel
    Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
  36. Shoah poster
    Shoah (1985)
    Claude Lanzmann · 73 critic votes
    Streaming on Philo
    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
  37. L'Atalante poster
    L'Atalante (1934)
    Jean Vigo · 71 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Darkroom
    Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.
  38. The Battle of Algiers poster
    The Battle of Algiers (1966)
    Gillo Pontecorvo · 71 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex · Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is sent to Algeria to reinforce efforts to squelch the uprisings of the Algerian War. There he faces Ali la Pointe, a former petty criminal who, as the leader of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale, directs terror strategies against the colonial French government occupation. As each side resorts to ever-increasing brutality, no violent act is too unthinkable.
  39. Psycho poster
    Psycho (1960)
    Alfred Hitchcock · 70 critic votes
    Streaming on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, AMC+
    When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
  40. City Lights poster
    City Lights (1931)
    Charlie Chaplin · 68 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Criterion Channel
    A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
  41. Ordet poster
    Ordet (1955)
    Carl Theodor Dreyer · 67 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Darkroom
    The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.
  42. Daisies poster
    Daisies (1966)
    Věra Chytilová, Rudolf Jaroš · 65 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.
  43. Portrait of a Lady on Fire poster
    Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
    Céline Sciamma · 65 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, HBO Max
    On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
  44. Some Like It Hot poster
    Some Like It Hot (1959)
    Billy Wilder · 64 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free · Streaming on MGM Plus, Kanopy, Hoopla
    In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
  45. The 400 Blows poster
    The 400 Blows (1959)
    François Truffaut · 64 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Shout! Factory TV · Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
  46. GoodFellas poster
    GoodFellas (1990)
    Martin Scorsese · 60 critic votes
    Streaming on YouTube TV
    The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
  47. M poster
    M (1931)
    Fritz Lang · 59 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Plex · Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
  48. Rear Window poster
    Rear Window (1954)
    Alfred Hitchcock · 58 critic votes
    Streaming on TCM, YouTube TV
    A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
  49. Andrei Rublev poster
    Andrei Rublev (1966)
    Andrei Tarkovsky · 58 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Darkroom
    An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
  50. The Piano poster
    The Piano (1993)
    Jane Campion · 58 critic votes
    When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
  51. North by Northwest poster
    North by Northwest (1959)
    Alfred Hitchcock · 57 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on YouTube TV
    Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
  52. La Dolce Vita poster
    La Dolce Vita (1960)
    Federico Fellini · 57 critic votes
    Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
  53. Contempt poster
    Contempt (1963)
    Jean-Luc Godard · 57 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on Kanopy, BFI Player Amazon Channel
    Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
  54. Killer of Sheep poster
    Killer of Sheep (1977)
    Charles Burnett · 57 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Criterion Channel
    An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.
  55. Wanda poster
    Wanda (1971)
    Barbara Loden · 56 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.
  56. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul poster
    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder · 55 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
  57. News from Home poster
    News from Home (1976)
    Chantal Akerman · 55 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
  58. Blade Runner poster
    Blade Runner (1982)
    Ridley Scott · 55 critic votes
    In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
  59. La Jetée poster
    La Jetée (1962)
    Chris Marker · 54 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
  60. A Woman under the Influence poster
    A Woman under the Influence (1974)
    John Cassavetes · 53 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.
  61. Battleship Potemkin poster
    Battleship Potemkin (1925)
    Sergei Eisenstein · 52 critic votes
    Free on Public Domain Movies, JustWatch TV, Darkroom · Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Criterion Channel
    A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
  62. L'Avventura poster
    L'Avventura (1960)
    Michelangelo Antonioni · 52 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
  63. The Godfather Part II poster
    The Godfather Part II (1974)
    Francis Ford Coppola · 52 critic votes
    Streaming on MGM Plus, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel
    In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
  64. Sans Soleil poster
    Sans Soleil (1983)
    Chris Marker · 52 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, DocAlliance Films
    A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.
  65. Moonlight poster
    Moonlight (2016)
    Barry Jenkins · 51 critic votes
    Free on The Roku Channel, YouTube Free · Streaming on Hulu
    The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
  66. Sherlock, Jr. poster
    Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
    Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle · 49 critic votes
    Free on Public Domain Movies, JustWatch TV, Tubi TV · Streaming on Kanopy, FlixFling, IndieFlix
    A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
  67. The Apartment poster
    The Apartment (1960)
    Billy Wilder · 49 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free · Streaming on Kanopy, Philo, YouTube TV
    Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
  68. Touki Bouki poster
    Touki Bouki (1973)
    Djibril Diop Mambéty · 49 critic votes
    Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel
    Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
  69. The Red Shoes poster
    The Red Shoes (1948)
    Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell · 48 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, YouTube Free · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
  70. Sunset Boulevard poster
    Sunset Boulevard (1950)
    Billy Wilder · 46 critic votes
    Streaming on MGM Plus, Kanopy, Hoopla
    A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
  71. Sátántangó poster
    Sátántangó (1994)
    Béla Tarr · 46 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Eternal Family
    Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
  72. Modern Times poster
    Modern Times (1936)
    Charlie Chaplin · 45 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Mometu · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Criterion Channel
    A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
  73. The Third Man poster
    The Third Man (1949)
    Carol Reed · 45 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Kanopy, BFI Player Amazon Channel, IndieFlix
    In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
  74. A Man Escaped poster
    A Man Escaped (1956)
    Robert Bresson · 45 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
  75. Raging Bull poster
    Raging Bull (1980)
    Martin Scorsese · 45 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
    The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
  76. A Brighter Summer Day poster
    A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
    Edward Yang · 45 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, YouTube TV
    A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
  77. Daughters of the Dust poster
    Daughters of the Dust (1991)
    Julie Dash · 45 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel
    In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.
  78. Once upon a Time in the West poster
    Once upon a Time in the West (1968)
    Sergio Leone · 44 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Philo, Fawesome
    As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
  79. Blue Velvet poster
    Blue Velvet (1986)
    David Lynch · 44 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel · Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Criterion Channel
    The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
  80. The Gleaners and I poster
    The Gleaners and I (2000)
    Agnès Varda · 44 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, DocAlliance Films
    Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.
  81. Casablanca poster
    Casablanca (1942)
    Michael Curtiz · 43 critic votes
    Streaming on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
  82. Journey to Italy poster
    Journey to Italy (1954)
    Roberto Rossellini · 43 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.
  83. The Spirit of the Beehive poster
    The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
    Víctor Erice · 43 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
  84. Come and See poster
    Come and See (1985)
    Elem Klimov · 43 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
  85. A Matter of Life and Death poster
    A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
    Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger · 42 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free · Streaming on Artiflix
    A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
  86. Vagabond poster
    Vagabond (1985)
    Agnès Varda · 42 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
  87. Spirited Away poster
    Spirited Away (2001)
    Hayao Miyazaki · 42 critic votes
    Streaming on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
  88. Tropical Malady poster
    Tropical Malady (2004)
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 42 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy
    The passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.
  89. Metropolis poster
    Metropolis (1927)
    Fritz Lang · 41 critic votes
    Free on JustWatch TV, Darkroom, Tubi TV · Streaming on Kanopy, fuboTV, FlixFling
    In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
  90. Ugetsu poster
    Ugetsu (1953)
    Kenji Mizoguchi · 41 critic votes
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    In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
  91. Imitation of Life poster
    Imitation of Life (1959)
    Douglas Sirk · 41 critic votes
    In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
  92. The Mother and the Whore poster
    The Mother and the Whore (1973)
    Jean Eustache · 41 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
  93. Yi Yi poster
    Yi Yi (2000)
    Edward Yang · 41 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    A Taipei family faces personal and moral uncertainty as everyday events test their relationships and sense of purpose.
  94. Don't Look Now poster
    Don't Look Now (1973)
    Nicolas Roeg · 40 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free · Streaming on Kanopy
    While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
  95. Histoire(s) du cinéma poster
    Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988)
    Jean-Luc Godard · 40 critic votes
    A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
  96. My Neighbor Totoro poster
    My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
    Hayao Miyazaki · 40 critic votes
    Streaming on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
  97. Parasite poster
    Parasite (2019)
    Bong Joon-ho · 40 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy
    All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
  98. Sansho the Bailiff poster
    Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
    Kenji Mizoguchi · 39 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Criterion Channel, Fawesome
    In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.
  99. Jaws poster
    Jaws (1975)
    Steven Spielberg · 39 critic votes
    Streaming on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, YouTube TV
    When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.
  100. The Shining poster
    The Shining (1980)
    Stanley Kubrick · 39 critic votes
    Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
  101. Wild Strawberries poster
    Wild Strawberries (1957)
    Ingmar Bergman · 38 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
  102. Pierrot le Fou poster
    Pierrot le Fou (1965)
    Jean-Luc Godard · 38 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
  103. Black Girl poster
    Black Girl (1966)
    Ousmane Sembène · 38 critic votes
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    Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.
  104. Celine and Julie Go Boating poster
    Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
    Jacques Rivette · 38 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.
  105. Chungking Express poster
    Chungking Express (1994)
    Wong Kar-wai · 37 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
  106. The Earrings of Madame de... poster
    The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
    Max Ophüls · 36 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
  107. The Leopard poster
    The Leopard (1963)
    Luchino Visconti · 36 critic votes
    As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.
  108. The House Is Black poster
    The House Is Black (1962)
    Forugh Farrokhzad · 35 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
  109. The Conformist poster
    The Conformist (1970)
    Bernardo Bertolucci · 35 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Kino Film Collection
    A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
  110. Fanny and Alexander poster
    Fanny and Alexander (1982)
    Ingmar Bergman · 35 critic votes
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    As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
  111. The General poster
    The General (1926)
    Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman · 34 critic votes
    Free on FlixHouse, JustWatch TV, Darkroom · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, Kanopy
    During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
  112. Touch of Evil poster
    Touch of Evil (1958)
    Orson Welles · 34 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel
    A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
  113. The Color of Pomegranates poster
    The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
    Sergei Parajanov · 34 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Eternal Family
    The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
  114. The Ascent poster
    The Ascent (1977)
    Larisa Shepitko · 34 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
  115. Rio Bravo poster
    Rio Bravo (1959)
    Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick · 33 critic votes
    Streaming on Fawesome
    A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
  116. Lawrence of Arabia poster
    Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
    David Lean · 33 critic votes
    Streaming on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, Philo
    During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
  117. Nashville poster
    Nashville (1975)
    Robert Altman · 33 critic votes
    The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
  118. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance poster
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
    John Ford · 32 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free · Streaming on fuboTV, Fawesome
    Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
  119. La Ciénaga poster
    La Ciénaga (2001)
    Lucrecia Martel · 32 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Amid the sweltering summer heat in northern Argentina, two middle-class families retreat to a crumbling country estate and a modest townhouse, where strained relationships, simmering tensions, and the presence of children and servants quietly expose the fractures of family life. Between idle days, gossip, and unspoken desires, the boundaries of class, tradition, and faith are reflected in their everyday interactions.
  120. The Wizard of Oz poster
    The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    Victor Fleming, King Vidor · 31 critic votes
    Streaming on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
  121. To Be or Not to Be poster
    To Be or Not to Be (1942)
    Ernst Lubitsch · 31 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
  122. The Seventh Seal poster
    The Seventh Seal (1957)
    Ingmar Bergman · 31 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Plex · Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
  123. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre poster
    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
    Tobe Hooper · 31 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Plex · Streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Shudder
    Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
  124. Pulp Fiction poster
    Pulp Fiction (1994)
    Quentin Tarantino · 31 critic votes
    Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel
    A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
  125. There Will Be Blood poster
    There Will Be Blood (2007)
    Paul Thomas Anderson · 31 critic votes
    Streaming on MGM Plus, Kanopy, Hoopla
    Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
  126. Get Out poster
    Get Out (2017)
    Jordan Peele · 31 critic votes
    Streaming on FXNow, fuboTV, Peacock Premium
    Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
  127. Bringing Up Baby poster
    Bringing Up Baby (1938)
    Howard Hawks · 30 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy
    David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
  128. Pickpocket poster
    Pickpocket (1959)
    Robert Bresson · 30 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
  129. Aguirre, the Wrath of God poster
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
    Werner Herzog · 30 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Pluto TV · Streaming on Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel, fuboTV
    A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
  130. Chinatown poster
    Chinatown (1974)
    Roman Polanski · 30 critic votes
    Streaming on MGM Plus, fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel
    Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
  131. The Matrix poster
    The Matrix (1999)
    Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski · 30 critic votes
    Streaming on fuboTV, VIX , ViX Premium Amazon Channel
    Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
  132. Goodbye, Dragon Inn poster
    Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
    Tsai Ming-liang · 30 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Metrograph, Kino Film Collection
    On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meager audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu’s wuxia classic "Dragon Inn", each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.
  133. It's a Wonderful Life poster
    It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
    Frank Capra · 29 critic votes
    Free on The Roku Channel · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
    George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
  134. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg poster
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
    Jacques Demy · 29 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Shout! Factory TV · Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
  135. Ikiru poster
    Ikiru (1952)
    Akira Kurosawa · 28 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
  136. Dr. Strangelove poster
    Dr. Strangelove (1964)
    Stanley Kubrick · 28 critic votes
    Streaming on TCM
    After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
  137. Alien poster
    Alien (1979)
    Ridley Scott · 28 critic votes
    Streaming on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
    During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
  138. The Thing poster
    The Thing (1982)
    John Carpenter · 28 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
    A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
  139. Where is the Friend's Home? poster
    Where is the Friend's Home? (1987)
    Abbas Kiarostami · 28 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.
  140. Only Angels Have Wings poster
    Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
    Howard Hawks · 27 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free · Streaming on YouTube TV
    A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
  141. His Girl Friday poster
    His Girl Friday (1940)
    Howard Hawks · 27 critic votes
    Free on Public Domain Movies, FlixHouse, Darkroom · Streaming on MGM Plus, Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel
    Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
  142. Gertrud poster
    Gertrud (1965)
    Carl Theodor Dreyer · 27 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.
  143. The Wild Bunch poster
    The Wild Bunch (1969)
    Sam Peckinpah · 27 critic votes
    An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
  144. L'Argent poster
    L'Argent (1983)
    Robert Bresson · 27 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.
  145. Notorious poster
    Notorious (1946)
    Alfred Hitchcock · 26 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel, Mometu · Streaming on FlixFling, IndieFlix, IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel
    In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
  146. Johnny Guitar poster
    Johnny Guitar (1954)
    Nicholas Ray · 26 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free, Pluto TV · Streaming on Kanopy
    On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.
  147. La Strada poster
    La Strada (1954)
    Federico Fellini · 26 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
  148. The Gospel According to St. Matthew poster
    The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
    Pier Paolo Pasolini · 26 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads · Streaming on Kanopy, Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla
    Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders. They conspire to have him arrested, beaten, tried, and crucified, just as he prophesied to his followers.
  149. India Song poster
    India Song (1975)
    Marguerite Duras · 26 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life.
  150. La Grande Illusion poster
    La Grande Illusion (1937)
    Jean Renoir · 25 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Darkroom
    A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
  151. The Exterminating Angel poster
    The Exterminating Angel (1962)
    Luis Buñuel · 25 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel, Mometu · Streaming on Criterion Channel, Cultpix
    After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
  152. Un Chien Andalou poster
    Un Chien Andalou (1929)
    Luis Buñuel · 24 critic votes
    Free on Bloodstream, YOW.tv, Fandor · Streaming on Kanopy, FlixFling, Philo
    Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
  153. Last Year at Marienbad poster
    Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
    Alain Resnais · 24 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Darkroom
    At a weekend gathering, a man tells a woman that they had spent time there together a year prior. But, the woman has no recollection whatsoever and is convinced that he is simply fabricating the encounter. The more he speaks about their activities the previous year however, the more compelling he becomes. The question remains however – did they meet previously or not?
  154. My Life to Live poster
    My Life to Live (1962)
    Jean-Luc Godard · 24 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
  155. Days of Heaven poster
    Days of Heaven (1978)
    Terrence Malick · 24 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free · Streaming on MGM Plus, Kanopy, Hoopla
    In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
  156. A Day in the Country poster
    A Day in the Country (1936)
    Jean Renoir · 23 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
  157. Children of Paradise poster
    Children of Paradise (1945)
    Marcel Carné · 23 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom, Plex Channel · Streaming on Criterion Channel, IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel, Fawesome
    In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
  158. La Notte poster
    La Notte (1961)
    Michelangelo Antonioni · 23 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, AMC+
    A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
  159. Eclipse poster
    Eclipse (1962)
    Michelangelo Antonioni · 23 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
  160. Sambizanga poster
    Sambizanga (1972)
    Sarah Maldoror · 23 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Domingos is a member of an African liberation movement, arrested by the Portuguese secret police, after bloody events in Angola. His wife goes from a prison station to another, trying in vain to find out where he is.
  161. Amarcord poster
    Amarcord (1973)
    Federico Fellini · 23 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, TCM, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
  162. Paris, Texas poster
    Paris, Texas (1984)
    Wim Wenders · 23 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
  163. Magnolia poster
    Magnolia (1999)
    Paul Thomas Anderson · 23 critic votes
    Streaming on Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
  164. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives poster
    Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul · 23 critic votes
    Streaming on Strand Releasing Amazon Channel
    Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
  165. Vampyr poster
    Vampyr (1932)
    Carl Theodor Dreyer · 22 critic votes
    Free on Bloodstream, Plex, Cineverse · Streaming on Screambox Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, FlixFling
    Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.
  166. Los Olvidados poster
    Los Olvidados (1950)
    Luis Buñuel · 22 critic votes
    A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.
  167. Hiroshima mon amour poster
    Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
    Alain Resnais · 22 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Darkroom
    The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
  168. Red Desert poster
    Red Desert (1964)
    Michelangelo Antonioni · 22 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
  169. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly poster
    The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
    Sergio Leone · 22 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, YouTube Free · Streaming on MGM Plus, Kanopy, fuboTV
    While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
  170. Eraserhead poster
    Eraserhead (1977)
    David Lynch · 22 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Fandango at Home Free · Streaming on fuboTV, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
  171. West Indies poster
    West Indies (1979)
    Med Hondo · 22 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to their displacement in Metropolitan France.
  172. Love Streams poster
    Love Streams (1984)
    John Cassavetes · 22 critic votes
    Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.
  173. A City of Sadness poster
    A City of Sadness (1989)
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien · 22 critic votes
    The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
  174. The Headless Woman poster
    The Headless Woman (2008)
    Lucrecia Martel · 22 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy
    After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.
  175. Twin Peaks poster
    Twin Peaks (2017)
    David Lynch · 22 critic votes
    The return of a missing FBI agent triggers a series of converging investigations around the small town of Twin Peaks, alongside signs that reality there is beginning to break apart.
  176. Trouble in Paradise poster
    Trouble in Paradise (1932)
    Ernst Lubitsch · 21 critic votes
    Free on Mometu · Streaming on FlixFling
    Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
  177. All That Heaven Allows poster
    All That Heaven Allows (1955)
    Douglas Sirk · 21 critic votes
    Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
  178. Le Bonheur poster
    Le Bonheur (1965)
    Agnès Varda · 21 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a deceptively cheery palette and the spirited strains of Mozart, the ideas of fidelity and happiness in a modern, self-centered world.
  179. The Conversation poster
    The Conversation (1974)
    Francis Ford Coppola · 21 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Plex · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
    A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
  180. Ran poster
    Ran (1985)
    Akira Kurosawa · 21 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Kanopy, BFI Player Amazon Channel, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels
    Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
  181. Paris Is Burning poster
    Paris Is Burning (1990)
    Jennie Livingston · 21 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Shout! Factory TV · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.
  182. Heat poster
    Heat (1995)
    Michael Mann · 21 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on YouTube TV
    Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
  183. The Watermelon Woman poster
    The Watermelon Woman (1996)
    Cheryl Dunye · 21 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel
    A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.
  184. Taste of Cherry poster
    Taste of Cherry (1997)
    Abbas Kiarostami · 21 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
  185. All About My Mother poster
    All About My Mother (1999)
    Pedro Almodóvar · 21 critic votes
    Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
  186. The Tree of Life poster
    The Tree of Life (2011)
    Terrence Malick · 21 critic votes
    The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
  187. Out of the Past poster
    Out of the Past (1947)
    Jacques Tourneur · 20 critic votes
    The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
  188. All about Eve poster
    All about Eve (1950)
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 20 critic votes
    Streaming on BroadwayHD, Broadway HD Amazon Channel, Artiflix
    From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
  189. An Autumn Afternoon poster
    An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
    Yasujirō Ozu · 20 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
  190. Wavelength poster
    Wavelength (1967)
    Michael Snow · 20 critic votes
    Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the three “character” scenes. In the first scene two people enter a room, chat briefly, and listen to “Strawberry Fields Forever” on the radio. Later, a man (played by filmmaker Hollis Frampton) enters inexplicably and dies on the floor. And last, the female owner of the apartment is heard and seen on the phone, speaking, with strange calm, about the dead man in her apartment whom she has never seen before.
  191. A Clockwork Orange poster
    A Clockwork Orange (1971)
    Stanley Kubrick · 20 critic votes
    Streaming on Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
  192. Annie Hall poster
    Annie Hall (1977)
    Woody Allen · 20 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, YouTube Free · Streaming on Hoopla
    New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
  193. Once upon a Time in America poster
    Once upon a Time in America (1984)
    Sergio Leone · 20 critic votes
    A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
  194. The Magnificent Ambersons poster
    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
    Orson Welles · 19 critic votes
    Free on Plex, Plex Channel
    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
  195. Black Narcissus poster
    Black Narcissus (1947)
    Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell · 19 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel · Streaming on fuboTV, Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
  196. The River poster
    The River (1951)
    Jean Renoir · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.
  197. Pyaasa poster
    Pyaasa (1957)
    Guru Dutt · 19 critic votes
    Vijay, a destitute poet, searches for true love while attempting to get his work published. With the assistance of two women in his life, his dream comes true - but at a cost that causes Vijay to rethink his worldview.
  198. Meghe Dhaka Tara poster
    Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)
    Ritwik Ghatak · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Hoichoi
    A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
  199. Viridiana poster
    Viridiana (1961)
    Luis Buñuel · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Criterion Channel, Darkroom
    Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
  200. Memories of Underdevelopment poster
    Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
    Tomás Gutiérrez Alea · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    In the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs incident, Sergio chooses to stay behind in Cuba while his wife and family escape to neighboring Miami. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana. He finally meets Elena, a young girl he seeks to mould into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
  201. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm poster
    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968)
    William Greaves · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she challenges his sexual orientation. Cameras shoot the exchange, and another camera records Greaves and his crew. Sometimes we watch the crew discussing this scene, its language, and the process of making a movie. Is there such a thing as natural language? Are all things related to sex? The camera records distractions - a woman rides horseback past them; a garrulous homeless vet who sleeps in the park chats them up. What's the nature of making a movie?
  202. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom poster
    Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
    Pier Paolo Pasolini · 19 critic votes
    Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
  203. The Green Ray poster
    The Green Ray (1986)
    Éric Rohmer · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
  204. Orlando poster
    Orlando (1992)
    Sally Potter · 19 critic votes
    Free on YouTube Free
    England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
  205. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks poster
    Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003)
    Wang Bing · 19 critic votes
    A detailed look at the gradual decline of Shenyang’s industrial Tiexi district, an area that was once a vibrant example of China’s socialist economy. But industry is changing, and the factories of Tiexi are closing. Director Wang Bing introduces us to some of the workers affected by the closures, and to their families.
  206. Caché poster
    Caché (2005)
    Michael Haneke · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Sundance Now, Fandor Amazon Channel, Philo
    George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.
  207. A Separation poster
    A Separation (2011)
    Asghar Farhadi · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Hulu
    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.
  208. Melancholia poster
    Melancholia (2011)
    Lars von Trier · 19 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, fuboTV, Criterion Channel
    Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
  209. Under the Skin poster
    Under the Skin (2013)
    Jonathan Glazer · 19 critic votes
    Free on Fandango at Home Free, Xumo Play · Streaming on Netflix, Kanopy, Hoopla
    A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
  210. Mad Max: Fury Road poster
    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
    George Miller · 19 critic votes
    An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
  211. Nosferatu poster
    Nosferatu (1922)
    F. W. Murnau · 18 critic votes
    Free on Public Domain Movies, FlixHouse, JustWatch TV · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Shudder, Kanopy
    The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
  212. Greed poster
    Greed (1924)
    Erich von Stroheim · 18 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on Kanopy
    When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.
  213. Double Indemnity poster
    Double Indemnity (1944)
    Billy Wilder · 18 critic votes
    An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
  214. Charulata poster
    Charulata (1964)
    Satyajit Ray · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.
  215. Blowup poster
    Blowup (1966)
    Michelangelo Antonioni · 18 critic votes
    A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
  216. Mouchette poster
    Mouchette (1967)
    Robert Bresson · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
  217. Out 1 poster
    Out 1 (1971)
    Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy
    While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
  218. Cries and Whispers poster
    Cries and Whispers (1972)
    Ingmar Bergman · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
  219. Je Tu Il Elle poster
    Je Tu Il Elle (1974)
    Chantal Akerman · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max
    A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
  220. The Deer Hunter poster
    The Deer Hunter (1978)
    Michael Cimino · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
    Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
  221. Raiders of the Lost Ark poster
    Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
    Steven Spielberg · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on fuboTV, Disney Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel
    When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
  222. Happy Together poster
    Happy Together (1997)
    Wong Kar-wai · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.
  223. Werckmeister Harmonies poster
    Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
    Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Klassiki
    A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
  224. Morvern Callar poster
    Morvern Callar (2002)
    Lynne Ramsay · 18 critic votes
    Free on The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
    After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent her life.
  225. The Act of Killing poster
    The Act of Killing (2012)
    Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Fawesome
    In this chilling and groundbreaking documentary, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of various film genres. As they recreate their past atrocities, the line between reality and performance blurs, exposing the lingering impact of Indonesia's 1965-66 anti-communist purge and the unsettling psychology of its perpetrators.
  226. Zama poster
    Zama (2016)
    Lucrecia Martel · 18 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Metrograph, Strand Releasing Amazon Channel
    In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
  227. Duck Soup poster
    Duck Soup (1933)
    Leo McCarey · 17 critic votes
    Streaming on YouTube TV
    Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
  228. Brief Encounter poster
    Brief Encounter (1945)
    David Lean · 17 critic votes
    Free on The Roku Channel, YouTube Free, Pluto TV · Streaming on Criterion Channel, FlixFling, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
  229. Paisà poster
    Paisà (1946)
    Roberto Rossellini · 17 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.
  230. Letter from an Unknown Woman poster
    Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
    Max Ophüls · 17 critic votes
    Free on The Roku Channel, Mometu · Streaming on FlixFling
    A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.
  231. In a Lonely Place poster
    In a Lonely Place (1950)
    Nicholas Ray · 17 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free
    A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
  232. Europe '51 poster
    Europe '51 (1952)
    Roberto Rossellini · 17 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.
  233. Army of Shadows poster
    Army of Shadows (1969)
    Jean-Pierre Melville · 17 critic votes
    Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
  234. One Way or Another poster
    One Way or Another (1977)
    Sara Gómez · 17 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel
    In Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a schoolteacher, throws into relief the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.
  235. The Decalogue (1989)
    Krzysztof Kieślowski · 17 critic votes
  236. Blue poster
    Blue (1993)
    Derek Jarman · 17 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Channel · Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
    Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
  237. Napoléon poster
    Napoléon (1927)
    Abel Gance · 16 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom
    A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
  238. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp poster
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
    Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger · 16 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
  239. I Know Where I'm Going! poster
    I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
    Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger · 16 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free, Pluto TV · Streaming on Criterion Channel
    Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
  240. Rome, Open City poster
    Rome, Open City (1945)
    Roberto Rossellini · 16 critic votes
    Free on Darkroom · Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.
  241. The Birds poster
    The Birds (1963)
    Alfred Hitchcock · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus
    Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
  242. Soleil Ô poster
    Soleil Ô (1967)
    Med Hondo · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel
    An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.
  243. The Young Girls of Rochefort poster
    The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
    Jacques Demy · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.
  244. F for Fake poster
    F for Fake (1973)
    Orson Welles · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
  245. All That Jazz poster
    All That Jazz (1979)
    Bob Fosse · 16 critic votes
    Free on Tubi TV
    Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
  246. Possession poster
    Possession (1981)
    Andrzej Żuławski · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on Shudder, Kanopy, Shudder Amazon Channel
    A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
  247. Wings of Desire poster
    Wings of Desire (1987)
    Wim Wenders · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
    Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.
  248. Grave of the Fireflies poster
    Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
    Isao Takahata · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
    In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.
  249. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me poster
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
    David Lynch · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on Criterion Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel
    In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
  250. Nostalgia for the Light poster
    Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
    Patricio Guzmán · 16 critic votes
    Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, OVID
    In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
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