Ashes of Time (1994)

Ashes of Time (Wong Kar Wai, 1994) Cantonese Title: Dung che sai duk In Wong Kar Wai's Ashes of Time , there is no present. Wong allows ...

The Long Goodbye (1973)

The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) Private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is woken up by his cat in the middle of the night. The rea...

A Gentle Woman (1969)

A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson, 1969) French Title: Une femme douce Adapted from Dostoyevsky's short story, A Gentle Woman , Robert Bre...

The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike, 2001) Japanese Title: Katakuri-ke no kôfuku The Katakuris operate a guest house in the middle...

Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (2005)

Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito, 2005) English Title: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros A pink orchid is salvaged by twel...

Requiem (2006)

Requiem (Hans-Christian Schmid, 2006) Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem is the second film made based on the true story of Anneliese Mich...

Art School Confidential (2006)

Art School Confidential (Terry Zwigoff, 2006) Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) wants to become the best artist of the 21st century. Right after ...

Hard Candy (2005)

Hard Candy (David Slade, 2005) An internet chat conversation opens Brit-born director David Slade's Hard Candy . The two anonymous chatt...

Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap (1980)

Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap (Pedro Almodovar, 1980) Spanish Title: Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón We are first in...

The Overture (2004)

The Overture (Ittisoontorn Vichailak, 2004) Thai Title: Hom rong Thai filmmaker Ittisoontorn Vichailak's The Overture is inspired by th...

Angela Markado (1980)

Angela Markado (Lino Brocka, 1980) English Title: Angela the Marked One Seeing Lino Brocka's Angela Markado ( Angela the Marked One ), ...

Quill (2004)

Quill (Yoichi Sai, 2004) Yoichi Sai's Quill is a screen adaptation of a novel about a real life "seeing-eye" Labrador. It was ...

The Prefab People (1982)

The Prefab People (Béla Tarr, 1982) Hungarian Title: Panelkapcsolat Béla Tarr's third feature The Prefab People is often considered the...

Family Nest (1979)

Family Nest (Béla Tarr, 1979) Hungarian Title: Családi tüzfészek Béla Tarr was only twenty two years old when he made Family Nest , a very m...

Life is Sweet (1990)

Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990) Forty minutes through Mike Leigh's family drama Life is Sweet , you get a feeling that Leigh's titl...

All Under the Moon (1993)

All Under the Moon (Yoichi Sai, 1993) Japanese Title: Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru The fascinating thing about Yoichi Sai's All Under the...

Temptation Island (1981)

Temptation Island (Joey Gosiengfiao, 1981) Joey Gosiengfiao's cult classic Temptation Island has often been compared by local critics t...

Orapronobis (1989)

Orapronobis (Lino Brocka, 1989) English Title: Fight For Us Lino Brocka's French-funded production Orapronobis ( Fight For Us ) starts ...

Gerry (2002)

Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2002) Right after three commercially viable and successful films, one of which earned him an Oscar nomination ( Good Wi...

Café Lumière (2003)

Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003) Japanese Title: Kôhî jikô Hou Hsiao-hsien's Café Lumière , his tribute to the great Japanese direc...

The Little Norse Prince (1968)

The Little Norse Prince (Isao Takahata, 1968) Japanese Title: Taiyo no oji: Horusu no daiboken It was a rocky relationship between Isao Taka...

Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (1975)

Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Lino Brocka, 1975) English Title: Manila in the Claws of Neon Lino Brocka is arguably the Philippines' ...

Sarong Banggi (2005)

Sarong Banggi (Emmanuel dela Cruz, 2005) English Title: One Night Emmanuel dela Cruz's first feature film Sarong Banggi derives its tit...

Shatranj ke Khilari (1977)

Shatranj ke Khilari (Satyajit Ray, 1977) English Title: The Chess Players In an early scene in Satyajit Ray's only Urdu language film Sh...