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1. Chocolat (2000)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Romance
A French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina
Votes: 202,001 | Gross: $71.51M
2. Sister My Sister (1994)
R | 86 min | Drama, Thriller
Two sisters separated in childhood reunite years later as servants at a household in France. Their happiness to be reunited spirals into an incestuous relationship.
Director: Nancy Meckler | Stars: Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Sophie Thursfield
Votes: 3,659 | Gross: $0.22M
3. Goodbye, Children (1987)
PG | 104 min | Drama, War
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Votes: 36,127 | Gross: $4.54M
4. Cargo 200 (2007)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov
Votes: 11,387
5. Madame Bovary (1991)
PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Romance
In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne
Votes: 4,482 | Gross: $1.94M
6. Onegin (1999)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
Russia, 1820s: Onegin inherits his uncle's country estate and moves there from St. Petersburg. He befriends his neighbor, Lensky, and meets Tatyana through him. She falls in love with Onegin but he just wants friendship.
Director: Martha Fiennes | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens, Lena Headey
Votes: 8,310 | Gross: $0.21M
7. Cemetery Junction (2010)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A 1970s-set comedy centered on three young working class friends in a dreary suburb of Reading.
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant | Stars: Christian Cooke, Felicity Jones, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan
Votes: 24,185
8. Billy Liar (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne
Votes: 7,103 | Gross: $0.04M
9. Motherland Hotel (1987)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
Director: Ömer Kavur | Stars: Macit Koper, Sahika Tekand, Serra Yilmaz, Osman Alyanak
Votes: 4,599
10. Totoy Mola (1997)
103 min | Comedy, Romance
A well-endowed man moves to Manila to start a new life after the tragic death of his girlfriend. He becomes a male escort and gets involved in a passionate love triangle with two women.
Director: Abbo Dela Cruz | Stars: Jay Manalo, Dindi Gallardo, Sabrina M., Aya Medel
Votes: 36
11. Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles (2012)
TV-MA | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Makoy, a soon-to-be-father, is suddenly forced to protect his pregnant wife from an onslaught of hungry aswang monsters. He must not just fight for his love, but fight for their very ... See full summary »
Director: Erik Matti | Stars: Dingdong Dantes, Joey Marquez, Lovi Poe, Janice De Belen
Votes: 313
12. Pakners (2003)
117 min | Action, Comedy, Musical
Director: Tony Y. Reyes | Stars: Fernando Poe Jr., Efren 'Bata' Reyes, January Isaac Bodlovic, Candy Pangilinan
Votes: 50
13. Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (1985)
100 min | Drama
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Andrei Boltnev, Nina Ruslanova, Andrey Mironov, Aleksey Zharkov
Votes: 2,649
14. Love in the City (1953)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini | Stars: Rita Josa, Rosanna Carta, Enrico Pelliccia, Donatella Marrosu
Votes: 1,463
15. A Place of One's Own (1945)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price
Votes: 958
16. Lowlands (1954)
99 min | Drama, Romance, Musical
Set in the early part of 20th century Europe, where a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between 2 men; a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Bernhard Minetti, Leni Riefenstahl, Aribert Wäscher, Karl Skraup
Votes: 470
17. Birdshot (2016)
TV-MA | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
"Birdshot" is a mystery-thriller film that tells a story of a young Filipina farm girl who wanders into the boundaries of a Philippine reservation forest. Deep within the reservation she ... See full summary »
Director: Mikhail Red | Stars: Arnold Reyes, Mary Joy Apostol, John Arcilla, Ku Aquino
Votes: 1,252
18. Come Have Coffee with Us (1970)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Emerenziano, a middle-aged tax inspector, is in search of a wealthy wife. He travels to Italy where he meets three sisters, who, though wealthy, are not by any stretch of the imagination young or beautiful. He decides to marry one of them.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Milena Vukotic, Angela Goodwin
Votes: 581
19. Kimmy Dora: Kambal sa kiyeme (2009)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Kimmy and Dora Go Dong Hae, who are identical twin sisters, cannot be any more different from each other. Life turns out to be even more complicated as the twins become rivals both in life and in love.
Director: Joyce Bernal | Stars: Eugene Domingo, Dingdong Dantes, Zanjoe Marudo, Ariel Ureta
Votes: 160
20. Graduate First (1978)
TV-14 | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A study of a group of young working class people in a French village, who are embarking upon adult life. The film follows the choices and decisions made for their futures.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Annick Alane, Michel Caron
Votes: 995
21. Le Grand Amour (1969)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
After fifteen years of average married life and stifling in-laws, a businessman undergoes a midlife crisis and pursues his attractive young secretary.
Director: Pierre Étaix | Stars: Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Alain Janey
Votes: 1,387
22. Yanggaw (2008)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama, Horror
A young girl develops an unknown infection that causes her to evolve into a horrifying monster.
Director: Richard Somes | Stars: Ronnie Lazaro, Tetchie Agbayani, Joel Torre, Aleera Montalla
Votes: 127
23. Star of India (1954)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Romance
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Herbert Lom, Yvonne Sanson
Votes: 187
24. Silip (2007)
TV-14 | 103 min | Drama
a traveling salesman takes his wife to settle on a remote farm, and they are happily married for a time? Until a woman full of mystery disrupts the otherwise peaceful relationship of the couple.
Director: Joel Lamangan | Stars: Diana Zubiri, Polo Ravales, Francine Prieto, Tony Mabesa
Votes: 104
25. Gilles' Wife (2004)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her ... See full summary »
Director: Frédéric Fonteyne | Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Clovis Cornillac, Laura Smet, Colette Emmanuelle
Votes: 890 | Gross: $0.00M
26. Franzi (2009– )
Comedy
Stars: Jule Ronstedt, Gisela Schneeberger, Sebastian Bezzel, Kathrin von Steinburg
Votes: 23
27. Spasatel (1980)
101 min | Drama, Romance
Student Asya Videneeva, her husband, school teacher Larikov, rescuer Vilya Tishin, residents of a provincial town. A strange interweaving of the fates of the heroes, a moral conflict, the uncertainty of relations.
Director: Sergey Solovyov | Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Vasiliy Mishchenko, Sergey Shakurov, Olga Belyavskaya
Votes: 141
28. Once Upon a Time in the Provinces (2008)
100 min | Drama
Sex, alcohol and violence define the people of a city in defeat in this downbeat drama from writer and director Katya Shagalova. As a teenager, Nastia (Yulia Peresild) was the star of a ... See full summary »
Director: Ekaterina Shagalova | Stars: Yuliya Peresild, Elvira Bolgova, Aleksandr Golubev, Nataliya Soldatova
Votes: 149
29. Okraina (1933)
98 min | Drama, War
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 1,123
30. Marino (2009)
Drama
Director: Paul Sta. Ana | Stars: Ara Mina, Allen Dizon, Emilio Garcia, Krista Ranillo
Votes: 11
31. Mañanita (2019)
143 min | Action, Drama
An ex-military sniper who was honorably discharged accepts a mission that will indefinitely change her life in the attempts to make ends meet. It is a quiet character study of when your ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Soriano | Stars: Bela Padilla, Ronnie Lazaro, Felix Roco, Dino Imperial
Votes: 21
32. Wanted... Ded or Alayb (1976)
Comedy
With an all-star cast.
Director: Warlito M. Teodoro | Stars: Nora Aunor, Nova Villa, Rudy Fernandez, Rene Requiestas
33. Menya zovut Arlekino (1988)
134 min | Crime, Drama
A guy called Arlekino and his company, who call themselves "wolves", live at a stop near the city, where they often go to "relax" - in search of thrills. And they're not just bullies, at ... See full summary »
Director: Valeri Rybarev | Stars: Oleg Fomin, Svetlana Kopylova, Lyudmila Gavrilova, Vladimir Pozhidayev
Votes: 207
34. Eugénie Grandet (1994 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | Stars: Alexandra London, Jean Carmet, Dominique Labourier, Jean-Claude Adelin
Votes: 110
35. Balamut (1979)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Vladimir Rogovoy | Stars: Vadim Andreev, Natalya Kaznacheeva, Nikolai Denisov, Vladimir Shikhov
Votes: 164
36. Kamoteng kahoy (2009)
97 min | Drama
Description This is a true story which happened in a small town in Bohol in 2005. Twenty one pupils died and almost a hundred were hospitalized after eating cassava cakes sold by an old ... See full summary »
Director: Maryo J. de los Reyes | Stars: Ana Capri, Anton Bernardo, Caloy Alde, Froilan Sales
Votes: 24
37. The Haunter of the Dark II (2017)
106 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Every night the beginning writer from Tver, Yuri Kartenko, sees nightmares in which the city of Providensk appears. In search of answers to his questions, he decides to go to this city, ... See full summary »
Director: Dmitry Chmelyov | Stars: Dmitry Chmelyov, Aleksander Pechterev, Ruslan Abdullaev, Anton Alexandrov
Votes: 54
39. Sweet Smoke of the Fatherland (2012)
79 min | Documentary, War
This film is a triptych with three stories, involving three characters. They live in different parts of Europe: Western Europe -Catalonia (Spain); Eastern Europe -Lithuania; and in the new ... See full summary »
Director: Mascha Novikova
40.
Maalaala Mo Kaya (1991–2022)
Episode:
Bracelet
(2010)
TV-14 | Biography, Drama, Romance
Rizza Melchor (16) is a loving daughter of Lionela and Elizer of North Cotabato City. When her father died, she started dreaming of giving her family a bright future by going to Manila and ... See full summary »
Director: Nuel C. Naval | Stars: Gina Alajar, Eliza Pineda, Dexter Doria, Minnie Aguilar