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Kanopy
89
8.6
/861128/
85
/13698/
84
/7927/
4.6
/986110/
91
/162/
97
/15607/
79
/33/
cc age 18+

City of God (2002)
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
89
8.2
/190702/
80
/2662/
82
/2574/
4.3
/249922/
99
/67/
94
/2155/
cc age 12+

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
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.
poster
84
8.4
/121777/
83
/2705/
81
/1892/
4.2
/117118/
90
/181/
93
/197/
75
/33/
cc age 16+

Capernaum (2018)
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
poster
84
8.0
/905045/
78
/17278/
77
/11059/
3.9
/618672/
92
/286/
90
/50237/
84
/36/
cc age 16+

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
poster
83
7.9
/10965/
76
/135/
72
/113/
3.9
/9148/
93
/29/
93
/218/
79
/18/

Salaam Bombay! (1988)
After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs, but soon winds up in the streets of Bombay's poorest slums. There, he befriends the drug dealer Chillum and young prostitute Sola Saal, while trying to make enough money at a neighborhood tea stall to repay his debt to his family.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.8
/9217/
78
/136/
76
/231/
4.1
/7787/
95
/19/
86
/69/

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare existence. A priest advises Batisti and his wife Batistina that their young son Minec should be formally educated, so they sacrifice his help in the fields and send him to school. When Minec's wooden shoe breaks one day, Batisti--in an act of desperation--puts the family's future at risk to replace the clog.
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Hoopla
79
7.2
/586/
80
/7/
60
/11/
3.6
/389/
86
/29/
84
/61/

Vanaja (2006)
In rural South India, 15 year old Vanaja goes to work for the local Landlady in hopes of learning Kuchipudi Dance. Initial chemistry with the Landlady's son turns ugly, pitching her into a battle of Caste and Animus.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.0
/52877/
70
/1271/
68
/1265/
3.7
/37452/
90
/155/
71
/2117/
87
/30/

Gomorrah (2008)
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.
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MUBI
77
7.0
/9234/
67
/388/
68
/216/
3.7
/37403/
93
/60/
72
/12/
85
/19/

Alcarràs (2022)
In a small village in Catalonia, the peach farmers of the Solé family spend every summer together picking fruit from their orchard. But when plans arise to install solar panels and cut down trees, the members of this tight-knit group suddenly face eviction – and the loss of far more than their home.
poster
MUBI
77
6.9
/4764/
70
/201/
67
/128/
3.8
/17867/
98
/84/
72
/23/
80
/20/

I Am Not a Witch (2017)
Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.
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Kanopy
74
6.9
/3138/
73
/119/
71
/169/
3.6
/4470/
89
/57/
77
/8/
70
/17/

The Ciambra (2017)
Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in southern Italian town of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio sets out to prove to his brother that he is as good or better than him but, when things go wrong, a series of events will forever change the way he sees the world.
poster
72
7.0
/3183/
72
/66/
72
/249/
3.6
/4285/
81
/32/
70
/23/
71
/16/

The Embalmer (2002)
Peppino, a diminutive taxidermist with a reputation for sleaziness, meets Valerio, a handsome if artless much younger man fascinated by the trade. Peppino offers him a large salary to be his assistant—the job burgeoning into a budding friendship he mistakes for something more. When Valerio gets a girlfriend, their fledgling romance will be threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.
poster
69
6.5
/8649/
60
/149/
63
/125/
3.4
/6737/
72
/105/
61
/424/
63
/32/

Bubble (2006)
Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.
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Kanopy
68
6.9
/2815/
68
/110/
68
/159/
3.5
/6271/
79
/57/
83
60
/15/

Between Two Worlds (2022)
Marianne Winckler relocates to the port city of Caen in order to pass herself off as a member of a large community of itinerant workers desperate to make ends meet. She gains employment as a cleaner on a ferry travelling between Ouistreham and Portsmouth, recording the drudgery of the work she and her colleagues are required to do.
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Kanopy
68
5.9
/798/
59
/20/
55
/13/
3.4
/909/
74
/34/
53
/21/
78
/11/

Putty Hill (2010)
Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about him. Gradually, as it becomes clear that there are many holes in their recollections about Cory, they fill in the blanks by talking about things that reveal aspects of their own lives. Among those mourning him and searching for meaning are his cousin Jenny, his sister Zoe and his brother James.
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Kanopy
72
66
6.8
/6013/
68
/145/
71
/338/
3.6
/6407/
81
/75/
69
/42/
76
/21/

Reality (2012)
A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.
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Criterion Channel
70
61
7.0
/4771/
67
/104/
69
/121/
3.7
/21101/
72
/330/

La Pointe Courte (1956)
A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.
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Kanopy
81
59
7.6
/1520/
73
/43/
70
/23/
4.3
/7304/
100
/10/
82
/41/

The Company of Strangers (1990)
A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
55
6.9
/1863/
67
/39/
73
/48/
4.0
/4184/
86
/22/
78
/20/

Colossal Youth (2006)
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
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Criterion Channel
76
53
7.0
/1874/
68
/50/
69
/50/
4.0
/5189/
100
/5/
70
/10/

In Vanda's Room (2001)
An unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but taking as main focus the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
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Kanopy
73
51
7.0
/2211/
68
/29/
67
/46/
3.6
/1734/
89
/9/
66
/3/
83
/4/

The Postman's White Nights (2014)
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman's beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city. Postman's outboard engine gets stolen and he can no longer deliver mail. His normal pattern of life is disrupted. The postman makes a decision to leave for the city too but returns before long with no certain reason. The script is based on real characters' stories. People from the village play their own parts in the film. The search for the protagonist lasted for over a year.
poster
73
46
6.7
/719/
65
/24/
61
/49/
3.7
/1655/
100
/6/
78
/3/
72
/4/

The Mouth Of The Wolf (2009)
Upon his release from prison, an ex-convict returns to his beloved city of Genoa, and to his lover.
poster
61
45
6.6
/2051/
62
/56/
66
/148/
3.4
/3888/
53
/19/
55
/14/
57
/8/

First Love (2004)
Vittorio is looking for a woman who matches his ideal. Through a classified ad he meets Sonia, a sweet, pleasant, intelligent girl. However, she weighs 125 pounds -- which according to Vittorio is way too much. A goldsmith by trade, Vittorio is obsessed with the desire to shape Sonia's body and mind as does a fire with gold. Almost imperceptibly Sonia becomes a passive participant and the relationship grows into a reciprocal masochistic game. When the two lovers isolate themselves in a country house in the Veneto hills, they dangerously lose touch with reality and the rest of the world.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
44
6.8
/1902/
65
/42/
68
/44/
3.7
/5579/
62
/18/

Ossos (1997)
After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father, whose violent actions take the viewer on a tour of the foreboding, crumbling shantytown in which they live.
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Kanopy
53
41
5.0
/1646/
50
/64/
47
/36/
2.9
/3317/
67
/9/
48
/27/
54
/6/

Toad Road (2013)
Stuck in a dead end town, young James kills time with his druggie friends, engaging in debauched chemical intake to the point of unconsciousness, until he meets Sara, a sweet new arrival to their group. However, Sara wants James to take her further into the world of narcotics experimentation (just as James was contemplating abandoning this lifestyle), and she also wants him to introduce her to the sinister local legend of Toad Road, a spot deep in the forest that is apparently home to the Seven Gates of Hell.
poster
49
41
4.8
/4936/
50
/121/
46
/132/
2.7
/9754/

Guinea Pig Part 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985)
A woman kidnapped in the dead of night awakens in a grisly dungeon, where her deranged assailant prepares her body for a morbid ritual.
poster
76
39
7.3
/1624/
74
/22/
72
/41/
3.9
/3738/
87
/3/

Suzaku (1997)
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the family.
poster
72
33
6.9
/171/
70
/3/
65
/4/
3.5
/2299/
86
/14/

Sleepless City (2025)
La Cañada Real, on the outskirts of Madrid, is one of the largest illegal shanty towns in Europe. Tonino, a 15-year-old Roma boy, has always lived here with his family. With his best friend Bilal, they film the world around them using a mobile phone, inspired by the gypsy legends he hears at home. But everything falls apart when a notice of imminent eviction arrives at his home and he discovers that his best friend is leaving La Cañada for good. Tonino finds himself torn between the dream of a new life and his attachment to his family and roots.
poster
AMC+ Amazon Channel
70
33
6.8
/929/
71
/19/
60
/23/
3.4
/384/
96
/25/
57
/16/

Birdwatchers (2008)
Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
poster
Netflix
46
31
4.6
/1564/
50
/105/
43
/159/
2.5
/2401/
50
/8/
42
/6/

Paris Is Us (2019)
Dreams and reality collide as a young woman navigates a tumultuous relationship amid rising social tensions, protests and tragedies in Paris.
poster
79
29
8.1
/866/
74
/12/
83
/6/
4.0
/3536/

Fiume o Morte! (2025)
Through dramatic reconstruction and documentary asides, the spirit of Italian poet, playwright, journalist, aristocrat and army officer Gabriele D’Annunzio is captured, presenting the nascent fascism in his attempts to forge a new state in the aftermath of the First World War.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
29
7.2
/799/
69
/22/
69
/27/
3.9
/1440/
83
/4/

India: Matri Bhumi (1959)
Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.
poster
66
28
6.5
/356/
68
/18/
63
/25/
3.5
/1577/

Good Mother (2021)
Nora, a cleaning lady in her fifties, looks after her small family in a housing estate in the northern part of Marseille. She is worried about her grandson Ellyes, who has been in prison for several months for robbery and is awaiting his trial with a mixture of hope and anxiety. Nora does everything she can to make this wait as painless as possible.
poster
69
23
7.0
/757/
65
/16/
65
/12/
3.5
/568/
79
/22/

The Road to San Diego (2006)
A young Argentine learns that soccer star Diego Maradona is ailing in a Buenos Aires hospital, and resolves to bring him a tree root he's discovered.
poster
57
22
5.4
/393/
60
/11/
67
/17/
3.3
/818/
38
/84/

A Film Like Any Other (1968)
An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and students’ protests. The picture consists of two parts, each with with identical image tracks, and differing narration.
poster
64
21
6.2
/351/
61
/8/
70
/26/
3.3
/636/

Roman Summer (2000)
Rome, Esquilino, summer. Rossella returns to Rome after years of absence and returns to her home, rented to her friend Salvatore, the set designer. The woman is gripped by an evident depression and wanders around the city that she does not recognize and that no longer recognizes her. People have changed and Rossella finds no one capable of answering the obsessive question that has plagued her for some time: "How can I disappear?"
poster
64
20
6.3
/465/
67
/8/
61
/43/
3.3
/331/

The Intruder (2017)
Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.
poster
63
20
6.4
/450/
60
/23/
63
/32/
3.3
/376/

A Polar Year (2018)
A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him embrace the snow-covered life.
poster
69
19
7.5
/532/
60
/11/
69
/18/
3.7
/636/

Time Stood Still (1960)
Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the valley to spend Christmas vacation with his family he is temporarily replaced with an adolescent boy. The other man is both annoyed and intrigued by the boy and his habits: he listens to loud music, sleeps too long in the mornings and doesn't drink any alcohol. They barely speak to one another in the first couple of days. But when an avalanche cuts their small hut from electricity they slowly start growing more fond of each other.
poster
62
18
7.2
/714/
60
/11/
50
/19/
3.6
/739/

The Story of Asya Klyachina, Who Loved, But Did Not Marry (1966)
Asya, a lame collective farmer, is in love with the father of her unborn child. However, he does not reciprocate, leaving her forced to choose between a loveless marriage to another suitor, or single motherhood.
poster
66
17
6.5
/468/
61
/12/
53
/21/
3.4
/1064/
86
/1/

Los hongos (2014)
Ras is a graffiti artist from the city of Cali who works in construction, he works during the day and paints walls at night. One day he is caught stealing cans of paint from the construction site where he works, for which he is fired. With no money, he will look for Calvin, another popular urban artist. Both will circulate through the streets without a fixed destination, spreading their art to every corner.
poster
72
15
7.1
/105/
67
/9/
78
/13/
3.7
/544/

Young and Alive (2019)
In the months following the terrorist attacks in Paris, the youth have seized the nights, looking for a sense of belonging in a world they have ceased to understand. Seeking to change the rules, led by new faces, driven by their values and ideals, they open a new dialogue, challenge the state and are getting ready for a new kind of revolution.
poster
60
14
6.4
/368/
53
/6/
55
/20/
3.5
/426/

Ostia (1970)
Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera and Rabbino were children when they pushed their drunk of a father out of a window for killing their pet sheep. When a girl is raped by her father, she is brought by young "rescuers" to the home of the two brothers who then watch their friends take advantage of her sexually. The brothers take her in, and the three live happy and celibate if not uneventful lives until the brother's are sent to jail for stealing.
poster
58
11
6.6
/241/
44
/5/
57
/17/
3.4
/291/

Land In Between (1996)
On the edge of a road that leads out of town, some Nigerian prostitutes pass the time on sagging sofas, bargaining with white clients for their bodies and their thoughts. On another street, some Slavic boys wait to be hired as bricklayers, but they are willing to do any kind of work. At night, an Egyptian works as an illegal in a gas station.
poster
57
11
6.1
/238/
43
/3/
61
/15/
3.2
/297/

Guests (1998)
Gheni and Gherti, two young Albanian immigrants who live in Rome and work in a restaurant, settle in the home of the photographer Corrado, who makes friends with the first. In a torrid and empty city for the summer holidays Gherti, more restless, binds with Lino, an old Sardinian who every day accompanies his mentally ill wife to the city. Gheni instead continues his little "climb" in the restaurant and strengthens his friendship with Corrado.
poster
63
10
6.9
/153/
48
/5/
63
/10/
3.6
/402/

The Film to Come (1997)
If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment of celluloid that can only be seen by a secret society known as the Philokinetes. They watch it on a loop, somnambulating through a life that is unreal by comparison. It is the belief of the Philokinetes that film has an existence “independent from humans. Cinema, they said, is the primeval soup of a new life form. There from were to emerge pure screening creatures. Which is to say, non-topical beings.” - n+1
poster
58
10
5.7
/335/
58
/6/
54
/13/
3.2
/364/

The White Ship (1941)
Although released anonymously, as was the custom with all films produced by the Italian Navy, La Nave Bianca is the first feature-length effort directed by Roberto Rossellini; it is also very much the work of its co-writer and supervisor Francesco De Robertis. The film combines a documentary look at the Italian Navy during World War II with newsreel combat footage and a scripted love story performed by non-professional actors.
poster
67
8
7.0
/191/
45
/2/
66
/5/
3.6
/546/
83
/2/

Dialogues of the Exiles (1975)
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.


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