25. Jojo Rabbit | Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
“A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish boy in their home.”
26. Joker | Director: Todd Phillips
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
“A failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and becomes a psychopathic murderer.”
27. Light of my Life | Director: Casey Affleck
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Casey Affleck, Anna Pniowsky
Genre: Drama
“A father and his young daughter find themselves trapped in the woods.”
28. Limonov | Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Genre: Biography
“The outrageous story of Eduard Limonov, the radical Soviet poet who became a bum in New York, a sensation in France, and a political antihero in Russia.”
29. Little Women | Director: Greta Gerwig
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, Saoirse Ronan
Genre: Drama
“Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.”
30. Long Shot | Director: Jonathan Levine
Cast: Charlize Theron, June Diane Raphael, Alexander Skarsgård
Genre: Comedy
“Fred Flarsky, an unemployed journalist battered by his own misfortune, endeavors to pursue Charlotte Field, his childhood crush and babysitter who now happens to be one of the most powerful and unattainable women on the planet.”
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31. Lucy In the Sky | Director: Noah Hawley
Cast: Natalie Portman, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
“The story of a female astronaut who, upon returning to Earth from a life-changing mission in space, begins to slowly unravel and lose touch with reality.”
32. Matthias & Maxime | Director: Xavier Dolan
Cast: Xavier Dolan, Harris Dickinson, Anne Dorval
Genre: Drama
“A drama focusing on a group of friends in their late 20s.”
33. Memoria | Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Cast: Tilda Swinton
Genre: Drama
“The main character of the film is a woman from Scotland, who, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.”
34. Midsommar | Director: Ari Aster
Cast: Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
“A young woman reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip where things quickly go awry.”
35. My Zoe | Director: Julie Delpy
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Richard Armitage, Daniel Brühl
Genre: Drama
“A divorced mother looks to protect her daughter after an unexpected tragedy.”
36. Nighthawk | Director: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Udo Kier, Sônia Braga, Chris Doubek
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
“A filmmaker decides to travel to a village in the interior of Brazil to make a documentary. As days go by, he begins to discover that the locals are not exactly what they appear to be and hide dangerous secrets.”
37. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt
Genre: Comedy, Drama
“A faded TV actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of the Hollywood Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.”
38. Pain & Glory | Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Raúl Arévalo
Genre: Drama
“A film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.”
39. Parasite | Director: Bong Joon-Ho
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-Jeong Cho
Genre: Drama
“All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family takes peculiar interest in the Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.”
40. Photograph | Director: Ritesh Batra
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra
Genre: Drama, Romance
“A struggling street photographer in Mumbai, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them in ways they could not expect.”
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41. Poor Boy | Director: Guy Pearce
Cast: Guy Pearce, Carice Van Houten, Francis O’Connor
Genre: Drama
“A little boy announces on his seventh birthday that he is a stranger named Danny, a grown man who died seven years earlier.”
42. Radegund | Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruno Ganz
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
“The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.”
43. Rebecca | Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Lily James, Armie Hammer
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
“A young newlywed finds herself in living in the shadow of her wealthy husband’s previous wife.”
44. Rio | Director: Edward Berger
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Benedict Cumberbatch
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
“A financial reporter travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit a wealthy friend, only to get sucked into a plot to fake his friend’s death.”
45. Rocketman | Director: Dexter Fletcher
Cast: Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Taron Egerton
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
“A musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years.”
46. Serenity | Director: Steven Knight
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane
Genre: Drama, Thriller
“A fishing boat captain juggles facing his mysterious past and finding himself ensnared in a reality where nothing is what it seems.”
47. Shirley | Josephine Decker
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Logan Lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
“A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.”
48. Sorry We Missed You | Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone
Genre: Drama
“A hard-up delivery driver and his wife struggle to get by in modern-day England.”
49. The Beach Bum | Director: Harmony Korine
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher
Genre: Comedy
“A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.”
50. The Best of Enemies | Director: Robin Bissell
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Taraji P. Henson, Wes Bentley
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
“Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.”
