2013 Munich Filmfest

by Athee | created - 11 Jun 2013 | updated - 18 Apr 2015 | Public

Films of the 2013 International Filmfest in Munich (all CineMaster, CineVision, International Independent and Spotlight films)

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1. Araf/Somewhere in Between (2012)

124 min | Drama

Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for ... See full summary »

Director: Yesim Ustaoglu | Stars: Neslihan Atagül, Baris Hacihan, Özcan Deniz, Nihal Yalçin

Votes: 2,039

2. Big Sur (2013)

R | 81 min | Drama, Romance

49 Metascore

A recounting of Jack Kerouac's three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur owned by his friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas, Radha Mitchell

Votes: 2,103 | Gross: $0.03M

3. Capital (2012)

R | 114 min | Drama

56 Metascore

The newly appointed CEO of a giant European investment bank works to hold on to his power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy out his company.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Liya Kebede, Natacha Régnier

Votes: 5,581 | Gross: $0.10M

4. The Dance of Reality (2013)

Unrated | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy

76 Metascore

In a little Chilean town, the son of an uprooted couple formed by a rigorous communist father and a loving but weak mother tries to pave his own path in a society that does not understand their Jewish-Ukrainian origins.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky | Stars: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits, Alejandro Jodorowsky

Votes: 9,520 | Gross: $0.19M

5. Everyday (I) (2012)

Unrated | 106 min | Drama

55 Metascore

This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Shirley Henderson, John Simm, Shaun Kirk, Robert Kirk

Votes: 842

6. The Great Beauty (2013)

Not Rated | 141 min | Drama

86 Metascore

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso

Votes: 97,369 | Gross: $2.85M

7. Heli (2013)

Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

59 Metascore

Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.

Director: Amat Escalante | Stars: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González, Juan Eduardo Palacios

Votes: 5,384

8. The Immigrant (2013)

R | 120 min | Drama, Romance

77 Metascore

In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk

Votes: 33,771 | Gross: $2.01M

9. Museum Hours (2012)

Not Rated | 107 min | Drama

84 Metascore

When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways in which works of art reflect and shape the world.

Director: Jem Cohen | Stars: Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits, Marcus O'Hara

Votes: 2,278 | Gross: $0.08M

10. Night Across the Street (2012)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

76 Metascore

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernández, Santiago Figueroa, Valentina Vargas

Votes: 525

11. Only God Forgives (2013)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

37 Metascore

Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm, Gordon Brown

Votes: 118,079 | Gross: $0.78M

12. The Past (2013)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Mystery

85 Metascore

An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.

Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet

Votes: 50,875 | Gross: $1.33M

13. Thy Womb (2012)

105 min | Drama

An infertile midwife and her husband find a surrogate mother so that they can have a child.

Director: Brillante Mendoza | Stars: Nora Aunor, Bembol Roco, Lovi Poe, Mercedes Cabral

Votes: 282

14. A Touch of Sin (2013)

Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama

77 Metascore

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao, Lanshan Luo

Votes: 12,882 | Gross: $0.09M

15. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)

NC-17 | 180 min | Drama, Romance

90 Metascore

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing

Votes: 163,014 | Gross: $2.20M

16. Ape (2012)

Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Trevor Newandyke is a struggling comedian. Not only does he bomb on stage, but he bombs in everyday life. To him, it's the little things that matter most. He's fed up with the threats from ... See full summary »

Director: Joel Potrykus | Stars: Joshua Burge, Nicholas Fairbanks, Gary Perrine, Teri Ann Nelson

Votes: 555

17. Augustine (2012)

Not Rated | 102 min | Biography, Drama, History

74 Metascore

A look at the relationship between pioneering 19th century French neurologist Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his star teenage patient, a kitchen maid who is left partially paralyzed after a seizure.

Director: Alice Winocour | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Stéphan Wojtowicz, Soko, Chiara Mastroianni

Votes: 1,640 | Gross: $0.11M

18. Snow White (2012)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy

82 Metascore

A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

Director: Pablo Berger | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina

Votes: 11,633 | Gross: $0.28M

19. Halley (2012)

84 min | Drama, Horror

Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Make-up and perfume can no longer conceal his quickly decomposing body. Dismayed, he decides to withdraw from the world.

Director: Sebastián Hofmann | Stars: Alberto Trujillo, Luly Trueba, Hugo Albores, Sergio Murguía

Votes: 704

20. It Felt Like Love (2013)

Unrated | 82 min | Drama

76 Metascore

Lila wants to emulate the sexual exploits of her more experienced best friend. She fixates on a tough older guy who will "sleep with anyone" and tries to insert herself into his world, putting herself in a dangerously vulnerable situation.

Director: Eliza Hittman | Stars: Gina Piersanti, Nyck Caution, Giovanna Salimeni, Nugget

Votes: 2,911 | Gross: $0.03M

21. The Love Songs of Tiedan (2012)

91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Tiedan's love experience started early in the age of 8 when he fell into adult Mei Jie, but Mei Jie moved to other place with her daughters when the Er-Ren-Tai traditional opera was ... See full summary »

Director: Jie Hao | Stars: Lan Ye, Si Feng, Xia Ge, Huanrong Du

Votes: 144

22. The Motel Life (2012)

R | 85 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

61 Metascore

A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.

Directors: Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Doc Divecchio, Nancy Youngblut

Votes: 3,791

23. My Dog Killer (2013)

90 min | Drama

In the absence of a true family, a young skinhead lets his life revolve around his cherished pit bull dog.

Director: Mira Fornay | Stars: Irena Bendová, Patrik Czanik, Ladislav Dirda, Emilia Dirdová

Votes: 349

24. Nina (II) (2012)

TV-PG | 84 min | Drama

Nina spends August in Rome, when the city is nearly empty. But her days are full of encounters.

Director: Elisa Fuksas | Stars: Diane Fleri, Luca Marinelli, Ernesto Mahieux, Luigi Catani

Votes: 205

25. Northwest (2013)

Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

18-year-old Caspar wants to reach the top, no matter what. He carries out small-time break-ins for Jamal, before moving on to work for big player Björn. All goes well, until Jamal's gang ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Noer | Stars: Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Lene Maria Christensen, Annemieke Bredahl Peppink

Votes: 4,307

26. Soldier Jane (2013)

PG-13 | 80 min | Drama

Fanni has had enough of money and Anna has had enough of pigs. Fanni leaves the city and her pearls behind, while Anna is stuck wearing muddy overalls. When they finally cross paths, they embark on a punk adventure towards Marxist liberty.

Director: Daniel Hoesl | Stars: Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg, Christina Reichsthaler, Josef Kleindienst, Aurelia Burckhardt

Votes: 221

27. The Patience Stone (2012)

R | 102 min | Drama, War

64 Metascore

In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.

Director: Atiq Rahimi | Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Hassina Burgan, Massi Mrowat

Votes: 5,485 | Gross: $0.15M

28. The Summer of Flying Fish (2013)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

Manena goes on vacation with her father, Francisco, to a part of southern Chile. She discovers that her father's obsession with catching all the carp in his artificial lagoon is making the local Mapuche tribe angry, so she has to stop him.

Director: Marcela Said | Stars: Francisca Walker, Gregory Cohen, María Izquierdo, Roberto Cayuqueo

Votes: 286

29. Wasteland (2012)

108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

52 Metascore

A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration. Can he get revenge and win back his fed-up girlfriend?

Director: Rowan Athale | Stars: Iwan Rheon, Luke Treadaway, Gerard Kearns, Matthew Lewis

Votes: 4,246

30. Whitewash (I) (2013)

90 min | Drama, Thriller

63 Metascore

Thomas Haden Church stars in this darkly comic thriller about a snowplow driver who, after accidentally killing a man, attempts to escape the cops by fleeing into the harsh Canadian wilderness.

Director: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | Stars: Thomas Haden Church, Marc Labrèche, Anie Pascale, Sylvio Archambault

Votes: 1,789

31. As I Lay Dying (2013)

R | 110 min | Drama

50 Metascore

Based on the classic novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1930, "As I Lay Dying" is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her last wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.

Director: James Franco | Stars: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, Ahna O'Reilly

Votes: 4,194 | Gross: $0.02M

32. Augustas (2012)

83 min | Drama

On mythical Augusta Street, in San Paulo (Brazil), a journalist who seeks answers for his angst dives into the world of prostitution and neo-Shamanism rituals.

Director: Francisco César Filho | Stars: Mario Bortolotto, Caroline Abras, Maira Chasseroux, Guta Ruiz

Votes: 43

33. Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

78 Metascore

Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.

Director: Jay Bulger | Stars: Ginger Baker, Femi Kuti, Eric Clapton, Stewart Copeland

Votes: 3,615 | Gross: $0.11M

34. The Girl from the South (2012)

94 min | Documentary

Lim Su-kyung (also spelled as Lim Soo-kyung) attended the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in North Korea in 1989, without first obtaining permission from the South Korean ... See full summary »

Director: José Luis García | Stars: Im Su-kyong, Alejandro Kim

Votes: 219

35. Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2013)

Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

67 Metascore

As Jamie travels in Chile, he invites an eccentric woman to join his group's quest to score a fabled hallucinogen, a move that finds him at odds with his new companion, until they drink the magic brew on a beach at the edge of the desert.

Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva, Agustín Silva

Votes: 9,050 | Gross: $0.19M

36. Cutie and the Boxer (2013)

R | 82 min | Documentary, Biography

83 Metascore

This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.

Director: Zach Heinzerling | Stars: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara, Alex Shinohara, Ethan Cohen

Votes: 4,736 | Gross: $0.20M

37. Dancing in Jaffa (2013)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, Family

74 Metascore

Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together.

Director: Hilla Medalia | Stars: Pierre Dulaine, Yvonne Marceau, Alaa Bubali, Lois Dana

Votes: 318 | Gross: $0.13M

38. The Deflowering of Eva van End (2012)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama

The members of a dysfunctional family begin to reinvent themselves thanks to the exchange student who moves in with them.

Director: Michiel ten Horn | Stars: Vivian Dierickx, Jacqueline Blom, Ton Kas, Tomer Pawlicki

Votes: 942

39. Éden (2013)

73 min | Drama

Eden tells the story of Karine, a 30 year old woman, who lives in the suburbs of a big city, Rio de Janeiro. 8 months pregnant, she is in mourning for her husband, Juninho, recently ... See full summary »

Director: Bruno Safadi | Stars: Júlio Andrade, Rod Carvalho, Josias Duarte, Cristina Lago

Votes: 66

40. Pustoy dom (2012)

98 min | Drama

Kyrgyzstan. Ascel is engaged to Sultan, the local Mr Big with the grandest house. This looks like a palace to Ascel, who lives in a hovel with her drunkard father. She doesn't love Sultan, ... See full summary »

Director: Nurbek Egen | Stars: Maral Koichukaraeva, Cecile Plage, Atai Omurbekov, Asan Amanov

Votes: 65

41. The Expedition to the End of the World (2013)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy

77 Metascore

A grand and adventurous journey of discovery to the last white areas of the world map. But no matter how far we go and how hard we try to find answers, we ultimately meet ourselves and our own transience.

Director: Daniel Dencik | Stars: Per Bak Jensen, Jonas Bergsøe, Bo Elberling, Jens Fog Jensen

Votes: 583 | Gross: $0.04M

42. Boa Sorte, Meu Amor (2012)

95 min | Drama

While burying his family's past, Dirceu meets a musician called Maria, and a breath of renovation emerges from this encounter. But the soul of a restless artist always takes the old dirt ... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Aragão | Stars: Christiana Ubach, Vinicius Faria Zinn, Maeve Jinkings, Carlo Mossy

Votes: 104

43. GriGris (2013)

101 min | Drama

59 Metascore

Despite a paralyzed leg, Grigris, 25 year old, dreams of being a dancer. A challenge. But his dreams are dashed when his stepfather falls critically ill. To save him, Grigris resolves to work for petrol traffickers.

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Souleymane Démé, Anaïs Monory, Cyril Gueï, Marius Yelolo

Votes: 595

44. The Invisible War (2012)

Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary, Crime

75 Metascore

An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.

Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick, Kori Cioca, Jessica Hinves

Votes: 7,083 | Gross: $0.07M

45. Kidd Life (2012)

96 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

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Director: Andreas Johnsen | Star: Nicholas Westwood Kidd

Votes: 147

46. Kinderwald (2014)

87 min | Drama, Western

Pennsylvania, 1854. German Immigrant John Linden struggles to set up a homestead in the mountains with his brother's widow Flora and her two young sons. When the small boys suddenly vanish ... See full summary »

Director: Lise Raven | Stars: Frank Brückner, Emily Behr, Max Cove, Corinna Burns

Votes: 26

47. The King (2012)

80 min | Drama, History

A re-telling of the Passion of Jesus Christ set among Sardinian Mountains.

Director: Giovanni Columbu | Stars: Fiorenzo Mattu, Pietrina Mennea, Tonino Murgia, Paolo Pillonca

Votes: 83

48. Lad: A Yorkshire Story (2013)

96 min | Drama

A teenage boy forms a friendship with a park ranger in the Yorkshire Dales after the death of his father.

Director: Dan Hartley | Stars: Bretten Lord, Nancy Clarkson, Liam Thomas, Robert Lane

Votes: 2,517

49. La lapidation de Saint Étienne (2012)

83 min | Drama

Étienne is an old man who refuses to leave his home because he is convinced that the spirits of his wife and daughter still live there. Nevertheless, the apartment's owner will try to throw him away by any means.

Director: Pere Vilà i Barceló | Stars: Lou Castel, Marie Payen, Luis Rego, Elsa Toro

Votes: 56

50. The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012)

Unrated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Musical

69 Metascore

Two filmmakers leave to Macao in an adventure of discovery of a city-labyrinth, multicultural and mysterious, where the memories of the childhood - featured memories by the lived reality in... See full summary »

Directors: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata | Stars: Cindy Scrash, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, Maria João Guerra da Mata

Votes: 566

51. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)

TV-14 | 106 min | Documentary

73 Metascore

Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all the way to the Vatican.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Alex Gibney, Terry Kohut, Gary Smith, Pat Kuehn

Votes: 4,081

52. Greatest Hits (2012)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama

Drifting from fiction to documentary, Greatest Hits tells the story of Emilio, a man in his fifties who shows up at the family home after fifteen years of absence. His wife and his ... See full summary »

Director: Nicolás Pereda | Stars: Gabino Rodríguez, Teresa Sánchez, José Rodríguez López, Luis Rodríguez

Votes: 135

53. Bad Milo (2013)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror

62 Metascore

A man learns that his unusual stomach pains are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.

Director: Jacob Vaughan | Stars: Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton, Mary Kay Place

Votes: 7,971 | Gross: $0.02M

54. Much Ado About Nothing (I) (2012)

PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

78 Metascore

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Jillian Morgese

Votes: 17,085 | Gross: $4.33M

55. The Dead Man and Being Happy (2012)

92 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

El Muerto is the story of a Spanish man in Argentina who one day becomes aware on the upper floor of a hospital in Buenos Aires of his approaching death. He decides to escape, to flee ... See full summary »

Director: Javier Rebollo | Stars: José Sacristán, Roxana Blanco, Valeria Alonso, Jorge Jellinek

Votes: 592

56. Our Nixon (2013)

Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

72 Metascore

Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.

Director: Penny Lane | Stars: Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin

Votes: 662 | Gross: $0.02M

57. People's Park (2012)

Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary

A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, PEOPLE'S PARK is an exhilarating single shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in ... See full summary »

Directors: Libbie Dina Cohn, J.P. Sniadecki

Votes: 86

58. Poor Folk (2012)

105 min | Drama

Arranged by a smuggling syndicate, A-Hong and his young teen sister along with a group of Burmese youngsters sneak across the Myanmar/Thailand border and arrive in a remote town called ... See full summary »

Director: Midi Z | Stars: Shin-Hong Wang, Ke-Xi Wu, Defu Zhao, Meng-Lan Zheng

Votes: 106

59. Salvo (2013)

Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

59 Metascore

Salvo is a body guard and hit man for a mafioso. After foiling an attack on his employer, Salvo hunts down the man who organised it and encounters the man's blind sister. She causes Salvo to question himself and his existence.

Directors: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza | Stars: Saleh Bakri, Luigi Lo Cascio, Sara Serraiocco, Giuditta Perriera

Votes: 1,386

60. Shackled (2012)

95 min | Drama

Stealing a middle-class woman's smartphone is the biggest mistake in petty criminal Jestoni "Jess" Biag: it gets him locked up and waterboarded and gives him a crash-course in the workings ... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence Fajardo | Stars: Nico Antonio, Bangs Garcia, Arthur Acuña, Nor Domingo

Votes: 31

61. Ship of Theseus (2012)

Not Rated | 140 min | Drama

The film explores questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a young stockbroker.

Director: Anand Gandhi | Stars: Aydah El-Kashef, Yogesh Shah, Faraz Khan, Hannan Youssef

Votes: 7,791

62. Polvo (2012)

80 min | Drama

Ignacio and Alejandra produce a documentary about Comalapa, where they meet Juan. He is a depressed man who lived through the kidnapping of his father during the war and has no hope of ... See full summary »

Director: Julio Hernández Cordón | Stars: Alejandra Estrada, Fernando Martínez, Agustin Ortíz Pérez, Eduardo Spiegeler

Votes: 51

63. Stories We Tell (2012)

PG-13 | 108 min | Documentary

91 Metascore

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Michael Polley, John Buchan, Mark Polley, Joanna Polley

Votes: 14,111 | Gross: $1.60M

64. Dream and Silence (2012)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama

Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. Oriol is an architect and Yolanda is a teacher. During a holiday at the Ebro River Delta they have an accident that changes their lives.

Director: Jaime Rosales | Stars: Oriol Rosselló, Yolanda Galocha, Alba Ros, Celia Correas

Votes: 216

65. This Is Martin Bonner (2013)

R | 83 min | Drama

71 Metascore

Martin Bonner has just moved to Nevada from the East Coast, leaving behind his two adult children and a life he spent more than two decades building.

Director: Chad Hartigan | Stars: Paul Eenhoorn, Demetrius Grosse, Tom Plunkett, Christy Lighthouse

Votes: 1,012 | Gross: $0.01M

66. Touchy Feely (2013)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama

55 Metascore

A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother's floundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch.

Director: Lynn Shelton | Stars: Rosemarie DeWitt, Elliot Page, Josh Pais, Scoot McNairy

Votes: 3,864 | Gross: $0.04M

67. Wajma, an Afghan Love Story (2013)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama

It's snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begins a clandestine relationship - they're playful and passionate but ever mindful of the... See full summary »

Director: Barmak Akram | Stars: Wajma Bahar, Mustafa Abdulsatar, Haji Gul Aser, Brehna Bahar

Votes: 466

68. We Steal Secrets (2013)

R | 130 min | Documentary

76 Metascore

A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assange's controversial website, which facilitated the largest security breach in U.S. history.

Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Julian Assange, Adrian Lamo, John 'FuzzFace' McMahon, Alex Gibney

Votes: 8,176 | Gross: $0.16M

69. The World (2012)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama

Die Welt is an audacious hybrid between fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shortly after the Jasmine revolution in 2011.

Director: Alex Pitstra | Stars: Abdelhamid Nawara, Ilse Heus, Judith Van der Meulen, Mohsen Ben Hassen

Votes: 168

70. When Night Falls (2012)

70 min | Drama

Taken from a real life miscarriage of justice in China , this adaptation focuses on a mother ,detained in a mental facility, as her son is sentenced to death for taking vengeance on police officials.

Director: Liang Ying | Stars: Nai An, Kate Wen, Ming Sun

Votes: 99

71. Yema (2012)

90 min | Drama

Une petite maison abandonnée, isolée dans la campagne algérienne. Ouardia y a enterré son fils Tarik, militaire peut-être tué par son propre frère Ali, dirigeant dun maquis islamiste. Elle ... See full synopsis »

Director: Djamila Sahraoui | Stars: Djamila Sahraoui, Samir Yahia, Ali Zarif

Votes: 86

72. Your Time Is Up (2012)

85 min | Drama

Borthers, Seok-ho and Jin-ho are a study in contrasts. Growing up parent-less, the two are close, but Jin-ho barely got out of college and lives off the more responsible Seok-ho's hard work... See full summary »

Director: Sung-hyun Kim | Stars: Choi Won-young, Hyun-tak Shin, Lee Kyu-bok, Gong Min-jung

Votes: 9

73. 7 Boxes (2012)

TV-14 | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

72 Metascore

Víctor receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content through the Market Number 4 but things get complicated along the way.

Directors: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori | Stars: Celso Franco, Víctor Sosa, Lali Gonzalez, Nico García Hume

Votes: 6,114

74. The Attack (2012)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

74 Metascore

An Palestinian surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsallem, Evgenia Dodina, Dvir Benedek

Votes: 4,554 | Gross: $1.71M

75. Under the Rainbow (2013)

112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she's found the right one. But then ... See full summary »

Director: Agnès Jaoui | Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Agnès Jaoui, Arthur Dupont, Jean-Pierre Bacri

Votes: 1,432

76. Drug War (2012)

R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama

86 Metascore

A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang, Michelle Ye

Votes: 10,857 | Gross: $0.13M

77. The East (2013)

PG-13 | 116 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

68 Metascore

An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.

Director: Zal Batmanglij | Stars: Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, Elliot Page, Toby Kebbell

Votes: 52,383 | Gross: $2.27M

78. Fill the Void (2012)

PG | 90 min | Drama, Romance

79 Metascore

When the older sister of Shira, an 18-year-old Hasidic Israeli, dies suddenly in childbirth, Shira must decide if she can and should marry her widowed brother-in-law, which also generates tensions within her extended family.

Director: Rama Burshtein | Stars: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Chaim Sharir

Votes: 3,993 | Gross: $1.77M

79. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (2012)

Not Rated | 143 min | Crime, Drama

Set in the 1950s, a group of young girls in upstate New York form their own gang.

Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: Raven Adamson, Katie Coseni, Madeleine Bisson, Claire Mazerolle

Votes: 2,376

80. Il Futuro (2013)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama

80 Metascore

When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

Director: Alicia Scherson | Stars: Manuela Martelli, Luigi Ciardo, Rutger Hauer, Nicolas Vaporidis

Votes: 1,154 | Gross: $0.01M

81. Suspension of Disbelief (2012)

TV-MA | 112 min | Thriller

Martin is a successful writer whose wife suddenly disappeared. During a film shoot fifteen years later, Martin meets Angelique, who disappears the same night. The next day, police find her dead body and a mysterious investigation begins.

Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Sebastian Koch, Lotte Verbeek, Emilia Fox, Rebecca Night

Votes: 682

82. What Maisie Knew (2012)

R | 99 min | Drama

74 Metascore

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel | Stars: Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgård, Steve Coogan, Joanna Vanderham

Votes: 28,607 | Gross: $1.07M

83. Goltzius and The Pelican Company (2012)

Not Rated | 128 min | Biography, Comedy, History

Hendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Ramsey Nasr, F. Murray Abraham, Hendrik Aerts, Boris Bakal

Votes: 1,378

84. A Hijacking (2012)

R | 103 min | Drama, Thriller

82 Metascore

The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates who proceed to engage in escalating negotiations with authorities in Copenhagen.

Director: Tobias Lindholm | Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Møller

Votes: 17,439 | Gross: $0.41M

85. The Iceman (2012)

R | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

60 Metascore

The story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When he was finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor his daughters had any clue about his real profession.

Director: Ariel Vromen | Stars: Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, James Franco, Winona Ryder

Votes: 79,371 | Gross: $1.94M

86. In the Dark Room (2013)

87 min | Documentary

This is the story of Magdalena and Rosa Kopp, wife and daughter of arch-terrorist Carlos, known as "The Jackal". From the depths of ostracism and regret they are going on a sobering journey... See full summary »

Director: Nadav Schirman | Stars: Magdalena Kopp, Gerd Schnepel, Lothar Dahlke, Gerda Gunther

Votes: 50

87. The Last Supper (2012)

Not Rated | 120 min | Action, History

The story of two warring generals (Liu Bang and Xiang Yu) fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

Director: Chuan Lu | Stars: Ye Liu, Daniel Wu, Chang Chen, Lan Qin

Votes: 921

88. Like Father, Like Son (2013)

Not Rated | 121 min | Drama

73 Metascore

Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Lily Franky

Votes: 28,120 | Gross: $0.28M

89. The Artist and the Model (2012)

Unrated | 105 min | Drama

53 Metascore

In 1943, a sculptor is inspired by a young woman who has escaped from a refugee camp.

Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Aida Folch, Claudia Cardinale, Chus Lampreave

Votes: 1,870 | Gross: $0.11M

90. Wadjda (2012)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

81 Metascore

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd

Votes: 21,471 | Gross: $1.35M

91. Last Love (2013)

Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

36 Metascore

He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French. She's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?

Director: Sandra Nettelbeck | Stars: Michael Caine, Michelle Goddet, Jane Alexander, Serge Hollogne

Votes: 13,237

92. Black Really Suits You (2012)

88 min | Drama

The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Bral | Stars: Sofiia Manousha, Lounès Tazairt, Julien Baumgartner, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

Votes: 102

93. Not Fade Away (2012)

R | 112 min | Drama

65 Metascore

Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

Director: David Chase | Stars: John Magaro, Jack Huston, Will Brill, Brahm Vaccarella

Votes: 4,950 | Gross: $0.61M

94. Wrestling Queens (2013)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Sport

In a desperate attempt to reconnect with her estranged son who is a passionate WWE fan, Rose grabs his attention by joining a rigorous training program to learn to wrestle like a legitimate... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Marc Rudnicki | Stars: Marilou Berry, Nathalie Baye, André Dussollier, Audrey Fleurot

Votes: 654

95. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)

R | 130 min | Drama, Thriller

54 Metascore

A young Pakistani man chasing corporate success on Wall Street finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson

Votes: 14,579 | Gross: $0.52M

96. Bright Days Ahead (2013)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance

57 Metascore

Caroline has retired and realizes that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood's senior club - Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge.

Director: Marion Vernoux | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Laurent Lafitte, Patrick Chesnais, Jean-François Stévenin

Votes: 1,864 | Gross: $0.01M

97. The Spectacular Now (2013)

R | 95 min | Drama, Romance

82 Metascore

A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."

Director: James Ponsoldt | Stars: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Votes: 161,341 | Gross: $6.85M

98. Stuck in Love. (2012)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

49 Metascore

An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

Director: Josh Boone | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Nat Wolff

Votes: 91,960 | Gross: $0.08M

99. Just a Sigh (2013)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance

58 Metascore

A French actress meets a foreigner who awakens something deep within her.

Director: Jérôme Bonnell | Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Gabriel Byrne, Gilles Privat, Aurélia Petit

Votes: 1,102 | Gross: $0.07M

100. The Thieves (2012)

Not Rated | 135 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

75 Metascore

After a heist in South Korea, a gang of 5+1 fly to Hong Kong to look into a heist, in a Macau casino, of a $30M diamond, planned by someone unreliable. He brings in HK thieves as well. Can anyone be trusted?

Director: Dong-hoon Choi | Stars: Kim Yoon-seok, Lee Jung-jae, Kim Hye-su, Jun Ji-hyun

Votes: 11,542 | Gross: $0.69M



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