Directed by: Patrick Bokanowski
Country: France (248,4 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––3
Plot: Reworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.
ICheckMovies: 45 Checks , 6 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
matthewscott8 (#51)
outdoorcats(#12)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)
russa03 (#32)
Directed by: Bing Wang
Country: Switzerland, France (250,62 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––3
Plot: A dozen aging survivors are interviewed from Jiabiangou, a complex of three work camps in Northwest China where supposed rightists were sent for re-education in the 1950s and 1960s under Mao Zedong.
ICheckMovies: 47 Checks , 8 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
hurluberlu (#17)
Lilarcor (#30)
Obgeoff (#19)
Y U M E (#99)
Directed by: Theodor Kotulla
Country: West Germany (251,71 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –2–3
Plot: The disturbing biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
ICheckMovies: 36 Checks , 0 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
klaus78 (#8)
Mifune (#7)
Smoover (#29)
St. Gloede (#326)
Directed by: Gilles Grangier
Country: France (256,32 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–2–3
Plot: A vice inspector for the Paris police takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky whom he considers to be more victim than criminal.
ICheckMovies: 44 Checks , 3 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 3 Voters:
burneyfan (#3)
matthewscott8 (#39)
peeptoad(#1)
Last edited by Tim2460 on February 5th, 2021, 10:55 am, edited 2 times in total.
Directed by: György Fehér
Country: Hungary (256,82 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–3
Plot: In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband.
ICheckMovies: 41 Checks , 3 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
beavis (#31)
Leopardi (#44)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)
weirdboy (#10)
Directed by: Yasuzô Masumura
Country: Japan (259,57 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–3
Plot: Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is actually the love child of her wealthy businessman father and his ex-secretary.
ICheckMovies: 43 Checks , 6 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
Mate_cosido (#16)
rnilsson19 (#6)
St. Gloede (#132)
zuma (#28)
Directed by: Tatiana Huezo
Country: Mexico (260,24 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –2–3
Plot: The inhabitants of a small town in El Salvador relive their life experiences during the civil war while remembering their loved ones.
ICheckMovies: 30 Checks , 4 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 3 Voters:
Directed by: Theodor Kotulla
Country: West Germany (251,71 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –2–3
Plot: The disturbing biography of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Höss.
ICheckMovies: 36 Checks , 0 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
klaus78 (#8)
Mifune (#7)
Smoover (#29)
St. Gloede (#326)
Really interested in seeing this one in the future.
Directed by: Michael Robinson
Country: USA (260,98 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–2
Plot: “Looking to a future beyond death, Michael Robinson's These Hammers Don't Hurt Us, one of the filmmaker's most sophisticated found footage concoctions yet, combines Michael Jackson's ""Remember the Time"" music video with footage of Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra and roughly a dozen other sources, creating for the late pop star a solemn passage into a bedazzled Egyptian afterlife tenderly ushered by his real-life confidante.” - Genevieve Yue, Reverse Shot, Winter 2010
ICheckMovies: 28 Checks , 6 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
klaus78 (#16)
matthewscott8 (#74)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)
TraverseTown (#4)
Directed by: Károly Makk
Country: Hungary (264,16 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––3
Plot: The theme of the delightful Hungarian fantasy film ""A Very Moral Night,"" made in 1977 and now playing at the Public Theater, could well be innocence, even if the action does take place in a...
ICheckMovies: 39 Checks , 3 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
72aicm (#16)
beavis (#17)
St. Gloede (#23)
zzzorf(#90)
Directed by: Masahiro Shinoda
Country: Japan (264,6 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–2–3
Plot: Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters...
ICheckMovies: 40 Checks , 2 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 3 Voters:
Directed by: Irina Poplavskaya; Sergei Yutkevich
Country: Soviet Union (268,22 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –2–3
Plot: Dzhamiliya lives in a kirghizian village. She follows their parents' orders when she marries a man without loving him. Then World War II breaks out and her new husband has to leave the ...
ICheckMovies: 44 Checks , 11 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 3 Voters:
Directed by: Josh Kim
Country: Thailand, USA, Indonesia (268,85 Pts, 5 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–2
Plot: After the loss of both parents, 11 years old Oat faces an uncertain future when his older brother must submit to Thailand's annual military draft lottery. Unable to convince his brother to ...
ICheckMovies: 40 Checks , 2 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 5 Voters:
Directed by: Patrick Tam
Country: Hong Kong (276,63 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–4
Plot: The story of a young co-ed whose boyfriend turns into a demented stalker after the suicide of his sister.
ICheckMovies: 44 Checks , 5 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
Directed by: Yasuzô Masumura
Country: Japan (279,85 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–2–3
Plot: After failing the entrance exam for university for the fourth time, a young man pretends to be a student to avoid the shame of his family.
ICheckMovies: 40 Checks , 6 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 3 Voters:
Some inredbe picks coming up here, and I'm especially surprised the incredible The Garden That Tilts is stuck at 23 checks after the wonderful rediscovery of Guy Gilles here, which also shot it into 27th place on DtC! (Which requires 8 ratings, though of course it is not just our forum that votes there).Of course, Earth Light was the major push, which now has 73 checks, shooting up from obscurity. The Garden That Tilts is arguable his "biggest" as it stars Delphine Seyrig, and even has Jeanne Moreau. It is an utterly delicious and brilliant film everyone should see ASAP.
Directed by: Gabriel Mariño
Country: Mexico (281,08 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –3–3
Plot: A lonely character lives day by day in Mexico City, unable to control the changing from one body to the next from time to time. His hopelessness is questioned when he meets a woman named ...
ICheckMovies: 30 Checks , 5 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
Directed by: Jan van Ijken
Country: Netherlands (290,35 Pts, 5 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –2–3
Plot: Short film about ""murmurations"": the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every ...
ICheckMovies: 25 Checks , 5 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 5 Voters:
Directed by: 0
Country: France (226,54 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–2
Plot: Four interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust.
ICheckMovies: 37 Checks , 4 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
hurluberlu (#35)
Leopardi (#65)
Smoover (#2)
Y U M E (#103)
I watched this after submitting my ballot and forgot to update - would have made my top 10.
The only 'problem' with this list is that it's really skewed in favour of people (even more than other ballots) who listed more movies.
I'm not here to start the discussion again but we can only hope that people don't put movies in their list they only rated to be average.
Wow! Nice to see 3 of my 40 submissions finally have their dance cards punched, all surprisingly cracking the top 60, one from each of the countries I have lived in since 2010, and another from the mid 70’s, right around the time I first started to dive into non-English language cinema.
Directed by: Aleksandr Zeldovich
Country: Russia (290,79 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–3
Plot: In 2020, a group of wealthy Muscovites traveling to a complex of abandoned astrophysics, where rumors say they have enough power to stop the aging process.
ICheckMovies: 49 Checks , 7 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
Directed by: Pierre Clémenti
Country: France (296,13 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–2–3
Plot: Necrocity, a city of nightly terrors and a place where even the authorities seem to reinforce this state of mayhem, as a way to impose cruel laws and the use of police brutality with ...
ICheckMovies: 34 Checks , 8 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
hurluberlu (#1)
matthewscott8 (#47)
rnilsson19 (#57)
St. Gloede (#3)
Directed by: Cao Guimarães
Country: Brazil (300,03 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–3
Plot: Documentary about Domingos Albino Ferreira, aka Dominguinhos da Pedra, a man who's been living alone for 41 years in caves in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
ICheckMovies: 34 Checks , 1 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
beavis (#8)
klaus78 (#22)
kongs_speech (#11)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)
Directed by: Mauro Bolognini
Country: Italy, France (300,42 Pts, 4 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –2–3
Plot: The son of a rich Italian industrialist finds out how tough it is to leave the path society has set for him.
ICheckMovies: 42 Checks , 10 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 4 Voters:
Directed by: Ebrahim Forouzesh
Country: Iran (321,9 Pts, 5 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––4
Plot: In the yard of an Iranian village school stands in the shade of a tree a large stoneware jar from which all the pupils drink fresh water. On an unfortunate day, the jar starts leaking. The ...
ICheckMovies: 40 Checks , 4 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 5 Voters:
Directed by: Armando Robles Godoy
Country: Peru (325,46 Pts, 5 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–3
Plot: A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.
ICheckMovies: 42 Checks , 1 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 5 Voters:
joachimt(#15)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)
pitchorneirda (#30)
RogerTheMovieManiac88(unranked)
sortile9io (#10)
Directed by: Kote Mikaberidze
Country: Soviet Union (327,54 Pts, 5 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–3
Plot: The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a ""grandmother"".
ICheckMovies: 43 Checks , 7 Favourites , 0 Official listsList of 5 Voters:
beavis (#89)
brokenface (#4)
Fergenaprido (#55)
joachimt(#21)
St. Gloede (#18)
Directed by: Guy Gilles
Country: France (329,44 Pts, 6 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––5
Plot: Young man Francois Nole works in a Bank. Often skips a walk, and one day he never comes to work. He goes to bed and refuses stand. Francois is a heroin addict, who has lost the joy of life....
ICheckMovies: 47 Checks , 6 Favourites , 2 Official listsList of 6 Voters:
Ebbywebby (#34)
hurluberlu (#16)
klaus78 (#15)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)
rnilsson19 (#45)
St. Gloede (#354)
Coryn wrote: ↑February 5th, 2021, 12:07 pm
The only 'problem' with this list is that it's really skewed in favour of people (even more than other ballots) who listed more movies.
I'm not here to start the discussion again but we can only hope that people don't put movies in their list they only rated to be average.
Nah, I deliberately left out personal 8s and 8.5s that I like a lot (oftentimes films that I see ended up making the list - titles such as 'Thunderstorm', 'Deadfall', and quite a few others).
My list was mostly just my 9.5s and my 10s, rounded out with personal 9s that others had selected and I was only too happy to include and endorse.
I was much more particular in making this list than I have been in the past. I probably should have ranked it though!
Directed by: Karel Kachyna
Country: Czechoslovakia (333,82 Pts, 6 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –2–2
Plot: It is the spring 1945 and the front line is getting closer to the small Moravian village of Nesovice. Twelve-year old Oldrich Vareka, nicknamed Shorty for his tiny stature, observes the ...
ICheckMovies: 41 Checks , 7 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 6 Voters:
burneyfan (#4)
joachimt(#4)
Mysterious Dude (#74)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)
RogerTheMovieManiac88(unranked)
St. Gloede (#126)
What a way to kick off the top ten! A memorable and extraordinary portrait of childhood perspectives, wanderings, interactions during the darkness of war. A masterpiece from Kachyna.
Coryn wrote: ↑February 5th, 2021, 12:07 pm
The only 'problem' with this list is that it's really skewed in favour of people (even more than other ballots) who listed more movies.
I'm not here to start the discussion again but we can only hope that people don't put movies in their list they only rated to be average.
Nah, I deliberately left out personal 8s and 8.5s that I like a lot (oftentimes films that I see ended up making the list - titles such as 'Thunderstorm', 'Deadfall', and quite a few others).
My list was mostly just my 9.5s and my 10s, rounded out with personal 9s that others had selected and I was only too happy to include and endorse.
I was much more particular in making this list than I have been in the past. I probably should have ranked it though!
Let's enter the final top 10 
