Grey Owl(1999)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 10

The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.



Takedown(2000)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This film is based on the story of the capture of computer hacker "Kevin Mitnick".



Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story(2000)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 23

Documentary with dramatised episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, children of German writer Thomas Mann.



Artemisia(1997)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter ...



An Angel at My Table(1990)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education ...



La gloire de mon père(1990)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their ...



Wong Fei Hung III: Si wong jaang ba(1993)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent.



Caro diario(1993)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Nanni Moretti directs himself playing himself in this wry look at life. Presented in three chapters, Moretti uses the experiences of traveling on his motor-scooter, cruising with his friend...



I cento passi(2000)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

"I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The ...



Van Gogh(1991)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life is examined.



Le château de ma mère(1990)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence (France). He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With ...



Tom & Viv(1994)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...



Daens(1992)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ...



Wittgenstein(1993)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the ...



Imaginary Crimes(1994)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two teenage daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1950s Indiana.



Iruvar(1997)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The real-life rivalry between M.G. Ramachandran and Karunanidhi is given the Mani Ratnam treatment.



Comedian Harmonists(1997)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first in 1927 to the day in 1934, when they ...



Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon(1998)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.



Englar alheimsins(2000)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Páll is an artistic and sensitive young man. Getting dumped by his girlfriend, Dagny, triggers his descent into madness. We follow him on his way to what seems like inevitable doom; at home...



Den goda viljan(1992)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor, idealistic theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the intelligent, educated daughter of a rich family in ...




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