Best Movies of All Time

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mjf314 Dec 12, 2019
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  • I Fine..Thank You..Love You

    101. I Fine..Thank You..Love You

    Thai Movie - 2014
    7.8
    97 points by 1 voters
    Pleng is a charming and beautiful English tutor. Her ordinary life takes an unexpected turn when she is asked an extraordinary favor; to help one of her students dump her Thai boyfriend ...more
  • Dying to Survive

    102. Dying to Survive

    Chinese Movie - 2018
    8.0
    97 points by 1 voters
    A story on how a small drug store owner became the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China. (Source: IMDb)
  • Along With the Gods 2: The Last 49 Days

    103. Along With the Gods 2: The Last 49 Days

    Korean Movie - 2018
    8.7
    97 points by 1 voters
    Hae Won Maek, Gang Rim, and Duk Choon are about to take part in Soo Hong’s trial. However, to secure a trial, they are tasked with bringing the soul of an old ...more
  • Rough Cut

    104. Rough Cut

    Korean Movie - 2008
    7.7
    97 points by 1 voters
    Gang Pae, a ruthless mafia member, finds solace in solitary movie screenings despite his violent reputation. Similarly, actor Su Ta harbors an aggressive streak, having injured fellow actors on set. When they ...more
  • Happy Together

    105. Happy Together

    Hong Kong Movie - 1997
    7.9
    97 points by 1 voters
    Ho Po Wing and Lai Yiu Fai, a couple from pre-handover Hong Kong, visit Argentina hoping to renew their ailing relationship. The two have a pattern of abuse, followed by break-ups and ...more
  • Northern Limit Line

    106. Northern Limit Line

    Korean Movie - 2015
    8.4
    97 points by 1 voters
    In June 2002, while South Korea is caught in a sporting frenzy as the national soccer team plays against Turkey for third place in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the North Korean ...more
  • Green Snake

    107. Green Snake

    Hong Kong Movie - 1993
    7.5
    97 points by 1 voters
    Two snake spirits have been training for many centuries to take human form and experience the love, freedom and wisdom that is supposedly only available to humans. White Snake is the more ...more
  • The Con-Heartist

    108. The Con-Heartist

    Thai Movie - 2020
    8.3
    96 points by 1 voters
    After being left in debt by her ex-boyfriend, Ina hires Tower, a cunning con artist, to seek revenge against her ex-boyfriend by swindling him. (Source: gdh559 and Gifted ID 079 at MyDramaList)
  • Pastoral: To Die in the Country

    109. Pastoral: To Die in the Country

    Japanese Movie - 1974
    7.9
    96 points by 1 voters
    A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
  • Chocolate

    110. Chocolate

    Thai Movie - 2008
    8.0
    95 points by 1 voters
    An autistic girl with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.
  • Alice: Boy from Wonderland

    111. Alice: Boy from Wonderland

    Korean Movie - 2015
    7.4
    95 points by 1 voters
    "Boy From Wonderland" depicts nightmare sufferer Hye Joong whose dreams have become so severe that they actually happen in reality and finally endanger her life. To find the source of her terrors ...more
  • Very Ordinary Couple

    112. Very Ordinary Couple

    Korean Movie - 2013
    7.2
    95 points by 1 voters
    Jang Young and Lee Dong Hee work at the same bank. They secretly dated for the past 3 years, but recently decided to end their relationship. Their seemingly nasty split turns scandalous ...more
  • Lust, Caution

    113. Lust, Caution

    Chinese Movie - 2007
    7.9
    95 points by 1 voters
    An erotic espionage thriller mostly set in Hong Kong in 1938 and in Shanghai in 1942, when it was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and ruled by the puppet government led ...more
  • A Brighter Summer Day

    114. A Brighter Summer Day

    Taiwanese Movie - 1991
    7.8
    95 points by 1 voters
    "A Brighter Summer Day" sets out as a coming of age modern tale of youthful rebellion involving two sets of schoolboy street gangs - that is, the 217 Village Gang and the ...more
  • Caught in the Web

    115. Caught in the Web

    Chinese Movie - 2012
    7.3
    94 points by 1 voters
    Set in modern-day China, a young woman becomes embroiled in controversy after a cell phone video of her being disrespectful on a public bus to an elderly person goes viral. The aftermath ...more
  • The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion

    116. The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion

    Korean Movie - 2018
    8.6
    94 points by 1 voters
    10 years ago, Ja Yoon escaped from a government facility in the midst of an inexplicable incident by herself and lost all her memory. An old couple takes her in even though ...more
  • Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance

    117. Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance

    Korean Movie - 2002
    7.7
    94 points by 1 voters
    In Seoul, Ryu, a deaf worker, has a sister who needs a kidney transplant. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood type is not compatible with ...more
  • Architecture 101

    118. Architecture 101

    Korean Movie - 2012
    7.4
    94 points by 1 voters
    35-year-old architect Seung Min receives a visit at his office from a woman. Seung Min doesn't recognize the woman at first, but then realizes the woman is Seo Yeon. Seo Yeon is ...more
  • Mood of the Day

    119. Mood of the Day

    Korean Movie - 2016
    8.1
    93 points by 1 voters
    Soo Jung has been with her boyfriend for 10 years, and it’s clear to everyone but her that their romance is going nowhere. On a business trip to Busan by train, she ...more
  • Maundy Thursday

    120. Maundy Thursday

    Korean Movie - 2006
    8.3
    93 points by 1 voters
    Yu Jung has now attempted to commit suicide three times. Her disdain for her mother and indifference to the rest of the world isolates her from any chance for happiness. Yu Jung's ...more
  • Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do

    121. Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do

    Korean Movie - 2008
    7.1
    93 points by 1 voters
    A touching love story with bittersweet elements. Jung Won wears a funny dragon suit, while working at the amusement park, and pours soda on Eun Kyoo, because of his taunts. A short ...more
  • Ashes of Time

    122. Ashes of Time

    Hong Kong Movie - 1994
    7.4
    93 points by 1 voters
    Set in ancient times in China, Ouyang Feng is an agent hiring famous bounty hunters. Portrayed as a fallen swordsman driven by greed and heartless to both friend and foe. He was ...more
  • Late Autumn

    123. Late Autumn

    Japanese Movie - 1960
    7.9
    93 points by 1 voters
    A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends. The daughter is less than happy at the proposals, mainly because of her reluctance to ...more
  • Il Mare

    124. Il Mare

    Korean Movie - 2000
    8.0
    92 points by 1 voters
    Sung Hyun, who just moved into 'Il mare' receives a strange letter. The letter is from a young woman in the year 1999, two years from the present. Her predictions about the ...more
  • Kasane

    125. Kasane

    Japanese Movie - 2018
    7.8
    91 points by 1 voters
    Kasane's face is so hideous, you couldn't bear to look twice at her—and her ugliness has forced her to walk a harsh path in life. But her mother left her something: a ...more
  • The Classic

    126. The Classic

    Korean Movie - 2003
    8.3
    91 points by 1 voters
    Ji Hae and Soo Kyung are friends attending the same university and both have a crush on Sang Min who is in their drama club. The more clamorous and outgoing of the ...more
  • 2046

    127. 2046

    Hong Kong Movie - 2004
    7.8
    91 points by 1 voters
    He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone ...more
  • Sansho the Bailiff

    128. Sansho the Bailiff

    Japanese Movie - 1954
    8.0
    91 points by 1 voters
    In mediaeval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression. ...more
  • Anger

    129. Anger

    Japanese Movie - 2016
    7.6
    90 points by 1 voters
    Three tales about enigmatic strangers entering into the lives of trusting citizens play out in three different Japanese cities, hinting at a connection to a grisly home invasion homicide in the Tokyo ...more
  • Time Renegades

    130. Time Renegades

    Korean Movie - 2016
    8.2
    90 points by 1 voters
    1983: Ji Hwan, a high school music teacher, is soon to wed his colleague and girlfriend, Yoon Jeong. Yoon Jeong becomes involved in a case and Ji Hwan attempts to protect her. ...more
  • Shoplifters

    131. Shoplifters

    Japanese Movie - 2018
    8.3
    90 points by 1 voters
    Somewhere in Tokyo, Osamu Shibata and his wife Nobuyo live in poverty. While Osamu receives occasional employment and Nobuyo has a low-paying job, the family relies in large part on the grandmother's ...more
  • Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno

    132. Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno

    Japanese Movie - 2014
    8.7
    90 points by 1 voters
    The "Kyoto Version" takes place several months after Kenshin joins the Kamiya Dojo. Shishio Makoto plans to conquer Japan by destroying the Meiji Government, starting with Kyoto. Feeling that his friends may ...more
  • Rashomon

    133. Rashomon

    Japanese Movie - 1950
    8.1
    90 points by 1 voters
    The film opens on a woodcutter and a priest sitting beneath the Rajomon city gate to stay dry in a downpour. A commoner joins them and they tell him that they have ...more
  • No Regret

    134. No Regret

    Korean Movie - 2006
    7.1
    90 points by 1 voters
    Leaving the country orphanage where he grew up, Su Min heads to Seoul to study design. Disenhearted after several difficult projects, he opts to work as a host in a gay bar. ...more
  • The Face of Another

    135. The Face of Another

    Japanese Movie - 1966
    7.8
    90 points by 1 voters
    We meet Okuyama who had accident in the factory and burnt his face. He gets an opportunity to have a lifelike mask. What he'll do when he got a chance to have ...more
  • My Sassy Girl

    136. My Sassy Girl

    Korean Movie - 2001
    7.9
    89 points by 1 voters
    Gyun Woo is a college student, more interested in picking up girls, drinking with his buddies and avoiding his nagging mother whenever possible. While riding the subway, a drunken girl then changes ...more
  • Death Note

    137. Death Note

    Japanese Movie - 2006
    7.7
    89 points by 1 voters
    A Shinigami (Death God) drops a notebook in the human world where a young genius picks it up. The notebook displays the message: "The human whose name is written in this note ...more
  • In the Heat of the Sun

    138. In the Heat of the Sun

    Chinese Movie - 1994
    7.8
    89 points by 1 voters
    The film is set in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution. It is told from the perspective of Ma Xiao Jun nicknamed Monkey, who is a teenage boy at the time. Monkey and ...more
  • Under the Hawthorn Tree

    139. Under the Hawthorn Tree

    Chinese Movie - 2010
    8.4
    88 points by 1 voters
    Set during the end of China's Cultural Revolution in a small village in Yichang City, Hubei Province, a pure love unfolds between beautiful city girl, Jing Qiu, and handsome young villager, Lao ...more
  • Suzhou River

    140. Suzhou River

    Chinese Movie - 2000
    7.4
    88 points by 1 voters
    A lonely man with a video camera wanders the streets of Shanghai, making up stories about the people he sees crossing the bridges or passing by on riverboats down the Suzhou River. ...more
  • Himizu

    141. Himizu

    Japanese Movie - 2012
    7.9
    87 points by 1 voters
    Set after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, all 14-year-old Sumida Yuichi wants to become is a regular boy and live a decent life. His environment though repeatedly drags him into the mud. ...more
  • Peking Opera Blues

    142. Peking Opera Blues

    Hong Kong Movie - 1986
    7.8
    87 points by 1 voters
    The film takes place at a firmly established crossroads in modern Chinese history. The year is 1913, and General Yuan Shi Kai has taken power in the wake of the Qing Dynasty's ...more
  • Fall in Love at First Kiss

    143. Fall in Love at First Kiss

    Taiwanese Movie - 2019
    7.9
    85 points by 1 voters
    A love story between an ordinary girl with a stubborn crush and the school genius adored by all that begins when they end up living in the same house. When a fool ...more
  • When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    144. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    Japanese Movie - 1960
    7.9
    85 points by 1 voters
    This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her ...more
  • Castaway on the Moon

    145. Castaway on the Moon

    Korean Movie - 2009
    8.1
    84 points by 1 voters
    Kim Seung Keun stands on the ledge of an overpass bridge above the Han River. He's in way over his head in debt and he's ready to end his life right then ...more
  • Sunny

    146. Sunny

    Korean Movie - 2008
    7.4
    84 points by 1 voters
    In 1971 Korea, Soon Yi is an average housewife, whose only hobby is singing. At the time, some 320,000 Korean men are dispatched to fight alongside American troops in the Vietnam War, ...more
  • Summer Time Machine Blues

    147. Summer Time Machine Blues

    Japanese Movie - 2005
    7.5
    84 points by 1 voters
    5 college boys, Takuma, Masaru, Shunsuke, Atsushi and Daigo all belong to sci-fi club, but they are not interested in science at all. They usually just hang around, play baseball or card, ...more
  • Labyrinth of Dreams

    148. Labyrinth of Dreams

    Japanese Movie - 1997
    7.8
    83 points by 1 voters
    Tomiko is a conductor in a rural bus driven by the handsome Tatsuo. Tomiko had received a letter from her best friend Tsuyako, a conductor in another bus company, just after Tsuyako ...more
  • Shura

    149. Shura

    Japanese Movie - 1971
    7.5
    82 points by 1 voters
    The main character Gengobe, an exile masterless samurai (Ronin), is facing a moral dilemma: either help a courtesan he loves or join his clan in a campaign of honor. When the geisha ...more
  • High and Low

    150. High and Low

    Japanese Movie - 1963
    8.1
    81 points by 1 voters
    "High and Low" focuses on Gondo Kingo, a powerhouse executive in the Japanese shoe industry. In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a proposition that throws him in ...more
  • A Chinese Odyssey: Pandora's Box

    151. A Chinese Odyssey: Pandora's Box

    Hong Kong Movie - 1995
    7.6
    80 points by 1 voters
    An ancient Monkey King is reincarnated as a bandit with no knowledge that 500 years ago he and his master were cursed to be ensnared by human mortality. (Source: MUBI)
  • Shanghai Blues

    152. Shanghai Blues

    Hong Kong Movie - 1984
    7.3
    79 points by 1 voters
    In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't each other's name ...more
  • Tampopo

    153. Tampopo

    Japanese Movie - 1985
    7.7
    78 points by 1 voters
    Tampopo is a celebration of the role of food in Japanese culture. Acclaimed director Juzo Itami's (The Funeral. A Taxing Woman) hit satire was dubbed the first "noodle western" for its delightful ...more
  • Kwaidan

    154. Kwaidan

    Japanese Movie - 1964
    7.7
    77 points by 1 voters
    Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish, widescreen production drew extensively on Kobayashi’s own training as a student of ...more

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