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Your Next Obsession: 6 Essential World Cinema Picks
Your Next Obsession: 6 Essential World Cinema Picks

Your Next Obsession: 6 Essential World Cinema Picks

Journey beyond Hollywood with these global cinematic masterworks. From haunting dramas to visually stunning thrillers, these picks will expand your…

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Tokyo Story
#1

Tokyo Story

1953★ 8.2

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Touki Bouki
#2

Touki Bouki

1973★ 6.6

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

Stalker
#3

Stalker

1979★ 8.1

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

Memories of Murder
#4

Memories of Murder

2003★ 8.1

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

Come and See
#5

Come and See

1985★ 8.2

The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Flyora into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Flyora finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

Yi Yi
#6

Yi Yi

2000★ 8.0

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.