Europe
European Films
A complete list of European films watched in 2023
The Piano Teacher (2001) dir. Michael Haneke
Synopsis: A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
Close (2022) dir. Lukas Dhont
Synopsis: The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8/10
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) dir. Jasmila Zbanic
Synopsis: Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
IMDb Rating: 8/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8/10
Daisies (1966) dir. Vera Chytilová
Synopsis: After realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?
IMDb Rating: 7.3/10
No Culture Club Rating: 6/10
Another Round (2020) dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Synopsis: Four high-school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives.
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
Elle (2016) dir. Paul Verhoeven
Synopsis: A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8/10
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Celine Sciamma
Synopsis: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
No Culture Club Rating: 10/10
Saint Omer (2023) dir. Alice Diop
Synopsis: Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
IMDb Rating: 6.9/10
No Culture Club Rating: 6/10
Three Colours: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
Synopsis: A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.
IMDb Rating: 7.9/10
No Culture Club Rating: 9/10
Never Look Away (2018) dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Synopsis: German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
No Culture Club Rating: 6/10
God's Creatures (2022) dir. Saela Davis, Anna Rose Halmer
Synopsis: In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic.
IMDb Rating: 6/10
No Culture Club Rating: 6/10
The Quiet Girl (2022) dir. Colm Bairéad
Synopsis: Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one..
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
No Culture Club Rating: 9/10
The Macaluso Sisters (2020) dir. Emma Dante
Synopsis: Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. When Antonella accidentally dies, the sisters' relationships are turned upside down for the rest of their lives.
IMDb Rating: 6.5/10
No Culture Club Rating: 5/10
Hive (2021) dir. Blerta Basholli
Synopsis: Fahrije's husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. She sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision..
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
No Culture Club Rating: 5/10
Sick of Myself (2022) dir. Kristoffer Borgli
Synopsis: Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.
IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8/10
Thelma (2017) dir. Joachim Trier
Synopsis: A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to re-emerge with devastating results.
IMDb Rating: 7/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8.5/10
Cold War (2018) dir. Pawel Pawlikowski
Synopsis: In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
No Culture Club Rating: 9/10
Corpus Christi (2019) dir. Jan Komasa
Synopsis: Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention centre. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
No Culture Club Rating: 9/10
EO (2022) dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Synopsis: Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
No Culture Club Rating: 7/10
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) dir. Cristian Mungiu
Synopsis: A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
IMDb Rating: 7.9/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8/10
Alcarràs (2022) dir. Carla Simón, Sonia Castelo
The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.
IMDb Rating: 7/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8/10
Parallel Mothers (2021) dir. Pedro Almodovar
Synopsis: The story of two mothers who bond in unexpected way after giving birth the same day.
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
No Culture Club Rating: 6.5/10
Cairo Conspiracy (2022) dir. Tarik Saleh
Synopsis: Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the center of power of Sunni Islam. Adam becomes a pawn in the conflict between Egypt's religious and political elites.
IMDb Rating: 7/10
No Culture Club Rating: 6/10
Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
Synopsis: A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8.5/10
45 Years (2015) dir. Andrew Haigh
Synopsis: A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
No Culture Club Rating: 6/10
Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells
Synopsis: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
No Culture Club Rating: 10/10
Blue Jean (2023) dir. Georgia Oakley
Synopsis: In 1988, a closeted teacher is pushed to the brink when a new student threatens to expose her sexuality.
IMDb Rating: 7/10
No Culture Club Rating: 7/10
Boiling Point (2021) dir. Philip Barantini
Synopsis: Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8/10
Children of Men (2006) dir. Alfonso Cuarón
Synopsis: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
IMDb Rating: 7.9/10
No Culture Club Rating: 8/10
Red Road (2006) dir. Andrea Arnold
Synopsis: Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
No Culture Club Rating: 6/10
You Were Never Really Here (2017) dir. Lynne Ramsay
Synopsis: A traumatized veteran unafraid of violence tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what could be his death trip or his awakening.
IMDb Rating: 6.7/10
No Culture Club Rating: 10/10
Mustang (2015) dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Synopsis: When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
No Culture Club Rating: 9/10
