308. Inflatable sex doll of the wasteland (1967)

Country: Japan Directed by Atsushi Yamatoya Japanese pinku creates, as a genre, a world capturing the essence of male gaze, as much as the mainstream hardcore porn does, however Yamatoya's film (and probably one dozen of other pinku films) manages to go beyond that, to a territory that surprisingly communicates authentically with the unconscious. Inflatable sex doll of the wasteland is a poetic, art house film, a dark, nihilistic dream, where the male characters seem to suffocate under a somehow abstract existential agony that never ends, same as their enormous thirst for vulnerable naked women bodies that, unresponsive as they are,can't give to them any type of salvation

307. Earth and ashes

Country: Afghanistan Directed by Atiq Rahimi The destruction, the mourning for the ones who got killed, the trauma, the total hopelessness. Without much drama but with precision Rahimi show us the devastating face of the war and how it deprives the human spirit from any joy and dreams. The vast landscapes of Afghanistan deserts that dominate the movie are the empty souls of the unlucky ones who survived and left behind

306. The white tiger (2021)

Country: India Directed by Ramin Bahrani As an easy to follow and understand, quite entertaining and well made commercial film, The White tiger conveys successfully its message exposing the multi layered exploitation of the poor in modern India, in a socio-economical system that is identical to slavery. The film depicts the total failure of Indian society to provide a decent life for the great majority of people, touching issues as the brutality of the upper classes, in an archaic, but still powerful, cast sustem, the strong, also exploitative, family hierarchy, the massive corruption of politicians and judges, the ineffectiveness of education and healthcare, the lack of opportunities for the low social classes to improve their tragic living conditions

305. Yol (1982)

Country:Turkey Directed by Yilmaz Guney and Serif Goren Even if not without weaknesses, often existed because of the huge challenges that the creators faced during production, Yol is still a masterpiece as it captures, with a powerful, heartbreaking and accurate way, the depressing reality of Turkey during the Evren dictatorship of the early 80's when a military oppression and a suffocative state control were added to a violent patriarchal society that already was suffering from poverty, underdevelopment, low level of education,archaic local laws and behaviours,sexual starvation and lacking of any form of freedom. An all-time classic, an unforgetable landmark for world's sociopolitical cinema

304. Emotion (1966)

Country: Japan Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi Its something disturbingly silly, outdated, pretentious and amaterish in Obayashi's cinema that makes it often almost unwatchable. However,in his unique, messed up world, there are moments where he hits a rare poetical spot, when he captures and ridicules the abdurdity of the human existence with a way that is beyond words and is located in an unknown location. Emotion is one of the films that have more of these captivating special moments even if overall you would probably dislike it

303. Nomad (1982)

Country: Hong Kong Directed by Patrick Tam Goofy and of "low taste", also daring and sensual, but for sure unapologetic, Nomad blew some fresh air to the body of Hong Kong cinema in the early eighties. Watching the film today may hit many viewers also with nostalgia: the movie, more or less, illustrates what it means to be young and in love without worrying about anything else in the world. An obvious influence for the young Wong Kar-wai, mainly visually (the visuals of Nomad really stand out) but at many other levels too

302. Ghaysar (1969)

Country:Iran Directed by Masud Kimiai A young man takes revenge killing the ones responsible for the deaths of his brother and sister and Masud Kimiai gets a chance to take us to the baths, tea shops, slaughterhouses, cabarets of pro revolutionary Iran and to show us the possibly most daring and sexual scene of the history of Iranian cinema