Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendonca. Some would say it's a perfect arrangement. Sultry Dona Flor has a dependably dull new husband and a sexy ex—who happens to be dead! Based on a novel by Jorge... more
Officially produced to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution, October quickly became another of Sergei Eisenstein's experiments in film form. As in his masterpiece, Battleship... more
Having rejected a marriage proposal and now facing limited options after graduation, Indonesian high-school student Yuni (Arawinda Kirana) finds herself having to define her desires within a society... more
When Kaho (Aoba Kawai) and Tomoya (Ryuta Okamoto) announce their engagement at a celebratory dinner with friends, they are unprepared for the emotional turmoil that is unleashed once a prior... more
Paris 1895. Pierre Louÿs is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Pierre and his friend Henri de Régnier are both madly in love with Marie de Heredia (Noemie Merlant), the cheeky daughter... more
For kids around the world, music is often the only salvation when the pain and anxiety of teenage life becomes too much to bear. Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara) is in the 8th grade and he worships Lily... more
Legendary genre auteur Hideo Gosha's gleefully anarchic, spaghetti western-informed samurai adventures are finally available to North American audiences in one complete set.
SAMURAI WOLF: Isao... more
Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri, Giovanna Bozzolo, Jennifer Beals. Directed by Moretti, who appears as himself in three vignettes: In the first, he makes observations as he romps around Rome; in... more
Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A veteran cop in a dystopian future is hired to investigate the headquarters of the mysterious organization that controls media all over the world after that organization... more
In rural Gaotai county, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma (Wu Renlin) is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao... more
After making his name in the samurai genre, master filmmaker Hideo Gosha (THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI, SAMURAI WOLF, SAMURAI WOLF 2: HELL CUT) turned his camera to the world of the yakuza, and the violent... more
Having just moved from Beijing, elderly tai chi master Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung) struggles to adjust to life in New York, living with his Americanized son Alex (Ye-tong Wang). Chu immediately butts heads... more
In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all it's subjects, including the clergy. Servants follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary... more
This exotic gangster epic from Zhang Yimou ("To Live") traces the inner workings of Shanghai's most prominent crime syndicate in the 1930s, as witnessed by 14-year-old Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao). When... more
Servais (Fabio Testi), a reporter and photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier (Romy Schneider), an actress who is forced to earn her living by accepting roles unworthy of her real talent. She is married... more
A specially-priced collection of 3 early films by Japanese actor and auteur director, Takeshi Kitano. Includes our acclaimed releases of Violent Cop, Boiling Point and Hana-Bi (Fireworks).
Box set includes the Sissi trilogy, along with Romy Schneider's first film, Victoria in Dover, a precursor to the Sissi films, in which Schneider plays Britain s Princess Victoria.*
Investigative filmmaker Yuko (Kumi Takiuchi) is putting together a piece about the bereaved families connected with a bullied schoolgirlʼs suicide. Determined to shed light on the truth, Yukoʼs... more
Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès (Bastien Bouillon) faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome... more
In this debut feature by writer-director Laura Wandel, the everyday reality of grade school is seen from a child's-eye-view as an obstacle course of degradation and abuse. Following 7-year-old Nora... more
Winner of the Lion of the Future Award for best Debut Feature at the Venice Film Festival, You Will Die At Twenty is visually sumptuous "coming-of-death" fable. During her son's naming ceremony, a... more
Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill. A wealthy Italian aristocrat neglects his timid wife in favor of a sexy mistress, but later finds out that his wife is having a torrid affair of... more
Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant, Bernard Blier. A door-to-door salesman's life collapses when his wife leaves him and his boss has him arrested for embezzlement. But when he meets... more
Max Von Sydow, Pelle Hvenegaard, Erik Paaske. The Oscar® for Best Foreign Film went to this touching story of a young boy who dreams of breaking out of his back-breaking servant status on an 1800s... more
After a floundering toy salesman rescues a beguiling woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks, she inadvertently whisks him into an epic series of misadventures that turn his life upside down.... more