Having brought British cinema into exalted realms of fantasy and imagination, Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic... more
Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon. A satiric look at modern-day society in which a sexy small-town woman murders her husband to get her 15 minutes of TV fame. Based on a book by Joyce Maynard; screenplay by... more
On an abandoned tanker In the Persian Gulf city of Abadan, 11-year-old orphan Amiro (Madjid Niroumand) got by on his wits, bottle-picking and shining shoes for change when not in playful competition... more
Walter Huston and Edward Arnold take the title roles in Stephen Vincent Benet's "New Englandized" Faust story. A young 19th-century farmer sells his soul to Mr. Scratch for seven years of prosperity,... more
Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn-a timeworn boxing gym, where she learns to... more
Set in early-'60s San Francisco, this bittersweet drama stars River Phoenix as a young Vietnam-bound Marine who partakes in a cruel game with his fellow leathernecks. He must find the ugliest girl to... more
In the '70s and '80s, photographer and activist Nan Goldin became celebrated for her studies of new wave and LGBT urban subcultures and the emerging AIDS crisis. In the late 2010s-having weathered a... more
The closer we look, the less we know in Justine Triet's masterful Palme d'Or-winning Anatomy of a Fall, an eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and... more
Béla Tarr's gravely haunting, challenging existential meditation is set in a bleak and wintry Hungarian village which is visited by a distinctly odd traveling circus. With it's strange exhibits of... more
The original silent drama from Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, "A Story of Floating Weeds," follows a travelling theatre troupe's visit to a seaside town and the group's leader's emotional reunion... more
Unseen by the West for nearly 30 years, this unusual Cuban/Soviet co-production was meant to help train Cuban filmmakers and build support for Castro's regime. Four dramatic vignettes depict, in a... more
Three-disc set includes: Emitaï (1971)During World War II, Vichy France wasn't shy about conscripting soldiers from it's colonies, or levying oppressive taxes upon them. As the residents of a Jola... more
Director Peter Weir's compelling, surreal mystery, set in 1900 Australia, centers on a girls' school outing on Valentine's Day to the remote title rock formation and the bizarre events surrounding... more
Acclaimed, no-holds-barred drama follows four troubled Paris youths through a 24-hour period. While one of the quartet of friends lies in a hospital after being beaten in a riot, his three... more
Senegalese-French academic Mara (Kayije Kagame) journeyed to Saint Omer for the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), an immigrant student accused of leaving her 15-month-old child in the Berck... more