Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame. When a playwright finds out that her actor husband is plotting her murder, she devises a desperate scheme to disrupt his plans. Based on a story by Edna... more
Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton. A gothic horror classic of two couples stranded in a Welsh mansion inhabited by a horribly disfigured butler and other strange characters. Directed by... more
Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset. A young woman falls for her psychoanalyst despite advice not to get involved. But when the two move in together, her lover reveals himself to be... more
Emmanuelle Beart, Michael Piccoli. His talent unused for years, a once-famous painter is inspired by a young woman to return to his craft. In French with English subtitles. Directed by Jacques... more
Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao. Black women make their way through life in 1902, living off the coast of Georgia on the sea islands among the Gullah culture. Their isolated lives nonetheless... more
John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum. When a publishing mogul buys a Boston underground newspaper, he promises a change that will compromise its aggressive political stance. Soon it becomes... more
It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a... more
Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes... more
Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Christopher Reeve. A 19th-century feminist is torn between her desire to be a leader of the women's movement and her passion for her handsome lover, who holds... more
Michel Simon, Roger Carel, Paul Preboist. A touching story unfolds when an 8-year-old Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied France, is sent by his mom and dad to live with the Catholic parents of their... more
Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery. Terrified by the idea that he may be leading the majority of the British and Allied armies to their death, Winston Churchill attempts to stop the... more
Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly. As Hitler's reign comes to an end, a group of Nazi soldiers and supporters flee France to South America in a submarine and abduct a French doctor to... more
Buster Keaton. Two of Buster Keaton's best comedies come together for the first installment of this essential collection. Includes The General (1926/75 min.), where a train engineer desperately tries... more
Padre Padrone: Winner of the 1977 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, this classic by the Taviani brothers is based on an autobiography by Gavino Ledda, The One That Got Away. Gavino is six when his... more
In the early '70s, Sicilian divorcée and mother of three Letizia Battaglia turned to photojournalism as a living. She'd build a remarkable legacy in the following three decades, distinguished by a... more
Claude Lanzmann directed this intensely moving Holocaust documentary—presented here as a two-part theatrical release—which draws much of its power from interviews with those who lived through the... more
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait chronicles the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel. Written and directed by Italy's Pappi Corsicato, the film... more
Germany, 1957. Attorney General Fritz Bauer receives crucial evidence on the whereabouts of SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann. The lieutenant colonel, responsible for the mass deportation of the... more
Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye. When a 16th-century French peasant returns to his wife after years away at war, he has a much improved personality, leading everyone to think he is an imposter.... more
Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere. Unconventional and sophisticated comedy about two men who try everything to satisfy an insatiable woman, only to lose her to a precocious 13-year-old boy. In French... more
Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal. A Shakespearean theater troupe travels to India in the final days of British rule only to find people not very interested in their productions. But... more