When their plane is shot down over the English Channel, the crew of a WWII British bomber are cast adrift in a dinghy in the North Sea and struggle to stay alive while rescue efforts are mounted. The... more
A double-feature of restored British noir thrillers! In Cast a Dark Shadow (Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood. 1955/82 min), a British playboy is revealed to be killing his wealthy lovers and... more
Bertrand Tavernier, Thierry Fremaux, Jacques Becker. Famed director and screenwriter Bertrand Tavernier takes viewers through his favorite directors' best works. From the films that first inspired... more
Features: Widescreen, Amaray Case, Dolby, Digital Theater System
To all appearances, May Brennan has it all - intelligence, looks, the recipient of raves from her recently published book and set to marry her loving Fiance Ziad, a distinguished New York scholar.... more
Senegalese teenage cousins Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall) left Dakar on an ambitious odyssey to reach Italy and make a better life. The grueling cross-desert trek through Libya... 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
Buster Keaton. A second volume of the legendary comic's film classics brings together two more of his brilliant efforts. In Sherlock, Jr. (45 min.), he plays a film projectionist who longs so much to... more
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Snitz Edwards. Cinema's first action hero endures great danger and embarks on a series of adventures filled with magic carpets, a smoke-belching dragon and more to win the... more
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles (Dany... 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
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
Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi. This powerful historical drama recounts the tale of the daughter of Queen Mother Catherine de Medici who has been forced to marry her... more
Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Brasseur, Adolfo Celi. During WWI, a Scottish soldier is sent on a mission to defuse a German bomb. Along the way, he finds sanity in a town where the only... more
Sandrine Bonnaire. "Essential cinema" is how Roger Ebert.com hailed this epic two-part masterpiece presented for the first time on home video restored and uncut. Bonnaire gives a towering performance... more
One of Hollywood's original legends, Buster Keaton, builds his star status in two films about young men who use their daring and ingenuity to try to beat the odds. Includes Go West (1925/69 min) and... more
In early-'60s Paris, 13-year-old Anne Weber (Eléonore Klarwein) and her 15-year-old sister Frédérique (Odile Michel) had to navigate an academic year marked by indifferent teachers, first love,... more
This epic exploration of filmmaking by women offers an essential and celebratory revisionist history of cinema told through the lenses of the world's greatest female directors. Written and directed... 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
Lee Remick, Lisa Eichorn, Westley Addy. The morally rigid Wentworth family finds their daily lives disrupted by the arrival of their British relatives, bohemian adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia... 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
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
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth*Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must... 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
Between juggling night school and shifts at the KFC to help her struggling family, Taipei teenager Lin Yang (Lin Hsiao-yang) still had the fantasies provided by her favorite manga to retreat into.... more
Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet. A young woman is sent from Paris to the provinces to work as a chambermaid for an abusive mistress and a lascivious master, all while pining after the... more