An investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and politics, La Syndicaliste follows the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher), the influential head union... more
A survey of the prolific director's early works. In Harakiri (Paul Biensfeldt, 1919/80 min.), the beautiful O-Take-San is chased by a vile monk who wishes to make her a geisha of the Forbidden... more
Features: Limited Edition, Special Edition, O-Card Packaging, Dolby
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Froelich. A completely restored version of the original sci-fi epic about a futuristic city and its mechanized and segregated society set in the year 2000. Includes... more
In one of the most eclectic films of the German silent era, visual stylist F.W. Murnau (Faust, Sunrise) broke away from the dark, foreboding dramas for which he was known to explore the realm of... more
This double-feature celebration hails from the earliest era of women directors in the mid-1910s. Includes The Ocean Waif (Doris Kenyon, Carlyle Blackwell. 1916/41 min.), which offers a Pygmalion-like... more
Ernst Lubitsch began his four-decade filmmaking career in Berlin when he left high school at the age of 16. After being invited to America by Hollywood legend Mary Pickford, it was clear early on... more
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth.... more
Ralph Fiennes's exquisite performance of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece is dynamically translated from stage to screen by director Sophie Fiennes (Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, The Pervert's... more
One of the greatest artistic and technical achievements of the German silent cinema, Fritz Lang's monumental Die Nibelungen is a passionate retelling of Nordic legend, invested with all the resources... more
Features: Deluxe Edition, Remastered, Silent Movie
Max Schreck, Alexander Granach. This silent version, an unauthorized adaptation, is thought to be one of the best film portrayals of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Schreck is terrifyingly eerie as the... more
Pietro Marcello, one of contemporary cinema's most versatile talents, follows up his dramatic breakthrough Martin Eden with this enchanting period fable. Shortly after World War I, veteran Raphaël... more
Having borrowed a car, an Iranian family-nurturing mom (Pantea Panahiha), gruff, cast-hobbled dad (Hassan Madjooni), pensive eldest son (Amin Simiar), rambunctious 6-year-old (Rayan Sarlak), and pet... more
Ine Marie Wilmann, Valene Kane, Eldar Skar, Anders Mordal, Anneke von der Lippe, Aidan McArdle. A star Norwegian figure skater travels to '30s Hollywood to switch careers and become an actress—and... more
Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (THE SUN) broke boundaries with his dreamlike vision of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, RUSSIAN ARK. It's the first feature-length narrative film shot in a single... more
Rutger Hauer, Charlotte Rampling, Michael York. The Mill and the Cross recreates one the great masterpieces of painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's, The Way to Calvary. The daily life of 16th century... more
A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría's poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south... more
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, Chile '76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman's precarious flirtation with political... more
Levan Tediashvili, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze, Giorgi Tabidze. After traveling to New York to see his son and finding him deep in debt to a local mob boss, a retired wrestler from the... more
Harry Carey, Duke Lee, Neva Gerber, Vester Pegg. An outlaw with a heart of gold flees from the law after a poker game ends in a shootout and tries to peacefully assimilate in a town called Rawhide.... more
In early-'30s Berlin, disillusioned and dissolute WWI vet Jakob Fabian (Tom Schilling) worked a tedious advertising job by day and wandered the clubs at night. The ray of hope he receives through his... more
Facing jail time on trumped-up claims of improper relations with a student, high school teacher Veronica (Laysla de Oliveira) didn't even bother to fight the charges-to the consternation and... more
Harry Carey, Molly Malone, Hoot Gibson. In this landmark western, a hired gun sent by ranchers to run farmers off their land has a change of heart when one of his cohorts kills the farmer's son.... more
Francoise Brion, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. While traveling in Istanbul, a Frenchman is mesmerized by a beautiful woman who mysteriously disappears a few days after they meet. When he finds her again,... more
Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent. A spellbinding biodrama depicting the true story of Camille Claudel, the brilliant sculptress and older sister of poet Paul Claudel. Her life story and struggles... more