Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after World War II Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero that he... more
Klaus Lowitsch, Barbara Valentin. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, as well as a flavor entirely his own, Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of a... more
Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Charles Vanel. A tyrannical schoolmaster is murdered by his long-suffering wife and his mistress. When his body disappears, they are confronted by evidence of his... more
Three-disc set includes: Loving Couples (1964)At the outbreak of World War I, three pregnant women from vastly different backgrounds wait to deliver their babies in a Stockholm hospital. While... more
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora... more
Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. With austere simplicity, the... more
Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke. Lorre made his powerful screen debut as a child murderer hunted by the authorities and the underworld. Bonus features include audio commentary by German film scholars... more
Gunnar Bjornstrand, Max von Sydow. Ingmar Bergman's fascinating story of a medieval knight who enters into a chess game with Death. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. In Swedish with English subtitles.... more
Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poiret. A French theater company hiding a Jewish theater manager under the Nazi occupation of Paris decides to continue putting on shows against all odds and... more
Acclaimed musical drama from Mexico follows the touching and exotic story of Violeta (Ninón Sevilla), a cabaret dancer who discovers an abandoned infant in a trash can. Deciding to raise the child as... 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
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
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
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
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. The inhabitants of a small village hire seven samurai to protect them from bandit attacks. When the samurai arrive, a spectacular series of battles begin. Directed by... more
As a rural South Korean town in the mid-1980s was rocked by the brutal and unprecedented efforts of a serial murderer, the instinctive but overmatched local cop (Song Kang-ho) in charge finds his... more
Nianzhen Wu, Issey Ogata. Edward Yang's epic covering the one-year examination of daily life in Taipei for a family of five (parents, two children and a grandmother) that begins with a wedding and... more
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni. Two lonely residents of an apartment building in Italy form a friendship on the day Hitler arrives to meet Mussollini. Includes digital transfer, 2014 short film... more
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Ten) has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-Up is his most... more
A Tokyo detective's (Koji Yakusho) investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders, committed by seemingly average citizens who can't explain their motives, leads him to a mysterious and... more