The first film made outside his native Russia by director Andrei Tarkovsky is a hauntingly beautiful portrait of a Russian poet and musicologist who travels to a spa village in Italy's Tuscany region... more
This foreboding and unforgettable tale of life on the brink of a potential nuclear disaster was the final work of director Andrei Tarkovsky and the winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. As... more
Dennis Hopper, Sy Richardson. A group of four bank robbers hide out in a small desert town after hiding the cash in the wilderness in this wild homage to the spaghetti Western—featuring the Clash's... more
The Soldier's Tale is an animated classic by the renowned New Yorker illustrator R.O. Blechman, based on Igor Stravinsky's 1918 composition. This poetic tale revolves around a young soldier's return... more
Director Walerian Borowczyk's final feature is an erotic thriller centering on fashion buyer Hugo (Mathieu Carrière), who becomes enamored with a beautiful prostitute (Marina Pierro) he meets in the... more
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe. A soldier-turned-officer in turn-of-the-century Czechoslovakia finds his long and respected career threatened by scandal. In Hungarian... more
An opportunistic German stage actor makes a tragic mistake when he endeavors to use his relationship with the Nazi party to gain national fame. In Hungarian with English subtitles. Written and... more
Twins Dóra and Lili were orphaned match girls on the streets of 1880s Budapest when they were separated by fate. On New Year's Eve 1900, courtesan/grifter Dóra (Dorota Segda) and political radical... more
An ironic and darkly funny documentary look at the "Cold War" mentality of the '40s and '50s. U.S. government films, newsreels, contemporary songs and Hollywood clips show America's naive attitudes... more
In Iquitos, gateway to the Peruvian Amazon, Nexy (Silvia Chavez) lives on the margins, sometimes as a sex worker, haunted by the memories and folklore of her rural childhood. She meets Miguel (Johnny... more
Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Adjani. Nominated for two Academy Awards®, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actress, this lushly passionate drama etches a vivid portrait of the obsessive romance... more
Compelling and unsettling, independent filmmaker Bette Gordon's feminist-themed drama focuses on Christine (Sandy McLeod), a young woman who starts working as a ticket seller at a seedy Times Square... more
Jean Luc-Godard s First Name: Carmen (1983) is a radical reinvention of Bizet s opera, updating the story of sexual obsession with bank robbery and kidnapping. Godard himself appears as doddering... more
For his final effort behind a movie camera, photojournalist, novelist, composer and genuine Renaissance man Gordon Parks reflected on his life and works with this remarkable documentary... more
Peter Andorai, Ildikó Bánsági. Towards the end of WWII, two Hungarian resistance fighters must pose as husband and wife to avoid detection and begin to fall in love. In Hungarian with English... more
Fred Ward, Stellan Skarsgard, Pat Hingle. Originally presented on the award-winning PBS series American Playhouse, this haunting western is set on a small and struggling Texas farm at the turn of the... more
Jean-Luc Godard's Détective (1985) is an invigorating deconstruction of film noir that adds a dash of Grand Hotel (1932) melodrama and Body and Soul (1947) boxing drama, all tied into an arresting... more
Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry. Director Derek Jarman's brutal anti-establishment statement, a surrealistic vision of the urban battle for survival between England's bureacracy and its disenfranchised... more
They were lesbian lovers who made their living in the world of porn, and, now, the stories of Tina "Tigr" Mennett and Sharon "Mitch" Mitchell (who portray themselves) are told in a wild biopic... more
Mariangela Melato, Michele Placido, Roberto Herlitzka. As a way of expressing her disgust with the way terrorists are destroying Italy's ecological beauty, an industrialist hires a former CIA... more