Directed by Bette Gordon • Drama • 1998 • US • English
Starring Eric Lloyd, Deborah Kara Unger, Jamey Sheridan

In Bette Gordon’s dreamlike, erotically charged thriller, Deborah Kara Unger stars as an unnamed hustler crisscrossing the country with her ten-year-old son, Phillip. When she settles d...

Directed by Alex Smith, Andrew Smith • Western • 2013 • US • English
Starring Chaske Spencer, David Morse, Lily Gladstone

True to the lyrical spirit of James Welch’s classic novel, “Winter in the Blood” follows Virgil First Raise on an inebriated odyssey after waking in a ditch on hardscrabbl...

Directed by Aaron Schimberg • Arthouse • 2019 • US • English
Starring Jess Weixler, Adam Pearson, Charlie Korsmo

In Aaron Schimberg’s brilliantly oddball tragicomedy, Jess Weixler plays a movie star “slumming it” in an outré art-horror film being shot in a semi-abandoned hospital. Cast opposite ...

Directed by Charles Burnett • Drama • 1977 • US • English
Starring Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy

Charles Burnett’s masterpiece captures the trials, fragile joys, and tenacious humor of Black working-class life in 1970s Los Angeles. Centering on a weary slaughterhouse worker, t...

Directed by Eliza Hittman • Drama • 2013 • US • English
Starring Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein

In this unflinchingly honest and refreshingly unsentimental coming-of-age story from Eliza Hittman ("Never Rarely Sometimes Always"), 14-year-old Lila spends a languid Brooklyn s...

Directed by Nancy Savoca • Comedy • 1993 • US • English
Starring Tracey Ullman, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lili Taylor

Nancy Savoca’s star-studded indie gem is a chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Executive produced by Jonathan De...

Directed by Kathleen Collins • Comedy • 1982 • US • English
Starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones

The inimitable Kathleen Collins's second film is the story of two remarkable people: Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy who embarks on an intellectual quest just as her painter husb...

Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, Ray Ashley • Drama • 1953 • US • English
Starring Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Richie Andrusco

Widely regarded as one of the most influential films of American independent cinema and nominated for an Academy Award, “The Little Fugitive” is a charming ...

Directed by Philip Kaufman • Drama • 1979 • US • English
Starring Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Linda Manz

Featuring a golden oldies soundtrack and a talented cast of young up-and-comers, this cult classic from Phillip Kaufman follows the exploits of an Italian-American gang in the Bronx in 1963, turni...

Directed by Aristotle Torres • Drama • 2023 • US • English
Starring Asante Blackk, Luis Guzmán

South Bronx teen and gifted artist Kadir (Asante Blackk) attempts to rob no-nonsense MTA conductor Luis (Luis Guzmán) to prove himself to a local graffiti gang. The two share a meal that leads to a del...

Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour • Horror • 2015 • US • Farsi with English subtitles
Starring Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh

Ana Lily Amirpour burst onto the scene with this black and white Iranian vampire Western, which premiered at Sundance and won a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Dir...

Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman • Documentary • 1989 • US • English
Featuring Dustin Hoffman, Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell

Started in a San Francisco storefront by the NAMES Project, the AIDS Memorial Quilt grew to 8,288 handmade panels by 1988, each honoring a life lost. Filmmakers ...

Directed by Ayoka Chenzira • Drama • 1994 • US • English
Starring Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Kirby Nunes

An essential film in the ‘90s Black cinema canon, Ayoka Chenzira's overlooked classic "Alma's Rainbow" is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in...

Directed by Rachel Israel • Comedy • 2018 • US • English
Starring Brandon Polansky, Samantha Elisofon, Jessica Walter

This off-kilter New York romantic comedy does something radical in casting actors with autism to play characters with autism. When David is mandated to attend a social program, s...

Directed by Vanessa Gould • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Bruce Weber, Margalit Fox, William McDonald

The first documentary to explore the world of obituary writers, "Obit." focuses on the legendary team at 'The New York Times', who approach their work with journalistic rigor and ...

Directed by Paul Schrader • Drama • 2024 • US • English
Starring Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Jacob Elordi

Aging filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere) wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. With his wife (Uma Thurman) at his side, Leonard sits for an interview, relating c...

Directed by Judy Irving • Documentary • 2003 • US • English
Featuring Mark Bittner

This classic feel-good film tells the remarkable true story of a Bohemian St. Francis and his loving relationship with a flock of wild red-and-green parrots. Mark Bittner, a homeless street musician in San Francis...

Directed by John Hanson, Rob Nilsson • Drama • 1978 • US • English
Starring Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano

Cannes Camera d'Or winner "Northern Lights" is a powerful work of political cinema that dramatizes the formation of the populist Nonpartisan League in North Dakota in the mid-1910s....

Directed by William Forbes, Douglas Skinner • Documentary • 2025 • US • English • Mature Content

In the shadow of Chippendales, male exotic dancing in South Central Los Angeles thrived from the late 1980s until the early 2000s. “Name of the Game” introduces iconic dancers past and present and ...

Directed by Charles Burnett • Drama • 1999 • US • English
Starring James Earl Jones, Lynn Redgrave, Margot Kidder

In Charles Burnett’s charming film, Lynn Redgrave plays a former housewife with an imagined lover, opera composer Puccini. She moves into a L.A. boarding house where she meets a Jama...

Directed by Alex Steyermark • Drama • 2003 • US • English • Mature Content
Starring Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo, Lori Petty

This fist-pumping LGBTQ+ touchstone and rock and roll cult classic stars the electrifying Gina Gershon as Jacki, a rocker who worries she may never make it big. Along with...

Directed by Todd Haynes • Arthouse • 1991 • US • English
Starring Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, John Leguizamo

Winner of the Grand Jury Prizes at both the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, "Poison", directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes ("Carol"), is a groundbreaking American indie f...

Directed by Bridgett M. Davis • Comedy • 1996 • US • English
Starring Jake-Ann Jones, Patricia DeArcy, Ron Cephas Jones

In this key '90s Black indie, aspiring actor Cicely (Jake-ann Jones) has just landed her first major role, but there's a big problem: it requires a nude scene. Her mother was a...

Directed by Pat Rocco • LGBTQ • 1974 • US • English • Mature Content
Starring Jon Adair, David Russell, Bambi Allen

Pat Rocco captured the essence of queer culture in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when it was still largely ignored by the popular media. “Drifter” observes the odyssey of an emoti...