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  • I Am Cuba

    Movie

    Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov • Arthouse • 1964 • Cuba, Russia • Spanish, Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Raquel Revuelta, Sergio Corrieri, Jean Bouise

    Director Mikhail Kalatozov’s delirious masterpiece unfolds in four stunning vignettes that paint a portrait of pre-revolutionary Cuba—it...

  • The Divine Order

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    Directed by Petra Volpe • Comedy • 2017 • Switzerland • Swiss-German with English subtitles
    Starring Marie Leuenberger, Max Simonischek, Rachel Braunschweig

    This uplifting, crowd-pleasing Tribeca Film Festival winner is set in Switzerland in 1971, where despite the worldwide social upheavals of ...

  • Keep the Change

    Movie

    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...

  • The General

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    Directed by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman • Comedy • 1925 • US • Silent with English intertitles
    Starring Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender

    Buster Keaton’s “The General” is not simply one of the greatest silent comedies ever made, it is one of the greatest films of any era. In restaging ...

  • The Falling Star

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    Directed by Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel • Comedy • 2024 • France, Belgium • French with English subtitles
    Starring Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Kaori Ito

    An official selection of the Telluride and Locarno Film Festivals, the latest caper from Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon ("Lost in Paris", "...

  • Chained for Life

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Let the Corpses Tan

    Movie

    Directed by Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani • Action • 2018 • Belgium, France • French with English subtitles • Mature content
    Starring Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin

    In this deliriously stylish homage to 1970s Italian crime films, a gang of gold thieves engages in an all-day ...

  • Boyfriends and Girlfriends

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    Directed by Éric Rohmer • Comedy • 1987 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury

    In “Boyfriends and Girlfriends” Éric Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the outskirts of Paris to test the old proverb “les amis ...

  • The Aviator's Wife

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    Directed by Éric Rohmer • Drama • 1981 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury

    Éric Rohmer’s fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis finds the director exploring the possibilities of handheld camerawork as he seeks a narrative expression ...

  • The Blues Under the Skin

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    Directed by Robert Manthoulis • Documentary • 1973 • France • English
    Featuring Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Walter “Furry” Lewis

    In the early 1970s, music documentarian Robert Manthoulis traveled to the Mississippi Delta to capture the remnants of the authentic American blues. Virtually unseen in the ...

  • A Hard Day

    Movie

    Directed by Kim Seong-hun • Thriller • 2014 • South Korea • Korean with English subtitles
    Starring Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Jin-woong, Jeong Man-sik

    A pitch-black comedy with style to burn, “A Hard Day” depicts a day in the life of homicide detective Gun-soo that goes from bad to worse to cursed. After...

  • Goodbye to Language

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    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 2014 • France, Switzerland • English, French with English subtitles
    Starring Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier

    Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Luc Godard’s triumphant masterpiece uses technology to mind-bendin...

  • Electra, My Love

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    Directed by Miklós Jancsó • Arthouse • 1974 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
    Starring Mari Törőcsik, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras

    Miklós Jancsó’s richly inventive adaptation of a Greek myth is a visually striking, avant-garde retelling that blends political allegory with mesmeriz...

  • The Mill and the Cross

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    Directed by Lech Majewski • Arthouse • 2011 • Poland, Sweden • English
    Starring Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling

    Lech Majewski’s deeply immersive "The Mill and the Cross" transports viewers into Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s masterpiece "The Procession to Calvary." Blending meticulous...

  • Vice and Virtue

    Movie

    Directed by Roger Vadim • Drama • 1963 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Catherine Deneuve, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein

    Set in Nazi-occupied France, “Vice and Virtue” is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's “Justine”. Two sisters navigate very different paths as they ...

  • As I Open My Eyes

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    Directed by Leyla Bouzid • Drama • 2015 • Tunisia, France, Belgium • Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari

    “As I Open My Eyes” depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional...

  • Northern Lights

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    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....

  • Mädchen in Uniform

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    Directed by Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich • LGBTQ • 1931 • Germany • German with English subtitles
    Starring Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda

    As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings...

  • The Annihilation of Fish

    Movie

    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...

  • Eva Hesse

    Movie

    Directed by Marcie Begleiter • Documentary • 2016 • US, Germany • English
    Featuring Selma Blair, Bob Balaban, Patrick Kennedy

    Eva Hesse, one of America’s foremost postwar artists, helped shape post-minimalism through her pioneering sculptures. Her untimely death cut short a dense career marked b...

  • Killer of Sheep

    Movie

    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...

  • Riefenstahl

    Movie

    Directed by Andres Veiel • Documentary • 2024 • Germany • English, German with English subtitles
    Featuring Leni Riefenstahl

    Leni Riefenstahl was Nazi Germany's preeminent filmmaker and one of its key propagandists. Yet from the end of WWII until her death, she denied her close ties with Hitler ...

  • The Day of the Dolphin

    Movie

    Directed by Mike Nichols • Thriller • 1973 • US • English
    Starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino

    Doctor Jake Terrell (George C. Scott) has spent years training dolphins to understand and speak English. On the day of a breakthrough, a sinister spy group steals them. When Jake le...

  • Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

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    Directed by Shoshannah Stern • Documentary • 2025 • US • English
    Featuring Marlee Matlin, Aaron Sorkin, Henry Winkler

    In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award. Thrust into the spotlight at just 21, she faced industry skepticism and isolation before rising as a p...