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  • Clash
    Movie + 1 extra

    Clash

    Movie + 1 extra

    Directed by Mohamed Diab • Drama • 2016 • Egypt, France • Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Nelly Karim, Hany Adel, Mohamed El Sebaey

    Officially selected by the Cannes Film Festival and the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Academy Awards, "Clash" is tale of resi...

  • Colonel Redl

    Movie

    Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1984 • Hungary, Germany, Austria • German with English subtitles
    Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe

    Set in the lead up to WWI, István Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning and Academy Award nominated film charts the rise of Alfred ...

  • Diamantino

    Movie

    Directed by Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt • Comedy • 2019 • Portugal, France, Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
    Starring Carloto Cotta, Anabela Moreira, Margarida Moreira

    Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, "Diamantino" follows a soccer hunk as he goe...

  • Downtown 81

    Movie

    Directed by Edo Bertoglio • Arthouse • 1981 • US • English
    Starring Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Richard Weigand

    Shot in New York City in the eighties and written by Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, "Downtown 81" features graffiti innovator and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat moving through th...

  • Duet for Cannibals

    Movie

    Directed by Susan Sontag • Arthouse • 1969 • Sweden • Swedish with English subtitles
    Starring Adriana Asti, Gosta Ekman, Lars Ekborg

    Essayist, novelist, critic, and all-around intellectual dynamo Susan Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological seri...

  • Esther

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 1986 • Austria, Israel, UK • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Simone Benyamin, Mohammed Bakri, Juliano Merr

    Amos Gitai’s debut feature, which draws upon his mother Efratia’s own Biblical scholarship, is filmed as a series of ritualized tableaux amid the rui...

  • Fatima

    Movie

    Directed by Philippe Faucon • Drama • 2015 • France • French, Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Soria Zeroual, Zita Hanrot, Kenza Noah Aiche

    Winner of the 2016 Cesar Award for Best Picture and Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, "Fatima" offers an uplifting and moving portrait o...

  • Filmworker

    Movie

    Directed by Tony Zierra • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Stellan Skarsgard

    Leon Vitali was a British television actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for a role in "Barry Lyndon". That first encounter with the auteur proved decisive—he swiftly resolved to ...

  • Free Zone

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2005 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass

    Rebecca, played by Natalie Portman, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna i...

  • Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel

    Movie

    Directed by José Luis López-Linares • Documentary • 2022 • France, Spain, Portugal • French, English, Spanish with English subtitles
    Featuring Jean-Claude Carrière, Nahal Tajadod-Carrière, Julian Schnabel

    In his last journey, prolific screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière returns to Spain and talks ...

  • Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

    Movie

    Directed by Férid Boughedir • Drama • 1990 • Tunisia • Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Selim Boughedir, Mustapha Adouani, Rabia Ben Abdallah

    Set against the sensual backdrop of modern Tunisia, renowned Arab critic-turned-filmmaker Férid Boughedir's “Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces” is a b...

  • Horses of God

    Movie

    Directed by Nabil Ayouch • Arthouse • 2014 • Morocco • Arabic with English subtitles
    Starring Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek

    Winner at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and Morocco's submission to the 85th Academy Awards, "Horses of God" is the story of two brothers living in an ...

  • Kadosh

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 1999 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Uri Ran Klauzner, Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattub

    Amos Gitai’s impassioned feminist polemic selected for the 1999 Cannes Film Festival is set in an ultra-Orthodox enclave of Jerusalem and follows a pious...

  • Kippur

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2000 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Juliano Mer, Uri Ran Klauzner, Tomer Ruso

    An Official Selection at the Cannes, New York, and Toronto Film Festivals, Amos Gitai's "Kippur" is a gut-wrenching journey through beautiful landscapes ravag...

  • L'Age D'or

    Movie

    Directed by Luis Buñuel • Arthouse • 1930 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

    The surrealist masterpiece “L'Age D'or” showcases the incomparably obsessive cinematic imagination of Luis Buñuel at its beginning and the celebrated surrealism of Salvado...

  • Li'l Quinquin

    Movie

    Directed by Bruno Dumont • Comedy • 2014 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Alane Delhaye, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost

    Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, French auteur Bruno Dumont's comedy "Li'l Quinquin" is an absurdist, metaphysical murder mystery set on the outski...

  • Love & Anarchy

    Movie

    Directed by Lina Wertmüller • Comedy • 1973 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Lina Polito

    An epic tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmüller, "Love and Anarchy" plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent...

  • I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

    Movie

    Directed by Patricia Rozema • Comedy • 1987 • Canada • English
    Starring Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald

    Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la...

  • Makala

    Movie

    Directed by Emmanuel Gras • Documentary • 2018 • France • Swahili with English subtitles
    Featuring Kabwita Kasongo, Lydie Kasongo

    Winner of the 2017 Grand Prize and Golden Eye Special Mention for Best Documentary at International Critics Week in Cannes, "Makala" is Emmanuel Gras' powerful testa...

  • Olga
    Movie

    Olga

    Movie

    Directed by Elie Grappe • Drama • 2021 • Switzerland, Ukraine, France • French, Ukrainian, Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Anastasia Budiashkina, Sabrina Rubtsova, Caterina Barloggio

    A talented young gymnast from Kyiv moves to Switzerland to pursue her dreams in Elie Grappe’s award-winni...

  • Red Psalm

    Movie

    Directed by Miklós Jancsó • Drama • 1972 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
    Starring József Madaras, Tibor Orbán, Jácint Juhász

    Winner of the best director prize at Cannes in 1972 and widely considered to be the greatest Hungarian film of the 70s, Miklós Jancsó's masterpiece set on th...

  • Sacco & Vanzetti

    Movie

    Directed by Giuliano Montaldo • Drama • 1971 • Italy • English, Italian with English subtitles
    Starring Gian Maria Volonte, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack

    Riccardo Cucciolla won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance in this chronicle of one of the most polarizing...

  • Scarlet

    Movie

    Directed by Pietro Marcello • Arthouse • 2023 • France, Italy • French with English subtitles
    Starring Juliette Jouan, Raphaël Thiéry, Noémie Lvovsky

    Pietro Marcello follows his breakthrough "Martin Eden" with this enchanting period fable about a WWI veteran raising his daughter in rural France....

  • Sembene!

    Movie

    Directed by Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman • Documentary • 2015 • US, Senegal • English, French, Wolof with English subtitles
    Featuring Ousmane Sembene, Mbissine Therese Diop, Samba Gadjigo

    In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible ...