Directed by James Blue • Arthouse • 1962 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Pierre Prothon, Jean Pelegri, Marie Decaitre

Filmed in Algiers and the surrounding countryside during the late stages of the Algerian War, under the pretext that it was a documentary about the wine industr...

Directed by João Vargas Penna • Documentary • 2019 • Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
Featuring Roberto Burle Marx, Amir Haddad

A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio ...

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...

Directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac • Drama • 2021 • France, Belgium • French with English subtitles
Starring Guslagie Malanda, Catherine Mouchet, Pascal Greggory

When an 8-year-old black child is taken in for a night by the wealthy white family of one of her schoolmates, the experience haunts her fo...

Directed by Mikko Mäkelä • Drama • 2024 • UK • English • Mature Content
Starring Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Jonathan Hyde

Max is a young writer living in London and paying his dues working at a literary magazine. On the cusp of finding success, by night he moonlights as a sex worker in order...

Directed by Stéphane Brizé • Drama • 2015 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller

Vincent Lindon won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance as unemployed everyman Thierry in his search for work. Nothing ...

Directed by Roger Vadim • Drama • 1959 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Vadim

A provocative adaptation of the classic novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Updated to present-day France by director Roger Vadim, the film follows Valmont (Géra...

Directed by Josef von Sternberg • Arthouse • 1954 • Japan • English, Japanese with English subtitles
Starring Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma

Directed by Josef von Sternberg, this film follows a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan during the waning days of th...

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang • Arthouse • 2017 • Taiwan • Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Mitamura Kiyonobu

In Tsai Ming-liang’s minimalist film, the Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King Hu’s 1967 w...

Directed by Patricio Guzmán • Documentary • 2014 • Chile, Spain, France • Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Patricio Guzmán

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, "The Pearl Button" explores the supernatural landscape of Chile. With its 2,670 miles of c...

Directed by Jean Rollin • Horror • 1973 • France • French with English subtitles • Mature Content
Starring Marie-Pierre Castel, Mirielle d’Argent, Philippe Gasté

A favorite of his cult horror films, Jean Rollin’s “Requiem for a Vampire” chases two girls on the run as they get lost in the French ...

Directed by Maurice Tourneur • Crime • 1944 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Albert Préjean, Santa Relli, Germaine Kerjean

With trademark hat and pipe, Albert Préjean stars as the venerable Inspector Maigret in this first-rate Georges Simenon adaptation. A young woman named Céci...

Directed by Martin Provost • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet

"Violette" is a finely nuanced portrait of Violette Leduc, one of the foremost French writers of the 20th century. Superb performances by Emmanuelle D...

Directed by Roger Vadim • Classic • 1963 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Brigitte Bardot, Joséphine James, Michel Subor

Brigitte Bardot stars in this madcap romantic comedy, seen through the fetishizing lens of Roger Vadim. Sophie (Bardot), a flighty young model, learns that he...

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...

Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hans Sternberg

This 1921 silent German Expressionist fantasy romance film directed by Fritz Lang follows a young woman who confronts the personification of Death in...

Directed by Jean Rollin • Horror • 1970 • France • French with English subtitles • Mature Content
Starring Maurice Lemaitre, Olivier Rollin, Caroline Cartier

A surreal blend of horror, espionage, and erotica, Jean Rollin’s “The Nude Vampire” follows the son of a wealthy businessman as he is lure...

Directed by Derek Jarman • Arthouse • 1990 • UK • English
Starring Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Peter Lee-Wilson

Directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton, this kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, featuring an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical nu...

Directed by Hany Abu-Assad • Drama • 2016 • Palestine • Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Tawfeek Barhom, Qais Attaailah, Hiba Attalah

In Palestinian's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, talented teenage singer Mohammed Assaf travels from the Gaza Strip to ...

Directed by Jean Delannoy • Crime • 1958 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura

Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Jean Gabin is perfec...

Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1927 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel

With more than 25 minutes of rediscovered footage, this restoration of “Metropolis” is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiec...

Directed by Lav Diaz • Arthouse • 2017 • Philippines • Tagalog with English subtitles
Starring Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s epic story of revenge deferred functions as a tale of urb...

Directed by Vittorio De Sica • Drama • 1970 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

An Oscar nominee for Best Score (Henry Mancini), “Sunflower” is a grandly emotional melodrama from Vittorio De Sica. Sophia Loren plays a steel-willed Italian woman on...

Directed by Greta Schiller • Documentary • 1998 • UK, US, South Africa • English
Featuring Corin Redgrave, Joseph Bale, Adriaan Bassier

In 1962, at the height of oppression in apartheid South Africa, a gay white theater director was arrested with Nelson Mandela. His name was Cecil Williams. This...