Directed by Georgia Wyss • Documentary • 2018 • Spain, France, Greece, India, US, UK • English
Featuring Krishna Das, Snatam Kaur, Deva Premal

A feature-length documentary exploring the growing musical and social phenomenon of chanting, "Mantra: Sounds into Silence" shares the stories of people ...

Directed by Fruit Chan • Crime • 1997 • Hong Kong • Cantonese with English subtitles
Starring Sam Lee, Neiky Hui-Chi Yim, Wenders Li

The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, director Fruit Chan’s atmospheric character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work that ends in t...

Directed by Robin Lutz • Documentary • 2021 • Netherlands • English, Dutch, Italian and German with English subtitles
Featuring Stephen Fry, George Escher

Equal parts history, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening portrait of M.C. Escher gives us the man through his...

Directed by Beth B • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore, Kembra Pfahler

"Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over" by Beth B is the first career-spanning retrospective of Lydia Lunch’s confrontational, acerbic and electric artistry. As New York City’s preeminent No...

Directed by Guy Green • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
Starring Stacy Keach, Peter Cellier, Judi Dench

John Osborne's play is a fascinating and powerful psychological study of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther, examining his central role in the birth of Protestantism and revolt against the Roman...

Directed by Robert May • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring William Blackwell, Sal Delgadillo, Robert Kesselring

"Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time" is a true story about obsession, greed, and the hunt for gold. When a retired missile scientist makes a monumental discovery, he hatches ...

Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin • Drama • 1956 • US • English
Starring Lori March, Gerald O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn

A follow-up to the hugely successful "Little Fugitive", Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin's "Lovers and Lollipops" is the enchanting tale of a seven-year-old girl's reaction to her mom...

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...

Directed by Daniel Mann • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
Starring Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques

Daniel Mann ("The Rose Tattoo") transforms Alan Paton's novel of racial oppression “Cry the Beloved Country” into a tragic and beautiful film musical. Gilded by Maxwell Anderson's luci...

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 Dennis Scholl • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Jerry Saltz, David Anfam, Neal Benezra

Jackson Pollock once said of Clyfford Still, “he makes the rest of us look academic,” Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a “myth-maker” and Clement Greenberg called him “an independent gen...

Directed by Oeke Hoogendijk • Documentary • 2022 • Netherlands • English, Dutch with English subtitles
Featuring Johanna Stephens-Janning, Doris Stockhausen, Julika Stockhausen

Brilliant...Megalomaniac...Unstageable – these are just some of the words that have been used to describe the mammoth a...

Directed by Geethu Mohandas • Drama • 2013 • India • Hindi with English subtitles
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Geetanjali Thapa, Manya Gupta

An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, "Liar's Dice" is a deeply affecting road movie set in picturesque mountains on the Tibetan border to ...

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 Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1969 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Luc Godard

In this classic film from Jean-Luc Godard, two militants have a discourse on language while alone in an abandoned television studio. Referring to spoke...

Directed by Tab Murphy • Adventure • 1995 • US • English
Starring Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey

Tom Berenger stars as a bounty hunter hired to track down three escaped convicts in the Oxbow region of the Rockies in this beautifully photographed western filled with romance, adventure, and folklor...

Directed by Harry J. Revier, Roland Price • Drama • 1936 • US • English
Starring Marie DeForrest, William Marcos, Victor Justi

Los Hermanos Penitentes celebrated Lent by enacting elaborate tableaus of flagellation, self-mutilation, and crucifixion. Envisioning the box-office potential of such a ...

Directed by Jenny Murray • Documentary • 2018 • US • English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Dora Maria Tellez, Daisy Zemora, Claudia Lopez Alonso

"Las Sandinistas!" tells the untold stories of Nicaraguan women warriors and social revolutionaries who shattered barriers to lead combat a...

Directed by Sam Blair, Joseph Martin • Documentary • 2016 • UK, Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Featuring Casanad Szegedi

As vice-president of Hungary’s far-right extremist party, Csanad Szegedi espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric and Holocaust denials. But his life was upended when his gr...

Directed by Francis Veber • Comedy • 1983 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard, Anny Duperey

When her 16 year old son runs away from their Paris home, Christine separately convinces two former lovers that they are each the boy's father. Gérard Depard...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2020 • Israel, France • English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Maria Zreik, Khawla Ibraheem, Hana Laslo

With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, “Laila in Haifa” explores the interweaving stories of five women set over one...

Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé • Thriller • 2023 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois, Yvan Attal

Isabelle Huppert stars in this investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and corrupt politics that traces the true story of Maureen Kearn...

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1967 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Juliet Berto

Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of students form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After stud...

Directed by Francis Veber • Comedy • 1981 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard, Pedro Armendariz Jr.

After unsuccessfully searching for a French tycoon’s missing daughter in Mexico, tough-guy private eye Campana (Gérard Depardieu) is grudgingly saddl...

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...

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...

Directed by Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Documentary • 1970 • US • English
Featuring Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee

Nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards, this monumental film follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his rise from regional activist to worl...

Directed by Robert May • Documentary • 2013 • US • English
Featuring Mark Ciavarella, Michael Conahan

A riveting look behind a notorious scandal that rocked the nation. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School, a small town in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania elected a charismatic judge...

Directed by Juliet Bashore • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • US • English • Mature Content
Featuring Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin

Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunges into the 1980s porn industry and takes an unsparing look at issues...

Directed by Didier Grousset • Crime • 1986 • French • French with English subtitles
Starring Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru, Dominique Lavanant

From co-writer/producer Luc Besson ("The Fifth Element") comes the sharp and sumptuous sci-fi/comedy/thriller. A crazy, old, bored and unemployed sci...

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...

Directed by Steve Brand • Documentary • 1984 • US • English
Featuring Yossi Klein, Zoltan Klein, Breindy Klein

The story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zoltan, who had survived the Holocaust's devastation of Hungarian Jewry by ...

Directed by René Clément • Crime • 1964 • France • English
Starring Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, Lola Albright

A scorching love triangle ignites between the iconic Jane Fonda , sultry Lola Albright and Alain Delon in René Clément’s "Joy House." Delon stars as Marc, a dashing young con man on the run...

Directed by Bert Stern • Documentary • 1959 • US • English
Featuring Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Anita O'Day

Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and directed by renowned photographer Bert Stern, this film features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends includin...

Directed by Jafar Panahi • Arthouse • 2015 • Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
Starring Jafar Panahi

Acclaimed director Jafar Panahi drives a cab through the streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day and capturing a spirited slice of Iranian society while bril...

Directed by Denis Heroux • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
Starring Elly Stone, Mort Shuman, Jacques Brel

Eschewing conventional narrative, “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” transforms Mort Shuman and Eric Blau's beloved 35-song stage revue into an infectious movie musical that ...

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 Aaron Maurer • Documentary • 2021 • US • English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Congressman Raul Ruiz

"Invisible Valley" weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farmworkers, wealthy snow- birds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California...

Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania • Arthouse • 2023 • France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia • Arabic, French with English subtitles
Featuring Hend Sabri, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui

Winner of the Best Documentary prize at Cannes and the Gotham Awards, this riveting documentary by Oscar-nominated ...

Directed by Lindsay Anderson • Theatre • 1975 • UK, US • English
Starring Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye

Lindsay Anderson turns his acclaimed Royal Court Theater run into a riveting cinematic interpretation of David Storey's ferocious play. In their tiny Yorkshire house, God-fearing and h...

Directed by Carolyn Jones • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Cathlyn Robinson, Michelle Lyon, Rabih Saad

Following emergency nurses and their patients in seven unique settings across the U.S, this documentary sheds light on the biggest healthcare crises facing Americans today, and the...

Directed by Connie Hochman • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring George Balanchine, Jacques d'Amboise, Merrill Ashley

"In Balanchine's Classroom" takes us back to the glory years of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to...

Directed by Mathieu Amalric • Arthouse • 2022 • France • French, German with English subtitles
Starring Vicky Krieps, Arieh Worthalter, Anne-Sophie Bowen-Chatet

Vicky Krieps ("Phantom Thread") gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for mysterious reaso...

Directed by Rüdiger Suchsland • Documentary • 2018 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Featuring Udo Kier, Susan Sontag

Narrated by Udo Kier, Rüdiger Suchsland's film suggests that the Third Reich was an immersive movie starring the German nation created by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goeb...

Directed by Wayne Price • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Guy Clark, David Allan Coe, Justin Townes Earle

2021 marked the 45th anniversary of the seminal music documentary "Heartworn Highways", a film that captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw Country movement in the mid-70s. Toda...

Directed by James Szalapski • Documentary • 1976 • US • English
Featuring Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, David Alan Coe

In the mid-‘70s, filmmaker James Szalapski documented the then-nascent country music movement that would become known as “outlaw country.” Inspired, in part, by newly-long-haired...

Directed by Daniel Raim • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Harold Michelson, Lillian Michelson, Mel Brooks

Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don't recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and...

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...

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 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...

Directed by Jean Rollin • Horror • 1979 • France • French with English subtitles • Mature Content
Starring Franca Mai, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Marie Lemaire

The masterpiece of renowned French filmmaker Jean Rollin, "Fascination" follows a swaggering thief who hides out in a lavish chateau, holding...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2007 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau

Ana (Juliette Binoche) is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother Uli when he travels to France for the death of their fa...

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...

Directed by Nancy Buirski • Documentary • 2023 • US • English
Featuring Bob Balaban, Brian De Palma, Jon Voight

This is not a documentary about the making of "Midnight Cowboy". It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a trouble...

Directed by Margot Benacerraf • Documentary • 1959 • Venezuela, France • Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring José Ignacio Cabrujas

Hailed as a masterpiece of poetic filmmaking, director Margot Benacerraf’s documentary captures the stories of three families and their back-breaking work in th...

Directed by Atom Egoyan • Drama • 2020 • Canada • English
Starring David Thewlis, Laysla de Oliveira, Luke Wilson

Jim (David Thewlis) and his daughter Veronica, a high school music teacher, attempt to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets in this film from Academy Award no...

Directed by Sophie Fiennes • Documentary • 2018 • UK, Ireland • English
Featuring Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare

Sophie Fiennes’s electrifying documentary is a journey through the public and private worlds of mega-icon Grace Jones that contrasts musical sequences with intimate perso...

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 ...

Directed by Verane Frediani • Documentary • 2017 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Dominique Crenn, Barbara Lync, Alice Waters

In the male dominated food universe, discover the women changing the game on all levels. "Goddessess of Food" presents the best female chefs, including...