Directed by Jeffrey Perkins • Documentary • 2019 • US, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Denmark, Italy, France, Netherlands • English
Featuring Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, Nam June Paik

This feature documentary is as mercurial as its subject, George Maciunas, impresario of the international...

Directed by Bill Gunn • Horror • 1973 • US • English
Starring Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American ide...

Directed by Joseph Losey • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
Starring Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely

Topol ("Fiddler on the Roof") and a cast of British theatrical aristocracy ground Bertolt Brecht's famous interpretation of the troubled life and anxious times of 17th century physicist and astrono...

Directed by Bruno Dumont • Comedy • 2021 • France, Germany, Italy, Belgium • French with English subtitles
Starring Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay

Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s Cannes Palme d'Or nominated film, which starts out as a satire of contempora...

Directed by Chase Joynt • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
Featuring Zachary Drucker, Chase Joynt, Silas Howard

Winner of the NEXT Innovator Award and Audience Award at the Sundance, "Framing Agnes" is the story of the pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender study co...

Directed by A. Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek, Ursula Puerrer • LGBTQ+ • 1992 • Austria • German with English subtitles
Starring Susanna Heilmayr, Ursula Pürrer, Angela Hans Scheirl

This pop sci-fi lesbian extravaganza set in the year 2700 in the fictional burned-out city of Asche follows the tan...

Directed by Michel Hazanavicius • Comedy • 2023 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Matilda Lutz

This wacky horror comedy, a remake of Japanese cult hit ''One Cut of the Dead'', follows a director making a single-take, low-budget zombie flick in which t...

Directed by Inés Toharia • Documentary • 2023 • Spain, Canada • English, French, Japanese, Catalan, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Martin Scorsese, Jonas Mekas, Ousmane Sembene

This documentary argues for the importance of film preservation through the voices of archivists, cur...

Directed by Yvonne Rainer • Arthouse • 1974 • US • English
Starring Dempster Leech, Shirley Soffer, John Erdman

Yvonne Rainer’s second landmark feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger, with Rainer needling at questions raised by contemporary femini...

Directed by Daniel Raim • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
Featuring Jeff Goldblum, Norman Jewison, Topol

Narrated by Jeff Goldblum and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim, this documentary captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world ...

Directed by F.W. Murnau • Silent • 1926 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Gosta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn

Mobilizing full studio resources, F.W. Murnau orchestrated a colossal adaptation of Goethe's “Faust” that ranks among the greatest achievements of German silent c...

Directed by Daniel Auteuil • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélézy, Raphaël Personnaz

Faithfully adapted by Daniel Auteuil, the second part of Marcel Pagnol’s classic trilogy follows the loves and losses of a Marseille port community. Fann...

Directed by Dominik Graf • Drama • 2021 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Tom Schilling, Albrecht Schuch, Saskia Rosendahl

In this dazzling adaptation of Erich Kästner's classic of Weimar literature, a young ad-man spends his days working for a cigarette company and his nights w...

Directed by Kristi Zea • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Murray, Chuck Close

An intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray, this documentary explores the relationship between Murray’s family life and career as well as her place in contempo...

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...

Directed by Markus Imhoof • Documentary • 2018 • Switzerland, Germany • English, German with English subtitles
Featuring Markus Imhoof, Caterina Genta, Robert Hunger-Buhler

"Eldorado" is a documentary inspired by director Markus Imhoof’s childhood relationship with an Italian girl just after Wor...

Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet • Drama • 1970 • Tunisia, France • French with English subtitles
Starring Pierre Zimmer, Catherine Jourdan, Lorraine Rainer

From the darkly erotic imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet (“Trans-Europe-Express”) comes “Eden and After”, a dreamlike fable in which a grou...

Directed by Nancy Buirski • Documentary • 2015 • US • English
Featuring Robert Redford, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary

Robert Redford narrates this intimate portrait of Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, who began probing the edges of consciousness through psychedelics. Now...

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...

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...

Directed by G. W. Pabst • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne

G. W. Pabst’s provocative adaptation of Margarethe Böhme's notorious novel, in which the naive daughter (Louise Brooks) of a middle class pharmacist is seduced by...

Directed by Sue Williams • Documentary • 2020 • US • English and Cantonese with English subtitles
Featuring Denise Ho

"Denise Ho – Becoming the Song" profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented access, the film explores her remarkable jo...

Directed by Carolyn Jones • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Rudolph Bilotti Sr., Berthold Cohen, Charlotte Cohen

"Defining Hope" weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illnesses, and the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much m...

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer • Drama • 1933 • US • English
Starring Diane Sinclair, Lyman Williams, George Irving

Eugène Brieux’s play "Les Avaries" endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it. Later adapted by Upton Sinclair into the novel "Damaged Goods", ...

Directed by Terence Young • Action • 1970 • US • English
Starring Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason

Screen legend Charles Bronson is Joe Martin, a quiet American living the quiet life in the South of France renting boats to tourists. He’s happily married to Fabienne (Liv Ullmann) and has...

Directed by Salome Chasnoff • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Lawrence Carter-Long, Candace Coleman, Mike Ervin

"Code of the Freaks" presents a radical reframing of the use of disabled characters in film. Using hundreds of clips spanning over 100 years of moviemaking, and a cast of d...

Directed by Suzanne Raes • Documentary • 2023 • Netherlands • Dutch with English subtitles
Featuring Pieter Roelofs, Anna Krekeler, Jonathan Janson

Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever, mounted in early 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the...

Directed by Manuela Martelli • Drama • 2022 • Chile, Argentina • Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Aline Kuppenheim, Nicolas Sepulveda, Hugo Medina

Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, "Chile ‘76" builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as i...

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 Mario Monicelli • Comedy • 1965 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell

Directed by Italian comedy legend Mario Monicelli, "Casanova '70" finds army officer Andrea (Marcello Mastroianni) dealing with a particularly strange case ...

Directed by Rosalynde LeBlanc, Tom Hurwitz • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Bill T. Jones, Arnie Zane

Reaching beyond the world of dance and the remarkable legacy of renowned choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones, this Peabody Award winning documentary touches the essence of c...

Directed by J. Lee Thompson • Action • 1980 • US • English
Starring Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Fernando Rey

Giff Hoyt (Charles Bronson), a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. The stakes of the game are high, the rules hard, and each man and w...

Directed by Harold Pinter • Theatre • 1974 • UK, US • English
Starring Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale

Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a self-made train wreck of an English Literature professor who experiences a truly awful day. Accla...

Directed by Levan Koguashvili • Drama • 2021 • Georgia • English, Georgian, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Levan Tedaishvili, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze

In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, a former wrestler embarks on a journey from his...

Directed by Nina Menkes • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
Featuring Julie Dash, Penelope Spheeris, Rosanna Arquette

This eye-opening documentary from the Sundance Film Festival explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design and its connections to the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assau...

Directed by Catherine Gund • Documentary • 2014 • US • English
Featuring Elizabeth Streb, Sarah Callan, Fabio Tavares

"Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity" traces the evolution of Elizabeth Streb's movement philosophy as she pushes herself and her performers from the ground to the sky.

Directed by Alexandra Dean • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Mel Brooks, Peter Bogdanovich, Diane Kruger

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are ...

Directed by Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica • Anthology • 1962 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren

Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in this landmark anthology film. Mari...

Directed by Billy Woodberry • Drama • 1983 • US • English
Starring Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore, Angela Burnett

A key masterpiece of the L.A. Rebellion film movement written by Charles Burnett, "Bless Their Little Hearts" showcases director Billy Woodberry's attentive eye and sensitivity to real-...

Directed by Brigitte Berman • Documentary • 1981 • US • English
Featuring Bix Beiderbecke, Richard Basehart, Doc Cheatham

Cornetist / pianist / composer Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was jazz’s man who got away. Beiderbecke became a legend even in his short lifetime, bringing an amazing new...

Directed by Jeffrey Wolf • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Russell G. Jones, Sharon Washington, Jason Samuels Smith

This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work ...

Directed by Burhan Qurbani • Drama • 2020 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Welket Bungué, Albrecht Schuch, Jella Haase

An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in this audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Doblin’s 1929 novel. Afte...

Directed by Emilio Miraglia • Thriller • 1967 • Italy • English
Starring Henry Silva, Fred Beir, Evelyn Stewart

This explosive Eurospy thriller stars the criminally cool Henry Silva as a man who must die twice in order to live. Time, memory and fear have no meaning for Secret Service man John Ch...

Directed by Joe May • Silent • 1930 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich

Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era. A strait-laced traffic co...

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho • Arthouse • 2016 • Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
Starring Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos

Clara (Sonia Braga), a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is ...

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 Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2013 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Yuval Scharf, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Sarah Adler

Filmed in one sequence shot by acclaimed director Amos Gitai, “Ana Arabia” follows a young journalist who visits a small community of outcasts, Jews and ...

Directed by Steven Newmark • Documentary • 2018 • U.S. • English
Featuring Ram Dass, Neem Karoli Baba aka Maharaj-ji

"American Yogi" is a delightful autobiographical documentary about a nice Jewish boy from Miami who travels to San Francisco for the “Summer of Love” and returns a hippie. Later, ...

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 Lina Wertmüller • Comedy • 1974 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Luigi Diberti, Lina Polito, Nino Bignamini

Written and directed by Lina Wertmüller ("Swept Away"), this story follows Gigi and Carletto, two Southern country boys who travel north to get work in Milan. ...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2004 • Israel, France • Hebrew, English with English subtitles
Starring Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner

Amos Gitai's ensemble film examines the lives of a half dozen residents of a run-down Tel-Aviv apartment building. For the apartment dwellers, eve...

Directed by Stéphane Brizé • Arthouse • 2017 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau

"A Woman's Life" is a tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy. Up...

Directed by Peter Wang • Comedy • 1986 • US, China • English, Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Peter Wang, Sharon Iwai, Kelvin Han Yee

The first American movie shot in China, "A Great Wall" is a delightful comedy about a San Francisco computer programmer who quits and moves his family to...

Directed by Jack Hazan • Documentary •1974 • UK • English
Featuring David Hockney

In this intimate and innovative film about artist David Hockney, director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid. The result is at once a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s an...

Directed by Emily Taguchi, Jake Lefferman • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring David Hogg, Brooke Harrison, Andrew Pollack

After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 that killed 17 people and launched a nationwide student movement, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Ja...

Directed by Nadav Lapid • Drama • 2022 • Israel • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Avshalom Pollak, Nur Fibak

This Cannes Jury Prize winning film follows an Israeli filmmaker in his mid-40s who arrives in a remote village in the desert to present one of his films. There he meets an officer...

Directed by Óskar Páll Sveinsson • Documentary • 2021 • Iceland • Icelandic with English subtitles
Featuring Veiga Grétarsdóttir

Veiga Grétarsdóttir is the first person in the world to attempt to kayak over 2,000 kilometers around Iceland, counter-clockwise and “against the current.” Veiga’s per...

Directed by Nancy Buirski • Documentary • 2013 • US • English
Featuring Tanaquil Le Clercq, George Balanchine

A mesmerizing portrait of legendary ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq, muse to both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, whose career was cut short by polio at the age of 27. This is a story...

Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc • Documentary • 2020 • Romania, Germany • Romanian with English subtitles
Featuring Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica Enache

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary follows a family with...

Directed by Peter Greenaway • Comedy • 1990 • UK • English
Starring Andrea Ferréol, Brian Deacon

A masterpiece of modern cinema, “A Zed and Two Noughts” is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in f...