Directed by Matt Tyrnauer • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Ian Schrager Steve Rubell, Norma Kamali

A haven of hedonism, glitz, and glamour, the infamous New York nightclub Studio 54 was the ultimate escapist fantasy until it imploded in financial scandal. With unprecedented access a...

Directed by Jia Zhangke • Arthouse • 2013 • China • Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Tao Zhao, Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang

Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke, this daring, poetic and grand-scale film focuses on four charact...

Directed by Tania Cypriano • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Jess Ting

With extraordinary access, “Born to Be” offers an intimate look at the pioneering work of Dr. Jess Ting (he/him) at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. There, for the first ...

Directed by Christian Petzold • Arthouse • 2012 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock

Winner of two awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Christian Petzold's "Barbara" follows a young doctor, played by Nina Hoss ("Tar"), who has applied for an e...

Directed by Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot • Documentary • 2022 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot

The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove ...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • Arthouse • 2020 • Italy, US • English, Italian with English subtitles
Starring Willem Dafoe, Anna Ferrara, Cristina Chiriac

Abel Ferrara’s delicately surrealistic work of autofiction reteams the filmmaker and his frequent lead Willem Dafoe, who delivers a career-best p...

Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof • Arthouse • 2021 • Germany, Czech Republic, Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
Starring Ehsan Mirhosseini, Shaghayegh Shoorian, Kaveh Ahangar

Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, this Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner by Mohammad Rasoulof is an anthology...

Directed by Iram Haq • Drama • 2018 • Norway, Sweden, Germany • Urdu, Norwegian with English subtitles
Starring Maria Mozhdah, Adil Hussain, Rohit Saraf

Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life. When out with her friends, she's a regular Norwegian teenager. At home with her family, she is the ...

Directed by Charlotte Regan • Arthouse • 2023 • UK • English
Starring Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson, Alin Uzun

Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, this vibrant father-daughter comedy follows a resourceful 12-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in a London flat until her estranged father ...

Directed by Keith Maitland • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Keith Maitland, Susan Thomson, Megan Gilbride

On August 1, 1966, a sniper from the top floor of the University of Texas Tower opened fire, holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. Combining archival footage with rotosco...

Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman • Sci-Fi • 2021 • US, Rwanda • English, Kinyarwanda with English subtitles
Starring Cheryl Isheja, Kaya Free, Eliane Umuhire

In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime expl...

Directed by Lila Avilés • Drama • 2019 • Mexico • Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Gabriela Cartol, Teresa Sanchez

In her feature debut, theater director Lila Avilés turns the monotonous work day of Eve, a chambermaid at a high-end Mexico City hotel, into a beautifully observed film. Set ...

Directed by Carl Deal, Tia Lessin • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
Featuring Brian Nobles, Wink Rivers, Kimberly Rivers Roberts

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. “Trouble the Water” takes you inside ...

Directed by Emir Kusturica • Arthouse • 1997 • Federal Republic of Yugosolavia • Serbian, German, French, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, "Underground" is a visionary masterpiece where hope, ...

Directed by Sebastian Schipper • Arthouse • 2015 • Germany • English, German with English subtitles
Starring Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski

Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and shot in a single, uninterrupted take, “Victoria” stars a runaway party girl from Madrid...

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 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 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 Amos Gitai • Drama • 2001 • Israel, France • English
Starring Samantha Morton, Danny Huston, Arthur Miller

Set in 1940s Palestine, Samantha and her husband Dov, both of American descent, have immigrated due to their Zionist convictions. Dov is a communist and architect. He dedicates ...

Directed by Edoardo De Angelis • Drama • 2018 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo

"Indivisible" is an award-winning Italian drama about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. Dasy and Viola are conjoined twin sisters living in the subu...

Directed by Ken Loach • Drama • 2020 • UK • English
Starring Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone

British master Ken Loach is one of the only directors to win the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival not once but twice. Known for his socially conscious filmmaking, Loach updates his...

Directed by Pham Thien An • Drama • 2023 • Vietnam • Vietnamese with English subtitles
Starring Le Phong Vu, Nguyen Thi Truc Quynh, Nguyen Thinh

Winner of the prestigious Camera d’Or for best first film at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling "Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell" from Vietn...

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 Jayro Bustamente • Drama • 2015 • Guatemala, France • Kaqchikel, Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun

Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Jayro Bustamante's brilliant debut is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable...