Directed by Ali Soozandeh • Drama• 2018 • Germany, Austria, Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
Starring Elmira Rafizadeh, Balil Yasar, Negar Mona Alizadeh

In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several women and a young musician intersect in the bustling metropolis of Tehran, where bre...

Directed by John Trengove • Drama • 2017 • South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France • Xhosa with English subtitles
Starring Mallory Wanecque, Timéo Mahaut, Johan Heldenbergh

Shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, "The Wound" is an exploration of tradition and sexuali...

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 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 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 Bernardo Bertolucci • Arthouse • 1970 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's It...

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles • Arthouse • 2019 • Brazil, France • English and Portuguese with English subtitles
Starring Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, "Bacurau" follows the inhabitants of a small Brazilian ...

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 Todd Haynes • Arthouse • 1991 • US • English
Starring Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, John Leguizamo

Winner of the Grand Jury Prizes at both the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, "Poison", directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Todd Haynes ("Carol"), is a groundbreaking American indie f...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux • Drama • 1925 • US • Silent with English intertitles
Starring Paul Robeson, Marshall Rodgers, Lawrence Chenault

This bold and controversial film by pioneer independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux follows the path of an escaped convict who poses as a pastor in a small s...

Directed by Stanley Kubrick • Arthouse • 1953 • US • English
Starring Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky

Stanley Kubrick’s debut feature feels like a waking dream rather than a conventional war film. In this existential drama, four soldiers return to their senses after crash-landing in a...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux • Drama • 1935 • US • English
Starring Clarence Brooks, Dorothy Van Engle, Alec Lovejoy

Oscar Micheaux’s remake of his own “The Gunsaulus Mystery” (1921) is based on the true-life murder of Mary Phagan. When a young woman is found dead in a factory office, a Black empl...

Directed by Chris Eska • Drama • 2014 • US • English
Starring Ashton Sanders, Keston John, Tishuan Scott

On the outskirts of the Civil War, white bounty hunters send a young boy on a mission into the north to find a fugitive freed man by earning his trust and luring him back to the south. Groun...

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien • Drama • 2001 • Taiwan • Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Tuan Chun-hao

Hou Hsiao-hsien's stylish and seductive submersion into Taipei nightlife stars Shu Qi ("The Assassin") as an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfrien...

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 Jóhann Jóhannsson • Arthouse • 2020 • Iceland • English
Starring Tilda Swinton

A stunning feature debut and final cinematic testament from the late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, "Last and First Men" is a poetic, hopeful, and tragic work as well as an allegory of remembrance, ideals, an...

Directed by Will Sheff • Drama • 2017 • US • English
Starring Duston Cornouyer, Griffin Gamache, Luke Bonner

This dreamlike, nostalgic film is a fictionalized representation of writer/director Will Sheff (of Okkervil River)'s childhood in smalltown New Hampshire, filtered through the best childr...

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 Pierre Chenal • Drama • 1951 • Argentina • English
Starring Richard Wright, Jean Wallace, Gloria Madison

A new restoration of the 1951 film version of Richard Wright's novel, "Native Son" exposes the injustices of urban African-American life through the eyes of Bigger Thomas, played ...

Directed by Shatara Michelle Ford • Drama • 2020 • US • English
Starring Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean

Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a B...

Directed by Jacques Deray • Crime • 1972 • US, France • English
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret

In this gritty 70s action classic from Jacques Deray ("La Piscine"), Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French hitman hired to kill a Los Angeles mafia boss by his son and daugh...

Directed by Philip Kaufman • Drama • 1979 • US • English
Starring Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Linda Manz

Featuring a golden oldies soundtrack and a talented cast of young up-and-comers, this cult classic from Phillip Kaufman follows the exploits of an Italian-American gang in the Bronx in 1963, turni...

Directed by Beth B • Arthouse • 1994 • US • English
Starring Suzy Amis, Fred Ward

After the disappearance of her two children, a nightclub hostess (Suzy Amis) is confronted in her home by an aggressive police lieutenant (Fred Ward) who subjects her to a series of ruthless interrogations. Directe...

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos • Arthouse • 2011 • Greece • Greek with English subtitles
Starring Ariane Labed, Angeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis

Before "The Favourite", Academy Award nominee Yorgos Lanthimos created this darkly comedic, absurdist vision of (in)human relationships, focusing on a ...