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 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 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 Charles Burnett • Drama • 1977 • US • English
Starring Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy

Charles Burnett’s masterpiece captures the trials, fragile joys, and tenacious humor of Black working-class life in 1970s Los Angeles. Centering on a weary slaughterhouse worker, t...

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 Mathieu Kassovitz • Crime • 2001 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Dominique Sanda

When France’s leading serial killer investigator Commissaire Pierre Niemans (Jean Reno, “Léon: The Professional”) is called to examine a grisly murder, he en...

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 Jean-Marc Vallée • Drama • 2012 • Canada • French with English subtitles
Starring Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Evelyne Brochu

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée ("Dallas Buyers Club"), "Café de Flore" is a love story about people separated by time and place, but connected in profound an...

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 John Hanson, Rob Nilsson • Drama • 1978 • US • English
Starring Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano

Cannes Camera d'Or winner "Northern Lights" is a powerful work of political cinema that dramatizes the formation of the populist Nonpartisan League in North Dakota in the mid-1910s....

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 Mikhail Kalatozov • Arthouse • 1964 • Cuba, Russia • Spanish, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Raquel Revuelta, Sergio Corrieri, Jean Bouise

Director Mikhail Kalatozov’s delirious masterpiece unfolds in four stunning vignettes that paint a portrait of pre-revolutionary Cuba—it...

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...