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  • Tehran Taboo

    Movie

    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...

  • The Wound

    Movie

    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...

  • Chile '76

    Movie

    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...

  • Brighton 4th

    Movie

    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...

  • Berlin Alexanderplatz

    Movie

    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...

  • The Conformist: Restored Edition

    Movie

    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...

  • Bacurau

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Ahed's Knee

    Movie

    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...

  • Poison

    Movie

    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...

  • Body and Soul

    Movie

    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...

  • Fear and Desire: Uncut Premiere Version

    Movie

    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...

  • Murder in Harlem

    Movie

    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...

  • The Retrieval

    Movie

    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...

  • Millennium Mambo

    Movie

    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...

  • Lash of the Penitentes

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Last and First Men

    Movie

    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...

  • Down Down the Deep River

    Movie

    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...

  • Downtown 81

    Movie

    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...

  • Native Son

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Test Pattern

    Movie

    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...

  • The Outside Man

    Movie

    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...

  • The Wanderers

    Movie

    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...

  • Two Small Bodies

    Movie

    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...

  • Alps
    Movie

    Alps

    Movie

    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 ...