Directed by Charles Burnett • Drama • 1999 • US • English
Starring James Earl Jones, Lynn Redgrave, Margot Kidder

In Charles Burnett’s charming film, Lynn Redgrave plays a former housewife with an imagined lover, opera composer Puccini. She moves into a L.A. boarding house where she meets a Jama...

Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert • Drama • 2020 • Poland, Germany • Polish, Russian, French, Vietnamese with English subtitles
Starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza

With his hypnotic presence and quasi-magical abilities, a masseur from the East casts a spell over ...

Directed by Derek Jarman • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • UK • English
Starring Nigel Terry, Garry Cooper, Tilda Swinton

Derek Jarman's profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtati...

Directed by Peter Sehr • Crime • 2003 • US, Germany • English
Starring Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Pam Grier

Academy Award winner Adrien Brody electrifies as Jack, a dark-hearted con man with a poet’s soul in this urban aria. By night, he and Charlie scam Manhattan tourists, and by day, he w...

Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios • Drama • 2018 • Mexico, US, Canada • Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Leonardo Ortizgris, Simon Russell Beale

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival and starring Gael Garcia Bernal, "Museo" follows two...

Directed by Gabriel Mascaro • Arthouse • 2014 • Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
Starring Dandara de Morais, Geová Manoel Dos Santos, Maria Salvino Dos Santos

A steamy romance begins in a Brazilian coastal town in this Locarno Film Festival winner. When a tropical storm hits their vill...

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 Alejandro Loayza Grisi • Arthouse • 2022 • Bolivia, Uruguay, France • Quechua, Spanish with English subtitles
Starring José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque

In the starkly beautiful Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple lives a tranquil life herding llamas. When an uncomm...

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 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 Aristotle Torres • Drama • 2023 • US • English
Starring Asante Blackk, Luis Guzmán

South Bronx teen and gifted artist Kadir (Asante Blackk) attempts to rob no-nonsense MTA conductor Luis (Luis Guzmán) to prove himself to a local graffiti gang. The two share a meal that leads to a del...

Directed by Luchino Visconti • Arthouse • 1963 • Italy, France • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot

Five brothers move north with their mother to Milan, finding fame in the boxing ring and love in the same woman. Labeled by Scorsese as “one of t...

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 Andrés Wood • Drama • 2004 • Chile, Spain • Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli

Set in Chile, 1973, Andrés Wood’s award-winning “Machuca” follows Gonzalo and Pedro, two boys from opposite sides of Santiago society who form an unlikely...

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....