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...

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 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 ...

Directed by Sophie Hyde • Drama • 2013 • Australia • English
Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Del Herbert-Jane

16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for a gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday a...

Directed by Kathleen Collins • Comedy • 1982 • US • English
Starring Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones

The inimitable Kathleen Collins's second film is the story of two remarkable people: Sara Rogers, a Black professor of philosophy who embarks on an intellectual quest just as her painter husb...

Directed by Ayoka Chenzira • Drama • 1994 • US • English
Starring Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Kirby Nunes

An essential film in the ‘90s Black cinema canon, Ayoka Chenzira's overlooked classic "Alma's Rainbow" is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in...

Directed by Stéphane Brizé • Drama • 2015 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller

Vincent Lindon won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance as unemployed everyman Thierry in his search for work. Nothing ...

Directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac • Drama • 2021 • France, Belgium • French with English subtitles
Starring Guslagie Malanda, Catherine Mouchet, Pascal Greggory

When an 8-year-old black child is taken in for a night by the wealthy white family of one of her schoolmates, the experience haunts her fo...

Directed by Fruit Chan • Crime • 1997 • Hong Kong • Cantonese with English subtitles
Starring Sam Lee, Neiky Hui-Chi Yim, Wenders Li

The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, director Fruit Chan’s atmospheric character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work that ends in t...

Directed by Jean Delannoy • Crime • 1958 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura

Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Jean Gabin is perfec...

Directed by Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich • LGBTQ • 1931 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda

As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings...

Directed by Giordano Gederlini • Crime • 2022 • Belgium • French, Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Antonio de la Torre, Marine Vacth, Olivier Gourmet

In the pulse-pounding thriller, Spanish subway train operator Leo witnesses his estranged son Hugo fall to his death from the edge of a Bru...

Directed by Jean Delannoy • Crime • 1958 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier

Maigret is summoned by the Countess to the Château de Saint-Fiacre, where she shows him a letter she has received predicting the day on which she will die. Jea...

Directed by Russell Rouse • Drama • 1966 • US • English
Starring Stephen Boyd, Milton Berle, Tony Bennett

In this overheated camp-classic, Frankie Fane (Stephen Boyd) has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. As he prepares to win his first Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly (Tony Bennett)...