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...

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 Lavinia Currier • Drama • 2010 • US • English, French, Sango, and Akka with English subtitles
Starring Kris Marshall, Isaach de Bankole, Will Yun Lee

Ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno traveled from New Jersey to the forests of Central Africa to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. He ...

Directed by Margarethe von Trotta • Drama • 2009 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung

Hildegard von Bingen, a visionary 12th-century Benedictine nun, mystic, composer, and herbalist, was truly ahead of her time. In "Vision," Margarethe...

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 Urška Djukić • Drama • 2025 • Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia • Slovenian with English subtitles
Starring Jara Sofija Ostan, Mina Svajger, Sasa Tabakovió

During a weekend choir trip, an introverted Catholic school girl must navigate unfamiliar surroundings, complex teenage social st...

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 ...