Directed by Férid Boughedir • Drama • 1990 • Tunisia • Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Selim Boughedir, Mustapha Adouani, Rabia Ben Abdallah

Set against the sensual backdrop of modern Tunisia, renowned Arab critic-turned-filmmaker Férid Boughedir's “Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces” is a b...

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer • Drama • 1933 • US • English
Starring Diane Sinclair, Lyman Williams, George Irving

Eugène Brieux’s play "Les Avaries" endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it. Later adapted by Upton Sinclair into the novel "Damaged Goods", ...

Directed by Bill Gunn • Horror • 1973 • US • English
Starring Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American ide...

Directed by Emilio Miraglia • Thriller • 1967 • Italy • English
Starring Henry Silva, Fred Beir, Evelyn Stewart

This explosive Eurospy thriller stars the criminally cool Henry Silva as a man who must die twice in order to live. Time, memory and fear have no meaning for Secret Service man John Ch...

Directed by Nabil Ayouch • Drama • 2021 • France, Morocco • Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Anas Basbousi, Ismail Adouab, Nouhaila Arif

Morocco’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards offers a refreshing dose of youthful inspiration alongside a powerful message about the power of...

Directed by G. W. Pabst • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne

G. W. Pabst’s provocative adaptation of Margarethe Böhme's notorious novel, in which the naive daughter (Louise Brooks) of a middle class pharmacist is seduced by...

Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, Ray Ashley • Drama • 1953 • US • English
Starring Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Richie Andrusco

Widely regarded as one of the most influential films of American independent cinema and nominated for an Academy Award, “The Little Fugitive” is a charming ...

Directed by Morris Engel • Drama • 1958 • US • English
Starring Viveca Lindfors, John Myhers, Chiarina Barile

A work of artistic finesse and great emotional candor by celebrated independent filmmaker Morris Engel, “Weddings and Babies” is a bittersweet tale of love, hope and sacrifice, staged t...

Directed by Guy Maddin • Arthouse • 1988 • Canada • English
Starring Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck

Guy Maddin’s highly acclaimed first feature is regarded as one of the true cult hits on the midnight movie circuit. Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba ne...

Directed by Daniel Auteuil • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélézy, Raphaël Personnaz

Faithfully adapted by Daniel Auteuil, the second part of Marcel Pagnol’s classic trilogy follows the loves and losses of a Marseille port community. Fann...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Comedy • 1998 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Moshe Ivgy, Hanna Maron, Juliano Mer-Khamis

In “Yom Yom”, Israel's preeminent writer-director Amos Gitai weaves a comic tale of characters driven by divided loyalties and inhibitions in the mixed nat...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2015 • Israel, France • Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Sarah Adler, Meshi Olinski, Leah Koenig

Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp,Tsili hides in the forest,...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2001 • Israel, France • English
Starring Samantha Morton, Danny Huston, Arthur Miller

Set in 1940s Palestine, Samantha and her husband Dov, both of American descent, have immigrated due to their Zionist convictions. Dov is a communist and architect. He dedicates ...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2010 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Catherine Jacob

Léa Seydoux stars in Amos Gitai's adaptation of Elsa Triolet’s 1959 novel. A young couple marry in 1940s France and we follow the arc of their marriage ...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2009 • Israel, France • Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Amos Gitai, Rivka Gitai

“Carmel” is Amos Gitai's deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2000 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Juliano Mer, Uri Ran Klauzner, Tomer Ruso

An Official Selection at the Cannes, New York, and Toronto Film Festivals, Amos Gitai's "Kippur" is a gut-wrenching journey through beautiful landscapes ravag...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2007 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau

Ana (Juliette Binoche) is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother Uli when he travels to France for the death of their fa...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 1986 • Austria, Israel, UK • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Simone Benyamin, Mohammed Bakri, Juliano Merr

Amos Gitai’s debut feature, which draws upon his mother Efratia’s own Biblical scholarship, is filmed as a series of ritualized tableaux amid the rui...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2013 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Yuval Scharf, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Sarah Adler

Filmed in one sequence shot by acclaimed director Amos Gitai, “Ana Arabia” follows a young journalist who visits a small community of outcasts, Jews and ...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2004 • Israel, France • Hebrew, English with English subtitles
Starring Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner

Amos Gitai's ensemble film examines the lives of a half dozen residents of a run-down Tel-Aviv apartment building. For the apartment dwellers, eve...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2005 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam Abbass

Rebecca, played by Natalie Portman, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna i...

Directed by Ursula Meier • Arthouse • 2012 • Switzerland, France • French with English subtitles
Starring Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston

Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Ursula Meier's film follows a young boy who lives with his older sister (Léa Seydoux) ...

Directed by Edoardo De Angelis • Drama • 2018 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo

"Indivisible" is an award-winning Italian drama about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. Dasy and Viola are conjoined twin sisters living in the subu...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 1999 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Uri Ran Klauzner, Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattub

Amos Gitai’s impassioned feminist polemic selected for the 1999 Cannes Film Festival is set in an ultra-Orthodox enclave of Jerusalem and follows a pious...