Directed by Jack Hazan, David Mingay • Drama • 1980 • UK • English
Starring Ray Gange, Joe Strummer, Mick Jones

Set against a background of riots, anti-racist demos, and police hostility, this unforgettable film portraits the UK at a moment when subcultural shock troops met those of a rising rig...

Directed by Maurice Tourneur • Crime • 1944 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Albert Préjean, Santa Relli, Germaine Kerjean

With trademark hat and pipe, Albert Préjean stars as the venerable Inspector Maigret in this first-rate Georges Simenon adaptation. A young woman named Céci...

Directed by Géza von Radványi • Drama • 1958 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Romy Schneider, Lilli Palmer, Therese Giehse

A landmark of queer cinema, "Maedchen in Uniform" (1958) follows a boarding school student who falls for her kind teacher, but her heartfelt confession spa...

Directed by Stéphane Brizé • Arthouse • 2017 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau

"A Woman's Life" is a tale of tormented love embedded in the restrictive social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy. Up...

Directed by Miguel Gomes • Drama • 2012 • Portugal • Portuguese with English subtitles
Starring Telmo Churro, Miguel Gomes, Teresa Madruga

Winner of Critics Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, “Tabu” is the exquisitely surreal two-part tale of Aurora, who upon her death-bed will make a mysterious...

Directed by F.W. Murnau • Silent • 1926 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Gosta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn

Mobilizing full studio resources, F.W. Murnau orchestrated a colossal adaptation of Goethe's “Faust” that ranks among the greatest achievements of German silent c...

Directed by Matthew Harrison • Independent, Drama • 1995 • US • English
Starring Jason Andrews, Eddie Daniels, Kevin Corrigan

Director Matthew Harrison, one of the most exciting American independent filmmaking talents to emerge in the 1990's, was awarded a Special Jury Recognition for Directing ...

Directed by F. W. Murnau • Silent • 1921 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Arnold Korff, Lotar Mehnert, Paul Hartmann

F. W. Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within. A hunting party is interrupted by the arri...

Directed by Francisca Alegría • Arthouse • 2023 • Chile • Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Leonor Varela, Mía Maestro, Alfredo Castro

Singing cows, fish, and bees introduce a world of magical realism in this stunning Sundance hit. Long-dead Magdalena (Mía Maestro) surfaces in a polluted r...

Directed by Patrice Leconte • Drama • 1999 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis

Patrice Leconte's intoxicating "Girl on the Bridge" follows the whirlwind courtship of carnival knife thrower Gabor (Daniel Auteuil) and lonesome wanderer Adele (Vanessa P...

Directed by Kent Mackenzie • Arthouse • 1961 • US • English
Starring Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds

From dusk to dawn, a group of young Native Americans in Los Angeles hang out, dance, drink, flirt, and remember life on the reservations they have left in this glistening film. Outside ...

Directed by Naomi Kawase • Drama • 2015 • Japan, Germany, France • Japanese with English subtitles
Starring Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Etsuko Ichihara

Shot during the height of cherry blossom season and selected to open the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, this touc...

Directed by Férid Boughedir • Comedy • 1998 • Tunisia, France • Arabic, French with English subtitles
Starring Sonia Mankaï, Ava Cohen-Jonathan

Beautifully shot on the sun-dappled seaside of Tunisia, Férid Boughedir's summer comedy beautifully captures the waning innocence of three teenage girlf...

Directed by Eliza Hittman • Drama • 2013 • US • English
Starring Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein

In this unflinchingly honest and refreshingly unsentimental coming-of-age story from Eliza Hittman ("Never Rarely Sometimes Always"), 14-year-old Lila spends a languid Brooklyn s...

Directed by Nabil Ayouch • Arthouse • 2014 • Morocco • Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdelilah Rachid, Hamza Souidek

Winner at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and Morocco's submission to the 85th Academy Awards, "Horses of God" is the story of two brothers living in an ...

Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet • Drama • 1970 • Tunisia, France • French with English subtitles
Starring Pierre Zimmer, Catherine Jourdan, Lorraine Rainer

From the darkly erotic imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet (“Trans-Europe-Express”) comes “Eden and After”, a dreamlike fable in which a grou...

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 Agnieszka Holland • Drama • 2024 • Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium • English, Polish, Arabic, French with English subtitles
Starring Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai

Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland ("Europa Europa") brings her masterful filmmaking eye and d...

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 ...