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Powerful Stories

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  • The Last Laugh

    Movie

    Directed by F. W. Murnau • Silent • 1924 • Germany • German with English intertitles
    Starring Emil Jannings

    One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, F. W. Murnau’s “The Last Laugh” stars Emil Jannings as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved ...

  • Laila in Haifa

    Movie

    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2020 • Israel, France • English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Maria Zreik, Khawla Ibraheem, Hana Laslo

    With an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors, “Laila in Haifa” explores the interweaving stories of five women set over one...

  • The Tenth Man

    Movie

    Directed by Daniel Burman • Drama • 2016 • Argentina • Spanish with English subtitles
    Starring Alan Sabbagh, Julieta Zylberberg, Usher Barilka

    Ari, who has built a successful career in New York, thinks he has left his past behind. But his distant father Usher, who runs a Jewish aid foundation in...

  • A Delicate Balance

    Movie

    Directed by Tony Richardson • Theatre • 1976 • US • English
    Starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield

    An invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore in this exceptional adaptation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Oscar-winners K...

  • The Iceman Cometh

    Movie

    Directed by John Frankenheimer • Theatre • 1973 • US • English
    Starring Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan

    Considered the definitive film version of Eugene O'Neill's play, this simple tale of a birthday celebration at a saloon takes a devastating look at disillusionment and dashed hopes. Lee...

  • The Homecoming

    Movie

    Directed by Peter Hall • Theatre • 1973 • UK, US • English
    Starring Paul Rogers, Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack

    A professor returns home after a long absence to introduce his wife to his father and two brothers, but the family reunion has unexpected and disturbing consequences. Based on one of Harold Pi...

  • The Man in the Glass Booth

    Movie

    Directed by Arthur Hiller • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
    Starring Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman

    Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and ...

  • The Maids

    Movie

    Directed by Christopher Miles • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
    Starring Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant

    Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play Paris maids who tend to a cruel socialite's unending domestic needs. Whenever Madame is away, the sisters obsessively act out a complex role...

  • Three Sisters

    Movie

    Directed by Laurence Olivier, John Sichel • Theatre • 1970 • US, Europe • English
    Starring Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell

    Anton Chekhov's classic play about the lives of three sisters living in exile in a remote Russian village is given the all-star treatment by director and star L...

  • Variety

    Movie

    Directed by Bette Gordon • Arthouse • 1985 • US • English
    Starring Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard Davidson

    Emerging out of the underground NYC arts scene that produced the late 80's boom in American independent cinema, Bette Gordon's "Variety" is a sexually charged tale of a woman's journey ...

  • Luther

    Movie

    Directed by Guy Green • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
    Starring Stacy Keach, Peter Cellier, Judi Dench

    John Osborne's play is a fascinating and powerful psychological study of the Augustinian monk Martin Luther, examining his central role in the birth of Protestantism and revolt against the Roman...

  • Lost in the Stars

    Movie

    Directed by Daniel Mann • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
    Starring Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques

    Daniel Mann ("The Rose Tattoo") transforms Alan Paton's novel of racial oppression “Cry the Beloved Country” into a tragic and beautiful film musical. Gilded by Maxwell Anderson's luci...

  • Butley

    Movie

    Directed by Harold Pinter • Theatre • 1974 • UK, US • English
    Starring Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale

    Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a self-made train wreck of an English Literature professor who experiences a truly awful day. Accla...

  • In Celebration

    Movie

    Directed by Lindsay Anderson • Theatre • 1975 • UK, US • English
    Starring Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye

    Lindsay Anderson turns his acclaimed Royal Court Theater run into a riveting cinematic interpretation of David Storey's ferocious play. In their tiny Yorkshire house, God-fearing and h...

  • Galileo

    Movie

    Directed by Joseph Losey • Theatre • 1974 • US • English
    Starring Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely

    Topol ("Fiddler on the Roof") and a cast of British theatrical aristocracy ground Bertolt Brecht's famous interpretation of the troubled life and anxious times of 17th century physicist and astrono...

  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

    Movie

    Directed by Denis Heroux • Theatre • 1975 • US • English
    Starring Elly Stone, Mort Shuman, Jacques Brel

    Eschewing conventional narrative, “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” transforms Mort Shuman and Eric Blau's beloved 35-song stage revue into an infectious movie musical that ...

  • La Syndicaliste

    Movie

    Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé • Thriller • 2023 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois, Yvan Attal

    Isabelle Huppert stars in this investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and corrupt politics that traces the true story of Maureen Kearn...

  • Prey for Rock & Roll

    Movie

    Directed by Alex Steyermark • Drama • 2003 • US • English • Mature Content
    Starring Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo, Lori Petty

    This fist-pumping LGBTQ+ touchstone and rock and roll cult classic stars the electrifying Gina Gershon as Jacki, a rocker who worries she may never make it big. Along with...

  • The Sweet Requiem

    Directed by Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam • Drama • 2018 • US, India • Tibetan with English subtitles
    Starring Tenzin Dolker, Jampa Kalsang Tamang, Tashi Choedon

    When a young, exiled Tibetan woman unexpectedly sees a man from her past, long-suppressed memories of her traumatic escape across the Hima...

  • The Last of England

    Movie

    Directed by Derek Jarman • Arthouse • 1987 • UK • English
    Starring Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, Nigel Terry

    An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's “The Last of England” stars Oscar winner Tilda Swinton in his lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. A kale...

  • Hit the Road

    Movie

    Directed by Panah Panahi • Comedy • 2015 • Iran • Persian with English subtitles
    Starring Hassan Madjooni, Pantea Panahiha, Rayan Sarlak

    Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a Cannes Caméra d'Or nominated ...

  • Passion in the Desert

    Movie

    Directed by Lavinia Currier • Drama • 1998 • US • English
    Starring Ben Daniels, Michel Piccoli, Kenneth Collard

    From the controversial novella by Honoré de Balzac comes the story of a young army officer who finds himself stranded in the Sahara desert. Left to his own devices, Augustin Robert (B...

  • The Grey Fox

    Movie

    Directed by Phillip Borsos • Western • 1983 • Canada • English
    Starring Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue

    After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner, played by Academy Award nominee Richard Farnsworth, emerges as a free man without a place in 20th-century society. Times ...

  • Bless Their Little Hearts

    Movie

    Directed by Billy Woodberry • Drama • 1983 • US • English
    Starring Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore, Angela Burnett

    A key masterpiece of the L.A. Rebellion film movement written by Charles Burnett, "Bless Their Little Hearts" showcases director Billy Woodberry's attentive eye and sensitivity to real-...