Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci • Arthouse • 1970 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Dominique Sanda

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's It...

Directed by Kantemir Balagov • Arthouse • 2020 • Russia • Russian with English subtitles
Starring Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov

In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjus...

Directed by Robert Wiene • Silent • 1920 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Freidrich Feher

“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” jolted the post-war masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. Director Robert Wiene a...

Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1984 • Hungary, Germany, Austria • German with English subtitles
Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe

Set in the lead up to WWI, István Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning and Academy Award nominated film charts the rise of Alfred ...

Directed by Lav Diaz • Arthouse • 2017 • Philippines • Tagalog with English subtitles
Starring Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s epic story of revenge deferred functions as a tale of urb...

Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1980 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Starring Peter Andorai, Ildiko Bansagi

István Szabó's "Confidence" was nominated for an Academy Award and won Berlinale's Silver Bear for Best Director in 1980. Set in World War II-era Hungary, it follows two un...

Directed by Xavier Legrand • Drama • 2018 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Lea Drucker, Denis Menochet, Thomas Gioria

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this domestic thriller that will keep audiences guessing and leave them...

Directed by Philippe Faucon • Drama • 2015 • France • French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Soria Zeroual, Zita Hanrot, Kenza Noah Aiche

Winner of the 2016 Cesar Award for Best Picture and Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival, "Fatima" offers an uplifting and moving portrait o...

Directed by Lina Wertmüller • Comedy • 1974 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Luigi Diberti, Lina Polito, Nino Bignamini

Written and directed by Lina Wertmüller ("Swept Away"), this story follows Gigi and Carletto, two Southern country boys who travel north to get work in Milan. ...

Directed by Lina Wertmüller • Arthouse • 1976 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler

Lina Wertmüller became the first woman ever nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in this picaresque film about an Italian small-time crook ...

Directed by Eugene Green • Arthouse • 2017 • France, Belgium • French with English subtitles
Starring Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Regnier, Fabrizio Rongione

The American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugene Green exists in his own special artistic orbit and his film "The Son of Joseph" is perhaps his mo...

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 Nadav Lapid • Comedy • 2019 • Israel, France, Germany • French, Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Tom Mercier, Quentin Dolmaire, Louise Chevillotte

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Nadav Lapid's "Synonyms" follows a disaffected young Israeli who flees Tel 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 Michal Aviad • Drama • 2018 • Israel • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Liron Ben-Shlush, Menashe Noy, Oshri Cohen

This beautifully performed drama about the everyday struggles of being female in the workplace follows a mother of three who tries to balance her home life with th...

Directed by Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret • Arthouse • 2023 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Mallory Wanecque, Timéo Mahaut, Johan Heldenbergh

Winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, "The Worst Ones" captures a film within a film a...

Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne • Drama • 2019 • Belgium • French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Idir Ben Addi, Myriem Akheddiou, Claire Bodson

Winner of the Best Director award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, "Young Ahmed" is an intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of ...

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 Fran Rubel Kuzui • Arthouse • 1988 • US, Japan • English, Japanese with English subtitles
Starring Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai

Aspiring rocker Wendy (Carrie Hamilton) hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big. She forms a romantic and musical connection with Hiro (Diam...

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 Chloé Zhao • Arthouse • 2015 • US • English
Starring John Reddy, Jashaun St. John, Irene Bedard

Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao's debut feature captures the subtleties of a marginalized existence. Johnny, a restless Lakota teen, and his little sister Jashaun live with their mother on...

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles • Arthouse • 2019 • Brazil, France • English and Portuguese with English subtitles
Starring Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, "Bacurau" follows the inhabitants of a small Brazilian ...

Directed by Charlotte Regan • Arthouse • 2023 • UK • English
Starring Lola Campbell, Harris Dickinson, Alin Uzun

Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, this vibrant father-daughter comedy follows a resourceful 12-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in a London flat until her estranged father ...

Directed by Sebastian Schipper • Arthouse • 2015 • Germany • English, German with English subtitles
Starring Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski

Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and shot in a single, uninterrupted take, “Victoria” stars a runaway party girl from Madrid...