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 Patricia Rozema • Drama • 1990 • Canada • English
Starring Kate Nelligan, Maurice Godin, Margot Kidder

When an aspiring writer with writer's block witnesses the murder of a famous singer (Margot Kidder), he attends her memorial and encounters a woman connected to her (Kate Nellig...

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos • Comedy • 2009 • Greece • Greek with English subtitles • Mature Content
Starring Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Passalis, Mary Tsoni

Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, "Dogtooth" is an ingenious dark comedy and biting social satire that won the Prix Un Certain...

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 Jafar Panahi • Arthouse • 2015 • Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
Starring Jafar Panahi

Acclaimed director Jafar Panahi drives a cab through the streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day and capturing a spirited slice of Iranian society while bril...

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 Tsai Ming-liang • Arthouse • 2017 • Taiwan • Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Mitamura Kiyonobu

In Tsai Ming-liang’s minimalist film, the Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King Hu’s 1967 w...

Directed by Susan Sontag • Arthouse • 1969 • Sweden • Swedish with English subtitles
Starring Adriana Asti, Gosta Ekman, Lars Ekborg

Essayist, novelist, critic, and all-around intellectual dynamo Susan Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological seri...

Directed by Andrew Bujalski • Comedy • 2013 • US • English
Starring Patrick Riester, Wiley Wiggins, Myles Paige

Set over the course of a weekend tournament for software programmers in the 1980s, this Sundance winner transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and...

Directed by Kantemir Balagov • Drama• 2017 • Russia • Russian with English subtitles
Starring Darya Zhovnar, Atrem Cipin, Olga Dragunova

Winner of an Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival, "Tesnota" is the incendiary debut feature from the brilliant filmmaker Kantemir Balagov ("Bea...

Directed by Emir Kusturica • Arthouse • 1997 • Federal Republic of Yugosolavia • Serbian, German, French, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, "Underground" is a visionary masterpiece where hope, ...

Directed by Josef von Sternberg • Arthouse • 1954 • Japan • English, Japanese with English subtitles
Starring Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma

Directed by Josef von Sternberg, this film follows a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan during the waning days of th...

Directed by Anh Hung Tran • Drama • 1993 • Vietnam, France • Vietnamese with English subtitles
Starring Nu Yen Khe Tran, Thi Loc Truong, Anh Hoa Nguyen

An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Cannes winner ”The Scent of Green Papaya” is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10-year-old Mui...

Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour • Horror • 2015 • US • Farsi with English subtitles
Starring Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh

Ana Lily Amirpour burst onto the scene with this black and white Iranian vampire Western, which premiered at Sundance and won a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Dir...

Directed by Ajitpal Singh • Drama • 2022 • India • Hindi with English subtitles
Starring Vinamrata Rai, Chandan Bisht, Sonal Jha

In a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community, a mother toils to save money to build a road in a Himalayan village to take her wheelchair-bound son for physiothera...

Directed by Yvonne Rainer • Arthouse • 1990 • US • English
Featuring Daniel Martin Berkey, Blaire Baron, Gabrielle Made

One of Yvonne Rainer’s most narratively complex films shifts from a documentary about women going through the process of menopause to a deadpan and delightfully anarchic autobi...

Directed by Luis Buñuel • Arthouse • 1930 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

The surrealist masterpiece “L'Age D'or” showcases the incomparably obsessive cinematic imagination of Luis Buñuel at its beginning and the celebrated surrealism of Salvado...

Directed by Marcel Ophuls • Documentary • 1972 • France, Switzerland, Germany • French with English subtitles
Featuring Pierre Mendes France, Sir Anthony Eden, Christian de la Maziere

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, "The Sorrow and The Pity" has been acclaimed as one of the ...

Directed by Yuri Ancarani • Documentary • 2017 • France, Italy • Arabic with English subtitles
Featuring Khaled Al-Hammadi, Nasser Al-Kaabi

This exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of Qatari sheikhs with a passion for falconry. The opulence of this Middle Eastern gas state is on displ...

Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc • Documentary • 2020 • Romania, Germany • Romanian with English subtitles
Featuring Gica Enache, Vali Enache, Rica Enache

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary follows a family with...

Directed by Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman • Sci-Fi • 2021 • US, Rwanda • English, Kinyarwanda with English subtitles
Starring Cheryl Isheja, Kaya Free, Eliane Umuhire

In an otherworldly e-waste dump camp, an anti-colonialist hacking collective attempts a takeover of the authoritarian regime expl...

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 Jennifer Baichwal • Documentary • 2007 • Canada • English
Featuring Edward Burtynsky

Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Edward Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civi...

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...