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 Derek Jarman • Arthouse • 1990 • UK • English
Starring Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Peter Lee-Wilson

Directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton, this kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, featuring an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical nu...

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov • Arthouse • 1964 • Cuba, Russia • Spanish, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Raquel Revuelta, Sergio Corrieri, Jean Bouise

Director Mikhail Kalatozov’s delirious masterpiece unfolds in four stunning vignettes that paint a portrait of pre-revolutionary Cuba—it...

Directed by Alex Schaad • Arthouse • 2023 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Mala Emde, Jonas Dassler, Dimitrij Schaad

Winner of the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival, "Skin Deep" subverts genre and gender as it flows between body swap thriller and intimate relationship dram...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • Arthouse • 2020 • Italy, US • English, Italian with English subtitles
Starring Willem Dafoe, Anna Ferrara, Cristina Chiriac

Abel Ferrara’s delicately surrealistic work of autofiction reteams the filmmaker and his frequent lead Willem Dafoe, who delivers a career-best p...

Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof • Arthouse • 2021 • Germany, Czech Republic, Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
Starring Ehsan Mirhosseini, Shaghayegh Shoorian, Kaveh Ahangar

Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, this Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner by Mohammad Rasoulof is an anthology...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • Drama • 2019 • France, Belgium, Italy • English, Italian, French with English subtitles • Mature Content
Starring Willem Dafoe, Ninetto Davoli , Riccardo Scamarcio

Abel Ferrara's "Pasolini"​ stars frequent collaborator Willem Dafoe as film director Pier Paolo Pasolini...

Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1981 • Hungary • German, Hungarian with English subtitles
Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildiko Bansagi, Krystyna Janda

Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 1982 Academy Awards and nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes, István Szabó's "Mephisto" follows ...

Directed by Miklós Jancsó • Drama • 1968 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Starring Jozsef Madaras, Tibor Molnar, Andras Kozak

Hungarian auteur Miklos Jansco's masterful "The Red and The White" is a haunting and powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war. Set in Central Russia...

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 Ramata-Toulaye Sy • Drama • 2024 • Senegal, France, Mali, Qatar • Pulaar with English subtitles
Starring Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Binta Racine Sy

Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. For them, nothing else exists except each other. But duty dictates that Adama accept the role of ...

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 ...

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 Andrzej Żuławski • Arthouse • 2015 • France, Portugal • French with English subtitles
Starring Sabine Azéma, Jonathan Genet, Victoria Guerra

Andrzej Żuławski’s final film, a literary adaptation suffused with his trademark freneticism, transforms Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's nove...

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 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...