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  • Film About A Woman Who...

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    Directed by Yvonne Rainer • Arthouse • 1974 • US • English
    Starring Dempster Leech, Shirley Soffer, John Erdman

    Yvonne Rainer’s second landmark feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger, with Rainer needling at questions raised by contemporary femini...

  • Passion in the Desert

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    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...

  • Eldorado

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    Directed by Markus Imhoof • Documentary • 2018 • Switzerland, Germany • English, German with English subtitles
    Featuring Markus Imhoof, Caterina Genta, Robert Hunger-Buhler

    "Eldorado" is a documentary inspired by director Markus Imhoof’s childhood relationship with an Italian girl just after Wor...

  • Brighton 4th

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    Directed by Levan Koguashvili • Drama • 2021 • Georgia • English, Georgian, Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Levan Tedaishvili, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Kakhi Kavsadze

    In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, a former wrestler embarks on a journey from his...

  • The Maids

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    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...

  • Aquarius

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    Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho • Arthouse • 2016 • Brazil • Portuguese with English subtitles
    Starring Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos

    Clara (Sonia Braga), a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is ...

  • Ana Arabia

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    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2013 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
    Starring Yuval Scharf, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Sarah Adler

    Filmed in one sequence shot by acclaimed director Amos Gitai, “Ana Arabia” follows a young journalist who visits a small community of outcasts, Jews and ...

  • Alila

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    Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2004 • Israel, France • Hebrew, English with English subtitles
    Starring Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner

    Amos Gitai's ensemble film examines the lives of a half dozen residents of a run-down Tel-Aviv apartment building. For the apartment dwellers, eve...

  • A Woman's Life

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    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...

  • Flaming Ears

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    Directed by A. Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek, Ursula Puerrer • LGBTQ+ • 1992 • Austria • German with English subtitles
    Starring Susanna Heilmayr, Ursula Pürrer, Angela Hans Scheirl

    This pop sci-fi lesbian extravaganza set in the year 2700 in the fictional burned-out city of Asche follows the tan...

  • Lovers and Lollipops

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    Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin • Drama • 1956 • US • English
    Starring Lori March, Gerald O'Loughlin, Cathy Dunn

    A follow-up to the hugely successful "Little Fugitive", Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin's "Lovers and Lollipops" is the enchanting tale of a seven-year-old girl's reaction to her mom...

  • Salvation! Have You Said Your Prayers Today?

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    Directed by Beth B • Comedy • 1987 • US • English
    Starring Stephen McHattie, Dominique Davalos, Exene Cervenka

    In this prophetic satire by Beth B, a laid-off factory worker (Viggo Mortensen) enlists the aid of his sister-in-law (Dominique Davalos) to abduct and blackmail a sex-obsessed TV minist...

  • Coming Apart

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    Directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg • Drama • 1969 • US • English
    Starring Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Viveca Lindfors

    Rip Torn gives one of his greatest screen performances as a psychiatrist secretly filming his own mental breakdown in Milton Moses Ginsberg's classic exploration of dark eroticism a...

  • Framing Agnes

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    Directed by Chase Joynt • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
    Featuring Zachary Drucker, Chase Joynt, Silas Howard

    Winner of the NEXT Innovator Award and Audience Award at the Sundance, "Framing Agnes" is the story of the pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender study co...

  • Le Gai Savoir

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    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Arthouse • 1969 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean-Luc Godard

    In this classic film from Jean-Luc Godard, two militants have a discourse on language while alone in an abandoned television studio. Referring to spoke...

  • Boatman

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    Directed by Gianfranco Rosi • Documentary • 1993 • Italy • English, Hindi, Italian with English subtitles

    Academy Award Nominee Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the liv...

  • The Last Laugh

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    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 ...

  • Little Fugitive

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    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 ...

  • The Exiles

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    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 ...

  • Last and First Men

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    Directed by Jóhann Jóhannsson • Arthouse • 2020 • Iceland • English
    Starring Tilda Swinton

    A stunning feature debut and final cinematic testament from the late composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, "Last and First Men" is a poetic, hopeful, and tragic work as well as an allegory of remembrance, ideals, an...

  • Nostalghia

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    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • Arthouse • 1983 • Italy, Russia • Italian, Russian with English subtitles
    Starring Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano

    In Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film made outside of the USSR, a Russian intellectual conducting research in Italy becomes overwhelm...

  • Alphaville

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    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • Sci-Fi • 1965 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff

    Influential director Jean-Luc Godard’s irreverent journey to the mysterious “Alphaville” remains one of the least conventional films of all time. American s...

  • Last Year at Marienbad

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    Directed by Alain Resnais • Arthouse • 1961 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Giorgio Albertazzi, Delphine Seyrig, Sacha Pitoëff

    Winner of the Venice Golden Lion, Alan Resnais's French New-Wave classic features stunning imagery while deliberately avoiding conventional plot and ch...

  • Diary of a Chambermaid

    Directed by Luis Buñuel • Drama • 1964 • France • French with English subtitles
    Starring Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli

    Working as a chambermaid, Célestine (Jeanne Moreau) observes the little failings of each member of the household in Luis Buñuel’s take on Octave Mirbeau’s classic...