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...

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 Mikko Mäkelä • Drama • 2024 • UK • English • Mature Content
Starring Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Jonathan Hyde

Max is a young writer living in London and paying his dues working at a literary magazine. On the cusp of finding success, by night he moonlights as a sex worker in order...

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 Kaouther Ben Hania • Arthouse • 2023 • France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia • Arabic, French with English subtitles
Featuring Hend Sabri, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui

Winner of the Best Documentary prize at Cannes and the Gotham Awards, this riveting documentary by Oscar-nominated ...

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 Beth B • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Ida Applebroog

This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B (“Exposed”). Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Po...

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...

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot • Documentary • 1956 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Pablo Picasso, Henri-Georges Clouzot

Filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot and the most influential artist of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso, use experimental and innovative techniques to c...

Directed by Louis Garrel • Comedy • 2019 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp

Louis Garrel’s sophomore feature, in which he also stars alongside Lily-Rose Depp and Laetitia Casta, is at once a beguiling bedroom farce and a playful inversi...