Directed by Claire Simon • Documentary • 2016 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Alain Bergala, Emilie Deleuze, Xanae Bove

Claire Simon, one of France’s leading documentarians, gives an enlightening all-access tour behind the scenes at France’s premiere film school, La Femis, dur...

Directed by Juliet Bashore • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • US • English • Mature Content
Featuring Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin

Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunges into the 1980s porn industry and takes an unsparing look at issues...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Directed by Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi • Documentary • 2011 • France, Israel, Palestine • Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles
Featuring Emad Burnat

An extraordinary work of cinematic and political activism, this Academy Award-nominated film is a firsthand account of nonviolent resistance in a ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Directed by Patrice Leconte • Romance • 1990 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Rochefort, Anna Galiena

From Patrice Leconte, “The Hairdresser’s Husband” is a wildly erotic ode to wedded bliss. Starring the legendary Jean Rochefort and the incandescent Anna Galiena, it follow...

Directed by Caroline Link • Drama • 2002 • Germany • English, German, Swahili with English subtitles
Starring Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich

A love story spanning two continents, this true tale of a Jewish family who fled the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya won the...

Directed by Beniamino Barrese • Documentary • 2019 • Italy • English, Italian with English subtitles
Featuring Benedetta Barzini

An iconic fashion model who was a muse to Warhol and Dalí in the 1960s, and a radical feminist in the 1970s, Benedetta Barzini is fed up with all the roles life has im...

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 ...

Directed by Patrice Leconte • Drama • 1994 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Majani

From acclaimed director Patrice Leconte ("Girl on the Bridge"), "Yvonne’s Perfume" is a mysterious and romantic drama of desire. In the early 1950s...