Directed by Bette Gordon • Arthouse • 1985 • US • English
Starring Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard Davidson

Emerging out of the underground NYC arts scene that produced the late 80's boom in American independent cinema, Bette Gordon's "Variety" is a sexually charged tale of a woman's journey ...

Directed by Anna Biller • Comedy • 2007 • US • English • Mature Content
Starring Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno

“Viva” is a cult retro spectacle about a bored 1970s housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi (writer/director A...

Directed by Luchino Visconti • Arthouse • 1963 • Italy, France • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot

Five brothers move north with their mother to Milan, finding fame in the boxing ring and love in the same woman. Labeled by Scorsese as “one of t...

Directed by Lionel Rogosin • Arthouse • 1959 • US • English, Afrikaans with English subtitles
Starring Zacharia Mgabi, Vinah Bendile, Miriam Makeba

In making this powerful mix of documentary and drama, director Lionel Rogosin aimed to reveal the harsh injustice of apartheid in Sophiatown, a Sout...

Directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac • Arthouse • 2018 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Andranic Manet, Gonzague Van Bervesseles, Diane Rouxel

A serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile leaves behind his steady girlfriend in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a...

Directed by Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot • Documentary • 2022 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot

The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove ...

Directed by Charlene Favier • Drama • 2021 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Noee Abita, Jeremie Renier, Marie Denarnaud

This riveting, Cannes-selected #MeToo drama from debut filmmaker Charlène Favier follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instr...

Directed by Alain Gomis • Drama • 2012 • France, Senegal • French, Wolof with English subtitles
Starring Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengu, Anisia Uzeyman

In a village outside Dakar, the gods - or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Directed by Alain Gomis and s...

Directed by Agnieszka Holland • Drama • 2024 • Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium • English, Polish, Arabic, French with English subtitles
Starring Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai

Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland ("Europa Europa") brings her masterful filmmaking eye and d...

Directed by Shirley Clarke • Documentary • 1967 • US • English
Featuring Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke

In 1966, director Shirley Clarke spent twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday where she confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-an...

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 Bille August • Drama • 2022 • Denmark • Danish with English subtitles
Starring Lars Mikkelsen, Esben Smed, Clara Rosager

Based on Stefan Zweig's classic novel "Beware of Pity", "The Kiss" is set against the backdrop of 1913 Denmark on the eve of World War I. Cavalry officer in train...

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...