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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 CervenkaIn 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...
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Coming Apart
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Directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg • Drama • 1969 • US • English
Starring Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland, Viveca LindforsRip 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...
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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 GodardIn this classic film from Jean-Luc Godard, two militants have a discourse on language while alone in an abandoned television studio. Referring to spoke...
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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...
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The Last Laugh
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Directed by F. W. Murnau • Silent • 1924 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Emil JanningsOne 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 ...
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Little Fugitive
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Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, Ray Ashley • Drama • 1953 • US • English
Starring Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Richie AndruscoWidely regarded as one of the most influential films of American independent cinema and nominated for an Academy Award, “The Little Fugitive” is a charming ...
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The Hairdresser’s Husband
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Directed by Patrice Leconte • Romance • 1990 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Rochefort, Anna GalienaFrom 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...
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Nowhere in Africa
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Directed by Caroline Link • Drama • 2002 • Germany • English, German, Swahili with English subtitles
Starring Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias HabichA 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...
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The Disappearance of My Mother
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Directed by Beniamino Barrese • Documentary • 2019 • Italy • English, Italian with English subtitles
Featuring Benedetta BarziniAn 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...
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The Exiles
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Directed by Kent Mackenzie • Arthouse • 1961 • US • English
Starring Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom ReynoldsFrom 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 ...
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Yvonne’s Perfume
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Directed by Patrice Leconte • Drama • 1994 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra MajaniFrom acclaimed director Patrice Leconte ("Girl on the Bridge"), "Yvonne’s Perfume" is a mysterious and romantic drama of desire. In the early 1950s...
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Last and First Men
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Directed by Jóhann Jóhannsson • Arthouse • 2020 • Iceland • English
Starring Tilda SwintonA 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...
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Nostalghia
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • Arthouse • 1983 • Italy, Russia • Italian, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana GiordanoIn Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film made outside of the USSR, a Russian intellectual conducting research in Italy becomes overwhelm...
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Costa Brava, Lebanon
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Directed by Mounia Akl • Drama • 2021 • Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar • Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Nadine Labaki, Saleh Bakri, Yumna MarwanNadine Labaki stars in this award-winning near-future drama about a close-knit family who have built a mountain refuge ...
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When Night Is Falling
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Directed by Patricia Rozema • LGBTQ+ • 1995 • Canada • English
Starring Pascale Bussières, Rachael Crawford, Henry CzernyIn Patricia Rozema’s lesbian love story, Camille, a professor at a Protestant college meets Petra, a wry and flamboyant performer in a modern Felliniesque circus troupe, a...
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The Village Detective: a song cycle
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Directed by Bill Morrison • Documentary • 2021 • US • English, Russian with English subtitles
Featuring Mihail ŽarovFour reels of water-damaged 35mm film recovered by an Icelandic fishing boat serve as inspiration for Bill Morrison’s latest meditation on cinema’s past—this time centered on p...
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
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Directed by Bi Gan • Arthouse • 2019 • China, France • Mandarin with English subtitles
Starring Wei Tang, Jue Huang, Sylvia ChangConsidered China's biggest arthouse hit of all time, Bi Gan's noir-tinged stunner follows a lost soul on a quest to find a missing woman from his past. Following lead...
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My 20th Century
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Directed by Ildikó Enyedi • Arthouse • 1989 • Hungary • Hungarian with English subtitles
Starring Dorotha Segda, Oleg YankovskyIldikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire was awarded the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twins who were s...
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The Divine Order
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Directed by Petra Volpe • Comedy • 2017 • Switzerland • Swiss-German with English subtitles
Starring Marie Leuenberger, Max Simonischek, Rachel BraunschweigThis uplifting, crowd-pleasing Tribeca Film Festival winner is set in Switzerland in 1971, where despite the worldwide social upheavals of ...
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Taking Venice
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Directed by Amei Wallach • Documentary • 2023 • US • English
Featuring Christo, Alice Denney, Shirin NeshatIn 1964, at the height of the Cold War, a group of political and art world insiders embark on a plan to make Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale. Deftl...
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
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Directed by Marc Rothemund • Drama • 2005 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held, Fabian HinrichsThe true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in this Academy Award Nominated Best Foreign Language Film. Armed wit...
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Buoyancy
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Directed by Rodd Rathjen • Drama • 2019 • Australia • Khmer, Thai with English subtitles
Starring Sarm Heng, Thanawut Kasro, Mony RosThis story of a spirited Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-o...
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Every Little Thing
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Directed by Sally Aitken • Documentary • 2025 • Australia • English
Featuring Terry MasearAuthor and wildlife rehabber Terry Masear has an ambitious goal: to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. But the path to survival is fraught with danger. This heart-expanding Sundance hit intr...