Directed by Werner Herzog • 1997 • Germany

Dieter Dengler, a German-American Navy pilot who was shot down over Vietnam in 1966, recounts his experiences as a POW in a Vietnamese prison, tortured and starved until fear and desperation compelled him to make daring escape. Travelling to Laos and Th...

Directed by J. T. Takagi • 1984 • United States

Four neighbors form an uneasy alliance after a case worker from family court is accidentally killed in their building. With a gutsy sense of humor, this satiric comedy captures the chaos and cultural diversity of New York’s Lower East Side.

Directed by Anthony Chen • 2023 • China, Singapore
Starring Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu Chuxiao

Three lost souls find tentative connection in a frozen world in this delicate, lyrical tone poem of youthful alienation and longing. In cold, wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northeastern border, young...

Directed by Rob Nilsson and John Hanson • 1980 • United States

A strikingly shot work of documentary as historical corrective, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s PRAIRIE TRILOGY chronicles the story of early North Dakota socialists through a portrait of Henry Martinson, a ninety-seven-year-old ex-org...

Directed by Terence Fisher • 1954 • United Kingdom
Starring Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies

Future Hammer-horror legend Terence Fisher helms this twisty British whodunit (also known as MURDER BY PROXY), in which Casey Morrow (Dane Clark)—an American in London with no visible means of s...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 2009 • United States
Starring Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny

What strange series of events led a man to murder his mother with an ancient sword? Produced by David Lynch, Werner Herzog’s typically idiosyncratic take on a true crime unfolds as a fascinatin...

Directed by Kayo Hatta • 1988 • United States

Cultural traditions blend as a Japanese American family celebrates Christmas and a young girl tries to find her place within the family structure.

Directed by Timothy Carey • 1962 • United States
Starring Timothy Carey, Gil Barreto, Betty Rowland

Timothy Carey—the unforgettable character actor whose weird, wiggy energy brought a manic edge to classics like THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY—wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this outrag...

Directed by Rob Nilsson and John Hanson • 1977 • United States

A strikingly shot work of documentary as historical corrective, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s PRAIRIE TRILOGY chronicles the story of early North Dakota socialists through a portrait of Henry Martinson, a ninety-seven-year-old ex-org...

Directed by Isaac Julien • 1991 • United Kingdom
Starring Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Sophie Okonedo

From the moment Parliament’s “P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)” erupts over the opening of Isaac Julien’s breakthrough feature, we know we’re in for a wild ride. The changes keep coming as a murd...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1999 • Germany

An engrossing look at one of cinema’s most intriguing partnerships, MY BEST FIEND chronicles Werner Herzog’s legendarily volatile friendship with actor Klaus Kinski. As Herzog delves into his history with Kinski in colorful detail—from the flat Kinski o...

Directed by Rob Nilsson and John Hanson • 1978 • United States
Starring Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano

Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, NORTHERN LIGHTS is one of the most moving and committed works of political cinema from the 1970s. Dramatizing the formation o...

Directed by Supachai Surongsain • 1987 • United States

Two young Thai men struggle to survive in Los Angeles.

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1984 • West Germany, Australia
Starring Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika

Werner Herzog heads to the Australian outback for this typically idiosyncratic variation on one of his pet themes: the uneasy relationship between modern man and nature. When an Austra...

Directed by Michel Boisrond • 1957 • France, Italy

Brigitte Bardot was best-known as an actress (as opposed to a sex symbol) for her dramatic performances -- Michel Boisrond's Une Parisienne proved that she could be just as effective as a comedienne (getting her compared to Marilyn Monroe at her...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1992 • Germany

“The collapse of the stellar universe will occur–like creation–in grandiose splendor,” announces the quote (attributed to Blaise Pascal, but actually invented by the director) that begins Werner Herzog’s terrifyingly beautiful rumination on the ravaged ...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1977 • West Germany
Starring Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz

Werner Herzog’s tragically absurd tour through 1970s America stars the singular Bruno S. as an ostracized, alcoholic Berlin street musician who, joined by a prostitute (Eva Mattes) and his eccentric el...

Directed by Jafar Panahi • 2015 • Iran
Starring Jafar Panahi

Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1974 • West Germany

A sports documentary only Werner Herzog could make, this mesmerizing portrait of the human drive for transcendence features a quintessential Herzog hero: Walter Steiner, a champion ski jumper who also works as a carpenter, creating deeply personal ...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1981 • West Germany

Werner Herzog’s portrait of all-American demagoguery focuses on Gene Scott, a televangelist whose fiery on-air tirades—against everything from the FCC to his own viewers—are contrasted with a behind-the-scenes portrait of an isolated, self-obsessed...

Directed by John Huston • 1987 • United Kingdom, Ireland
Starring Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll

The elegiac last film by John Huston finds the legendary director adapting a masterly short story by his favorite writer, James Joyce, into a poignant reflection on the totality of lif...

Directed by Victor Masayesva Jr. • 1984 • United States

Made to commemorate the Hopi tricentennial, this groundbreaking work of Native American documentary cinema is a lyrical evocation of Hopi philosophy and mythology told through the storytelling of elder Hopi historian Ross Macaya. Setting hi...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 2003 • Germany

In this wondrous documentary about the power of spirituality, director Werner Herzog travels to Bodh Gaya, India, to capture the pilgrimage of hundreds of thousands of Buddhists, who make the arduous trek there to partake in a momentous six-week initiat...