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Bad Day at Black Rock
Directed by John Sturges • 1955 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne FrancisAce genre craftsman John Sturges directs Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan in this taut western noir. Tracy is the one-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy, who arrives in the remote desert outpost of Bla...
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The Swimmer
Directed by Frank Perry • 1968 • United States
Starring Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice RuleIn the affluent community of Westport, Connecticut, advertising executive Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) shows up at a distant neighbor’s pool clad only in swimming trunks. To return the few miles h...
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Burning
Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2018 • South Korea, Japan
Starring Steven Yeun, Ah-in Yoo, Jong-seo JunBased on a short story by Haruki Murakami, this internationally acclaimed psychological drama from Lee Chang-dong is the searing examination of an alienated young man, Jongsu (Ah-in Yoo), a frust...
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Funny Games
Directed by Michael Haneke • 2007 • United States, Austria, France
Starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael PittMichael Haneke’s English-language remake of his most controversial film retains the original’s ability to shock and unnerve in its provocative investigation of the link between violenc...
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Directed by Anthony Minghella • 1999 • United States
Starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth PaltrowGorgeous Italian coastal scenery and equally gorgeous stars are the beautiful facade belying an undercurrent of creeping menace in Anthony Minghella’s sumptuous adaptation of the first book in Pat...
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Ripley’s Game
Directed by Liliana Cavani • 2002 • United Kingdom
Starring John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena HeadeyFrom the third entry in Patricia Highsmith’s celebrated series of novels centered on the charming sociopath Tom Ripley—previously adapted by Wim Wenders as THE AMERICAN FRIEND—comes this thrill...
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A Place in the Sun
Directed by George Stevens • 1951 • United States
Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley WintersMontgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor make for one of the most swoon-inducing screen couples of the 1950s in this deluxe, multi-Oscar-winning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s AN AMERICA...
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The Graduate
Directed by Mike Nichols • 1967 • United States
Starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine RossOne of the most beloved American films of all time, THE GRADUATE earned Mike Nichols a best director Oscar, brought the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience, and introduced the world ...
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Heat
Directed by Michael Mann • 1995 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val KilmerRobert De Niro and Al Pacino face off in this titanic crime epic from pulp poet Michael Mann. A gang of thieves led by snazzy super-criminal Neal McCauley (De Niro) pull off a string of robberies on ba...
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Tea and Sympathy
Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1956 • United States
Starring Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif EricksonVincente Minnelli’s masterful direction gives stirring expression to the ache of outsiderhood in this taboo-shattering adaptation of Robert Anderson’s play, one of the first major films to deal e...
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Stranger by the Lake
Directed by Alain Guiraudie • 2013 • France
Starring Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao.
The critically acclaimed STRANGER BY THE LAKE has been described as a modern-day Hitchcockican masterpiece. A picturesque cruising spot in the countryside of France sets the scene f... -
Stateless
Directed by Michèle Stephenson • 2020 • United States
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, the killings fueled by anti-Black hatred fomented by the Dominican government. Fast-forward to 2013, when the Dominican Republic...
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American Promise
Directed by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster • 2013 • United States
Beginning in 1999, filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster turned their cameras on two families—including their own—as they grappled with the ups and downs of preparing their sons for academic success. In what would ul...
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French Wedding Caribbean Style
Directed by Julius-Amédée Laou • 2002 • France
Starring Dieudonné, Nicole Dogué, Loulou BoislavilleA wedding celebration goes drastically off the rails in the fearlessly subversive and formally inventive second feature from Julius-Amédée Laou. On the day of their marriage, a Black bride from a ...
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Green Fish
Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 1997 • South Korea
Starring Han Suk-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, Moon Sung-keunReleased from his mandatory military service, Makdong (Han Suk-kyu) returns to a hometown he no longer recognizes. After rescuing a beautiful young woman from harassment on a train, his life takes ...
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Ladies’ Paradise
Directed by Julien Duvivier • 1930 • France
Starring Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andrée BrabantThe final silent film directed by Julien Duvivier, this dazzling adaptation of a novel by Émile Zola harnesses the full expressive potential of the form to create a visual symphony of exquisite camera...
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Peppermint Candy
Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 1999 • South Korea
Starring Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jinYongho (Sul Kyung-gu) stares down an oncoming train as twenty years of his life flash before his eyes. Proceeding to move backward in time, Lee’ Chang-dong’s acclaimed second feature rewinds the protag...
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Another Prayer
Directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz • 2013 • Canada
Cinema becomes a tool of resurrection as director Sofia Bohdanowicz uses projections to return her late, beloved grandmother to her former home.
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A Prayer
Directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz • 2013 • Canada
Starring Maria BohdanowiczA hymn to workers by the Polish poet Zofia Bohdanowiczowa is set to quiet moments in the everyday life of her daughter-in-law, Maria Bohdanowicz, in this tender tribute that connects three generations of the filmmaker’s fam...
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No Way Out
Directed by Roger Donaldson • 1987 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, Sean YoungBased on Kenneth Fearing’s classic suspense novel THE BIG CLOCK (famously the basis for the 1948 Ray Milland/Charles Laughton noir), this gripping, inspired reimagining resets the story against th...
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Remember My Name
Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1978 • United States
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses GunnGeraldine Chaplin delivers a chillingly effective performance as an unstable woman just out of prison and hell-bent on getting even with the husband (Anthony Perkins) who abandoned her years a...
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Deep Cover
Directed by Bill Duke • 1992 • United States
Starring Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria DillardFilm noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens, a p...
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Point and Line to Plane
Directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz • 2020 • Canada
Starring Deragh CampbellGrieving the loss of a loved one, Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) begins to see traces of him in unexpected places—in chocolate, in the music of Mozart, and in the paintings of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky—in this eleg...
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Neptune Frost
Directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman • 2021 • United States, Rwanda
Starring Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse, Eliane UmuhireCodirected by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, this visually wondrous sci-fi punk musical takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped colt...