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  • Bad Day at Black Rock

    Directed by John Sturges • 1955 • United States
    Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis

    Ace 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...

  • The Swimmer

    Directed by Frank Perry • 1968 • United States
    Starring Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule

    In 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...

  • Burning

    Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2018 • South Korea, Japan
    Starring Steven Yeun, Ah-in Yoo, Jong-seo Jun

    Based 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...

  • Funny Games

    Directed by Michael Haneke • 2007 • United States, Austria, France
    Starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt

    Michael 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...

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

    Directed by Anthony Minghella • 1999 • United States
    Starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow

    Gorgeous 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...

  • Ripley’s Game

    Directed by Liliana Cavani • 2002 • United Kingdom
    Starring John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey

    From 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...

  • A Place in the Sun

    Directed by George Stevens • 1951 • United States
    Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters

    Montgomery 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...

  • The Graduate

    Directed by Mike Nichols • 1967 • United States
    Starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross

    One 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 ...

  • Heat

    Directed by Michael Mann • 1995 • United States
    Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

    Robert 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...

  • Tea and Sympathy

    Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1956 • United States
    Starring Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson

    Vincente 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • French Wedding Caribbean Style

    Directed by Julius-Amédée Laou • 2002 • France
    Starring Dieudonné, Nicole Dogué, Loulou Boislaville

    A 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 ...

  • Green Fish

    Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 1997 • South Korea
    Starring Han Suk-kyu, Shim Hye-jin, Moon Sung-keun

    Released 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 ...

  • Ladies’ Paradise

    Directed by Julien Duvivier • 1930 • France
    Starring Dita Parlo, Ginette Maddie, Andrée Brabant

    The 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...

  • Peppermint Candy

    Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 1999 • South Korea
    Starring Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jin

    Yongho (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...

  • 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.

  • A Prayer

    Directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz • 2013 • Canada
    Starring Maria Bohdanowicz

    A 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...

  • No Way Out

    Directed by Roger Donaldson • 1987 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, Sean Young

    Based 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...

  • Remember My Name

    Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1978 • United States
    Starring Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn

    Geraldine 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...

  • Deep Cover

    Directed by Bill Duke • 1992 • United States
    Starring Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard

    Film 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...

  • Point and Line to Plane

    Directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz • 2020 • Canada
    Starring Deragh Campbell

    Grieving 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...

  • Neptune Frost

    Directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman • 2021 • United States, Rwanda
    Starring Cheryl Isheja, Bertrand Ninteretse, Eliane Umuhire

    Codirected 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...