Directed by John Carpenter • 1988 • United States
Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster

The ultimate Reagan-era rebuttal, John Carpenter’s subversive science-fiction satire follows a drifter (pro-wrestling legend Roddy Piper) who discovers that America is being controlled by yuppie alien...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1992 • United States
Starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill

When a lab accident renders him invisible, stock analyst Nick Halloway (Chevy Chase) must go on the run from menacing CIA agent David Jenkins (Sam Neill), who is intent on using him as an espionage to...

Directed by Zach Braff • 2004 • United States
Starring Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm

Like THE GRADUATE for early-2000s indie kids, the breakout Sundance hit from writer-director-star Zach Braff captures twentysomething angst with a mix of charming comedy and touching sincerity—and made s...

Directed by Albert Lewin • 1951 • United States
Starring James Mason, Ava Gardner

This timeless romance based on the legend of the Flying Dutchman features sumptuous color cinematography by Jack Cardiff. Ava Gardner, one of the most beautiful screen goddesses of all time, plays Pandora, a wom...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1938 • United States
Starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles

What do you get when you combine Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, a missing dinosaur bone, and a leopard named Baby? One of the all-time great American comedies! Grant is the stuffy paleontologi...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1981 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes

It’s the year 1997 and the dystopian hellscape of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. When the U.S. president’s plane is hijacked and crash lands on the island, it’s up to ha...

Directed by Neil Marshall • 2005 • United Kingdom
Starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid

Brilliantly exploiting our innate fears of the dark and the unknown to maximum nerve-shredding effect, this intense journey into the void is among the most frightening horror films of the twen...

Directed by Sini Anderson • 2013 • United States

Kathleen Hanna, electrifying lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement, becoming both a famously outspoken feminist leader as w...

Directed by John Carpenter • 2001 • United States
Starring Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Pam Grier

Dispatched to an abandoned Martian mining town to capture a serial killer (Ice Cube), a squad of space cops make a horrifying discovery: a phantom force that turns victims into goth-like zombies. R...

Directed by Tamra Davis • 2010 • United States

The brief but bright-burning life of influential artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is vividly recounted in this illuminating documentary directed by the superstar painter’s friend Tamra Davis. Set against the vibrant creative backdrop of New York City in ...

Directed by Bruce Brown • 1966 • United States

The definitive surfing documentary, Bruce Brown’s sun-kissed cinematic dream follows California beach bums Mike Hynson and Robert August on a round-the-world odyssey that takes them from Australia to Tahiti to Hawaii to Senegal to South Africa and b...

Directed by Michael Mann • 1986 • United States
Starring William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen

Michael Mann’s hypnotic, hyperstylized adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel “Red Dragon” was the first film to introduce audiences to the infamous Hannibal Lecter. Will Graham (William Petersen) is a...

Directed by Carolina Cavalli • 2022 • Italy
Starring Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatéa Bellugi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno

The boldly assured debut feature from writer-director Carolina Cavalli is a hip, deadpan portrait of a young woman looking for human connection—in all the wrong ways. Born into an uppe...

Directed by Rupert Wyatt • 2008 • United Kingdom, Ireland
Starring Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham

A classic prison-break premise gets a bracing, time-shuffling twist in this tense, stylish thriller. Brian Cox delivers a typically virtuosic performance as Frank Perry, an inmate servin...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1994 • United States
Starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow

Imagine a novel so overwhelmingly hypnotic, so tremendously horrifying that it paralyzes its audience with fear and turns its most sensible readers insane. When Sutter Cane, the author of this dis...

Directed by Mohammadreza Mayghani • 2021 • Iran
Starring Maryam Hossieni, Yas Farkhonde, Arezou Aali

Confined by her orthodontic headwear, an alienated teenage girl seeks release through a series of transgressions in this surreally stylized vision of adolescent ennui giving way to shocking rebel...

Directed by Jerry Carlsson • 2021 • Sweden
Starring Richard Sseruwagi, Doreen Ndagire, Lisette Pagler

When Mr. Moro finds out that his ex-partner Adrian, who has been cryogenically preserved for the past forty-three years, will be thawed and brought back to life, he must confront his complex fee...

Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1980 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

One of the most enigmatic and endlessly analyzed horror films ever made, this chilling descent into madness and domestic terror from visionary director Stanley Kubrick stars an...

Directed by Charles Burnett • 1994 • United States
Starring Michael Boatman, Lori Petty, Ice Cube

Charles Burnett’s powerful police drama follows J. J. Johnson (Michael Boatman), an idealistic rookie cop and the only Black officer in an all-white precinct, as he confronts racism and corruption w...

Directed by Halina Dyrschka • 2019 • Germany

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange...

Directed by Eliza Hittman • 2013 • United States
Starring Gina Piersanti, Jesse Cordasco, Giovanna Salimeni

Set over the course of a languid South Brooklyn summer, this unflinchingly honest, refreshingly unsentimental tale of sexual exploration and awakening—the revelatory feature debut from wri...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1984 • United States
Starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith

Stepping outside the realm of horror-thrillers, director John Carpenter deftly blends science fiction and romance in this celestial odyssey. Jeff Bridges stars as an innocent alien who jour...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1953 • United States
Starring Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn

Two glamorous showgirls have everything a girl could want—except engagement rings! In a quest for true love, Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) and her gold-digger pal Dorothy (Jane Russell) set sail on a...

Directed by Charles Burnett • 1990 • United States

A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover plays the enigmatic southern drifter Harry, a devilish charmer who turns up o...