Directed by Richard Wallace • 1947 • United States
Starring Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan

A bad pair of brakes strands gruff, takes-no-BS trucker Mike (Glenn Ford) in a small town where the locals aren’t all that friendly—save for blonde bartender Paula (Janis Carter), who soon has hi...

Directed by Roy William Neill • 1946 • United States
Starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre

Based (loosely) on a novel by legendary crime writer and master of existential dread Cornell Woolrich (REAR WINDOW, THE BRIDE WORE BLACK), this bleakly atmospheric noir stars everyone’s favorite s...

Directed by Tim Blake Nelson • 2001 • United States
Starring David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel

An unflinching reckoning with the horrors of the Holocaust, this intense moral drama from Tim Blake Nelson (adapting his own play) considers the cost of survival in the most extreme of circu...

Directed by Alisha Tejpal • 2020 • India, United States
Starring Shobha Dangale, Ananya Tuli, Kirti Kadam

Through a succession of rigorously controlled compositions, the world of a young domestic worker (Shobha Dangle) in an upper-class Mumbai household gradually comes into focus—her day-to-day ...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1931 • United States
Starring Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings

This hard-edged, morally complex pre-Code drama of crime and punishment stars Walter Huston as a crusading district attorney who winds up becoming warden of the prison where many of the me...

Directed by Mamoru Oshii • 2008 • Japan
Starring Mimi Woods, Richard Epcar, Christopher Joyce

Mamoru Oshii’s remastered version of his landmark cyber-tech thriller GHOST IN THE SHELL preserves most of the original, while updating it with new, digitally animated sequences. 2029: A female cybernet...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1946 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely

Humphrey Bogart steps into the legendary gumshoes of Raymond Chandler’s famed detective Philip Marlowe in what is widely regarded as the finest screen adaptation of the writer’s work. The famous...

Directed by Nancy Savoca • 1991 • United States
Starring River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco

An ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, Nancy Savoca’s funny, sensitive tale of love and war etches two vividly alive characters: aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose (Lili...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1934 • United States
Starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly

Carole Lombard established her genius for screwball comedy with this madcap classic, which practically set the template for the genre. Scripted by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (adapting th...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1959 • United States
Starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson

Both one of the essential westerns and one of the all-time great hangout movies, this classic tale of friendship and camaraderie is pure Howard Hawks in its wonderfully relaxed, loose-limbed look at a ...

Directed by Sergio Leone • 1984 • United States, Italy
Starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

Sergio Leone’s years-in-the-making final masterwork does for the gangster film what his visionary spaghettis did for the western, brilliantly reimagining the genre as a vehicle for lim...

Directed by Mamoru Oshii • 1995 • Japan, United Kingdom
Starring Mimi Woods, Richard Epcar, William Frederick Knight

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of the Puppet Master, a mysterious and threatenin...

Directed by Ching Siu-tung • 1990 • Hong Kong
Starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Michelle Reis

Romance, comedy, and extraordinary fantasy collide in this vibrant sequel to A CHINESE GHOST STORY, which finds our innocent tax-collector hero (Leslie Cheung) now falsely imprisoned. Upon escaping, he...

Directed by Kenneth Lonergan • 2000 • United States
Starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick

Celebrated playwright Kenneth Lonergan first brought his rich, humanist vision to the screen with this soulful look at the complexities of a sibling relationship whose roots are as knotted ...

Directed by Frank Capra • 1934 • United States
Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly

Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark...

Directed by Woody Allen • 1986 • United States
Starring Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Michael Caine

One of Woody Allen’s best-loved films charts the messy, intersecting relationships between a coterie of Manhattanites over a two year period. Between Thanksgivings at her apartment, Hannah (Mia Farrow)...

Directed by Ching Siu-tung • 1991 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jacky Cheung, Joey Wong

The dazzlingly imaginative A CHINESE GHOST STORY trilogy concludes with this sumptuous finale. In many ways a retelling of the original film’s story, A CHINESE GHOST STORY III sees Joey Wang repri...

Directed by Harold Clurman • 1946 • United States
Starring Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams

This strikingly stylized psychological thriller boasts a remarkable pedigree: written by Clifford Odets, based on a novel by noir icon Cornell Woolrich, and lensed by famed cinematographer Nichola...

Directed by Ondi Timoner • 2024 • United States

Twenty years ago, the emerging indie-sleaze underground was rocked by DIG!, Ondi Timoner’s rockumentary about two Gen X bands and their journey to alternative-rock glory. Shot over nearly a decade, DIG! explores the collision of art and commerce th...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1948 • United States
Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan

No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart RED RIVER. In it, John Wayne found on...

Directed by Nicholas Ray • 1950 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame

When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper—Humphrey Bogart, in a revelatory, vulnerable performance—becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who ca...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1982 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard

Welcome to the disturbing world of Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro), the psychotic aspiring comedian who believes that all he needs is one appearance on the late-night talk show hosted by Jerry...

Directed by Dee Rees • 2011 • United States
Starring Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis

The path to living as one’s authentic self is paved with trials and tribulations in this revelatory, assured feature debut by Dee Rees—the all-too-rare coming-of-age tale to honestly represent the exp...

Directed by Maurice Pialat • 1972 • France
Starring Marlène Jobert, Jean Yanne, Christine Fabréga

An end-of-love story for the ages, Maurice Pialat’s masterpiece is a combustible portrait of a couple whose mutual desire tears them apart. A work of lacerating autobiography drawn from the director...