Directed by Paul Schrader • 1982 • United States
Starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard

Paul Schrader’s kinky-stylish reworking of the 1942 Val Lewton classic transfers the action to a voodoo-spooky New Orleans, adds an incestuous undercurrent, and ups the sex and gore. Nastassj...

Directed by Billy Wilder • 1960 • United States
Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

Jack Lemmon stars in one of Billy Wilder’s most beloved films as C. C. Baxter, a company man anxious to please his superiors at the New York insurance firm where he works—enough to let his boss...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 2009 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer

Two of contemporary cinema’s most electrifying eccentrics, Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage, join forces for a thoroughly unhinged pulp fever dream. Not—despite the title—a remake of or sequel to the si...

Directed by George Stevens • 1942 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter

George Stevens’s WOMAN OF THE YEAR, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katharine Hepburn had made in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, marked the beginning of the personal and professional uni...

Directed by Jim McBride • 1983 • United States
Starring Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano

Remaking Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave landmark (itself an homage to American gangster films) was surely one of the more audacious cinematic gambits of the 1980s, but director Jim McBride (DAV...

Directed by Walter Lang • 1957 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Blondell

It’s human ingenuity vs. artificial intelligence in this witty and prescient comic marvel, one of the most delightful of the celebrated pairings between screen icons Katharine Hepburn and Spen...

Directed by William Wyler • 1939 • United States
Starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven

Often cited as the definitive screen version of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, William Wyler’s moodily poetic adaptation casts Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon as the immortal lovers Heathcliff ...

Directed by Terence Davies • 2011 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale

Master chronicler of postwar England Terence Davies directs this ravishing adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play about a woman whose overpowering love threatens her w...

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...

Directed by Kavery Dutta Kaul • 1988 • United States

This dynamic documentary tells the vibrant story of the West Indian musical traditions of calypso and soca through the eyes of two legendary artists: Grandmaster Lord Kitchener, who made the music a hit in London, and Calypso Rose, the first w...

Directed by Christian Nyby • 1951 • United States
Starring Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite

Reputedly directed in large part by Howard Hawks (officially credited as the film’s producer), this chilling touchstone of 1950s sci-fi horror unleashes otherworldly terror in an isola...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1940 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, HIS GIRL FRIDAY stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in fo...

Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2013 • United States

This found-footage compilation exposes the disturbing enthusiasm with which George W. Bush’s declaration of a “war on terror” was met.

Directed by Neil Jordan • 1989 • United States
Starring Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore

Director Neil Jordan and screenwriter David Mamet, masters of dramatic intensity, take a detour into comedy—albeit of the dark, cynical variety—with this oft-overlooked remake of the 1955 Humphrey Bogar...

Directed by H. B. Halicki • 1974 • United States
Starring H. B. Halicki, Marion Busia, Jerry Daugirda

Cars were harmed in the making of this movie. Indeed, no less than 127 vehicles were destroyed or damaged in the course of production—ninety-three of them alone in the electrifying, forty-minute...

Directed by Juan Pablo González • 2022 • Mexico
Starring Teresa Sánchez, Rafaela Fuentes, Tatín Vera

This richly evocative blend of fictional character study and documentary-like observation offers an intimate perspective on the ravages of globalization through an arresting portrait of one woman...

Directed by Dustin Guy Defa • 2015 • United States
Starring Caitlin Dennis, Tipper Newton, Ingrid Sophie Schram

In this wry cinephile in-joke, a woman describes a film she has seen recently to a group of friends. Stop me if you’ve seen this one before . . .

Directed by Andrea Arnold • 2011 • United Kingdom
Starring Kaya Scodelario, James Howson

Andrea Arnold’s WUTHERING HEIGHTS is an excitingly fresh and elemental take on the classic novel by Emily Brontë. An epic love story, the film follows Heathcliff, a boy taken in by a benevolent Yorkshire far...

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho • 2023 • Brazil

The latest from acclaimed Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU, AQUARIUS) is a multidimensional journey across time, sound, architecture, and filmmaking that explores the rich, complicated history of the filmmaker’s home city of Reci...

Directed by Lou Ye • 2019 • China
Starring Gong Li, Mark Chao, Joe Odagiri

The latest from acclaimed director Lou Ye—one of contemporary Chinese cinema’s boldest auteurs—is a stylish, spellbinding thriller built around a tour-de-force performance from the great Gong Li. It’s 1941, and China has ...

Directed by Dorothy Arzner • 1931 • United States
Starring Judith Wood, Dorothy Hall, Charles “Buddy” Rogers

Dorothy Arzner offers a snappily entertaining, socially perceptive look at female solidarity in this Depression-era tale of young women striving to succeed in their careers and in love. N...

Directed by Michael Curtiz • 1955 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov

This wickedly offbeat Christmas comedy gives Humphrey Bogart a rare chance to display his lighter side. He stars alongside Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray as one of three escaped convicts from Devil’s ...

Directed by Julie Dash • 1991 • United States
Starring Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara O. Jones

Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. In 1...

Directed by Jacques Tourneur • 1942 • United States
Starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith

The first of the horror films producer Val Lewton made for RKO Pictures redefined the genre by leaving its most frightening terrors to its audience’s imagination. Simone Simon stars as a Serbian émigré in Manha...