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  • The French Connection

    Directed by William Friedkin • 1971 • United States
    Starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider

    When NYPD detectives Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) launch a deadly pursuit to bust up a narcotics smuggling ring, they uncover a plot that stretches all the way to F...

  • Body Heat

    Directed by Lawrence Kasdan • 1981 • United States
    Starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna

    William Hurt and Kathleen Turner strike sparks in this taut, South Florida–set tale of lust, greed, and murder that echoes 1940s film noir but is charged with a steamy passion that could onl...

  • On the Waterfront

    Directed by Elia Kazan • 1954 • United States
    Starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

    Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry. A raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and soc...

  • Wild Things

    Directed by John McNaughton • 1998 • United States
    Starring Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell, Matt Dillon

    This swamp-steamy erotic thriller—another cult classic from HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER director John McNaughton—journeys from Miami’s upscale suburban beach communities and into the murky ...

  • Strange Days

    Directed by Kathryn Bigelow • 1995 • United States
    Starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis

    Set in a dystopian Los Angeles during the last forty-eight hours of the twentieth century, Kathryn Bigelow’s hyperkinetic, cyberpunk brain-scrambler stars Ralph Fiennes as wiggy, two-bit hus...

  • Nationtime

    Directed by William Greaves • 1972 • United States

    Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM, William Greaves was also the director of over one hundred documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. NATIONTIME is a report o...

  • The Deep

    Directed by Peter Yates • 1977 • United States, United Kingdom
    Starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte

    Adapted from the best seller by JAWS author Peter Benchley, this action-packed blockbuster thriller gave audiences yet another reason to stay out of the water. Nick Nolte and Jacque...

  • Addams Family Values

    Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld • 1993 • United States
    Starring Angelica Huston, Raúl Juliá, Christina Ricci

    Pop culture’s favorite family of ghouls returns to the big screen in their second cinematic outing—even more wickedly satirical and delightfully macabre than the original. It’s love at first...

  • Insomnia

    Directed by Christopher Nolan • 2002 • United States
    Starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank

    For his follow-up to MEMENTO, Christopher Nolan crafted another masterfully constructed psychological thriller, a riveting journey into darkness in the land of the midnight sun. Under the glare ...

  • Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1964 • United Kingdom
    Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

    Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays thr...

  • Stay Close

    Directed by Luther Clement and Shuhan Fan • 2019 • United States, China

    Mixing documentary and animation, this creatively told underdog story follows a fencer from Brooklyn who must overcome a gauntlet of hardships on the road to the Olympics.

  • Raising Victor Vargas

    Directed by Peter Sollett • 2002 • United States
    Starring Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie Diaz

    Vividly set amid New York City’s Dominican community, this warm, naturalistic slice-of-life is one of the brightest gems of early-2000s American independent cinema. Growing up on the Lower East Side,...

  • Gun Crazy

    Directed by Joseph H. Lewis • 1950 • United States
    Starring Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger

    Bart Tare (John Dall) has been enamored with firearms since he was a kid. Annie Laurie Star (Peggy Cummins) is the sharp-shooting queen of a traveling carnival. When Bart beats Laurie in a sexuall...

  • The Ghost Writer

    Directed by Roman Polanski • 2010 • United Kingdom, France, Germany
    Starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall

    A ghostwriter unwittingly becomes part of the story he is hired to tell in Roman Polanski’s acclaimed, precision-crafted political thriller, brilliantly adapted from the novel...

  • O

    Directed by Tim Blake Nelson • 2001 • United States
    Starring Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett, Julia Stiles

    Director Tim Blake Nelson daringly transplants Shakespeare’s “Othello” to a modern American high school for a provocative, powerfully acted tale of jealousy and betrayal. O is Odin James (Mekhi...

  • Crossfire

    Directed by Edward Dmytryk • 1947 • United States
    Starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan

    This gritty film noir made history as the first Hollywood film to confront antisemitism. Three of the era’s most celebrated Roberts—Young, Mitchum, and Ryan—star in the hard-hitting tale of a pol...

  • He Ran All the Way

    Directed by John Berry • 1951 • United States
    Starring John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford

    John Garfield’s final film before his blacklisting and untimely death is a slam-bang pulp noir crackling with tightly wound tension. In one of his finest performances, Garfield plays a hardened so...

  • The Beach

    Directed by Danny Boyle • 2000 • United Kingdom, United States
    Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen

    A group of young vacationers uncover the dark side of paradise in Danny Boyle’s sleek adventure mystery, which doubles as a quintessential Y2K-era time capsule. Fresh from T...

  • Mário

    Directed by Billy Woodberry • 2024 • France, Portugal

    Director Billy Woodberry examines the life and legacy of Mário Pinto de Andrade, a Pan-African thinker, activist, and founder of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) whose work was critical to the African liberation movem...

  • Bernice Bobs Her Hair

    Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1976 • United States
    Starring Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort, Veronica Cartwright

    Adapted from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald—a literary landmark that all but defined the mores of 1920s Jazz Age youth—this PBS-produced short film stars the wonderfully idiosync...

  • End of the Road

    Directed by Aram Avakian • 1970 • United States
    Starring Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones, Harris Yulin

    This X-rated, cult-classic black comedy is one of the most subversive, totally nihilistic transmissions from the fringes of the 1970s New Hollywood. A daring adaptation of the novel by John Barth...

  • Out of the Fog

    Directed by Anatole Litvak • 1941 • United States
    Starring John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell

    John Garfield and Ida Lupino star in the big-screen adaptation of Irwin Shaw’s play “The Gentle People,” a pre–World War II allegory warning of the seductive allure and danger inherent in preten...

  • Flatbush! Flatbush!

    Directed by Alex Ramírez-Mallis • 2021 • United States

    A fleet of minibuses race up and down Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, providing commuters a familiar, if occasionally harrowing, alternative to the subway for only $2 a ride.

  • The Long Goodbye

    Directed by Robert Altman • 1973 • United States
    Starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden

    Robert Altman updates Raymond Chandler for the liberated, hedonistic 1970s in this brilliantly idiosyncratic adaptation of one of the writer’s most renowned novels. Elliott Gould brings a ...