Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1966 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner

Francis Ford Coppola’s oft-overlooked second feature is a zanily offbeat entry in the 1960s sex-comedy canon. Bernard Chanticleer (Peter Kastner), a naive nineteen-year-old virgin li...

Directed by Raven Jackson • 2018 • United States

Traversing New York City, a dancer seeks freedom and peace through movement.

Directed by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra • 1981 • Senegal
Starring Birago Diop

BIRAGO DIOP, CONTEUR (“Birago Diop, Storyteller”) offers a portrait of the famous Senegalese writer and poet. While young writers of Antillean and African descent chose poetry to express the search for their identity within...

Directed by Brian De Palma • 1989 • United States
Starring Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey

One of the most harrowing Hollywood films to confront the legacy of the Vietnam War, CASUALTIES OF WAR is based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in a moral quagmire. Witness to a vile ...

Directed by Matthew Puccini • 2020 • United States
Starring Morgan Sullivan, Manny Dunn

High school boyfriends Marco and Graham cut class for a romantic rendezvous in bed—but things don’t go quite as planned in this tender, emotionally raw snapshot of two queer teenagers navigating intimacy toge...

Directed by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra • 1961 • Senegal

In 1958, Paulin Vieyra set up a special office dedicated to cinema in Senegal, which, after the establishment of independence in 1960, became a base for the country’s film industry. A NATION IS BORN is a historical portrait of Vieyra’s homeland...

Directed by Joseph McGrath • 1969 • United Kingdom
Starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, John Cleese

Adapted by Terry Southern from his own novel, this wild satire of capitalism run amok stars Peter Sellers as a bored billionaire who, along with the street vagrant (Ringo Starr) he adopts as his s...

Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto • 1989 • Japan
Starring Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka

An ordinary Japanese salaryman undergoes a shocking metamorphosis in Shinya Tsukamoto’s legendary fusion of body horror and cyberpunk expressionism. A strange man known only as the “metal fetishist”...

Directed by John Farrow • 1948 • United States
Starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan

One of the finest suspense thrillers of the 1940s, THE BIG CLOCK stars Ray Milland as a hapless crime-magazine editor plunged into a web of danger when he begins being systematically framed ...

Directed by Khalik Allah • 2013 • United States

Khalik Allah’s unflinching follow-up to his short URBAN RASHOMON breaks down the barriers between photography and cinema to create a free-associative portrait of a mentally ill homeless man named Frenchie.

Directed by Arthur Penn • 1975 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns

Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a pr...

Directed by Khalik Allah • 2013 • United States

With raw, harrowing honesty, photographer-filmmaker Khalik Allah explores the complex relationship between artist and subject as he reflects on his friendship with a homeless addict living on the streets of Harlem.

Directed by Marlon Riggs • 1989 • United States

Made, in director Marlon Riggs’s own words, to “shatter the nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference,” this radical blend of documentary and performance defies the stigmas surrounding Black gay sexuality in the belief...

Directed by Cy Endfield • 1950 • United States
Starring Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson

Inspired by the highly publicized 1933 murder of department store heir Brooke Hart (also the basis for Fritz Lang’s FURY), TRY AND GET ME! (a.k.a. THE SOUND OF FURY) is a searing portrait of mob...

Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2019 • United States
Starring Mae Wangmo, Anne Hanavan, Angel Cruz

A teenager lives her life, toggling seamlessly between her physical and digital selves. She walks over a bridge at sunrise, follows a stranger through the streets of the city, and meet...

Directed by Joseph Sargent • 1974 • United States
Starring Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam

One of the definitive cinematic time capsules of New York in the good-bad old days of the 1970s, this crackling urban-jungle thriller begins when a quartet of gunmen in trench coats—led by the c...

Directed by Roger Vadim • 1968 • France, Italy
Starring Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Marcel Marceau

This outrageous blend of science fiction, high camp, and erotic fantasia made Jane Fonda a permanent cult icon. She is sensational as a wide-eyed space adventurer whose quest to track down a fame...

Directed by Don Siegel • 1968 • United States
Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark

Fresh from his star-making collaborations with Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood inaugurated his next great creative partnership with this exciting police thriller, the first of five major films he made wi...

Directed by Woody Allen • 2008 • Spain, United States
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem

Woody Allen scored one of the biggest critical and commercial hits of his career with this witty, luminous tale of art, love, and sex under the Spanish sun. Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Jo...

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar • 1999 • Spain
Starring Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz, Marisa Paredes

This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodóvar’s most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the t...

Directed by Rob Marshall • 2009 • United States, Italy
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz

A supernova ensemble cast—including Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren, and an Oscar-nominated Penélope Cruz—lights up this extravagant musical take on F...

Directed by Brady Corbet • 2015 • United States, United Kingdom, Hungary
Starring Robert Pattinson, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham

A child’s angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses- shattering feature debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Brady Corbet (THE BRUTALIST). A po...

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner • 1978 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason

History has shown how one man with a dream can turn the world into a nightmare—can history repeat itself? Elderly Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) has made a...

Directed by Masashi Yamamoto • 1987 • Japan
Starring Kumiko Ota, Kou Machida, Tuko Ueno

On a drunken walk home, bohemian drug dealer Kumi (Kumiko Ohta) discovers an abandoned building on the outskirts of Tokyo. Attracted by the vast, untapped space overrun with luxuriant vegetation (and its pote...