Directed by Jean-Pierre Devillers and Anne-Marie Faux • 2007 • France

Produced by director Maurice Pialat’s widow and collaborator Sylvie Pialat, this illuminating documentary offers an intimate look at the life and work of one of French cinema’s most revered and iconoclastic auteurs. Through in...

Directed by William Lustig • 1982 • United States
Starring Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Richard Bright

New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But whe...

Directed by Torben Anton Svendsen • 1952 • Denmark
Starring Poul Reichhardt, Grethe Thordahl, Astrid Villaume

The streets of postwar Copenhagen become a shadowy labyrinth of suspicion and danger in this taut, atmospheric thriller. Poul Reichhardt stars as Max, a philandering husband whose wife (...

Directed by Jacques Tourneur • 1948 • United States
Starring Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin

During the heady, dangerous days just after World War II, the paths of six people from different countries cross on a train bound from Paris to Germany in this atmospheric spy thriller. Stars M...

Directed by Chris Cunningham • 1999 • United Kingdom
Starring Björk

Two machine-manufactured automatons experience a moment of tenderness in the music video for the single from Björk’s album “Homogenic.”

Directed by Hong Khaou • 2014 • United Kingdom
Starring Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei, Andrew Leung

Set in contemporary London, LILTING features intensely moving performances by martial-arts legend Cheng Pei Pei as Junn, a Cambodian-Chinese mother grieving the untimely death of her only son, and Be...

Directed by Buster Keaton • 1924 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton

Reality and movie fantasy merge to brilliantly surreal effect in one of Buster Keaton’s most formally innovative features—a whirlwind of astonishing optical tricks and meta-cinematic invention. H...

Directed by Maurice Pialat • 1974 • France
Starring Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard

One of cinema’s greatest and most profound meditations on mortality, THE MOUTH AGAPE observes, with striking unsentimentality, the final days of a terminally ill woman (Monique Mélinand) as thos...

Directed by Buster Keaton 1925 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers

Notable for its streak of sweet sentimentality—rare in a Buster Keaton feature—this endearing slapstick western features the filmmaker-star as an idealistic young man (known as Friendless) wh...

Directed by Tay Garnett • 1938 • United States
Starring Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy

Comedy, mystery, and high-seas adventure meet when socialite and wanted murderer Kay Kerrigan (Joan Bennett, in the role for which she famously dyed her blonde hair brunette) flees the country on a...

Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1987 • Canada
Starring David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose

The fractured family of Atom Egoyan’s darkly comic second feature consists of Stan (David Hemblen), a mild sexual sadist; Sandra (Gabrielle Rose), his live-in mistress and video bondage partner; and his...

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles • 2019 • Brazil, France
Starring Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen

A few years from now . . . As Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its ninety-four-year-old matriarch, its inhabitants (among them national c...

Directed by Buster Keaton • 1926 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O’Neil

Cited by Buster Keaton as one of his personal favorites among his own films, this knockabout adaptation of a Broadway play revolves around a case of mistaken identity between two Alfred Butlers—o...