Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2007 • China, France, Hong Kong
Starring Norah Jones, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz

For his oft-overlooked first English-language feature, legendary director Wong Kar Wai brought his dreamily elliptical sense of time and intoxicating, color-saturated romanticism to America, f...

Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack • 1933 • United States
Starring Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot

The grandaddy of all monster movies remains one of the screen’s most awe-inspiring achievements: a landmark in both special effects and modern mythmaking. Original scream...

Directed by Roger Kumble • 1999 • United States
Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon

The diabolical psychosexual machinations of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s classic novel “Les liaisons dangereuses” are audaciously transplanted to a rich-kid Manhattan prep school in ...

Directed by Kevin Smith • 1994 • United States
Starring Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti

Famously shot on a shoestring budget of less than $30,000, CLERKS launched the career of indie legend Kevin Smith and won over audiences with its raw energy, irreverent humor, and proudly ...

Directed by Wim Wenders • 2000 • Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Starring Mel Gibson, Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Davies

Based on a story by Bono and featuring a soundtrack by U2, Wim Wenders’s dreamy, surreally stylized vision of life on the margins unfolds in a rundown Los Angeles hotel popu...

Directed by Peter Howitt • 1998 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch

The split-second moments that can take a life down one path instead of another form the crux of this wonderfully fresh, existential twist on the romantic comedy. Gwyneth Paltrow deli...

Directed by Joachim Trier • 2015 • Norway
Starring Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg

Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s first English-language feature centers on the death of a famous conflict photographer (Isabelle Huppert) and how her husband (Gabriel Byrne) and sons (Jesse Eise...

Directed by Richard Kelly • 2001 • United States
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, James Duval

Described by director Richard Kelly as “‘The Catcher in the Rye’ as told by Philip K. Dick,” this cult classic is a mind-altering experience whose metaphysical enigmas are still being unraveled. T...

Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2004 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Gong Li, Faye Wong

Wong Kar Wai’s loose sequel to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE combines that film’s languorous air of romantic longing with a dizzying time-hopping structure and avant-sci-fi twist. Tony Leung Chiu Wai reprises his...

Directed by Fred Zinnemann • 1952 • United States
Starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell

Gary Cooper stars in this real-time western as a sheriff looking forward to retirement and marriage whose plans are upended by the news that a gang of outlaws are on their way to gun him down....

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 2007 • United States
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke

Renowned director Sidney Lumet brought five decades of cinematic mastery to bear in his final film, a riveting thriller that achieves the weight of Greek tragedy. A typically virtuosic Phil...

Directed by Gore Verbinski • 2002 • United States
Starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman

After unsettling audiences across the world with its relentlessly creepy vision of VHS-generated terror, the Japanese horror hit RING received the Hollywood treatment—resulting in an equally c...

Directed by John Greyson • 1996 • Canada
Starring Brent Carver, Marcel Sabourin, Aubert Pallascio

A visually intoxicating queer rhapsody of desire and repression, revenge and redemption unfolds as a deliriously stylized play-within-a-film in this sumptuous cinematic pageant adapted from the stag...

Directed by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams • 1995 • United Kingdom
Starring Gaish, Tatsu, Kazuki

This remarkable documentary offers rich insight into gender and sexuality in Japan via a candid portrait of Kazuki, Tatsu, and Gaish, three trans masc hosts working at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo...

Directed by Bob Odenkirk • 2003 • United States
Starring Michael Blieden, Stephanie Courtney, Matt Price

Perhaps the finest conversation movie this side of MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ, Bob Odenkirk’s directorial debut invites you along for a stimulating evening of hilarious, engrossing, and disarmingly...

Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui • 1988 • United States, Japan
Starring Carrie Hamilton, Yutaka Tadokoro

This unsung gem of 1980s American independent cinema is a breezy tour through bubble-era Tokyo, brimming with knowing nods to the city’s vibrant pop culture. Disillusioned with life in New York C...

Directed by Milton Miron • 1971 • United States
Starring Goldie Glitters, Richard Koldewyn, Sylvester

Revel in the psychedelic debauchery as underground “acid drag” theater troupe the Cockettes orchestrate a decidedly queer, hysterically funny send-up of the televised wedding of First Daughter T...

Directed by Ann Oren • 2022 • Germany
Starring Simone Bucio, Simon(è) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Sebastian Rudolph

Ravishingly shot on lush 16 mm, the audaciously erotic, playfully surreal debut feature from Ann Oren crosses lines of gender and species on a visceral journey into sexuality, control, and ...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1982 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter

John Carpenter’s terrifying remake of THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD boasts some of the most impressively gory special effects in all of horror cinema. When scientists at an Antarctic research st...

Directed by Barry Levinson • 1994 • United States
Starring Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland

A best-selling novel by Michael Crichton provides the basis for this heated thriller about sexual politics in a high-tech corporation. After Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas), a married executiv...

Directed by Yang Chao • 2016 • China
Starring Qin Hao, Xin Zhilei, Wu Lipeng

Stunningly shot by master cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, THE ASSASSIN), this sublimely mysterious, elegiac odyssey blends breathtaking images of the river that has nurtured Chinese civilizatio...

Directed by Walerian Borowczyk • 1978 • Italy
Starring Marina Pierro, Ligia Branice, Howard Ross

Boundary-pushing director Walerian Borowczyk brings his gauzy, symbol-laden eroticism to this typically provocative tale of a convent turned into a hothouse of depraved lust. Pushed to the brink by ...

Directed by Shikeith • 2014 • United States

This experimental documentary mines the psycho-emotional landscape of Black masculinity. Shot in striking black and white, #BLACKMENDREAM features nine men from diverse backgrounds who, with their backs turned to the camera, discuss the obstacles—incl...

Directed by Joachim Trier • 2017 • Norway
Starring Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen

Something like Brian De Palma’s CARRIE filtered through a distinctively chilly, Nordic sensibility, this spellbinding supernatural thriller from director Joachim Trier follows Thelma (Eili Harboe), a l...