Directed by Elaine May • 1987 • United States
Starring Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani

Once synonymous with “box-office bomb,” this unjustly maligned road-movie comedy from national treasure Elaine May has been on a steady path to critical respectability ever since its disastrous ...

Directed by Michael Mann • 1995 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino face off in this titanic crime epic from pulp poet Michael Mann. A gang of thieves led by snazzy super-criminal Neal McCauley (De Niro) pull off a string of robberies on ba...

Directed by Michael Cimino • 1980 • United States
Starring Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt

A breathtaking depiction of the promise and perils of America’s western expansion, HEAVEN’S GATE, directed by Michael Cimino, is among Hollywood’s most ambitious and unorthodox epics. Kri...

Directed by Chris Smith • 1999 • United States

It takes a village to make a movie, but when that village is Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, the results are bizarre, comical, and quintessentially American. With the help of his mother, his eighty-two-year-old uncle, and a local cast of oddballs, DIY f...

Directed by Paul Verhoeven • 1995 • United States, France
Starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon

Unbound by musty notions of “good taste,” SHOWGIRLS goes farther than any other film of the 1990s in its orgiastic depiction of consumerism, crass spectacle, and the dark side of t...

Directed by Mike Nichols • 1966 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal

Mike Nichols’s taboo-shattering adaptation of Edward Albee’s groundbreaking Broadway play rips the façade of civility off the dysfunctional marriage between an alcoholic college professor (Ric...

Directed by Spike Lee • 1999 • United States
Starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino

Spike Lee’s fever-pitch vision of murder, mass hysteria, and machismo run amok charts the escalating paranoia within an Italian American Bronx neighborhood during the sweltering summer of 1977 as the...

Directed by Michael Mann • 1999 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer

Based on a true story, Michael Mann’s coolly riveting exposé of corporate corruption recounts the chain of events that pitted an ordinary man against the tobacco industry and dragged two people...

Directed by Jill Sprecher • 1997 • United States
Starring Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow

Something of a female-driven precursor to OFFICE SPACE, Jill Sprecher’s lost indie gem stars Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette, and Alanna Ubach as a quartet of temp workers who bond over th...

Directed by Sofia Coppola • 1999 • United States
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Kathleen Turner, James Woods

With this debut feature, Sofia Coppola announced her singular vision, exploring the aesthetics of femininity while illuminating the interior lives of young women. An adaptation of Jeffrey Eugeni...

Directed by Paul Morrissey • 1973 • United States
Starring Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier

Underground maverick and Andy Warhol collaborator Paul Morrissey (CHELSEA GIRLS) reimagines Mary Shelley’s modern myth, infusing it with satiric wit and sexuality in this outré, baroquely sty...

Directed by Quentin Tarantino • 1992 • United States
Starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen

Quentin Tarantino lit up American independent cinema with his blistering, hyperstylish feature debut, a postmodern caper that nods to the history of classic gangster cinema while turning genre c...

Directed by Delmer Daves • 1957 • United States
Starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr

In this beautifully shot, psychologically complex western, Van Heflin is a mild-mannered cattle rancher who takes on the task of shepherding a captured outlaw (played with cucumber-cool charisma by Glen...

Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1956 • United States
Starring Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie

Jane Russell’s feisty performance (in a role originally intended for Marilyn Monroe), Raoul Walsh’s vigorous direction, and spectacular Hawaiian location shooting in eye-popping DeLuxe Color come toge...

Directed by Paul Morrissey • 1974 • United States
Starring Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Maxime McKendry

Paul Morrissey’s follow-up to FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN is another audacious, elegantly lurid reimagining of horror mythology that lives in its own perverse realm somewhere between camp outrageousn...

Directed by Guy Ritchie • 2002 • United Kingdom, Italy
Starring Madonna, Adriano Giannini, Bruce Greenwood

Madonna’s often-controversial acting career continued to divide with this remake of Lina Wertmuller’s deliciously controversial 1975 Italian comedy—a story of love, sex, and too much money ...

Directed by Wendell B. Harris Jr. • 1989 • United States
Starring Wendell B. Harris Jr., Angela Leslie, Amina Fakir

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival—yet criminally underseen for over three decades—CHAMELEON STREET recounts the improbable but true story of Michiga...

Directed by Prince • 1986 • United States
Starring Prince, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jerome Benton

For his film follow-up to the massive success of PURPLE RAIN, pop auteur Prince—acting as director, star, and composer—brought his world-conquering charisma to this unapologetically goofy, high-camp ho...

Directed by Lisa Kreuger • 1993 • United States

A coming-of-age story about a young girl’s transition from four-legged love objects to two-legged ones.

Directed by Makoto Shinkai • 2016 • Japan
Starring Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita

Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives until they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This occurrence happens randomly, and they must ad...

Directed by Makoto Shinkai • 2016 • Japan
Starring Michael Sinterniklaas, Stephanie Sheh, Kyle Hebert

Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives until they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This occurrence happens randomly, and they must ...

Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1955 • United States
Starring Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan

Stunning CinemaScope landscapes, a dynamite cast, and the vigorous direction of Raoul Walsh come together in this gripping portrayal of an epic cattle drive. En route to the gold fields of Montana, Ben...

Directed by Blitz Bazawule • 2018 • Ghana, United States
Starring Ama K. Abebrese, Joe Addo, Henry Adofo

A profusion of dazzling, magical-realist images grace the visually and emotionally stunning debut feature from musician turned filmmaker Blitz Bazawule. Through the eyes of Esi (Cynthia Dankw...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1929 • United Kindgom
Starring Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, John Longden

Alfred Hitchcock’s—and Britain’s—first talkie finds the director using sound technology as inventively as he used the camera. Anny Ondra (prototype for the many Hitchcock blondes to come) play...