Directed by Robert Altman • 1979 • United States
Starring Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis

An endearing, underseen oddity made at the end of director Robert Altman’s dazzling 1970s creative run, this offbeat (even by Altman standards) romantic comedy explores the mysterious nature of love...

Directed by Jodie Foster • 1991 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Adam Hann-Byrd, Dianne Wiest

Graced with the same intelligence and sensitivity that has defined her acting work, Jodie Foster’s highly assured directorial debut explores, with immense poignancy and humor, a subject near to he...

Directed by Michael Winterbottom • 2017 • United Kingdom
Starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Marta Barrio

After jaunts through Northern England and Italy, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the b...

Directed by Olive Nwosu • United Kingdom, Nigeria • 2021
Starring Teniola Aladese, Sheila Chukwulozie, Loveth Onyemaobi

Salewa (Sheila Chukwulozie), a young queer woman living with her wife in London, returns to her hometown in Nigeria for her mother’s funeral. There, she confronts her complex f...

Directed by Johnnie To • 2011 • Hong Kong
Starring Sean Lau Ching-wan, Richie Jen, Myolie Wu

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the 2008 banking crisis, this gripping, intricately constructed portrait of capitalism’s corruption of the soul follows three people—a police officer (Richie Jen), a...

Directed by Monique Walton • 2011 • United States

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a mysterious box appears in the backyard of three siblings—a portal that may offer an escape from their surroundings.

Directed by Johnnie To • 2005 • Hong Kong
Starring Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Louis Koo

Superstar director Johnny To’s magnum opus breathed new life into the Hong Kong crime drama by offering a boldly deromanticized vision of a gangland underworld defined by corrosive greed. Every two years, ...

Directed by Johnnie To • 2003 • Hong Kong
Starring Simon Yam, Maggie Siu Mei-kei, Lam Suet

Director Johnnie To’s propulsive action choreography and vivid feeling for the seedy corners of the neon-soaked Hong Kong night world are on full display in this stylishly moody thriller, one of the direct...

Directed by Tang Yi • 2021 • Hong Kong
Starring Chen Xuanyu, Xue Baohe

Winner of the Palme d’Or for best short film at Cannes, this blissfully bonkers, neon-drenched odyssey follows a teenage girl as she embarks on an irreverent night of adventure—complete with surreal dance numbers and queer ro...

Directed by Alan Rudolph • 1985 • United States
Starring Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer

In a down-and-out corner of Rain City—a mysterious, moody metropolis that seems to exist partly in the future, partly in the past—a collection of social cast-offs are drawn together by fate,...

Directed by Johnnie To • 2004 • Hong Kong
Starring Nick Cheung Ka-fai, Richie Jen, Kelly Chen

Opening with a dazzling, seven-minute-long tracking shot and never letting up from there, this typically dynamic action thriller from director Johnnie To explores the gulf between the truth and what the...

Directed by Nicolás Pereda • 2021 • Mexico, Spain
Starring Catalina Pereda

Nicolás Pereda’s playful and moving homage to Chantal Akerman takes the form of a series of letters responding to her imagined inquiry about renting a home in Mexico City.

Directed by Robert Altman • 1976 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy

Robert Altman directs a dynamic ensemble cast—including Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster, and Shelley Duvall—in this subversive revisionist western. Although Buffalo Bill...

Directed by René Clair • 1944 • United States
Starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie

One of a handful of films French director René Clair made in Hollywood, this delightful period comedy displays the elegant mix of fantasy and whimsy that so often graced his work. When he miraculously b...

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 ...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1971 • United States
Starring Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam

A prescient vision of the rise of the surveillance state, this paranoid heist thriller stars Sean Connery as Duke Anderson, an ex-con just out of prison who hatches a daring scheme to rob every unit...

Directed by Jon Amiel • 1993 • United States, France
Starring Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, Bill Pullman

Richard Gere and Jodie Foster bring a stirring chemistry to this morally complex period drama, a beautifully crafted remake of the French art-house hit THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE (itself based...

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar • 1983 • Spain
Starring Julieta Serrano, Marisa Paredes, Chus Lampreave

Pedro Almodóvar’s third feature is an outrageously funny, gleefully subversive skewering of Catholic piety bursting with his bold visual imagination. In trouble with the law, nightclub singer Yola...

Directed by Ondi Timoner • 2018 • United States
Starring Matt Smith, Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey

One of the most important and controversial artists of the twentieth century, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe captured eroticism in a way that had never been seen before. Set during the 19...

Directed by Michael Winterbottom • 2020 • United Kingdom
Starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan

When Odysseus left Troy it took him ten years to get back to his home in Ithaca. Comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have only six days on their own personal odyssey in THE TRIP TO GREECE....

Directed by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Ammin Acha-ur, Pablo Quintos

This sublime winner of the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival follows Lynn (Ammin Acha-ur), who leaves her family’s remote home behind to traverse the harrowing roads o...

Directed by Naoko Yamada • 2018 • Japan
Starring Atsumi Tanezaki, Nao Toyama, Ayaka Asai

Luminous hand-drawn animation, stirring music, and fairy-tale imagination combine in this uniquely intimate, ineffably moving coming-of-age story from renowned anime director Naoko Yamada (A SILENT VOICE). H...

Directed by Naoko Yamada • 2018 • Japan
Starring Laurie Hymes, Stephanie Sheh, Courtney Shaw

Luminous hand-drawn animation, stirring music, and fairy-tale imagination combine in this uniquely intimate, ineffably moving coming-of-age story from renowned anime director Naoko Yamada (A SILENT VOICE...

Directed by Su Friedrich • 1996 • United States
Starring Chelsea Holland, Ariel Mara, Linzy Taylor

This poignant blend of documentary and narrative tells the story of Lou, a twelve-year-old girl coming to terms with her budding sexuality in the mid-1960s. Her bittersweet tale is skillfully inter...