Directed by Otto Preminger • 1959 • United States
Starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara

A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he belie...

Directed by Spike Lee • 1989 • United States
Starring Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Rosie Perez

Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social ...

Directed by Fritz Lang • 1953 • United States
Starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin

Fritz Lang’s hard-boiled cop vs. criminals yarn stars Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion, a police detective and family man driven by grief to conduct a relentless vendetta against a mobster (Alexander Scourby)...

Directed by Bill Duke • 1992 • United States
Starring Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard

Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens, a p...

Directed by Rowland Brown • 1931 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers

The first film directed by screenwriter Rowland Brown, QUICK MILLIONS features a ruthless performance from a young Spencer Tracy as Danny Raymond, a truck driver “too lazy to work and too ...

Directed by Tay Garnett • 1932 • United States
Starring William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon

One of the glories of pre-Code cinema, this exquisitely bittersweet romance endures as perhaps the finest of the six films that stars Kay Francis and William Powell made together between 1930 and ...

Directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley • 1929 • United States
Starring Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx

Based on the stage show of the same name, THE COCOANUTS was the first movie from anarchic comedy virtuosos the Marx Brothers, but you would never know it from the sheer quantity and ...

Directed by Michael Rapaport • 2011 • United States
Starring Mary J. Blige, Common, Q-Tip

In this fascinating documentary about one of the most innovative and influential hip-hop groups of all time—the Queens, New York, collective A Tribe Called Quest—director Michael Rapaport takes viewers on a...

Directed by Rowland Brown and John Cromwell • 1932 • United States
Starring Richard Dix, Tom Brown, Rochelle Hudson

The horrors of the American penal system are brutally depicted in this searing prison drama, directed with plenty of pre-Code grit by Rowland Brown. Hardened criminal Duke Ellis (R...

Directed by Rowland Brown and W. S. Van Dyke • 1936 • United States
Starring Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney

Written and partially directed by an uncredited Rowland Brown (along with THIN MAN helmer W. S. Van Dyke, who ultimately took over the production), this blend of lighthe...

Directed by William Dieterle • 1932 • United States
Starring William Powell, Kay Francis, Helen Vinson

William Powell steals both gems and hearts as a debonair thief in this stylish and sophisticated romantic crime comedy. Bored Baroness Teri von Horhenfels (Kay Francis) is on the prowl for a ne...

Directed by Michael Curtiz • 1934 • United States
Starring Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland

The atmospheric direction of Michael Curtiz lends visual luster to this strikingly pre-Code tale of racketeering, intrigue, and sin in Southeast Asia. Join Russian refugee Tanya Borodoff (Kay Fra...

Directed by John Cromwell • 1930 • United States
Starring William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis

Vividly set on the streets of Depression-era New York, this hard-hitting crime drama (based on the life of notorious racketeer Arnold Rothstein) casts William Powell as underworld gambler Natural D...

Directed by Lothar Mendes • 1931 • United States
Starring William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard

Golden-age greats William Powell, Kay Francis, and Carole Lombard star in this sophisticated drama about a New York society gigolo (Powell) whose career is threatened when the daughter (Lombard)...

Directed by John Cromwell • 1930 • United States
Starring William Powell, Kay Francis, Scott Kolk

Slick defense attorney William Foster (William Powell, thoroughly in his roguish element) has made a career out of using his fast-talking techniques to get his clearly guilty clients acquitted—witho...

Directed by George Cukor and Louis J. Gasnier • 1930 • United States
Starring Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Jobyna Howland

To obtain a military exemption for her condemned husband (Kenneth MacKenna), Marya (Kay Francis), a beautiful Russian woman, bargains with her body and finds herself trapped b...

Directed by Steven Spielberg • 2002 • United States
Starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton

It’s 2054, a future in which psychic “precogs” are able to envision murders before they happen. When he’s pegged as the soon-to-be killer of a man he doesn’t know, detective John Anderton (Tom...

Directed by Terence Nance • 2017 • United States

Terence Nance boldly reimagines the origin story of Jimi Hendrix.

Directed by RaMell Ross • 2018 • United States
Starring Quincy Bryant, Daniel Collins

An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, RaMell Ross’s HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rura...

Directed by A. V. Rockwell • 2012 • United States

Armed with a saxophone and a plastic cape, Larry “Antenna Man” Connor makes a name for himself the best way he knows how.

Directed by Chantal Akerman • 2015 • France, Belgium
Starring Natalia Akerman, Chantal Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman

The final film from groundbreaking auteur Chantal Akerman is a deeply personal, heart-woundingly intimate portrait of her relationship with her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor a...

Directed by A. V. Rockwell • 2014 • United States

During a late night underground, we meet Indigo, an optimistic Sudanese immigrant who opens up about her dreams of prospering in a new world.

Directed by Terence Nance • 2015 • United States

Made in collaboration with director Terence Nance’s brother, musician and producer Norvis Junior, this dance- and movement-based work unfolds in a mesmerizing wash of surreal rituals and religious symbolism.

Directed by Matteo Garrone • 2008 • Italy
Starring Toni Servillo, Salvatore Abruzzese, Gianfelice Imparato

Matteo Garrone’s GOMORRAH is a stark, shocking vision of contemporary gangsterdom, and one of cinema’s most authentic depictions of organized crime. In this tour de force adaptation of unde...