Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1959 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift

Gay panic, incest, and a sprinkling of cannibalism: Tennessee Williams’s one-act southern-gothic shocker gets an appropriately lurid screen adaptation cowritten ...

Directed by Arthur Penn • 1975 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns

Arthur Penn’s haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a pr...

Directed by Robert Bresson • 1977 • France
Starring Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc

“My sickness is that I see clearly.” Robert Bresson’s most controversial film (the French government banned viewers under the age of eighteen from seeing it, believing it would incite a rash of ...

Directed by George Armitage • 1990 • United States
Starring Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Fred Ward

Based on the novel by crack crime writer Charles Willeford and produced by Jonathan Demme, this marvelously offbeat, black-comic caper features a totally unhinged performance from Alec Baldw...

Directed by David Cronenberg • 1979 • Canada
Starring William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon

A rare non-horror outing from David Cronenberg, FAST COMPANY may be far removed from his famously fleshy freakouts, but this crackerjack car-racing thriller is a fast and fun joyride directed with h...

Directed by George Armitage • 1997 • United States
Starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd

John Cusack’s unstoppable run as puppy-eyed Gen X heartthrob continued with this smart, wittily offbeat blend of hit-man thriller and romantic comedy. He stars as Martin Blank, a professional assa...

Directed by Yang Qing • 2016 • China
Starring Chen Kun, Bai Baihe, Qin Hao

This wild, genre-blasting blend of rollicking comedy and blood-spattered crime caper follows three friends who, when they open a hot pot restaurant in a former bomb shelter, are surprised to discover that it’s linked by a...

Directed by Claire Denis • 2009 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé

In WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. Played by a ferocious Isabelle...

Directed by Na Jiazuo • 2021 • China
Starring Liu Jiuxiao, Huang Miyi, Sha Baoliang

An at once gritty and intoxicatingly stylized portrait of a group of outcasts struggling to survive in a fading riverside town, STREETWISE unfolds in 2004 in Zhenwu, one of the many small villages in the Sichuan ...

Directed by Alan Parker • 1976 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Scott Baio

Welcome to Fat Sam’s speakeasy! A TAXI DRIVER–era Jodie Foster is among the gaggle of young ’uns who comprise the all-child cast of this delightful 1976 musical gangster comedy, in which the guns shoot whipped cream...

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell • 2001 • United States
Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt

With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie...

Directed by Shikeith • 2017 • United States

A compassionate encounter transforms a shy Black boy and the emotional and sexual traumas lodged in his body in this experimental work informed by the writings of Audre Lorde.

Directed by Serhat Karaaslan • 2021 • France, Turkey
Starring Deniz Altan, Lorin Merhart, Ercan Kesal

Late one evening in a Turkish town, a young, unmarried couple attempt to find a hotel room to spend the night in. A simple act of deception plunges them into a disturbing encounter with a rigidl...

Directed by Elegance Bratton • 2016 • United States
Starring Aaliyah King, Yolonda Ross, Brenda Holder

A teenager explores her transgender identity through voguing and ball culture—but is her mom ready to accept her for who she is?

Directed by Marcel Carné • 1938 • France
Starring Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean (Jean Gabin), an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of...

Directed by Lucy Knox • 2020 • New Zealand
Starring Alison Bruce, Erana James, Simon Deighton

What should be a relaxing mother-daughter retreat to an idyllic New Zealand spa becomes a harrowing fight for survival in this nightmarish vision of a troubled parent-child relationship in extremis.

Directed by Allan Moyle • 1990 • United States, Canada
Starring Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Annie Ross

By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) is the painfully shy new kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he’s Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized...

Directed by Ray Yeung • 2019 • Hong Kong
Starring Tai Bo, Ben Yuen Foo-wah, Patra Au Ga-man

This supremely sensitive romance is the moving story of two closeted married men who find unexpected connection in their twilight years. One day Pak (Tai Bo), seventy, a Hong Kong taxi driver who refuses ...

Directed by Liu Jian • 2023 • China
Starring Dong Zijian, Zhou Dongyu, Ren Ke

Strikingly detailed, hand-drawn animation vividly evokes the idle, idealistic world of slacker youth in the precious days before adult responsibility in Liu Jian’s charmingly wistful slice-of-life gem. In 1990s China, ...

Directed by John Hubley • 1976 • United States

Inspired by psychologist Erik Erikson’s theories of human social development, this singular animated journey takes viewers through the eight stages of life, from birth to death. The freewheeling watercolor visuals of animators John and Faith Hubley,...

Directed by Nguyễn Hồng Nghi and Phạm Kỳ Nam • 1959 • North Vietnam
Starring Phi Nga, Mạnh Linh, Song Kim

The first feature shot in North Vietnam is a stirring, strongly anticolonialist tale of two lovers, Vận (Mạnh Linh) a guerrilla fighter for the North, and Hoài (Phi Nga), a young woman from ...

Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1965 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint

Ultimate celebrity power couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton bring their supernova star power to this spectacularly sudsy romance coscripted by formerly blacklisted screenwriter...

Directed by Paul Wendkos • 1959 • United States
Starring Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson

The wholesome, fun-in-the-sun ’50s classic that launched a wave of sequels and an entire subgenre of beach-party movies stars winsome Sandra Dee as the spirited titular teenager, who’s searching fo...

Directed by Ray Yeung • 2015 • United States
Starring Jake Choi, James Chen, Elizabeth Sung

The romantic comedy gets a queer culture-clash twist in this tender, entertaining tale of love and identity. Ryan (Jake Choi) is a handsome fashion stylist living in New York City who rejects his traditio...