Directed by Hisayuki Toriumi • 1978 • Japan
Starring Katsuji Mori, Isao Sasaki, Kazuko Sugiyama

Fans of classic anime will delight in this awesomely retro sci-fi extravaganza teeming with pop-psychedelic visuals and whiz-bang-pow action. Assembled from a selection of episodes from the popular 19...

Directed by Henry Hathaway • 1953 • United States
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters

Marilyn Monroe dazzles in her star-making turn as a devious femme fatale in this sultry tale of seduction and murder. While on vacation at Niagara Falls, Rose Loomis (Monroe) plots to murder her...

Directed by Sofia Coppola • 2017 • United States
Starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst

Sofia Coppola won the Best Director award at Cannes for her hypnotic adaptation of the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan—the second following Don Siegel’s 1971 Clint Eastwood version—bringing a female...

Directed by Don Siegel • 1971 • United States
Starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman

This chilling, Civil War–set western casts Clint Eastwood stars as a wounded Yankee soldier who finds himself convalescing in a Confederate all-girls school, a charged setup that precipitates...

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 Nicholas Ray • 1956 • United States
Starring James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau

Though ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray’s BIGGER THAN LIFE is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1988 • United States
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell

Jonathan Demme brings an effortlessly breezy screwball verve and affectionate eye for ’80s suburban kitsch to this gloriously gaudy comic firecracker, built around a bravura performance b...

Directed by Oliver Stone • 1991 • United States
Starring Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan

Oliver Stone applies his brand of fevered excess to the brief, incendiary life of Jim Morrison with this hallucinatory look at his turbulent, acid-fueled ascent and spectacular implosion. Embodied with...

Directed by Brandon Cronenberg • 2010 • Canada
Starring Deragh Campbell, Neil Bennett, Ian Goff

After she undergoes an experimental brain procedure, a psychiatric patient finds the boundaries between her reality and her nightmares collapsing in this surreally disturbing science-fiction freak-out.

Directed by John M. Stahl • 1945 • United States
Starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain

Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he...

Directed by Philipp Virus • 2021 • Germany, United States

One of the most influential bands to emerge from the 1980s underground, East Coast rock legends Dinosaur Jr. laid the foundation for the grunge and alt-rock explosion of the 1990s with their ferocious mix of melody and distortion. This in...

Directed by Tsui Hark • 1984 • Hong Kong
Starring Kenny Bee, Sylvia Chang, Sally Yeh

Ever-innovative director Tsui Hark blends virtuosic slapstick, delightfully droll rom-com shenanigans, and sumptuous mise-en-scène into a rapturous, 1930s-set homage to the classic screwball comedy. In the midst...

Directed by Gerd Oswald • 1956 • United States
Starring Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith

He had looks, charm, and killer instinct! This Sirkian noir stars Robert Wagner as Bud Corliss, a handsome college boy so obsessed with wealth that he’d do anything to get it. When his rich girl...

Directed by Lewis Allen • 1947 • United States
Starring John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster

Lurid Technicolor, deep-dish melodrama, and gay subtext abound in this pulpy noir firecracker. In the desert town of Chuckawalla, Nevada, tempers flare, passions spark, and violence erupts when Pa...

Directed by Jayro Bustamante • 2019 • Guatemala
Starring María Mercedes Coroy, Margarita Kénefic, Sabrina de la Hoz

A country’s bloody history stains the present in the Guatemalan auteur Jayro Bustamante’s transfixing fusion of folk horror and searing political commentary, inspired by the real-l...

Directed by Charlotte Gainsbourg • 2021 • France, United Kingdom, Japan
Starring Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg

An icon who left an indelible imprint on the worlds of music, film, and fashion, Jane Birkin was one of the most photographed and analyzed women of the last century. Yet this tender...

Directed by Harvey Kahn • 2005 • Canada, United States
Starring Christian Slater, Selma Blair, Robert Loggia

An unusually dense and detailed insider’s view of corporate corruption distinguishes this twisty boardroom thriller. In a near future where an energy crisis has pushed oil prices to astro...