Directed by Sander Joon • 2022 • Estonia

A father and son embark on a freewheeling road race that spins off into surreal and unexpectedly poignant realms in this brightly colored, boldly graphic animated capriccio.

Directed by Ham Tran • 2006 • United States
Starring Kiều Chinh, Long Nguyen, Diem Lien

Inspired by the true stories of Vietnamese refugees who fled their land after the fall of Saigon—and those who were forced to stay behind—JOURNEY FROM THE FALL follows one family’s struggle for freedom. April...

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci • 2003 • France, Italy, United Kingdom
Starring Eva Green, Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel

This late-career triumph from Bernardo Bertolucci is an intoxicating homage to love, sex, cinema, and the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s, suffused with the wide-eyed wonder of...

Directed by John Bailey • 1994 • United States
Starring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Benicio Del Toro

In this tantalizing and stylish neonoir, Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris) is a homicide detective, the best in the business. But even a cop as brilliant as Kyle can be led astray by love. What starts as a...

Directed by Đặng Nhật Minh • 1984 • Vietnam
Starring Lê Vân, Nguyen Hữu Mười, Nguyễn Minh Vương

Widely regarded as one of the greatest Vietnamese films ever made, this deeply moving exploration of grief and trauma centers on Duyên (Lê Vân), a young woman whose husband is killed in Vietnam’s post...

Directed by Diao Yinan • 2019 • China
Starring Hu Ge, Gwei Lun-mei, Liao Fan

When small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong (Hu Ge) accidentally kills a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the lam from both the police as well as dangerous gangsters out for the reward. Hidin...

Directed by Terry Zwigoff • 1995 • United States
Starring Robert Crumb

Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in ...

Directed by Larry Clark • 2001 • United States, France
Starring Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner

Ever-controversial director Larry Clark (KIDS) returns to the world of aimless youth with this provocative and unflinching true-crime shocker. Inspired by the murder of Bobby Kent, BULLY cen...

Directed by John Hubley • 1959 • United States

John and Faith Hubley recorded a conversation between their young sons and set it to animated visuals to create this charming, Academy Award–winning adventure in which two boys set out on a late-night quest to capture a bird.

Directed by John Hubley • 1955 • United States
Starring Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie is hired to record the soundtrack for a television commercial—but the music has a mind of its own in this irreverent blend of live-action and animation.

Directed by Tiona Nekkia McClodden • 2017 • United States

Mixing 16 mm surveillance footage, 1970s tearoom porn, and structuralist film footage shot in North Philadelphia, this poetic film essay—inspired by the writing of Black gay poet Brad Johnson—visually explores the concept of the labyrinth...

Directed by Hải Ninh • 1974 • North Vietnam
Starring Lan Hương, Trà Giang, Thế Anh

Haunting and indelible, this landmark of Vietnamese cinema depicts the horrors of the Vietnam War from the point of view of a young girl (Lan Hương) as she searches for her family amid the rubble-strewn streets of...

Directed by Diao Yinan • 2014 • China
Starring Liao Fan, Gwei Lun-mei, Wang Xuebing

Bone-deep disillusionment and startling moments of visual invention suffuse this noir immersion into the seedy underbelly of contemporary Chinese society, winner of the Golden Bear at the 2014 Berlin Film Festiva...

Directed by Lee Daniels • 2012 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey

Lee Daniels’s follow-up to his breakthrough feature PRECIOUS is a deliciously pulpy, swamp-steamy slice of Southern gothic delirium featuring an all-star cast led by Matthew McConaughey, playing...

Directed by Erin Vassilopoulos • 2015 • United States
Starring Alessandra Mesa, Anamari Mesa, David Warshofsky

Erin Vassilopoulos’s short-film precursor to her feature of the same name explores the complex relationship between teenage identical-twin sisters living with their single father in a s...

Directed by John Hubley • 1958 • United States

A charming, inventively animated love story unfolds to the music of the Oscar Peterson Trio and Ella Fitzgerald.

Directed by Lee Chang-dong • 2007 • South Korea
Starring Jeon Do-yeon, Song Kang-ho

A master of intensely emotional human dramas, director Lee Chang-dong is a luminary of contemporary Korean cinema, and his place on the international stage was cemented by this stirring and unpredictable work exa...

Directed by Jacques Becker • 1954 • France
Starring Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur

Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (“Hands Off the Loot”). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forwar...

Directed by Joyce Chopra • 1999 • United States
Starring Mary McDonnell, William Russ, Jack Coleman

Director Joyce Chopra brings her usual sensitivity to this made-for-television look at a woman in the process of rebuilding her shattered home. When Linda (Mary McDonnell) discovers that her husba...

Directed by John Hubley • 1961 • United States

Filmmakers John and Faith Hubley embark on a wondrous cosmic voyage in this unique animated documentary. Based on the book by astronomer Harlow Shapley (who also narrates), OF STARS AND MEN sets a kaleidoscope of painterly, often abstract visuals to...

Directed by Brontez Purnell • 2016 • United States

In Brontez Purnell’s “video mixtape,” unlikely antihero DeShawn—an HIV-positive Black gay man haunted by the ghosts of 100 men—relates his philosophy of the world to an unknown caller on his landline while magically shrink-fitting a new pair of ...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1974 • United States
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter

Martin Scorsese and Ellen Burstyn draw on the classic women’s melodrama, the 1970s road movie, and the burgeoning feminist movement to create a tender portrait of a New Mexico housewife w...

Directed by Michael Apted • 1994 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson

Inspired by the true story of Poto and Cabengo—the American twins raised largely in isolation who were found to have developed their own language—this poignant drama soars thanks to an extraor...

Directed by Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka • 2022 • China
Starring Yao Honggui, Liu Long, Huang Xiaoxiong

The latest from Beijing-based wife-and-husband directorial team Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka is a piercing, meticulously observed examination of contemporary Chinese youth starring their recurring l...