Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1998 • United States
Starring Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen Barkin

It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. What shoul...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1991 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: ser...

Directed by Terry Zwigoff • 2001 • United States
Starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi

Terry Zwigoff’s first fiction film, adapted from a cult-classic comic by Daniel Clowes, is an idiosyncratic portrait of adolescent alienation that is at once bleakly funny and wholly endearin...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1988 • United States
Starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly per...

Directed by Curtis Hanson • 1990 • United States
Starring Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane

Weak-willed Los Angeles yuppie Michael Boll (James Spader) finds his life transformed when he meets a mysterious stranger named Alex (Rob Lowe), whose charm and confidence gradually rub off on him. As Ale...

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 Dick Richards • 1975 • United States
Starring Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland

The immortal Robert Mitchum, a veteran of the original noir era, stars as Raymond Chandler’s legendary detective Philip Marlowe in this complex neonoir mystery. The hard-boiled Marlowe’s la...

Directed by Ulu Grosbard • 1978 • United States
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton

Dustin Hoffman gives one of his most electrifying performances in this riveting story of an ex-con battling for a new life and love in the glare and tension of the big city. After years b...

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 Stephen Herek • 1989 • United States
Starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin

It’s a totally bodacious odyssey when slacker SoCal teens Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves)—in danger of failing their high school history report, with potentially disastrous consequences f...

Directed by Khyentse Norbu • 1999 • Bhutan
Starring Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling, Jamyang Lodro

Soccer fever seizes the most unlikely of places in this supremely gentle, warmhearted tale of tradition and change, the first feature film made in Bhutan. After fleeing Tibet, two young boys (Kunsan...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1983 • United States
Starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul

A high-school nerd’s (Keith Gordon) possessive and possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury unleashes its jealousy in a diabolical killing rampage in this sleek horror joyride from genre master John Carpe...

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 Cecilia Aldarondo • 2020 • Puerto Rico

An intimate and lyrical portrait of trauma, resilience, and resistance in post–Hurricane María Puerto Rico, LANDFALL traces collective recovery in the wake of the devastating storm while exposing the island’s deepening economic and environmental...

Directed by Khyentse Norbu • 2003 • Bhutan
Starring Tshewang Dendup, Sonam Lhamo, Dasho Adab Sangye

Mystical journeys of spiritual discovery unfold against the spectacular landscape of Bhutan in this enchanting philosophical odyssey. Young government official Dondup (Tshewang Dendup) dreams of e...

Directed by Steven Feinartz • 2025 • United States

Frank, caustic, and fearlessly funny, comedian and podcast pioneer Marc Maron has built his career on holding nothing back. Yet the famously outspoken comic continues to reveal new sides of himself in this poignant documentary. Filmed in the wak...

Directed by Isao Fujisawa • 1974 • Japan
Starring Ren Tamura, Miyabi Ichijo, Atsuko Ami

When lost and nihilistic drifter Utamaro (Ren Tamura) chances upon Giko (Miyabi Ichijo), a female-presenting shoplifter, one thing leads to another and the couple soon find themselves on the lam for murder. A...

Directed by Martin Ritt • 1958 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles

Sex, pyromania, and epic family drama heat up this southern-gothic scorcher adapted from three works by William Faulkner. In his first screen pairing opposite his soon-to-be wife Joanne Woodward, P...

Directed by Richard Fleischer • 1955 • United States
Starring Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally

Both a precision-crafted thriller and a shattering plunge into the neurotic heart of 1950s America, this Southwest-set sunshine noir from genre expert Richard Fleischer charts the intersect...

Directed by Sameh Alaa • 2025 • France, Egypt

A playful and poignant tale of family, first love, and self-actualization told through the story of the director’s relationship with his hair—from early barber-shop trauma to balding—this charmingly lo-fi, hand-doodled animated short from Sameh Alaa ...

Directed by Martin Ritt • 1957 • United States
Starring Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall

Sex, alcoholism, and racial tensions roil a suburban California subdivision in this subversive deconstruction of 1950s conformity, which combines deep-dish melodrama with the socially conscious se...

Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2018 • Nigeria, United Kingdom

Transforming studied spectacle into kinetic livingness, artist Onyeka Igwe reclaims and reanimates images of Black dance as portrayed in British colonial-era propaganda films.

Directed by Shola Amoo • 2016 • United Kingdom
Starring Tanya Fear, Hussina Raja, Aki Omoshaybi

Blending fiction, documentary, and performance art, this incisive and heartfelt exploration of class, community, and social upheaval follows Nina (Tanya Fear), a young artist, as she returns to London...

Directed by Michael Gordon • 1960 • United States
Starring Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart

In this lavishly entertaining noir melodrama, bored, glamorous housewife Sheila Cabot (Lana Turner, swathed in luxe couture), wishing to be free of her crippled husband but not his enormous fo...