Directed by Kathryn Bigelow • 1991 • United States
Starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze, Lori Petty

Cops-and-robbers action meets sun-kissed surfing counterculture for the most ecstatically adrenalized cult classic of the 1990s. Keanu Reeves stars as Johnny Utah, the hotshot FBI rookie who goes...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1982 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T. K. Carter

John Carpenter’s terrifying remake of THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD boasts some of the most impressively gory special effects in all of horror cinema. When scientists at an Antarctic research st...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1982 • United States
Starring Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard

Paul Schrader’s kinky-stylish reworking of the 1942 Val Lewton classic transfers the action to a voodoo-spooky New Orleans, adds an incestuous undercurrent, and ups the sex and gore. Nastassj...

Directed by Billy Wilder • 1960 • United States
Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

Jack Lemmon stars in one of Billy Wilder’s most beloved films as C. C. Baxter, a company man anxious to please his superiors at the New York insurance firm where he works—enough to let his boss...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1940 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy

One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, HIS GIRL FRIDAY stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in fo...

Directed by Naoko Yamada • 2011 • Japan
Starring Aki Toyosaki, Yoko Hikasa, Satomi Sato

This heartfelt continuation of the beloved, slice-of-life anime series K-ON! traces the charming adventures of five high school students who come together to form the band Ho-kago Tea Time. As they prepare fo...

Directed by Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton • 1988 • United States
Starring Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling

Time is running out for university professor Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid). He has just twenty-four hours to unravel the bitter truth surrounding his own poisoning. In his despe...

Directed by Jim McBride • 1983 • United States
Starring Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano

Remaking Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave landmark (itself an homage to American gangster films) was surely one of the more audacious cinematic gambits of the 1980s, but director Jim McBride (DAV...

Directed by Ranald MacDougall • 1955 • United States
Starring Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Betsy Palmer

Joan Crawford delivers a ferocious performance in this scorching domestic melodrama. She stars as Eva Phillips, a Southern socialite who, though she appears to be the epitome of grace and char...

Directed by Kimi Takesue • 2016 • United States

Filmmaker Kimi Takesue finds an unlikely collaborator while visiting her grandfather Tom in Hawai’i. A recent widower in his nineties, Tom seems content to go about his daily routines until he shows surprising interest in his granddaughter’s stalle...

Directed by Ben Dupuy and Kim Ives • 1983 • Haiti

Filmed in secret under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier, this incisive documentary explores the effects of foreign exploitation and oppression on Haitian society. From peasant coffee farms in the rugged tropical mountains to steamy U.S.-l...

Directed by Taylor Hackford • 1984 • United States
Starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward, James Woods

Based on the same novel that inspired Jacques Tourneur’s dark noir diamond OUT OF THE PAST, this steamy update infuses the classic story of betrayal, murder, and doomed love with a vivid sensuality...

Directed by John Farrow • 1948 • United States
Starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan

One of the finest suspense thrillers of the 1940s, THE BIG CLOCK stars Ray Milland as a hapless crime-magazine editor plunged into a web of danger when he begins being systematically framed ...

Directed by Kimi Takesue • 2004 • United States
Starring Joyce Perrone, Keiichi Kondoh, Sarah Zhang

Eight-year-old Juliette sits at the side of the local pool waiting for another lonely summer day to pass when a Japanese couple unexpectedly arrives. Fascinated by the mysterious black-clad woman ...

Directed by Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV • 2020 • United States
Starring Peter Elwell, Michael Martin, Shay Walker

It’s last call at the Roaring 20s, a beloved Las Vegas dive bar where the regulars—a patchwork family of misfits, whiskey-soaked philosophers, and all-American oddballs—convene for ...

Directed by Kimi Takesue • 2002 • United States

HEAVEN’S CROSSROAD traces an impressionistic journey through Vietnam exploring the nuances and complexities of “looking” cross-culturally. Structured in a series of observational yet stylized vignettes, this experimental documentary investigates sh...

Directed by Carmen Ashhurst, Samori Marksman, and John Douglas • 1983 • Grenada, United States

GRENADA: THE FUTURE COMING TOWARDS US examines the aims and accomplishments of the Caribbean New Jewel Movement and the reasons for the 1983 US military invasion of Grenada. The film puts these events ...

Directed by Huang Xi • 2024 • Taiwan
Starring Sylvia Chang, Karena Lam, Winston Chao

A stunning performance by Taiwanese-cinema legend Sylvia Chang anchors this elegant exploration of motherhood, grief, and regret from rising director Huang Xi. Executive-produced by Chang and filmmaker Hou Hsiao...

Directed by Kimi Takesue • 2005 • United States

E=NYC2 captures the dynamic energy and movement of New York City. Structured in a series of observational vignettes, this piece features New Yorkers moving through self-contained yet interconnected worlds as they pursue their lives and dreams.

Directed by John Ford • 1935 • United States
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur

Edward G. Robinson spoofs his own tough-guy image in this lively gangster farce, one of director John Ford’s rare forays into straight comedy. In a delightful double role, Robinson plays mild-mannered office cl...

Directed by Lou Ye • 2024 • Singapore, Germany
Starring Qin Hao, Mao Xiaorui, Qi Xi

In January 2020, director Xiaorui (Mao Xiaorui) reunites his cast and crew to complete a gay romance film that was abandoned during production ten years earlier. However, the team is suddenly placed into lockdown...

Directed by Harclyde Walcott and Honor Ford-Smith • 1985 • Jamaica

The Sistren Collective, a popular Jamaican women’s theater troupe, uses performance and improvisation as consciousness-raising tools for both rural and urban audiences. Their performances speak directly to the daily experiences o...

Directed by Thierry Frémaux • 2025 • France

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, “lumière,” the French word for “light,” was also the surname of brothers Auguste and Louis, whose brilliant invention, the cinematograph, helped to inaugurate the most beloved art form of the last 130 ...

Directed by Luis Buñuel • 1953 • Mexico
Starring Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker

Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel’s fiendish tale of love gone wrong is among the most perverse and unsettling films he made during his two decades of exile in Mexico. Folding his own neuroses int...