Directed by Sylvain Chomet • 2003 • France

Sylvain Chomet’s wondrous homage to antique animation blends Jazz Age whimsy with retina-tickling surrealism for a one-of-a-kind, Oscar-nominated confection. When her cyclist grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, the intrepid Madame Souza emb...

Directed by Archie Mayo • 1934 • United States
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien

Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck) has an uncanny sense of cards, which she has used to build a successful gambling business and a reputation for complete honesty, despite constant pressure from the mob. ...

Directed by André Téchiné • 1994 • France
Starring Gaël Morel, Élodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau

André Téchiné’s most personal and critically acclaimed film charts the sexual and political awakening of a group of French teenagers coming of age in the early sixties during the Algerian War. As Franç...

Directed by William A. Wellman • 1932 • United States
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, George Brent

Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Edna Ferber, SO BIG! casts Barbara Stanwyck as Selina Peake, a resourceful schoolteacher turned farmer’s wife who, following the death of her hu...

Directed by Jackie Chan • 1985 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung

The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/star...

Directed by Jackie Chan • 1988 • Hong Kong
Starring Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung

Jackie Chan followed up the massive success of POLICE STORY with an even bigger box-office hit. Having been demoted to a lowly traffic cop for his, ahem, unorthodox policing methods, Chan’s go-it-alone officer Ka-Kui ...

Directed by Alfred E. Green • 1933 • United States
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Wayne, George Brent

She climbed the ladder of success—wrong by wrong! Barbara Stanwyck stars as Lily “Baby Face” Powers, a tough woman of unusual beauty who sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire, leavin...

Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari • 2010 • Greece
Starring Ariane Labed, Vangelis Mourikis, Evangelina Randou

Part of the new wave of Greek cinema, ATTENBERG is an offbeat coming-of-age film. Twenty-three-year-old Marina is living in a small factory town by the sea where her once-visionary arc...

Directed by René Clair • 1950 • France
Starring Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard

Professor Henri Faust, retiring after fifty years as an alchemist, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature . . . whereupon his old acquaintance Mephistopheles, servant of Lucifer,...

Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari • 2013 • Greece

This short piece by Athina Rachel Tsangari, commissioned for the seventieth edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2013, draws on Jean-Luc Godard’s CONTEMPT and functions as a meditation on the state of cinema, depicting two film projectors cont...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1982 • West Germany
Starring Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale

Werner Herzog’s infamously arduous productions were already legendary when he outdid himself with FITZCARRALDO, a feat as utterly quixotic and improbable as its protagonist. Klaus Kinski stars as the wild-ey...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1984 • West Germany, Australia
Starring Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika

Werner Herzog heads to the Australian outback for this typically idiosyncratic variation on one of his pet themes: the uneasy relationship between modern man and nature. When an Australia...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1974 • West Germany
Starring Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brgitte Mira

Based on real events, THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER tells the story of a young man imprisoned in a basement dungeon for the first seventeen years of his life, devoid of human contact, until his captor...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1979 • West Germany
Starring Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz

It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly-kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real-estate arrangements with ...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1999 • Germany

An engrossing look at one of cinema’s most intriguing partnerships, MY BEST FIEND chronicles Werner Herzog’s legendarily volatile friendship with actor Klaus Kinski. As Herzog delves into his history with Kinski in colorful detail—from the flat Kinski o...

Directed by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo • 2013 • Switzerland

With an innovative mix of archival footage, reenactments, and voice-over, director Marie-Elsa Sgualdo tells the story of her mother’s life and how it flows into her own, arriving at an intimate reflection on the origins of the feminist movement.

Directed by André Téchiné • 2007 • France
Starring Michel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila

Set in the 1980s during the outbreak of the AIDS crisis, this deeply human drama traces the intertwining, evolving relationships that form between four people: a middle-aged gay doctor (Michel Blanc)...

Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari • 2000 • Greece, United States
Starring Lizzie Curry Martinez, Maria Tsantsanoglou, Gary Price

Developed over five years in collaboration with its actors, this genre-spanning examination of postmillennial alienation and dislocation by Athina Rachel Tsangari mer...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1931 • United Kingdom
Starring Edmund Gwenn, Helen Haye, C. V. France

Based on a play by John Galsworthy, this drawing-room drama traces the mutually destructive feud that develops between two wealthy families—one composed of old-money traditionalists, the other no...

Directed by Jan Troell • 1972 • Sweden
Starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann

This monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic from Jan Troell charts, over the course of two films, a Swedish farming family’s voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world...

Directed by Christophe M. Saber • 2017 • France, Switzerland

The charming, cocksure Saoud rules his neighborhood in Saint Etienne, France—until word spreads that he has stolen money from his mosque’s cashbox. As tensions escalate, Saoud must fight to save his reputation and avoid becoming a pari...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1931 • United Kingdom
Starring Henry Kendall, Joan Barry

Taking its all-too-appropriate title from “The Tempest,” this fascinatingly offbeat satiric drama concerns a stuck-in-a-rut young couple who, upon coming into a generous inheritance, immediately use the money...

Directed by Ulrich Seidl • 2013 • Austria
Starring Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer

The third installment in Ulrich Seidl’s PARADISE TRILOGY, PARADISE: HOPE tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (PARADISE: LOVE) and her aunt do...

Directed by Jonas Mekas • 1966 • United States

A full day, from sunrise to sunset, in the French coastal town of Cassis is captured in one glorious time-lapse shot.