Directed by Gore Verbinski • 2002 • United States
Starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman

After unsettling audiences across the world with its relentlessly creepy vision of VHS-generated terror, the Japanese horror hit RING received the Hollywood treatment—resulting in an equally c...

Directed by Andrew Davis • 1998 • United States
Starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen

To Manhattan’s elite, Wall Street wheeler-dealer Steven Taylor (Michael Douglas) seems like a devoted husband. He isn’t. Beautiful, accomplished Emily Bradford Taylor (Gwyneth Paltrow) seem...

Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn • 1999 • Denmark
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Kim Bodnia, Liv Corfixen

On the gritty margins of Copenhagen, two friends drift apart as violence and obsession take hold. Disaffected alcoholic Leo (Kim Bodnia) struggles with a crumbling relationship and growing rage, w...

Directed by Roger Kumble • 1999 • United States
Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon

The diabolical psychosexual machinations of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s classic novel “Les liaisons dangereuses” are audaciously transplanted to a rich-kid Manhattan prep school in ...

Directed by Kevin Smith • 1994 • United States
Starring Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti

Famously shot on a shoestring budget of less than $30,000, CLERKS launched the career of indie legend Kevin Smith and won over audiences with its raw energy, irreverent humor, and proudly ...

Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu • 2006 • Romania
Starring Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru

Winner of the Caméra d’Or at Cannes for best first film, Corneliu Porumboiu’s debut feature is a dryly comic exploration of the often slippery relationship between history, truth, and memory. On...

Directed by Alex Ross Perry • 2025 • United States

Cultural hub, consumer mecca, and source of existential dread: the video-rental store forever changed the way we interact with movies. With narration by Maya Hawke and footage culled from hundreds of sources—from TV commercials to blockbuster fi...

Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shoichi Masuo • 2006 • Japan
Starring Noriko Hidaka, Rei Sakuma, Kazuki Yao

Distilled to feature length from the acclaimed, six-episode anime series that marked the debut of visionary animator Hideaki Anno (“Neon Genesis Evangelion”), this exhilarating space opera bl...

Directed by Charlie Kaufman • 2025 • United States, Greece
Starring Jessie Buckley, Josef Akiki

Part ghost story, part city symphony, this elegiac short directed by Charlie Kaufman traces the meeting of two recently deceased young people—a troubled photographer (Jessie Buckley) and a gay transla...

Directed by Joseph Cates • 1965 • United States
Starring Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray

Norah Drain (Juliet Prowse), a Manhattan disco hostess, is being terrorized by a stalker and obscene phone caller. NYPD Lieutenant Dave Madden (Jan Murray) takes a personal interest in her case, finding...

Directed by David Cronenberg • 1983 • Canada
Starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called “Videodrome.” As he struggles to unearth the ...

Directed by Jane Schoenbrun • 2021 • United States
Starring Anna Cobb, Michael J. Rogers, May Leitz

“I want to go to the World’s Fair.” Isolated teen Casey (Anna Cobb) repeats this cryptic mantra three times into the eerie glow of her laptop screen, initiating herself into the viral World’s Fair...

Directed by Monika Treut • 1997 • Germany

Eva Norvind was born Eva Johanne Chegodaieva Sakonskaja in 1944, the daughter of a Russian prince and a Finnish sculptor in Trondheim, Norway. Monika Treut’s DIDN’T DO IT FOR LOVE traces the many stages of her unbelievable life story: her early success a...

Directed by David Chase • 2012 • United States
Starring John Magaro, James Gandolfini, Bella Heathcote

The feature-film debut from David Chase, creator of “The Sopranos,” is a uniquely unsentimental, open-ended coming-of-age story set in the counterculture explosion of midcentury America. In 196...

Directed by Brian De Palma • 1984 • United States
Starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry

Brian DePalma weaves a sleekly stylish tale of seduction, mystery, and murder in the Hitchcock tradition. Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), an unemployed actor, is asked to house-sit a luxurious apar...

Directed by William Klein • 1974 • France
Starring Muhammad Ali, Sonny Liston, George Foreman

A remarkable chronicle of some of the defining cultural moments of the twentieth century, William Klein’s up-close portrait of Muhammad Ali is an indispensable record of the icon in his electrifying pri...

Directed by Mark Cousins • 2021 • United Kingdom

For decades, legendary film producer Jeremy Thomas has driven from England to the Cannes Film Festival. This time, he’s joined by acclaimed filmmaker Mark Cousins. On their intimate five-day road trip through rural France, they remember some of th...

Directed by Robert Bresson • 1974 • France
Starring Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan

Robert Bresson’s almost abstract rendering of the Arthurian legend—the tale of the titular knight’s quest for the Holy Grail and his love affair with Guinevere—approaches the realm of pure cinema...

Directed by Idrissa Ouédraogo • 1987 • Burkina Faso
Starring Auoa Guiraud, Moussa Bologo, Ousmane Sawadogo

A family’s quest for self-determination mirrors a nation’s struggle in the sensitively observed feature debut by titan of Burkinabe cinema Idrissa Ouédraogo, who cast an ennobling gaze on o...

Directed by Errol Morris • 2018 • United States, United Kingdom

The legendary documentarian Errol Morris (THE THIN BLUE LINE) sits down with one of the most controversial political figures of our time: former Donald Trump campaign strategist and advisor Steve Bannon, the inflammatory ideologue w...

Directed by Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch • 1985 • West Germany
Starring Mechthild Großmann, Udo Kier, Sheila McLaughlin

Wanda (Mechthild Großmann) is a dominatrix who runs an S/M performance space in Hamburg where she stages elaborate sexual rituals for a discerning audience. Cruelty is her pro...

Directed by James Gray • 2008 • United States
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw

Set in the insular world of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, this timeless romantic drama features a remarkably raw, vulnerable performance from Joaquin Phoenix as Leonard, a charismatic but troubled y...

Directed by Robert Bresson • 1971 • France, Italy
Starring Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer

FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER is Robert Bresson’s great forgotten masterpiece, a stark yet haunting ode to romantic idealism and the capriciousness of love. Adapted from Fyodor ...

Directed by Julie Taymor • 2010 • United States
Starring Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou

Iconoclastic stage and film director Julie Taymor boldly reimagines Shakespeare’s immortal final play with this visually explosive, gender-swapped adaptation. In casting Helen Mirren as Prospera...