Directed by Joel Coen • 2000 • United States, United Kingdom, France
Starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson

The Coen brothers’ (extremely loose) take on Homer’s “Odyssey” is a marvelously freewheeling journey through the Depression-era South overflowing with comic adventure, ir...

Directed by Sofia Coppola • 2006 • France, United States, Japan
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis

Sofia Coppola brings Converse sneakers and a dreamy synth-pop soundtrack to eighteenth-century Versailles for this exuberantly subversive, extravagantly stylized anti-biopic of o...

Directed by John Schlesinger • 1990 • United States
Starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton

It’s the ultimate yuppie nightmare when a young couple rents their spare apartment to a psychopath in this twisted thriller starring a memorably villainous Michael Keaton. After renovati...

Directed by David Fincher • 1997 • United States
Starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger

The enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother (Sean Penn) on his forty-ei...

Directed by David Lynch • 1990 • United States
Starring Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe

David Lynch throws pulp melodrama, THE WIZARD OF OZ, surreal-kinky violence, and Elvis into a cauldron and brews this nightmarish soap opera in which outlaw lovers Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura...

Directed by Lars von Trier • 2011 • Denmark, Sweden, France
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård

In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst, winner of the Best Actress prize at Cannes) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating ...

Directed by Alex Cox • 1984 • United States
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter

A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez ...

Directed by Guy Hamilton • 1964 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe

In the ultrastylish, witty third entry in the James Bond series, Sean Connery returns as 007 and faces off with the maniacal villain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) who is bent on dest...

Directed by P. J. Hogan • 1994 • Australia
Starring Toni Collette, Bill Hunter, Rachel Griffiths

The perfect marriage of feel-good comedy and heartfelt drama, MURIEL’S WEDDING is the beloved Australian hit that launched the careers of Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths and put ABBA back on the c...

Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1983 • France
Starring Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory

The third installment in director Eric Rohmer’s cycle of Comedies and Proverbs unfolds with the languorous air of a summer holiday. Fifteen-year-old Pauline (Amanda Langlet) gets a firsthand look a...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1978 • United States
Starring Desi Arnaz Jr., Carol Burnett, Geraldine Chaplin

Robert Altman’s penchant for sprawling ensemble play and genre revisionism led him naturally to put his own iconoclastic spin on the wedding comedy. Here he wrangles perhaps the most expans...

Directed by John Ford • 1956 • United States
Starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

A towering work of Hollywood mythmaking, John Ford’s masterpiece represents both the apex of the classical Hollywood western and the blueprint for the troubling moral complexity of the genre revisionism ...

Directed by Yann Gonzalez • 2008 • France
Starring Kate Moran, Pierre-Vincent Chapus, Damien Gourmelon

A young woman (Kate Moran) wrestles with erotic desires that only her dead ex-lover can fulfill.

Directed by Alex Cox • 1987 • United States
Starring Ed Harris, Peter Boyle, Marlee Matlin

A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, WALKER, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a s...

Directed by Alex Cox • 1991 • Mexico, Japan
Starring Roberto Sosa, Bruno Bichir, Vanessa Bauche

Renegade director Alex Cox decamped to Mexico for this potent, surrealist-streaked moral drama about what it means to hold onto one’s integrity in the face of overwhelming corruption. Against his fath...

Directed by Gary Hustwit • 2009 • United States

On an average day, each human uses hundreds of objects. Who makes all these things, and why do they look and feel the way they do? All of these objects are “designed,” but how can good design make them, and our lives, better? Through vérité footage...

Directed by Yann Gonzalez • 2007 • France
Starring Kate Moran, Salvatore Viviano, Pierre-Vincent Chapus

Day turns to night and ennui to impromptu dance parties as a girl, a boy, and a ghost confront their fleeting youth.

Directed by Yann Gonzalez • 2017 • France
Starring Sarah-Megan Allouch, Mathilde Mennetrier, Alphonse Maîtrepierre

In Yann Gonzalez’s hypnotic, neon-drenched erotic monster movie, an array of loosely connected queer outsiders wander through a maze of love and desire.

Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty • 1973 • Senegal
Starring Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall

With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of postindependence Senegal in the early 1970s. In this picaresque f...

Directed by Alex Cox • 1987 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Dick Rude, Sy Richardson, Courtney Love

Four hapless bank robbers attempt to hide out in a depopulated desert town only to discover that it’s not really deserted at all in director Alex Cox’s wildly surreal send-up of the spagh...

Directed by Abba Makama • 2019 • Nigeria
Starring Seun Ajayi, Judith Audu, Tope Tedela

Raymond (Seun Ajayi) is a security guard and general layabout whose main preoccupations are checking out women and escaping the bustle of Lagos for the countryside. Despite—or because of—his apparent “averagen...

Directed by Pepi Ginsberg • 2025 • United States, France
Starring Devin France, Taj Cross, Annie Schwartz

This at once clear-eyed and compassionate look at coming of age in the era of smartphone-mediated, parasocial intimacy follows seventeen-year-old Kaylee (Devin France), the newest member of ...

Directed by Ceyda Torun • 2016 • Turkey

Hundreds of thousands of Turkish cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years, they’ve wandered in and out of people’s lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, the cats of I...

Directed by Makoto Shinkai • 2013 • Japan
Starring Miyu Irino, Kana Hanazawa, Fumi Hirano

For high school student Takao, a summer shower is a source of artistic inspiration . . . but when he skips school in order to sketch in a rainy garden, he finds a muse in Yukari, an older woman who seems ad...