Directed by Michael Mann • 1999 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer

Based on a true story, Michael Mann’s coolly riveting exposé of corporate corruption recounts the chain of events that pitted an ordinary man against the tobacco industry and dragged two people...

Directed by Spike Lee • 1999 • United States
Starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino

Spike Lee’s fever-pitch vision of murder, mass hysteria, and machismo run amok charts the escalating paranoia within an Italian American Bronx neighborhood during the sweltering summer of 1977 as the...

Directed by Sergio Leone • 1984 • United States, Italy
Starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

Sergio Leone’s years-in-the-making final masterwork does for the gangster film what his visionary spaghettis did for the western, brilliantly reimagining the genre as a vehicle for lim...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1999 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman

This searing collaboration between director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader continues their ongoing inquiry into questions of guilt, torment, faith, and existential meaning. S...

Directed by Luchino Visconti • 1971 • Italy
Starring Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Marisa Berenson

Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastid...

Directed by David Lean • 1957 • United Kingdom
Starring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

A highly principled British colonel (Alec Guinness) becomes obsessed with leading a band of World War II POWs to build a bridge at the behest of their Japanese captors in Burma—setting up an explo...

Directed by Otto Preminger • 1958 • United Kingdom
Starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg

Otto Preminger’s second collaboration with the singular Jean Seberg casts her as Cecile, a hedonistic teenager living on the French Riviera with her similarly decadent father Raymond (David Niven),...

Directed by James Mangold • 1999 • United States
Starring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy

Based on a true story, this searingly intense portrait of adolescent turmoil provides a powerhouse showcase for an ensemble of dynamic young actors, including Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Cle...

Directed by Doug Liman • 1999 • United States
Starring Sarah Polley, Timothy Olyphant, Katie Holmes

Director Doug Liman’s follow-up to SWINGERS is a hyperkinetic, MDMA-fueled cult joyride that bounces, with whiplash-inducing abandon, between a coterie of twentysomething Californians chasing drug...

Directed by Michael Roemer • 1969 • United States
Starring Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods

A treasure of American independent filmmaking that was neglected for decades until its triumphant rediscovery, writer-director-producer Michael Roemer’s feature follow-up to his landmark NOTHING BUT ...

Directed by Robert Rossen • 1964 • United States
Starring Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda

The final film directed by Robert Rossen (THE HUSTLER) is a fascinating anomaly: a psychodrama influenced by European art cinema and awash in a mood of otherworldly mystery. Upon returning to his sm...

Directed by David Lynch • 1999 • United States
Starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton

In between the dark, florid surrealism of the LA-set neonoirs LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DR., director David Lynch took a detour to America’s heartland for this surprisingly down-to-eart...

Directed by Daniel Petrie • 1961 • United States
Starring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee

Lorraine Hansberry’s immortal “A Raisin in the Sun” was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. Two years later, the production came to the screen, directed by Daniel Petrie. T...

Directed by John Frankenheimer • 1962 • United States
Starring Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, Laurence Harvey

The name John Frankenheimer became forever synonymous with heart-in-the-throat filmmaking when this quintessential sixties political thriller was released. Set in the early fifties, ...

Directed by Michael Roemer • 1984 • United States
Starring Brooke Adams, Jon DeVries, Ari Meyers

Like director Michael Roemer’s prior features—the powerful civil-rights-era landmark NOTHING BUT A MAN and the offbeat mob comedy THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY—this continuously surprising, cuttingly incisi...

Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1973 • United Kingdom
Starring Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, t...

Directed by John Frankenheimer • 1966 • United States
Starring Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph

Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. SECONDS, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged banker who, dissatisfi...

Directed by Anthony Chen • 2023 • China, Singapore
Starring Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu Chuxiao

Three lost souls find tentative connection in a frozen world in this delicate, lyrical tone poem of youthful alienation and longing. In cold, wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northeastern border, young...

Directed by John Boorman • 1967 • United States
Starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn

With this fractured, coolly minimalist thriller, director John Boorman reimagined the film noir for a new era of Hollywood filmmaking. Lee Marvin stars as Walker, a gangster shot “point blank” and l...

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1959 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift

Gay panic, incest, and a sprinkling of cannibalism: Tennessee Williams’s one-act southern-gothic shocker gets an appropriately lurid screen adaptation cowritten ...

Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet • 2001 • France, Germany
Starring Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus

The Gallic sensation that charmed the world, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s irresistible cinematic soufflé introduces us to the unforgettable Amélie (Audrey Tautou in the role that made her an internat...

Directed by Hal Ashby • 1979 • United States
Starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies....

Directed by Richard Brooks • 1967 • United States
Starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe

Truman Capote’s best seller, a breakthrough narrative account of real-life crime and punishment, became an equally chilling film in the hands of writer-director Richard Brooks. Cast for their uns...

Directed by William Conrad • 1965 • United States
Starring Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews

This tense, moody noir thriller opens with a bang as young scientist Jim Grayam (Jeffrey Hunter) comes upon a woman (Anne Francis) passed out in a car on the railroad tracks as a train hurtles t...