Directed by Oliver Stone • 1991 • United States
Starring Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan

Oliver Stone applies his brand of fevered excess to the brief, incendiary life of Jim Morrison with this hallucinatory look at his turbulent, acid-fueled ascent and spectacular implosion. Embodied with...

Directed by Gints Zilbalodis • 2024 • Belgium, France, Latvia

A thrilling tale of friendship and survival that took indie animation to ecstatic new heights of ambition and imagination, this Academy Award–winning international sensation follows a courageous cat after its home is devastated by a g...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1990 • United States
Starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso

Renegade director Abel Ferrara—working in collaboration with his regular screenwriter Nicholas St. John—brings his murky moral worldview and eye for pulp imagery to this kinetic, stylish...

Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita • 2005 • Japan
Starring Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yuu Kashii

For bandmates Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi, the dream of playing their final high school concert together is dashed when their lead vocalist quits the band. Desperate, they recruit the very first person they see: K...

Directed by David Lynch • 1986 • United States
Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper

Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funn...

Directed by Sofia Coppola • 2017 • United States
Starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst

Sofia Coppola won the Best Director award at Cannes for her hypnotic adaptation of the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan—the second following Don Siegel’s 1971 Clint Eastwood version—bringing a female...

Directed by Susan Seidelman • 1985 • United States
Starring Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn

If you know what to look for, you can find almost anything in the personal ads . . . including the love of your life! Rosanna Arquette is irresistible in her first starring role and pop star Madonn...

Directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan • 2001 • United States, Canada
Starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson, Tara Reid

Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid), and Valerie (Rosario Dawson) dream of becoming rock stars with their small band Josie and the Pussycats. Given the cha...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1995 • United States
Starring Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra

On the streets of Greenwich Village, an NYU philosophy student (Lili Taylor) finds herself the victim of a vampiric encounter, inaugurating an insatiable craving for blood that drives her ...

Directed by Russ Meyer • 1970 • United States
Starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom

In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing “King of the Nudies” Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title...

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 1997 • United States
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds

It’s 1977—back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business, and business was booming—and idealistic porn producer Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. ...

Directed by Uli Edel • 1993 • Germany, United States
Starring Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Julianne Moore

Madonna’s answer to BASIC INSTINCT, this ultrakinky erotic thriller stars the pop icon as Rebecca Carlson, a powerful woman who exerts an irresistible sexual control over the men in her orbit. But...

Directed by Shohei Imamura • 1987 • Japan
Starring Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baisho, Ko Chun-Hsiung

This fierce satire of Japanese colonial ambition traces the true story of Iheiji Muraoka (Ken Ogata), a Japanese spy in early-twentieth-century Manchuria, as he turns to another profession to “help” his ...

Directed by Wagner Moura • 2019 • Brazil
Starring Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

This electrifying portrait of Brazilian revolutionary leader Carlos Marighella—which ignited a firestorm of controversy in Brazil, where it faced two years of censorship battles during the far-r...

Directed by Hideaki Anno • 1998 • Japan
Starring Megumi Ogata, Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Hayashibara

Condensing the touchstone anime series NEON GENESIS EVANGELION into a feature-length film, this kinetically paced, impressionistically cut re-edit offers an abstracted retelling of the story of te...

Directed by David Markey • 1986 • United States
Starring Jennifer Schwartz, Jeffrey McDonald, Jello Biafra

Director Dave Markey’s sequel to his DIY punk classic DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS continues the story of the all-girl band Lovedolls as they return for another outrageous adventure through ...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1993 • United States, Italy
Starring Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo

One of outsider auteur Abel Ferrara’s most daring, emotionally raw forays into the depths of human torment, DANGEROUS GAME is a fascinatingly fractured, self-reflexive vision of moviemaking as a p...

Directed by Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki • 1997 • Japan
Starring Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi

Hideaki Anno’s acclaimed companion film to his groundbreaking television phenomenon NEON GENESIS EVANGELION serves as an alternate ending to the series, pushing the story into...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2022 • Italy, Germany, United Kingdom
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Ruocco

With this impassioned biography of revered Catholic mystic Padre Pio, director Abel Ferrara brings the spiritual dimensions long inherent in his work to the fore. In post–Worl...

Directed by Allison Anders • 1996 • United States
Starring Illeana Douglas, Matt Dillon, Eric Stoltz

Loosely inspired by the life of Carole King, this buoyant homage to the golden age of American pop music follows the personal and creative journey of Denise Waverly (Illeana Douglas) as she goes ...

Directed by Carla Simón • 2025 • Spain, Germany
Starring Llúcia Garcia, Mitch Martín, Tristán Ulloa

An orphaned young woman’s search through the shards of her family’s past becomes an encounter with the missing pieces of her identity, in this graceful reflection on memory and inheritance. Marina...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2001 • United States
Starring Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato Jr., Lisa Valens

Blending raw, almost documentary-like realism with flashes of his trademark urban expressionism, Abel Ferrara serves up a strangely affecting Christmas morality tale as only he can. As the ho...