Directed by John Woo • 1997 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen

John Travolta plays Nicolas Cage, Nicolas Cage plays John Travolta, and master of turbocharged action spectacle John Woo detonates the screen in what may be the most utterly berserk blockbuster of the 19...

Directed by Gus Van Sant • 1991 • United States
Starring River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Richert

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves star in this haunting tale from Gus Van Sant about two young street hustlers: Mike Waters, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and ...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1931 • United States
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell

Edward G. Robinson shot to stardom with his electrifying performance in this landmark gangster drama about a man who ruthlessly murders his way to the top of the mob. Small-time, sm...

Directed by Quentin Tarantino • 2007 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson

Quentin Tarantino pays homage to the glory days of grindhouse cinema with this retro, gleefully subversive schlock shocker. Kurt Russell plays the psychotic movie stunt double Stuntman Mike, who ...

Directed by William Wyler • 1939 • United States
Starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven

Often cited as the definitive screen version of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, William Wyler’s moodily poetic adaptation casts Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon as the immortal lovers Heathcliff ...

Directed by Douglas Sirk • 1955 • United States
Starring Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead

This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow (Jane Wyman) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock...

Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2008 • Hong Kong, Taiwan
Starring Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man Yuk

From director Wong Kar Wai comes the definitive version of ASHES OF TIME, an epic martial-arts fever dream of larger-than-life characters, breathtaking landscapes, and stunning ...

Directed by William Wyler • 1959 • United States
Starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith

Winner of a record eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, this gargantuan sword-and-sandals spectacle stands as one of the greatest Hollywood epics ever f...

Directed by Gus Van Sant • 1989 • United States
Starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Remar

Gus Van Sant’s dreamy, drifty, deadpan second feature—an addiction drama based on James Fogle’s autobiographical novel—captures the zonked-out textures and almost surreal absurdity of a life lived fix ...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1993 • United States
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder

No filmmaker captures the grandeur and energy of New York like Martin Scorsese. With this sumptuous romance, he meticulously adapted the work of another great New York artist, Edith Whar...

Directed by George Miller • 1981 • Australia
Starring Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston

George Miller’s acclaimed sequel to his postapocalyptic action classic MAD MAX delivers even more audacious, adrenaline-rush mayhem. Mel Gibson returns in the role that made him an international super...

Directed by William Friedkin • 1985 • United States
Starring William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow

William Friedkin’s kinetic neonoir takes the ’80s action thriller to new heights of hyperstylized excess. Federal agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) has a score to settle as he vows to t...

Directed by William Friedkin • 2003 • United States
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen

Director William Friedkin brings a feverish intensity to this visceral action thriller, which pits Benicio Del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones against each other in a gritty game of cat and mo...

Directed by Héctor Babenco • 1998 • Brazil, Argentina, France
Starring Miguel Ángel Solá, Maria Luísa Mendonça, Walter Quiroz

A deeply personal passion project for director Héctor Babenco, this tale of romantic and artistic awakening follows seventeen-year-old Juan (Walter Quiroz), a young man w...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1932 • United States
Starring Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Jobyna Howland

Bud Reeves (Eric Linden) does what any young man from a small town would do when he unexpectedly comes into money: he heads to the big city in search of fame and fortune. Amid the bright lights of...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1932 • United States
Starring Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Noel Francis

Paul Muni gives a haunting performance in this brutal, startlingly raw exposé of prison conditions based on the autobiography by Robert Elliott Burns. Wrongly convicted of robbery, would-be architect...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1934 • United States
Starring Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks

One of a string of entertainingly fast-paced newspaper films that proliferated in the 1930s, this whirlwind mix of crime and comedy stars Paul Muni as reporter Brad Bradshaw, who is demoted by his pape...

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy • 1933 • United States
Starring Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon

A Broadway producer has the talent, the tunes, the theater, and everything else he needs to put on a show—except the dough. Not to worry, say Ginger Rogers and the other leggy chorines decked o...

Directed by Héctor Babenco • 2007 • Brazil, Argentina
Starring Gael García Bernal, Analía Couceyro, Mariana Anghileri

Supercharged with almost operatic drama, Héctor Babenco’s provocative adaptation of a novel by Argentine writer Alan Pauls stars the magnetic Gael García Bernal as Rimini, a tran...

Directed by Madeline Anderson • 1970 • United States

Trailblazing documentarian Madeline Anderson brings viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights. In 1969, Black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina, went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase, only ...

Directed by Dag Johan Haugerud • 2024 • Norway
Starring Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg

Two chimney sweeps (Jan Gunnar Røise and Thorbjørn Harr) in monogamous, heterosexual marriages both end up in situations that challenge their views on sexuality and gender roles. One has a sexu...

Directed by Dag Johan Haugerud • 2024 • Norway
Starring Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Thomas Gullestad

Marianne (Andrea Bræin Hovig), a pragmatic doctor, and Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen), a compassionate nurse, are both avoiding conventional relationships. One evening, after a ...

Directed by Alile Sharon Larkin • 1982 • United States

In this poetic, groundbreaking work from LA Rebellion trailblazer Alile Sharon Larkin, Alana (Margot Saxton-Federella), a Black art student, sets out to reclaim her body image and self-worth from Western, patriarchal beauty standards and, in...

Directed by Bárbara Paz • 2019 • Brazil

“I’ve already lived my death, now all I have to do is make a movie about it,” said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz, realizing that he didn’t have much time left. She accepted the mission and fulfilled her partner’s last wish: to be the protagon...