Directed by Barbra Streisand • 1983 • Untied States
Starring Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving
Barbra Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major Hollywood film with this charming, gender-bending musical adaptation of an Isaac Bashevis Singer story....
Directed by Alan J. Pakula • 1974 • United States
Starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels
Perhaps no director tapped into the pervasive sense of dread and mistrust that defined the 1970s more effectively than Alan J. Pakula, who, in the second installment of his celebrated Paranoia ...
Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1941 • United States
Starring Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of ’40s film noir, HIGH SIERRA also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, w...
Directed by D’Urville Martin • 1975 • United States
Starring Rudy Ray Moore, D’Urville Martin, Lady Reed
Dolemite is the role that made Rudy Ray Moore a midnight movie icon. The famously foulmouthed stand-up comedian and party-record king (who also served as producer and writer) plays the brash ...
Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1940 • United States
Starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
Humphrey Bogart and George Raft share a driving ambition in this feisty tale of brothers trying to make a go of their independent trucking enterprise. After ten years of the Great Depression, scrappy Jo...
Directed by Richard Linklater • 2011 • United States
Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey
A stranger-than-fiction true story provides the basis for this arrestingly offbeat black comedy from Richard Linklater. Bernie (a marvelous Jack Black) is a much-loved mortician in sma...
Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1978 • United States
Starring Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko
More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, THE LAST WALTZ is an at once ecstatic and elegiac summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture the farewell perf...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1982 • United States
Starring Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black
Twenty years after James Dean’s death, a group of former superfans in rural Texas—not far from where the movie star shot his final film, GIANT—gather in an old Woolworth’s five-and-dime store to celebrate h...
Directed by John Huston • 1987 • United Kingdom, Ireland
Starring Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll
The final film directed by John Huston—completed by the ailing director just months before his death and released posthumously—is a triumphant farewell from an artist in total command ...
Directed by Jack Fisk • 1986 • United States
Starring Sissy Spacek, Kevin Kline, Bonnie Bedelia
A chance reunion becomes a second chance in this touching, bittersweet love story directed by legendary production designer Jack Fisk, famed for his collaborations with Terrence Malick, David Lynch, a...
Directed by Stanley Donen • 1963 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
In this comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American, played by Audrey Hepburn in gorgeous Givenchy, through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband...
Directed by Richard Linklater • 1997 • United States
Starring Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey, Steve Zahn
Eric Bogosian adapts his hit stage play for the screen with acclaimed director Richard Linklater in this drama inspired by their own experiences. When a famous rock star (Jayce Bartok) visits ...
Directed by Richard Linklater • 2001 • United States
Starring Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
Filmed on digital video within the confines of a motel room with a cast of just three actors, Richard Linklater’s TAPE turns stylistic limitations into gripping psychodrama. In a cheap hot...
Directed by Joel Potrykus • 2012 • United States
Starring Joshua Burge, Gary Bosek, Daniel Falicki
Trevor Newandyke (Joshua Burge) is a struggling comedian and a pyromaniac. Not only does his act bomb on stage, but he bombs at everyday life, too. Fed up with threats from the cable company, Slurp...
Directed by Ray Marsh • 1975 • United States
Starring Marlene Clark, Lawrence Cook, Wally Taylor
This fascinating, long-overlooked fusion of supernatural horror and Afrocentric mysticism has earned comparisons to Bill Gunn’s reclaimed independent landmark GANJA & HESS. Like that film, LORD SHANG...
Directed by Marguerite Duras • 1979 • France
Starring Bulle Ogier, Dominique Sanda, Mathieu Carrière
With LE NAVIRE NIGHT, writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras explores the matrix of love, desire, and language in her characteristically oblique and experimental style. The film’s lovers—played by...
Directed by Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri • 2020 • Nigeria
Starring Jude Akuwudike, Temi Ami-Williams, Tomiwa Edun
This revelatory, award-winning debut feature from codirectors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nig...
Directed by Frank Packard • 1977 • United States
Starring J. Walter Smith, Tobar Mayo, Roxie Young
When a Black revolutionary (Tobar Mayo) working as a bodyguard for a scientist developing a superpower serum is transformed into an indestructible, telekinetic man of steel, he sets about unleashin...
Directed by Ida Lupino • 1966 • United States
Starring Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills
The final film directed by Ida Lupino before she went on to a successful career in television, this effervescent romp stars Hayley Mills as the new girl at an all-girls Catholic boarding school whose high-sp...
Directed by Gilbert Moses • 1974 • United States
Starring Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala
Outfitted in some of the most jaw-dropping attire in all of 1970s cinema, Roscoe Orman (of “Sesame Street” fame) plays Willie Dynamite, a brash pimp determined to become the number-one hustler i...
Directed by Marlon Fuentes • 1995 • United States, Philippines
Starring Marlon Fuentes, Jordan Porter, Nicole Antonio
In this poignant experimental docudrama, director Marlon Fuentes explores deeply personal questions of Filipino American identity via an eye-opening account of the 1904 St. Louis...
Directed by Martin Ritt • 1985 • United States
Starring Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin
When gutsy, divorced mother Emma Moriarty (Sally Field) moves to Eunice, Arizona, eager to make it as a horse trainer on a small desert ranch, the last thing she expects to find is love. Enter the tow...
Directed by Alfred E. Green • 1950 • United States
Starring Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson
Baseball legend Jackie Robinson stars as himself in this inspiring film biography, which traces his remarkable journey from childhood poverty to success as a college athlete to making history as t...
Directed by Henri Verneuil • 1962 • France
Starring Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon
French screen icons Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo star opposite each other in this captivating, booze-soaked comedy based on a novel by Antoine Blondin. Years earlier, inn owner Albert (Gabin) ma...
