Directed by Kira Muratova • 1987 • Ukraine, Soviet Union
Starring Natalya Leble, Yuriy Shlykov, Vladimir Karasyov

Kira Muratova’s typically idiosyncratic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s play “The Letter” unfolds in an outpost in colonial Asia where Maria (Natalya Leble, in a role most famous...

Directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza • 2007 • Spain
Starring Manuela Velasco, Ferrán Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano

Perhaps the scariest found-footage horror film of all time, this unrelentingly intense Spanish shocker begins as TV reporter Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman ar...

Directed by Harry Kümel • 1971 • Belgium
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, John Karlen

The vampire myth gets a disturbingly seductive psychosexual spin in one of the most exquisitely mesmerizing adult horror films ever made. International screen icon Delphine Seyrig stars as Elizabeth B...

Directed by Sofía Camargo • 2019 • Colombia
Starring Silvia de Dios, Julieta Laverde, Josefina Mustafá

With eloquent attention to telling details, director Sofía Camargo reveals the underlying sense of loss coursing through the household of a recently divorced mother and her two daughters. Again...

Directed by Tsui Hark • 1984 • Hong Kong
Starring Kenny Bee, Sylvia Chang, Sally Yeh

Ever-innovative director Tsui Hark blends virtuosic slapstick, delightfully droll rom-com shenanigans, and sumptuous mise-en-scène into a rapturous, 1930s-set homage to the classic screwball comedy. In the midst...

Directed by Tobe Hooper • 2004 • United States
Starring Angela Bettis, Brent Roam, Juliet Landau

Horror legend Tobe Hooper (THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE) brings his flair for the gruesome to this (very loose) remake of the notorious 1978 slasher of the same name. At the Lusman Arms, a once-luxur...

Directed by Jean Rollin • 1989 • France
Starring Adeline Abitbol, Catherine Herengt, Funny Abitbol

As Eurohorror legend Jean Rollin approached the sunset of his career, he distilled his dreamlike images and provocative, existential themes into films that were deeply personal and unapologetically...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1976 • United States
Starring Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer

John Carpenter’s lean, mean second feature puts a gritty exploitation spin on Howard Hawks’s classic western RIO BRAVO, transposing the story to a soon-to-be-closed LA police station where a gr...

Directed by Ringo Lam • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, Sun Yueh

This sizzling, highly influential crime drama from explosive genre stylist Ringo Lam stars Chow Yun-fat as Ko Chow, an undercover cop torn between his duty as a police officer and his loyalty to his friends on th...

Directed by Stuart Gordon • 2007 • Canada, United States, United Kingdom
Starring Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby

A shocking twist of fate brings two strangers together in a grisly fight for survival in this darkly comic, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller from RE-ANIMATOR director Stu...

Directed by Edward Yang • 1996 • Taiwan
Starring Tang Tsung-sheng, Chang Chen, Virginie Ledoyen

Edward Yang’s follow-up to A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION is another dizzying comedy set in a globalized Taipei, but with a darker, more caustic edge. Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparat...

Directed by Nanfu Wang • 2016 • China, United States

A work of startling courage that had to be smuggled out of China, Nanfu Wang’s gripping documentary captures the palpable danger as she follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a. Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues to Hainan Province...

Directed by Charles Burnett • 1990 • United States

A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover plays the enigmatic southern drifter Harry, a devilish charmer who turns up o...

Directed by Jean Rollin • 1975 • France
Starring Jean-Loup Philippe, Annie Belle, Natalie Perrey

Director Jean Rollin blends a moody tale of vampirism and incest with his signature obsessions: childhood, nostalgia, lost love, romantic quests, cinema, obsolescence. While attending a launch party ...

Directed by Kira Muratova • 1983 • Ukraine, Soviet Union
Starring Igor Sharapov, Oksana Shlapak, Stanislav Govorukhin

In AMONG GREY STONES, Kira Muratova crafts a dreamlike coming-of-age tale, adapted from a short story by legendary Ukrainian writer Vladimir Korolenko. Reeling from the death of ...

Directed by Ching Siu-tung • 1992 • Hong Kong
Starring Brigitte Lin, Jet Li, Michelle Reis

The rare sequel to arguably surpass its predecessor, this second installment in producer Tsui Hark’s SWORDSMAN trilogy is a breathtakingly imaginative blend of supernatural fantasy, thrilling martial-arts ...

Directed by Neil Marshall • 2005 • United Kingdom
Starring Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid

Brilliantly exploiting our innate fears of the dark and the unknown to maximum nerve-shredding effect, this intense journey into the void is among the most frightening horror films of the twen...

Directed by John Woo • 1984 • Hong Kong
Starring Eddy Ko, Lam Ching-ying, Ma Ying-chun

In this explosive precursor to his breakout film A BETTER TOMORROW, director John Woo displays the genesis of his trademark hyperkinetic style. Chan Chung (Eddy Ko) is the leader of an elite Chinese commando f...

Directed by William Friedkin • 2006 • United States, Germany
Starring Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins

Director William Friedkin received some of the best reviews of his later career for this searing psychological thriller, a relentless plunge into nightmare delusion adapted by playwri...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1992 • United States
Starring Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah, Sam Neill

When a lab accident renders him invisible, stock analyst Nick Halloway (Chevy Chase) must go on the run from menacing CIA agent David Jenkins (Sam Neill), who is intent on using him as an espionage to...

Directed by Ching Siu-tung and Raymond Lee • 1993 • Hong Kong
Starring Brigitte Lin, Joey Wong, Jean Wang

The great Brigitte Lin returns as Dongfang Bubai—the gender-bending, needle-wielding martial-arts master possessed of supernatural powers—in THE EAST IS RED (a.k.a. SWORDSMAN III), the auda...

Directed by Jean Rollin • 1978 • France
Starring Marie-Georges Pascal, Félix Marten, Serge Marquand

The polluted wine produced for a village’s annual grape-harvest festival has left all but a few rabid with some chemically engendered form of zombiism. They may saunter about like sleepwalkers, bu...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1998 • United States
Starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee

“Forget everything you’ve ever heard about vampires,” warns Jack Crow (James Woods), the leader of a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers who set out across the New Mexico desert in pursui...

Directed by Christopher Smith • 2009 • United Kingdom, Australia
Starring Melissa George, Michael Dorman, Rachael Carpani

Something like THE SHINING at sea, this surreal psychological puzzle follows single mother Jess (Melissa George) as she sets out on a boating trip from the coast of Florida w...