Directed by Terry Zwigoff • 2006 • United States
Starring Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich

Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) dreams of becoming a great artist—perhaps the greatest artist of the twenty-first century. Enrolling at Strathmore College, he finds himself surrounded by the quirky...

Directed by Richard Fleischer • 1955 • United States
Starring Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger

Inspired by one of the most notorious scandals of the early twentieth century, this lavishly mounted crime melodrama recounts the perverse love triangle that unfolded between Evelyn Nesbit (Jo...

Directed by Cauleen Smith • 2001 • United States

In this experimental hybrid between science fiction and noir, Cauleen Smith explores Black alienation and outsiderhood via the story of two aliens stationed on Earth searching for kinship and a sense of purpose.

Directed by Khyentse Norbu • 2016 • Bhutan
Starring Tshering Dorji, Sadon Lhamo, Thinley Dorji

Every twelve years, masked participants gather deep in a forest in Bhutan for a ritual that begins with the full moon and ends only when the new moon rises. Bound by strict rules and forbidden from rev...

Directed by Douglas Sirk • 1956 • United States
Starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack

The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their sub...

Directed by William A. Graham • 1974 • United States
Starring Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers, Harry Dean Stanton

A young woman struggles to keep her family together against all odds in this deeply felt drama. Mary Call (Julie Gholson) lives happily with her father and three siblings in the remote S...

Directed by Gerd Oswald • 1956 • United States
Starring Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Virginia Leith

He had looks, charm, and killer instinct! This Sirkian noir stars Robert Wagner as Bud Corliss, a handsome college boy so obsessed with wealth that he’d do anything to get it. When his rich girl...

Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2015 • United Kingdom

Using the funeral of the filmmaker’s family matriarch as a jumping-off point, WE NEED NEW NAMES explores contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity, cultural memory, and the very concept of fiction.

Directed by Darius Clark Monroe • 2014 • United States
Starring Dante E. Clark, Rosalyn Coleman, Ellie Foumbi

When he was sixteen years old, filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe, along with a group of high school friends, donned a skeleton mask, walked into a Texas Bank of America, and robbed it at gun...

Directed by José Díaz Morales • 1947 • Mexico
Starring Antonio Badú, María Elena Marqués, Ninón Sevilla

Laced with sly class commentary and blitzed with elements of noir and musical, this breezy crime comedy follows plucky heiress Lupe (María Elena Marqués) as she goes undercover first as a crim...

Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2019 • Nigeria, United Kingdom

THE NAMES HAVE CHANGED . . . tells the story of artist Onyeka Igwe’s grandfather, the story of the “land,” and the story of an encounter with Nigeria in four different ways: a folktale of two brothers rendered in the broad strokes of colon...

Directed by Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides • 2023 • United States

FIRE THROUGH DRY GRASS tracks the devastation experienced by residents of a New York City nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic. Centered on Jay and the Reality Poets, largely a group of gun-violence survivors, ...

Directed by Danny Garcia • 2022 • Spain

While CBGB has gone down in history as the epicenter of the New York City punk scene, equally formative was Max’s Kansas City, the legendary nightclub that had an indelible impact on the worlds of music, art, and fashion. At this bohemian nexus, the likes ...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1986 • United States
Starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta

A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous—just the beginni...

Directed by John Carroll Lynch • 2017 • United States
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston

LUCKY follows the spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist and the eccentric characters who inhabit his off-the-map desert town. Having outlived and out outsmoked all of his conte...

Directed by John Carpenter • 1981 • United States
Starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes

It’s the year 1997 and the dystopian hellscape of Manhattan has been turned into a maximum security prison. When the U.S. president’s plane is hijacked and crash lands on the island, it’s up to ha...

Directed by John M. Stahl • 1945 • United States
Starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain

Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he...

Directed by Joel Potrykus • 2024 • United States
Starring Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Sherryl Despres

Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can’t...

Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2022 • United Kingdom

THE MIRACLE ON GEORGE GREEN tells a collective social history of the UK tradition of the commons—land collectively owned and used to gather, play, and debate. The film centers on the George Green treehouse in East London, where a beloved chestnut t...

Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1960 • United States
Starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard

Vincente Minnelli’s baroquely stylized melodrama casts Robert Mitchum as the patriarch of a wealthy Texas family who must confront their hidden secrets when his philandering ways come bac...

Directed by Derek Yee Tung-sing • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Ti Lung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tony Leung Ka-fai

Something like DOG DAY AFTERNOON amped up through the operatic grit of Hong Kong action cinema at its peak, this electrifying, morally complex thriller unfolds almost entirely within the t...

Directed by Lisa Cholodenko • 1998 • United States
Starring Radha Mitchell, Gabriel Mann, Ally Sheedy

In a revelatory performance, Ally Sheedy stars in writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s debut feature, a wry and incisive look at the politics of the New York art scene wrapped in the guise of an em...

Directed by Joe Cheung Tung-cho • 1992 • Hong Kong
Starring Jacky Cheung, Stephen Tung Wai, Loletta Lee

Rollicking buddy-cop comedy meets action spectacle in this Hong Kong joyride. Following the exploits of police officer partners Shin (Jacky Cheung) and Chiang (Stephen Tung Wai) as they try to...

Directed by Joel Potrykus • 2014 • United States
Starring Joshua Burge, Joel Potrykus, Teri Ann Nelson

Marty (Joshua Burge) is a caustic, small-time con artist drifting from one scam to the next. When his latest ruse goes awry, mounting paranoia forces him from his lousy temp job to the desolate...