Directed by Maya Deren • 1948 • United States
Starring Chao-Li Chi

This short study in movement features actor and dancer Chao-Li Chi in an ecstatic demonstration of martial-arts ritual.

Directed by Jess X. Snow and traci kato-kiriyama • 2023 • United States
Starring Jess X. Snow, Joecar Hanna

In a dystopian future, a young student’s visit to a tattoo artist forces her to confront a shared cultural secret and awakens a burgeoning force inside her.

Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov • 2024 • France, Italy, Spain
Starring Ben Whishaw, Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Masha Mashkova

Rebel, iconoclast, outlaw, and counterculture provocateur: controversial Russian writer and political dissident Eduard Limonov was all of these things and more. In Kirill...

Directed by William A. Wellman • 1937 • United States
Starring Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou

The second version (after 1932’s WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD?) of this iconic, oft-filmed showbiz fable remains one of the best thanks to its lavish Technicolor production values and impactful dir...

Directed by William Lustig • 1980 • United States
Starring Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Gail Lawrence

Banned across the world for its graphic violence (enhanced by the landmark gore effects of Tom Savini), this relentlessly shocking cult classic remains one of the most notorious and influential ...

Directed by William Lustig • 1992 • United States
Starring Robert Davi, Caitlin Dulany, Gretchen Becker

The legend of cinema’s most notorious undead NYPD officer continues with the third and final installment in the Maniac Cop franchise. When Officer Kate Sullivan (Gretchen Becker) storms a host...

Directed by Tom Tykwer • 2006 • Germany, France, Spain
Starring Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood

Tom Tykwer (RUN LOLA RUN) directs this ravishingly stylized adaptation of Patrick Süskind’s best-selling novel, set in an intoxicating vision of eighteenth-century France where Jean-Baptis...

Directed by Rosa von Praunheim • 1979 • West Germany, United States
Starring Tally Brown

Both a loving portrait of a larger-than-life personality and a vivid record of New York’s 1970s bohemian demimonde, this captivating documentary follows chanteuse Tally Brown—cabaret diva, star of undergroun...

Directed by Maya Deren • 1946 • United States
Starring Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook

The most influential of the series of dance films made by pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME combines intricate choreography with time-distorting cinematic effects ...

Directed by Dwayne LeBlanc • 2025 • United States
Starring Barringon Darrius, Gregg Daniel, Noelle Miller

This poetically textured study of connection and displacement finds young musician Booker (Barrington Darius) far from home but close to friends and mentors as he hosts a vibrant party. But ...

Directed by William Lustig • 1988 • United States
Starring Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon

Two legends of underground sleaze cinema—director William Lustig and writer/producer Larry Cohen—joined forces for this cult-favorite splatterfest. A sadistic killer dressed in a police uniform ...

Directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid • 1943 • United States
Starring Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

Cinematic trance-maker Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid launched an underground revolution with this avant-garde landmark—shot in their Hollywood home, but a world away from the co...

Directed by Albert Brooks • 1985 • United States
Starring Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty

In this hysterical satire of Reagan-era values, written and directed by Albert Brooks, a successful Los Angeles advertising executive (Brooks) and his wife (Julie Hagerty) decide to quit their jobs, buy a Winn...

Directed by Horace Jenkins • 1982 • United States
Starring Richard Romain, Tommye Myrick, Carol Sutton

Written, produced, and directed by the late, trailblazing director Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, this luminous, recently rediscovered landmark of ...

Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1989 • Canada
Starring Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose

Haunting images and obsessive sexuality merge in this postmodern thriller about loss, love, power, and the distance that modern technology puts between us. The story of four people—an actor/gigolo ...

Directed by Edith Carlmar • 1949 • Norway
Starring Claus Wiese, Bjørg Riiser-Larsen, Ingolf Rodge

Not only the first Norwegian noir but the first Norwegian film directed by a woman, Edith Carlmar’s dark, simmering psychological drama centers on the torrid relationship that develops between a hun...

Directed by Spike Lee • 1999 • United States
Starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino

Spike Lee’s fever-pitch vision of murder, mass hysteria, and machismo run amok charts the escalating paranoia within an Italian American Bronx neighborhood during the sweltering summer of 1977 as the...

Directed by Julian Jarrold • 2008 • United Kingdom
Starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley Atwell

Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel of class, Catholicism, forbidden desire, and youthful abandon giving way to adult disillusionment comes to the screen in a seductively opulent adaptation. In 1920s E...

Directed by Hong Khaou • 2014 • United Kingdom
Starring Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei, Andrew Leung

Set in contemporary London, LILTING features intensely moving performances by martial-arts legend Cheng Pei Pei as Junn, a Cambodian-Chinese mother grieving the untimely death of her only son, and Be...

Directed by Nick Canfield and Paul Lovelace • 2024 • United States

Meet Mitch Blank, the world’s foremost collector of Bob Dylan memorabilia and recordings, all kept in his tiny New York City apartment. This affectionate short follows Mitch as he donates his life’s work to the Bob Dylan Center i...

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho • 2012 • Brazil
Starring Irandhir Santos, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s masterful debut feature is an unsettlingly incisive study of class and simmering urban unrest in contemporary Brazil that unfolds with the gripping, slow-burn tension ...

Directed by Otto Preminger • 1949 • United States
Starring Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders

Oscar Wilde’s classic drawing room comedy LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN comes to the screen with a sparkling script cowritten by another legendary wit, Dorothy Parker, and under the typically sophi...

Directed by Tay Garnett • 1938 • United States
Starring Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy

Comedy, mystery, and high-seas adventure meet when socialite and wanted murderer Kay Kerrigan (Joan Bennett, in the role for which she famously dyed her blonde hair brunette) flees the country on a...

Directed by Atom Egoyan • 1987 • Canada
Starring David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney, Gabrielle Rose

The fractured family of Atom Egoyan’s darkly comic second feature consists of Stan (David Hemblen), a mild sexual sadist; Sandra (Gabrielle Rose), his live-in mistress and video bondage partner; and his...