Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson • 2009 • United Kingdom
Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristin Scott Thomas

Based on the memoirs of John Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird, this revealing account of the future Beatle’s formative years vividly recreates the world of 1950s Liverpool,...

Directed by Joel Alfonso Vargas • 2025 • United States
Starring Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino

In a tight-knit Dominican American community in the Bronx, Rico (Juan Collado) is hustling his way through the summer, selling bootleg “nutcracker” cocktails out of a beach cooler whil...

Directed by Gorman Bechard • 2011 • United States

The Minneapolis quartet that combined an emotionally charged, adolescent romanticism with impeccable, hook-laden songcraft, the Replacements were a rock band unlike any other. So it’s fitting that this engaging tribute should be a music documenta...

Directed by Ebrahim Golestan • 1965 • Iran
Starring Zakaria Hashemi, Akbar Meshkin, Pari Saberi

With this landmark debut feature, director Ebrahim Golestan delivered a jolt of modernism to prerevolution Iranian cinema, laying the groundwork for the country’s first, still often overlooked new wav...

Directed by Pat Hartley and Dick Fontaine • 1982 • United States

Fifteen years after the end of Jim Crow, writer, activist, and cultural critic James Baldwin returns to the American South for a thought-provoking journey that brings the region’s past and present into revealing dialogue. As he rev...

Directed by Christopher Munch • 1991 • United States
Starring David Angus, Ian Hart

This much is known: in April 1963, John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein, the mastermind behind the band’s meteoric rise, travelled to Barcelona for an extended weekend getaway. What happened there is ...

Directed by Loira Limbal • 2020 • United States
Starring Deloris “Nunu” Hogan, Patrick “Pop Pop” Hogan, Marisol Valencia

THROUGH THE NIGHT is an intimate cinema-verité portrait of three working mothers whose lives all intersect at a twenty-four-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight...

Directed by Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, Lawrence Silk • 1990 • United States

Fourteen years after her watershed documentary HARLAN COUNTY, USA, cinema-verité pioneer Barbara Kopple returned to the subject of union organizing in this eye-opening look at class struggle and solidar...

Directed by Neo Sora • 2020 • United States
Starring Junshin Soga, Taiju Nakane, Sandra Maren Schneider

After mishandling a medical emergency he witnesses on the streets of New York City, a young Japanese immigrant cannot bring himself to butcher the live chicken he bought for dinner. Adapted fr...

Directed by Karen Thorsen • 1989 • United States
Starring James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka

An emotional portrait, a social critique, and a passionate plea for human equality, JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET eschews narration to allow the monumentally influential writer and activi...

Directed by Theodoros Bafaloukos • 1978 • Jamaica
Starring Leroy Wallace, Richard ‘Dirty Harry’ Hall, Monica Craig

Taking inspiration from both BICYCLE THIEVES and the Robin Hood legend, ROCKERS is one of the definitive reggae films—an effortlessly cool, almost documentary-like immersion into Ja...

Directed by Ringo Lam • 1997 • Hong Kong
Starring Sean Lau Ching-wan, Francis Ng, Amanda Lee

Director Ringo Lam’s return to the Hong Kong film industry following his short-lived Hollywood sojourn also marked a return to form, showcasing the gritty intensity and unflinching moral complexity that ...

Directed by Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, and Ralph Smart • 1948 • United Kingdom
Starring Mai Zetterling, Hermione Baddeley, Dirk Bogarde

Four directors take on four stories by W. Somerset Maugham—introduced by the author himself—for this superbly crafted and acted anthology film...

Directed by Miloš Forman • 1984 • United States
Starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge

Sumptuous, deliciously irreverent, and graced with immortal music, Miloš Forman’s marvelous adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play returns in a new restoration. One of the great cultural events...

Directed by Lee Daniels • 2012 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey

Lee Daniels’s follow-up to his breakthrough feature PRECIOUS is a deliciously pulpy, swamp-steamy slice of Southern gothic delirium featuring an all-star cast led by Matthew McConaughey, playing...

Directed by Neo Sora • 2022 • Japan
Starring Bun Kimura, Yuta Koga, Shiyun Nakamura

In a near-future Tokyo, a sheepish high schooler finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious forces of commercialism that are forcing out the neighbors he cares most about. Inspire...

Directed by Ken Annakin and Harold French • 1950 • United Kingdom
Starring Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie, Anne Crawford

Produced in the wake of the success of QUARTET, this follow-up brings three more stories by W. Somerset Maugham to the screen with the enduringly popular author’s gentle irony a...

Directed by Rohan Kanawade • 2025 • India, United Kingdom, Canada
Starring Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman, Jayshri Jagtap

The exquisitely tender feature debut from Rohan Kanawade is a watershed event in Indian cinema: a compassionate vision of queer romance fighting to blossom amid the forces of t...

Directed by John Kirby • 2005 • United Kingdom, United States

Does America have a ruling class? This sui generis blend of documentary, drama, musical, political satire, and intellectual sparring match takes an irreverent, thrillingly provocative approach to the question. As two recent Yale gradu...

Directed by Michael Winterbottom • 2002 • United Kingdom
Starring Steve Coogan, Paddy Considine, Sean Harris

Blown away by an unknown band called the Sex Pistols, TV personality Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) is inspired to invent a uniquely anarchic record label. Soon he’s promoting everyone from N...

Directed by Neo Sora • 2025 • Japan, China
Starring Sakura Ando, Kodachi Kitagata

The physical and the emotional merge in director Neo Sora’s atmospheric adaptation of Momoe Narazaki’s graphic short story “I Will Go Ahead.” Sakura Ando plays a woman struggling with a painful kink in her neck, a ...