Directed by Michael Mann • 1981 • United States
Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky

The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with THIEF, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most ri...

Directed by Carla Simón • 2017 • Spain
Starring Laia Artigas, Bruna Cusí, David Verdaguer

Six-year-old Frida (Laia Artigas) looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother’s apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Although her aunt, uncle, and younger cousin Anna (P...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2011 • United States, France, Switzerland
Starring Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Natasha Lyonne

Abel Ferrara’s typically subversive take on the disaster film approaches the apocalypse from a uniquely human perspective. With the world set to end from environmental collaps...

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1979 • United States
Starring John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert

The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver—one of only a handful of women to direct a film for a major Hollywood studio in the 1970s—digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2019 • United States, Greece

Abel Ferrara traces the life and work of friend and fellow cinephile Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou, a Cypriot immigrant who, as a teenager, began working in small neighborhood movie theaters around Manhattan, defying gentrification, changing view...

Directed by Gints Zilbalodis • 2014 • Latvia

After his plane crashes on a small uninhabited island, a young man and his dog must find a way home.

Directed by Elizabeth Ai • 2024 • United States

Mile-high hair. Synthesized music. Underground parties. Filmmaker Elizabeth Ai excavates the untold story of the young Vietnamese American rebels who found meaning in the vibrant world of the 1980s Southern California new wave scene—and along the w...

Directed by Robert A. Nakamura • 1976 • United States

Completed in 1975 as his Master’s Thesis project at the UCLA Film School, Robert A. Nakamura’s WATARIDORI: BIRDS OF PASSAGE stands as one of the quintessential documentary portraits celebrating the legacy of the issei, or first-generation Jap...

Directed by John Hsu • 2019 • Taiwain, Philippines
Starring Gingle Wang, Fu Meng-po, Tseng Jing-hua

National trauma takes on supernatural form in this shivery fusion of searing historical drama, melancholy coming-of-age tale, and waking nightmare adapted from the hit horror video game. In 1962 T...

Directed by Michael Almereyda • 1994 • United States
Starring Elina Löwensohn, Peter Fonda, Suzy Amis

Shot on a shimmering mix of black-and-white 35 mm and hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s gothic mood piece follows New York–based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she reconne...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1997 • United States
Starring Matthew Modine, Claudia Schiffer, Dennis Hopper

Abel Ferrara’s terrifying, hallucinatory exploration of addiction, memory, and cinematic voyeurism is one of his most daringly abstract works, a relentlessly dark, surreal vision of psychic d...

Directed by Olivier Assayas • 2004 • France, United Kingdom, Canada
Starring Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle

The magnetic Maggie Cheung delivers a multilayered performance—winning her a Best Actress prize at Cannes for her last starring role to date—in this clear-eyed, emotionally comp...

Directed by Shohei Imamura • 1997 • Japan
Starring Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Akira Emoto

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival—a prize it shared with Abbas Kiarostami’s TASTE OF CHERRY—this late-career triumph from director Shohei Imamura begins with a shocking act of viole...

Directed by Susan Seidelman • 1987 • United States
Starring John Malkovich, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly

Susan Seidelman’s follow-up to DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN is a witty sci-fi screwball, with John Malkovich in a memorably offbeat dual role as the ambitious scientist Jeff Peters and his remark...

Directed by Alex Steyermark • 2003 • United States
Starring Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo, Marc Blucas

This fist-pumping punk anthem stars the electrifying Gina Gershon as Jacki, an LA rocker who, as she approaches forty, begins to worry that she may never make it big. Alongside her predominantly...

Directed by Diego Echeverria • 1984 • United States

Diego Echeverria’s vivid portrait of South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the early 1980s captures the challenges the neighborhood faced: poverty, drugs, gang violence, crime, abandoned real estate, racial tension, single-parent homes, and inadequa...

Directed by Paul Dano • 2018 • United States
Starring Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould

The directorial debut of actor Paul Dano reveals a filmmaking talent of remarkable intelligence and restraint. Adapted by Dano and Zoe Kazan from the novel by Richard Ford, this meticulously craft...

This 2019 feature- length debut was made entirely by Gints Zilbalodis.

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2009 • Italy
Starring Fabio Gargano, Shanyn Leigh, Peppe Lanzetta

Abel Ferrara takes his camera onto the streets of Naples, Italy, for this gritty journey through the city’s infamous underside. Combining interviews with women prisoners and local residents with scripted...

Directed by Howard Brookner • 1987 • United States

One of the great unrealized theatrical productions of the twentieth century, “the CIVIL warS” would have been the magnum opus of legendary avant-garde director Robert Wilson: a twelve-hour historical opera in six distinct parts, each rehearsed i...

Directed by Bob Rafelson • 1968 • United States
Starring Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz

Hey, hey, it’s the Monkees . . . being catapulted through one of American cinema’s most surreal sixties odysseys. The brainchild of Bob Rafelson, making his directorial debut; his producing partner and ...

Directed by Paul Morrissey • 1973 • United States
Starring Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier

Underground maverick and Andy Warhol collaborator Paul Morrissey (CHELSEA GIRLS) reimagines Mary Shelley’s modern myth, infusing it with satiric wit and sexuality in this outré, baroquely sty...

Directed by Satyajit Ray • 1970 • India
Starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Samit Bhanja

One of director Satyajit Ray’s greatest achievements begins with the deceptively easy grace of a buddy comedy—only to give way to darker moral shading. Seeking a weekend escape from the city, ...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2014 • France, United States
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset, Marie Mouté

A sex-addicted French financier, a fateful hotel-room encounter, and a scandal that would rock the world. Inspired by the downfall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, WELCOME TO NEW YORK foll...