Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1965 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint

Ultimate celebrity power couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton bring their supernova star power to this spectacularly sudsy romance coscripted by formerly blacklisted screenwriter...

Directed by Isaac Julien • 1995 • United Kingdom

FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK explores the world of the preeminent theorist of twentieth-century anticolonialism, a French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher whose writings gave expression to the psychological burdens of exi...

Directed by Michael Haneke • 1993 • Austria, West Germany
Starring Branko Samarovski, Thierry van Werveke, August Schmölzer

Though it was made for television, Michael Haneke’s adaptation of the novel by Austrian writer Joseph Roth—a Kafkaesque vision of the individual pitted against the unfeelin...

Directed by John Cameron Mitchell • 2001 • United States
Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt

With this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie...

Directed by Abdenour Zahzah • 2024 • France, Algeria
Starring Alexandre Desane, Gérard Dubouche, Nicolas Dromard

Before he inspired anticolonial resistance movements around the world with his revolutionary writings, Frantz Fanon made his mark as the head of a psychiatric unit at a hospital in th...

Directed by Jacques Rozier • 1962 • France
Starring Jean-Claude Aimini, Daniel Descamps, Stefania Sabatini

In his bold yet playful feature debut—an overlooked gem of the French New Wave—Jacques Rozier satirizes several major cultural currents of early-sixties France: political myopia, romantic e...

Directed by Moustapha Alassane • 1966 • Niger

A sly political satire realized through charming hand-drawn animation, BON VOYAGE SIM features one of director Moustapha Alassane’s many beloved cartoon frogs as Monsieur Sim, the president of the Republic of Toads, who faces a crisis when he returns...

Directed by Eliza Hittman • 2013 • United States
Starring Gina Piersanti, Jesse Cordasco, Giovanna Salimeni

Set over the course of a languid South Brooklyn summer, this unflinchingly honest, refreshingly unsentimental tale of sexual exploration and awakening—the revelatory feature debut from wri...

Directed by Jacques Rozier • 2001 • France
Starring Jean Lefebvre, Lili Vonderfeld, Yves Afonso

Jacques Rozier’s final film is a joyful compendium of his major themes and strategies as well as one of the funniest depictions of the theater ever committed to celluloid. When a director (Mike Marsha...

Directed by Lino Brocka • 1980 • Philippines
Starring Nora Aunor, Phillip Salvador, Raquel Montesa

Director Lino Brocka brings his trademark blend of melodrama and social realism to this lost-and-found masterwork of Filipino cinema, a troubling character study at the intersection of fandom, sexu...

Directed by John Sturges • 1955 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis

Ace genre craftsman John Sturges directs Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan in this taut western noir. Tracy is the one-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy, who arrives in the remote desert outpost of Bla...

Directed by Jacques Rozier • 1976 • France
Starring Jacques Villeret, Bernard Menez, Maurice Risch

This anarchic comic short features the antics of two adult actors playing infants.

Directed by Halina Dyrschka • 2019 • Germany

Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange...

Directed by Larry Clark • 2001 • United States, France
Starring Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner

Ever-controversial director Larry Clark (KIDS) returns to the world of aimless youth with this provocative and unflinching true-crime shocker. Inspired by the murder of Bobby Kent, BULLY cen...

Directed by George Stevens • 1951 • United States
Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor make for one of the most swoon-inducing screen couples of the 1950s in this deluxe, multi-Oscar-winning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s AN AMERICA...

Directed by Moustapha Alassane • 2001 • Niger

In this colorful stop-motion animation with a satirical edge, a carnival of animals—including a frog, a chameleon, and a bird—compete in a wild wrestling match.

Directed by Jack Bond • 1987 • United Kingdom
Starring Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Joss Ackland

Perfect pop surrealism meets a deconstructed, darkly deadpan road movie in this sublimely strange and singular musical odyssey from legendary synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Members Neil Tennant and Chris ...

Directed by Moustapha Alassane • 1977 • Niger

An imaginative mix of watercolor and stop-motion animation brings to life the legend of a folkloric hero who sets out on a daring quest to prove his love to a princess.

Directed by Bruce Weber • 1988 • United States

Drifting dreamily between past and present, this haunting portrait of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker contrasts archival footage of the musician as an impossibly beautiful icon of cool in the 1950s with the tragically ruined heroin junkie he became. Subli...

Directed by John Bailey • 1994 • United States
Starring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Benicio Del Toro

In this tantalizing and stylish neonoir, Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris) is a homicide detective, the best in the business. But even a cop as brilliant as Kyle can be led astray by love. What starts as a...

Directed by Paul Wendkos • 1959 • United States
Starring Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson

The wholesome, fun-in-the-sun ’50s classic that launched a wave of sequels and an entire subgenre of beach-party movies stars winsome Sandra Dee as the spirited titular teenager, who’s searching fo...

Directed by Lino Brocka • 1982 • Philippines
Starring Christopher de Leon, Phillip Salvador, Carmi Martin

A high-pitched melodrama, a timeless Biblical retelling, and a furious allegory for the Marcos-era Philippines all in one, Lino Brocka’s lush actioner puts forward a powerful examination of ...

Directed by Peter Whitehead • 1966 • United Kingdom

Filmed during the Rolling Stones’ brief tour of Ireland in September 1965, this intimate backstage diary offers a rare look at the young Stones in the process of coming into their own. Featuring the first professionally filmed concert performan...

Directed by Michael Haneke • 1979 • Austria, West Germany
Starring Regina Sattler, Christian Ingomar, Eva Linder

A significant stylistic and thematic breakthrough for director Michael Haneke that in many ways can be seen as his first mature work, the two-part television drama LEMMINGS explores t...