Directed by P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes • 2019 • United States, France

The visionary designer who propelled fashion into the future, Pierre Cardin revolutionized the look of the 1960s and ’70s and created a global empire that set the template for the modern fashion house. This briskly ente...

Directed by Kimi Takesue • 2011 • United States
Starring Vincente Otero, Natar Ungalaaq, Sydney Francis

In 2032, an eight-year-old boy displaced by climate change fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted by memories of flooding that left him homeles...

Directed by Max Keegan • 2024 • United States

Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR explores a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears into a traditional shepherding community. Told through the eyes of an aging shepherd who struggles to find a success...

Directed by Dorothy Arzner • 1931 • United States
Starring Judith Wood, Dorothy Hall, Charles “Buddy” Rogers

Dorothy Arzner offers a snappily entertaining, socially perceptive look at female solidarity in this Depression-era tale of young women striving to succeed in their careers and in love. N...

Directed by Turner Ross and Bill Ross IV • 2015 • Mexico, United States

In this nonfiction spin on the myths of the frontier, Americana specialists the Ross brothers create an immersive portrait of Eagle Pass, Texas, a border town that has historically enjoyed a close relationship with Piedras N...

Directed by Roger Donaldson • 1987 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Kevin Costner, Sean Young

Based on Kenneth Fearing’s classic suspense novel THE BIG CLOCK (famously the basis for the 1948 Ray Milland/Charles Laughton noir), this gripping, inspired reimagining resets the story against th...

Dircted by Ken Loach • 2013 • United Kingdom

Cinematic champion of working-class solidarity Ken Loach (I, DANIEL BLAKE) looks back at the remarkable twentieth-century socialist surge that changed modern Britain forever. Through a vivid mix of interviews and archival footage, Loach brings to life...

Directed by Kimi Takesue • 1995 • United Kingdom

A young Chinese British woman undertakes a symbolic journey of self-discovery. Incorporating elements of poetry and dance within a dramatic narrative, BOUND explores a woman’s attempt to reconcile the past with the present as she confronts the co...

Directed by William Dieterle • 1932 • United States
Starring Kay Francis, David Manners, Una Merkel

In the first film the ever-chic Kay Francis made at Warner Bros.—where she would quickly become the studio’s top star during the pre-Code era—she plays Lois Ames, a magazine editor whose husband i...

Directed by Jill Sprecher • 1997 • United States
Starring Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow

Something of a female-driven precursor to OFFICE SPACE, Jill Sprecher’s lost indie gem stars Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette, and Alanna Ubach as a quartet of temp workers who bond over th...

Directed by Kimi Takesue • 2010 • Uganda

A high-society wedding, a movie set, a beauty salon, a women’s weight-lifting competition: these are a few of the many places in Uganda visited in Kimi Takesue’s feature documentary WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME? Employing an observational style, Takesue travel...

Directed by At van Praag • 1978 • Suriname, Netherlands

Through the stories of four women—Jetty, Sonja, Somai, and Sylvie—this incisive documentary explores the impact of Dutch colonialism and neocolonialism on their lives in Suriname, as well as in the Netherlands, where they face further discr...

Directed by Naoko Yamada • 2011 • Japan
Starring Stephanie Sheh, Cristina Vee, Cassandra Lee Morris

This heartfelt continuation of the beloved, slice-of-life anime series K-ON! traces the charming adventures of five high school students who come together to form the band Ho-kago Tea Time. As the...

Directed by Lloyd Bacon • 1930 • United States
Starring Dorothy Mackaill, Lewis Stone, Natalie Moorhead

Though little-known today due to her relatively short-lived career, Dorothy Mackaill was one of the most intriguing screen personalities of the silent and pre-Code eras. She shines—opposite up...

Directed by Tay Garnett • 1946 • United States
Starring Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway

Lana Turner and John Garfield set the screen ablaze with their smoldering chemistry in this erotically charged noir classic based on the novel by James M. Cain. Down-and-out drifter Frank Chambers ...

Directed by Blake Edwards • 1983 • United States
Starring Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger

Hollywood sophisticate Blake Edwards transplanted François Truffaut’s French sex comedy to 1980s LA for this ruefully funny portrait of a playboy facing a midlife crisis. David Fowler (Burt Reyno...

Directed by Sierra Pettengill • 2022 • United States

Welcome to Riotsville, USA: a point in American history when the nation’s rulers—politicians, bureaucrats, police—were faced with the mounting militancy of the late 1960s, and did everything possible to win the war in the streets. Using traini...

Directed by Arnold Antonin • 1973 • Haiti

Often identified as the first Haitian feature film, this landmark documentary chronicles the centuries-long quest of the Haitian people for self-determination. Rooted in a fierce national pride, the film journeys through the defining events of Haiti’s hi...

Directed by George Stevens • 1942 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter

George Stevens’s WOMAN OF THE YEAR, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katharine Hepburn had made in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, marked the beginning of the personal and professional uni...

Directed by Kimi Takesue • 1999 • United States

A solitary man struggles to cultivate beauty in a desolate urban world. Lonely and dislocated, he drifts in and out of a dream state envisioning the promise of regeneration. ROSEWATER tells a story of hope sustained through perseverance, ritual and...

Directed by Bill Douglas • 1972 • United Kingdom

In the first installment in his autobiographical coming-of-age trilogy, director Bill Douglas draws on his poverty-stricken childhood in 1940s Scotland to tell the story of Jamie (Stephen Archibald), an eight-year-old boy growing up in a harsh min...

Directed by Jacques Tourneur • 1942 • United States
Starring Simone Simon, Kent Smith

The first of the horror films producer Val Lewton made for RKO Pictures redefined the genre by leaving its most frightening terrors to its audience’s imagination. Simone Simon stars as a Serbian émigré in Manha...

Directed by Ching Siu-tung • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma

In this beloved cult-classic fantasy, a traveling tax collector (Leslie Cheung) short on funds opts to take shelter in a seemingly abandoned temple. He is surprised to discover a young woman (Joey Wang) there,...

Directed by Ching Siu-tung • 1990 • Hong Kong
Starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Michelle Reis

Romance, comedy, and extraordinary fantasy collide in this vibrant sequel to A CHINESE GHOST STORY, which finds our innocent tax-collector hero (Leslie Cheung) now falsely imprisoned. Upon escaping, he...