Directed by Mike Nichols • 1967 • United States
Starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross

One of the most beloved American films of all time, THE GRADUATE earned Mike Nichols a best director Oscar, brought the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience, and introduced the world ...

Directed by Johnnie To • 2003 • Hong Kong
Starring Simon Yam, Maggie Siu Mei-kei, Lam Suet

Director Johnnie To’s propulsive action choreography and vivid feeling for the seedy corners of the neon-soaked Hong Kong night world are on full display in this stylishly moody thriller, one of the direct...

Directed by Amy Holden Jones • 1982 • United States
Starring Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella

Scripted by lesbian feminist author Rita Mae Brown, THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE puts a smart, subversive, and lightly satirical spin on the 1980s slasher formula. When Trish (Michelle Mi...

Directed by Liliana Cavani • 2002 • United Kingdom
Starring John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey

From the third entry in Patricia Highsmith’s celebrated series of novels centered on the charming sociopath Tom Ripley—previously adapted by Wim Wenders as THE AMERICAN FRIEND—comes this thrill...

Directed by Johnnie To • 2005 • Hong Kong
Starring Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Louis Koo

Superstar director Johnny To’s magnum opus breathed new life into the Hong Kong crime drama by offering a boldly deromanticized vision of a gangland underworld defined by corrosive greed. Every two years, ...

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...

Directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai • 2007 • Hong Kong
Starring Sean Lau Ching-wan, Lam Ka-Tung, Andy On

A wild, hallucinatory blend of police procedural and supernatural surrealism, this dizzyingly offbeat crime drama centers on the eccentric Inspector Bun (Sean Lau Ching-wan), a clairvoyant...

Directed by Tristan Scott-Behrends • 2021 • United States
Starring Henry Bae, DJ Reed

A queer romantic reverie unfolds on the nocturnal streets of New York City in this poignant and playful meditation on longing and desire.

Directed by Robert Altman • 1977 • United States
Starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule

In a dusty, underpopulated California resort town, a naive southern waif, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate and “thoroughly modern” Mill...

Directed by Ougie Pak • 2019 • United States
Starring Kwang Min Lee, Woohyun Kim, Tobee Paik

During a trip to New York, a young Korean man finds himself navigating his disintegrating relationship and the intoxicating mix of freedom and disorientation that comes with being adrift in an unfamiliar...

Directed by Amy Holden Jones • 1983 • United States
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Bonnie Bartlett, Matt Clark

Having proven her directorial mettle with the cult-classic slasher THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE, director Amy Holden Jones next convinced producer Roger Corman to finance something completely...

Directed by Johnnie To • 2016 • Hong Kong, China
Starring Zhao Wei, Louis Koo, Wallace Chung

When three disparate souls—a doctor desperate to redeem her reputation (Zhao Wei), a policeman who will go to any length to seek justice (Louis Koo), and a criminal with a gunshot wound to the head (Wall...

Directed by Jonathan Glazer • 2000 • United Kingdom, Spain
Starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane

Jonathan Glazer’s debut feature is a startlingly original crime drama built around a ferocious, Academy Award–nominated performance from Ben Kingsley. He plays a frighteningly unhinged, f-...

Directed by Todd Haynes • 1991 • United States
Starring Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman

Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Todd Haynes’s debut feature deftly interweaves a trio of transgressive tales—“Hero,” “Horror,” and “Homo”—that build towards a devastating climax. “Hero,” shot...

Directed by Sean McCoy • 2017 • United States

Devils in the outfield! Steeped in occult dread, this experimental documentary uncovers a sinister conspiracy theory surrounding the death of Cleveland baseball player Ray Chapman, who was killed by a ball thrown by Yankees pitcher Carl Mays in 1920.