Directed by Werner Herzog • 1979 • West Germany
Starring Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann

Werner Herzog ventured into the dark depths of madness once again with this adaptation of the unfinished stage play by Georg Buchner, the story of a real-life nineteenth-century barber turned...

Directed by Spencer Williams • 1941 • United States
Starring Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley

The first feature by director/actor Spencer Williams (commonly remembered today as Andy on TV’s “Amos ’n’ Andy”), THE BLOOD OF JESUS is a rural religious parable in which a woman (Cathr...

Directed by Roy William Neill • 1946 • United States
Starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre

Based (loosely) on a novel by legendary crime writer and master of existential dread Cornell Woolrich (REAR WINDOW, THE BRIDE WORE BLACK), this bleakly atmospheric noir stars everyone’s favorite s...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1976 • West Germany

Werner Herzog heads to New Holland, Pennsylvania, to document the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship, focusing on the strange, staccato musicality of the language of auctioneering: in his words, “the last poetry possible, the poetry of capital...

Directed by R. G. Phillips • 1918 • United States

One of Ebony Film Corporation’s most ambitious comedies is, like most of their surviving work, tragically marred by the decomposition of the nitrate film stock. Fortunately, enough of the storyline shines through that it may still be appreciated ...

Directed by Jafar Panahi • 2018 • Iran
Starring Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei

Iranian master Jafar Panahi’s fourth feature since he was officially banned from filmmaking is a courageous act of antipatriarchal defiance from an artist who has refused to be silenced. This playful doc...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 2009 • United States
Starring Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny

What strange series of events led a man to murder his mother with an ancient sword? Produced by David Lynch, Werner Herzog’s typically idiosyncratic take on a true crime unfolds as a fascinatin...

Directed by Unknown • 1915 • United States
Starring Jimmy Marshall, Frank Montgomery, Florence McClain

The Ebony Film Corporation may have been a white-owned company, but African American producer Luther Pollard used it as a means of getting black faces on the silver screen, as in this slapstick...

Directed by Noah Baumbach • 2007 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black

Margot Zeller (Nicole Kidman) is a short-story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of the wedding between her estranged sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and h...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 2005 • United Kingdom, France, Germany
Starring Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker

Werner Herzog’s ability to find otherworldly wonder wherever he points his camera is on display in this sublime experimental science-fiction odyssey, in which he makes striking u...

Directed by Zeinabu irene Davis • 2023 • United States
Starring Princess Punzalan, Bryan Ross, Becca Godinez

PANDEMIC BREAD, about catharsis and collective healing, centers on a Filipina interpreter, working from home, who is translating an end-of-life conversation over the phone between a docto...

Directed by Richard E. Norman • 1926 • United States
Starring Laurence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Steve Reynolds

Unlike his 1923 film REGENERATION, Richard Norman’s THE FLYING ACE exists in its entirety, and the image quality is stunning. A rural crime drama revolving around a pair of rival aviators,...

Directed by Fox Maxy • 2022 • United States

In this exuberant, densely layered pop-culture collage, artist Fox Maxy reflects on her relationship to home, the Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians reservation in Southern California.

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1941 • United States
Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper make sparks in this snappy screwball take on the Snow White tale. She’s a burlesque queen with a colorful vocabulary who needs to lay low for a while as the police close in on ...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1981 • West Germany

Werner Herzog’s fascination with both religious mysticism and American subcultures leads him to a Black church in Brooklyn, where he documents a fire-and-brimstone sermon by the minister Huie L. Rogers. As Rogers’s explosive oratorical style reache...

Directed by Terence Fisher • 1954 • United Kingdom
Starring Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies

Future Hammer-horror legend Terence Fisher helms this twisty British whodunit (also known as MURDER BY PROXY), in which Casey Morrow (Dane Clark)—an American in London with no visible means of s...

Directed by Werner Herzog • 1972 • West Germany, Mexico, Peru
Starring Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Roho

The first of Werner Herzog’s legendary—and notoriously tempestuous—collaborations with actor Klaus Kinski is a feverish account of sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Lope de Aguirre’s...

Directed by Oliver Stone • 1994 • United States
Starring Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr.

One of the most explosively controversial films of the 1990s, Oliver Stone’s savagely satirical look at the relationship between violence and the American media—adapted from a story Quenti...

Directed by Howard Hawks • 1948 • United States
Starring John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan

No matter what genre he worked in, Howard Hawks played by his own rules, and never was this more evident than in his first western, the rowdy and whip-smart RED RIVER. In it, John Wayne found on...

Directed by Woody Allen • 1986 • United States
Starring Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Michael Caine

One of Woody Allen’s best-loved films charts the messy, intersecting relationships between a coterie of Manhattanites over a two year period. Between Thanksgivings at her apartment, Hannah (Mia Farrow)...

Directed by Nancy Savoca • 1991 • United States
Starring River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco

An ineffably bittersweet portrait of youth in the 1960s, Nancy Savoca’s funny, sensitive tale of love and war etches two vividly alive characters: aspiring San Francisco folk singer Rose (Lili...

Directed by Jafar Panahi • 2015 • Iran
Starring Jafar Panahi

Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses...

Directed by Eva Aridjis Fuentes • 2025 • United States, Mexico

In the early 1990s, Diane Luckey—known by her stage name Q Lazzarus—seemed poised for stardom when her darkly ravishing synth-pop anthem “Goodbye Horses” was featured to unforgettable effect in the pop-culture sensation THE SILENCE O...

Directed by Blackhorse Lowe • 2018 • United States

Larry and Carmelita Lowe tell their family history over images of a Hogan, a traditional Navajo dwelling, as it is being built.