Directed by Aaron Brookner • 2016 • United States, United Kingdom

A nephew’s search for traces of his long-gone uncle’s brief, remarkable life yields a poignant elegy for a lost generation of gay artists. Howard Brookner was just thirty-four when he died of AIDS in 1989, but he had already left ...

Directed by Alfréd Radok • Czechoslovakia • 1949
Starring Blanka Waleská, Otomar Krejča, Viktor Očásek

One of the first films to confront the horrors of the Holocaust remains one of the most powerful. Suffused with the visceral dread of a waking nightmare, DISTANT JOURNEY draws from director and...

Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2021 • United States

Director Darol Olu Kae repurposes materials sourced online and interweaves them with images from his personal archive in an effort to wade through the deep emotions surrounding his father’s death and the sudden relocation of his children. The resu...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1993 • United States
Starring Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar

Abel Ferrara brings his subversive vision to the sci-fi/horror genre with this potent adaptation of the novel by Jack Finney (previously filmed twice as INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS). “They get yo...

Directed by Michele Soavi • Italy • 1994
Starring Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro, Anna Falchi

The ultimate erotic/romantic/existential zombie gorefest, this outrageous cult classic from Dario Argento disciple Michele Soavi stars Rupert Everett as Francesco Dellamorte, a cemetery watchman ...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1981 • United States
Starring Zoë Lund, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto

Abel Ferrara’s exploitation-scuzz classic takes place in the cesspool of 1980s New York, where mute garment-district worker Thana (Zoë Lund, who also cowrote Ferrara’s BAD LIEUTENANT) is raped once, t...

Directed by Ethan Hawke • 2018 • United States
Starring Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh Hamilton

He was the greatest country singer you’ve (probably) never heard of: a genius, a loser, a philosopher, a drunk, a poet, a rebel, and a ramblin’ man who lived each day of his too-short life on his own ...

Directed by Steve Sullivan • 2018 • United Kingdom

Journey into the surreal, hilarious, and poignant world of Frank Sidebottom—the outsider comedy hero who became a cult icon in 1980s Britain—and the complicated man who created him. The alter ego of Manchester musician Chris Sievey, Sidebottom—w...

Directed by Shohei Imamura • 1983 • Japan
Starring Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari

Imbued with the power of myth, Shohei Imamura’s Palme d’Or–winning magnum opus is a stark and stunning vision of a world ruled by the elemental laws of nature and survival. Against the backdrop of the ch...

Directed by Paul Morrissey • 1974 • United States
Starring Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Maxime McKendry

Paul Morrissey’s follow-up to FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN is another audacious, elegantly lurid reimagining of horror mythology that lives in its own perverse realm somewhere between camp outrageousn...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1987 • United States Starring James Russo, Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang

Auteur of sin and sleaze Abel Ferrara brings his inimitable brand of pulp poetry to this gritty,...

Directed by Walter Hill • 1984 • United States
Starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis

Walter Hill’s turbocharged “rock & roll fable” unfolds in an ultrastylized, neon-soaked dystopia where 1950s-style greasers and bikers run wild amid ’80s gloss. Ex-soldiers Tom Cody (Michael Paré) and ...

Directed by Lucrecia Martel • 2025 • Argentina, United States, Mexico

With her first documentary feature, acclaimed director Lucrecia Martel (ZAMA, THE HEADLESS WOMAN) continues her career-long exploration of the injustices and colonial violence lurking beneath the veneer of Argentinean society....

Directed by David Markey • 1984 • United States
Starring Jennifer Schwartz, Hilary Rubens, Janet Housden

Cast with members of the Los Angeles punk underground and shot guerrilla-style on the streets of Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Venice, this no-budget cult classic is a testament to the creativ...

Directed by Hafsia Herzi • 2025 • France, Germany
Starring Nadia Melliti, Park Ji-min, Amina Ben Mohamed

Acclaimed actor turned filmmaker Hafsia Herzi brings stirring intimacy and compassion to this emotionally resonant portrait of queer awakening. A revelatory Nadia Melliti, winner of the Best ...

Directed by Lou Adler • 1982 • United States
Starring Diane Lane, Ray Winstone, Peter Donat

In the punk classic that became a touchstone for the riot grrrl movement, seventeen-year-old orphan Corinne (Diane Lane) chucks her job flipping burgers, discovers eyeliner, and becomes a counterculture s...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1984 • United States
Starring Tom Berenger, Melanie Griffith, Billy Dee Williams

Cult auteur Abel Ferrara offers a bracing plunge into the sordid neon underbelly of 1980s Times Square in this stylishly pulpy neonoir sleazefest. There’s a psychopath loose on the streets...

Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2025 • United States
Starring Michael Rowles, Jacqueline Frazier, Kamara McDaniel

Gloria sits quietly at a bus stop, waiting, when memories from her youth suddenly overtake her thoughts. What unfolds is her dreamlike recollection of Dre, a young man experiencing an in...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 2019 • Italy, United States, Greece
Starring Willem Dafoe, Cristina Chiriac, Anna Ferrara

Abel Ferrara reflects on his own bad-boy image with newfound insight and maturity in this semi-autobiographical portrait of an artist confronting the shadows of his turbulent past...

Directed by Barnaby Clay • 2025 • United States

Dedicated to David Lynch, this ethereal record of a live performance by indie-rock royalty the Yeah Yeah Yeahs channels the spirit of the late, legendary filmmaker into an entrancing, sublimely surreal concert-film experience. Filmed in spectral bl...

Directed by Robert A. Nakamura • 1972 • United States

Created by Robert A. Nakamura as a film student at UCLA Film School’s Ethnocommunications Program, MANZANAR was one of the first films to examine the experience of Japanese American internment from a personal perspective. Lyrical and pensive,...

Directed by Gints Zilbalodis • 2012 • Latvia

A cat wakes up surrounded by water and must learn to survive.

Directed by Tadashi Nakamura • 2025 • United States

Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the Godfather of Asian American media,” but his son, Tad, calls him Dad. As the filmmaking son of a filmmaking legend, Tad uses the lessons his dad taught him to decipher the legacy of an aging ma...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1979 • United States
Starring Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day

In a career that has encompassed such controversial classics as MS. 45 and BAD LIEUTENANT, none of Abel Ferrara’s films have quite managed to match the shock, extremity, and downright notorious nature ...