Directed by Béla Tarr • 1979 • Hungary
Starring Irén Szajki, László Horváth, Gábor Kun

Released in 1979, when Béla Tarr was only twenty-four, FAMILY NEST is the director’s first feature. Inspired by true stories and featuring nonprofessional actors, the film depicts the challenges faced by a you...

Directed by Clara Law • 1990 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Ka-fai, Maggie Cheung, Hayley Man

The immigrant dream of starting a new life in America collides with harsh reality in this heartrending, brutally authentic drama. After he loses touch with his wife Li Hung (Maggie Cheung), who had emi...

Directed by Nicholas Ray • 1950 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame

When a gifted but washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper—Humphrey Bogart, in a revelatory, vulnerable performance—becomes the prime suspect in a brutal Tinseltown murder, the only person who ca...

Directed by William Friedkin • 1983 • United States
Starring Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Gregory Hines

Following the firestorm of controversy surrounding his thriller CRUISING, director William Friedkin switched gears with this goofball comedy, a gleeful satire of the Cold War–era military-in...

Directed by Makoto Shinkai • 1999 • Japan
Starring Makoto Shinkai, Mika Shinohara

Makoto Shinkai’s debut short portrays the sensitive relationship between a cat and his owner, poignantly told from the feline’s perspective.

Directed by Sofia Theodore-Pierce • 2023 • United States

A year of stormy weather and temporal rupture is recalled in fragments in this collage of seizure dreams, horses, long-distance conversations from bed, and loose reenactments from Marguerite Duras’s BAXTER, VERA BAXTER.

Directed by Robert Siodmak • 1950 • United States
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly

Having established herself as the screen’s ultimate femme fatale in DOUBLE INDEMNITY, Barbara Stanwyck once again went bad—as only she could—in this brooding noir, directed with a surfeit of sh...

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1969 • France

As political and social tumult rocked France in May and June of 1968, Jean Eustache used his first documentary to focus on persistent tradition, in the form of a centuries-old ceremony in his hometown of Pessac. Each year, Pessac’s civic leaders choose a...

Directed by Miryam Charles • 2023 • Canada
Starring Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain Mbaye

Following the shooting of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on her own life and especially on the passing of time.

Directed by Wayne Kramer • 2006 • United States, Germany
Starring Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga

Hyperstylized, fast-paced, and deliriously over-the-top, this breathless crime thriller stars Paul Walker as a low-level mobster who must recover a gun used in a mafia hit before it’s foun...

Directed by Rosine Mbakam • 2011 • Belgium

As the words of three Rwandan genocide survivors are delivered by white, affluent-looking Belgian women, director Rosine Mbakam asks us to reconsider whose lives and experiences are valued.

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1979 • France

A decade after making THE VIRGIN OF PESSAC, Jean Eustache filmed another documentary about his hometown’s annual coronation of a young woman of moral integrity. The differences between the two portraits of the same ritual are subtle yet telling: The sele...

Directed by Cy Endfield • 1950 • United States
Starring Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson

Inspired by the highly publicized 1933 murder of department store heir Brooke Hart (also the basis for Fritz Lang’s FURY), this noir from blacklisted director Cy Endfield follows desperate, unem...

Directed by Rosine Mbakam • 2011 • Belgium, Cameroon
Starring Pierrette Aboheu, Karelle Kenmogne, Cécile Tchana

Over the past decade, Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam has distinguished herself with her incisive observational documentary portraits of African women. With MAMBAR PIERRETTE, her f...

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1977 • France
Starring Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Noël Picq, Laurie Zimmer

Deceptively simple in form and content, Jean Eustache’s A DIRTY STORY is a fascinatingly complex investigation of the relationship between fiction and documentary, verbal and visual storytelling, a...

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1966 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Gérard Zimmermann, Henri Martinez

In this early narrative short by Jean Eustache, French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as Daniel, a ne’er-do-well who loafs around Paris with his friends in search of easy money and pret...

Directed by Joachim Trier • 2011 • Norway
Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Malin Crépin, Aksel Thanke

Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. Taking advantage of the ...

Directed by Vincent Sherman • 1950 • United States
Starring Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran

In the first of her three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford brings commanding presence and hard-boiled glamour to her portrayal of a woman who uses and abandons men to ...

Directed by Makoto Shinkai • 2011 • Japan
Starring Hisako Kanemoto, Kazuhiko Inoue, Miyu Irino

An epic fantasy adventure set in a world of ancient gods, CHILDREN WHO CHASE LOST VOICES follows Asuna, an introvert who spends her time listening to a radio that belonged to her deceased father. One d...

Directed by Meriem Bennani • 2018–2021 • Morocco

Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona a...

Directed by Julien Faraut • 2021 • France
Starring Kinuko Tanida, Yoko Shinozaki, Katsumi Matsumura

How did a group of humble factory workers become a phenomenal sports success story and the pride of an entire nation? This ferociously innovative, visually stunning documentary tells the tale of t...

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1963 • France

Jean Eustache’s first completed narrative short, a portrait of emotionally immature men on the prowl for female companionship, cemented the template for his subsequent fictions. Aristide Demonico and Daniel Bart play Parisian friends who try to pick up t...

Directed by Bertrand Bonello • 2016 • France
Starring Finnegan Oldfield, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani

This audacious teenage terrorism thriller from acclaimed director Bertrand Bonello recalls Robert Bresson’s THE DEVIL, PROBABLY as much as it does George A. Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD. We firs...

Directed by Nicholas Ray • 1950 • United States
Starring Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott

Joan Fontaine makes for a memorably ruthless femme fatale in this deliciously dishy noir melodrama from genre master Nicholas Ray. She plays Christabel Caine, the outwardly sweet, beautiful, and do...