Directed by Cristian Mungiu • 2007 • Romania
Starring Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov

Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu shot to international prominence with this rigorously realistic Palme d’Or–winning second feature. In 1987, during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, colle...

Directed by William A. Wellman • 1937 • United States
Starring Fredric March, Carole Lombard, Charles Winninger

He’s an unscrupulous newspaperman eager to exploit the story of a young woman’s death by radium poisoning. She knows she’s not really dying but can’t pass up a free trip to New York wi...

Directed by Jeff Lieberman • 1988 • United States
Starring Kevin Dillon, Deborah Goodrich, Jennifer Tilly

Cult director Jeff Lieberman (BLUE SUNSHINE, JUST BEFORE DAWN) pays homage to the heyday of 1950s science fiction with a sublimely schlocky, awesomely ’80s alien-invasion satire. When video-...

Directed by Cristi Puiu • 2016 • Romania
Starring Mimi Brǎnescu, Judith State, Bogdan Dumitrache

Romanian New Wave leader Cristi Puiu continues to blend the personal and the political to arresting effect in this sprawling, drolly comic family portrait that doubles as an existential X-ray of cont...

Directed by Nick Canfield • 2025 • United States

In the mideighties, Swiss synth-pop duo Yello took American pop culture by storm with an offbeat anthem that became an unlikely cultural touchstone. With its glitchy electronic groove and bass-deep vocals, “Oh Yeah” was made famous by FERRIS BUELL...

Directed by Monika Treut • 1991 • Germany
Starring Annie Sprinkle, Alfred Edel, Shelley Kästner

Vicky (Shelley Kästner) is a German expat working as a waitress in the East Village while also dreaming of making it as an actor. She’ll have to give the performance of a lifetime when her stodgy fath...

Directed by Cristi Puiu • 2010 • Romania
Starring Cristi Puiu, Clara Vodǎ, Valeria Seciu

Director Cristi Puiu’s follow-up to his Romanian New Wave landmark THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU is a mesmerizingly tense, daringly minimalist crime thriller infused with a creeping existential dread. The direc...

Directed by Hisayasu Sato • 1988 • Japan
Starring Kiyomi Ito, Kazuhiro Sano, Sayaka Hitomi

One of the most esteemed and transgressive filmmakers ever to work in Japan’s explosively popular pink film genre, Hisayasu Sato crafted erotic films that were both genre-defying and artful. While Sato’s w...