Directed by Robert Altman • 1974 • United States
Starring George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss

Robert Altman’s distinctive brand of loose-limbed naturalism reached sublime heights with this freewheeling buddy comedy. Elliott Gould and George Segal make for one of the most delightfully offbe...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1994 • United States
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Anouk Aimée

Something like a NASHVILLE for the ’90s, Robert Altman’s deliciously catty fashion-industry satire zigzags, in inimitable Altman style, between the swarm of reporters, designers, models, pow...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1971 • United States
Starring Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam

A prescient vision of the rise of the surveillance state, this paranoid heist thriller stars Sean Connery as Duke Anderson, an ex-con just out of prison who hatches a daring scheme to rob every unit...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1967 • United States
Starring James Caan, Joanna Moore, Robert Duvall

Robert Altman’s second credited feature film as director—though he was fired from the production for his then-radical use of overlapping dialogue—is a space-race drama lent extra authenticity thanks...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1990 • Netherlands, United Kingdom, France
Starring Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Kitty Courbois

The struggle between madness and genius takes its toll on the brothers Van Gogh in Robert Altman’s brilliantly inspired exploration of fevered creativity and tormented family bonds...

Directed by Matt Dillon • 2002 • United States
Starring Matt Dillon, James Caan, Natascha McElhone

Matt Dillon made a dynamic directorial debut with this feverishly atmospheric neonoir, which he cowrote with novelist (and David Lynch collaborator) Barry Gifford. After their insurance scam sparks...

Directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura • 1956 • Japan
Starring Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Uehara, Eitaro Ozawa

Exquisitely lensed in gorgeous color by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, this sublimely subversive melodrama employs ravishing mise-en-scène to lend layers of subtextual meaning to the story of...

Directed by Michael Apted • 1994 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson

Inspired by the true story of Poto and Cabengo—the American twins raised largely in isolation who were found to have developed their own language—this poignant drama soars thanks to an extraor...

Directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk • 2022 • Ukraine, Poland, France
Starring Oleksandr Yatsentiuk, Solomiya Kyrylova, Stanislav Potiak

Charged with an almost demonic intensity, this electrifying thriller unfolds in the borderlands of western Ukraine (just prior to the Russian invasion) where...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1976 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy

Robert Altman directs a dynamic ensemble cast—including Paul Newman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Burt Lancaster, and Shelley Duvall—in this subversive revisionist western. Although Buffalo Bill...

Directed by Juan López Moctezuma • 1977 • Mexico
Starring Tina Romero, Susana Kamini, Claudio Brook

Directed at fever-pitch hysteria by Alejandro Jodorowsky collaborator Juan López Moctezuma, this ultrablasphemous satanic shocker is one of the unholy grails of the nunsploitation genre—an orgiast...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1969 • United States, Canada
Starring Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton

Though often overshadowed by its follow-up, MASH, Robert Altman’s third directorial effort was in many ways an artistic breakthrough for him: the first in which his experimental, iconocl...

Directed by Ehsan Khoshbakht • 2023 • Iran, United Kingdom

Ehsan Khoshbakht’s riveting autobiographical documentary is an immersive portrait of postrevolutionary Iran and a stirring testament to the power of cinema to resist tyranny. It’s the story of his formative friendship with the mysterious...

Directed by Nabil Elderkin • 2012 • United Kingdom
Starring Willem Dafoe, Marina Abamović, Carice van Houten

Willem Dafoe, Carice van Houten, and Marina Abramović star in this music video for the song by ANOHNI, written for Robert Wilson’s play “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović.”

Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing • 2024 • United States

Through intimate observation, UNION chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots labor-organizing campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island. Led by the c...

Directed by Woody Allen • 1991 • United States
Starring Woody Allen, Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster

Lensed in atmospheric monochrome chiaroscuro, Woody Allen’s absurdist homage to German expressionism (with dashes of Kafka and Ingmar Bergman), is one of the writer-director’s most offbeat experiments....

Directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter • 1988 • United States
Starring Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster’s deeply affecting performance as a young woman whose life takes a tragic turn haunts this unabashedly heart-tugging coming-of-age melodrama. Washed-up minor-league ...

Directed by Giulio Berruti • 1979 • Italy
Starring Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Alida Valli

Anita Ekberg is a sex-crazed sister with some seriously bad habits in this lurid cult classic. One of the most notorious nunsploitation films, KILLER NUN tells the sordid story of Sister Gertrude (Ekber...

Directed by Olivier Assayas • 2010 • Germany, France
Starring Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora Von Waldstatten

CARLOS, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez—also known as Carlos the Jacka...

Directed by Olivier Assayas • 2010 • Germany, France
Starring Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora Von Waldstatten

CARLOS, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez—also known as Carlos the Jacka...

Directed by Olivier Assayas • 2010 • Germany, France
Starring Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora Von Waldstatten

CARLOS, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez—also known as Carlos the Jacka...

Directed by Roman Polanski • 1974 • United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

An Oscar-winning screenplay by Robert Towne, career-defining performances from Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, and Roman Polanski’s atmospheric direction come together in one of the greatest fil...

Directed by Paul Verhoeven • 2021 • France, Netherlands, Belgium
Starring Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia

The ever-provocative Paul Verhoeven brings his subversive vision to a seventeenth-century convent for this ecstatically blasphemous tale of religion, sex, scandal, and pla...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1970 • United States
Starring Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall, Sally Kellerman

Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort) lives deep underneath the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane, but with strapped-on wings he’s designing—encouraged by a ...