Directed by Bertrand Bonello • 2011 • France
Starring Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette

Bertrand Bonello offers a highly atmospheric look at the final days of a brothel at the turn of the twentieth century. Within L’Apollonide’s walls, Bonello tracks the lives of the madam (Noemie Lv...

Directed by Lionel Rogosin • 1959 • United States
Starring Miriam Makeba, Vinah Makeba, Zachria Makeba

One of the bravest and most powerful political films ever made, Lionel Rogosin’s urgent indictment of racial injustice—filmed in secret in 1950s Johannesburg, South Africa—follows a young Zulu ...

Directed by Saul Bass • 1974 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick

The sole feature directed by graphic-design visionary Saul Bass is a brain-warping science-fiction freak-out in which a mysterious cosmic force turns a colony of ants in the Ari...

Directed by John Cromwell • 1950 • United States
Starring Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby

When nineteen-year-old Marie Allen (Eleanor Parker) arrives at a women’s prison already pregnant, she finds herself at the center of a war for her soul waged between a reform-minded warden (Agn...

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1950 • United States
Starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier was launched to stardom with his powerful performance in this intense, unflinching exploration of racial hatred from writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz. When a white p...

Directed by Makoto Shinkai • 2013 • Japan
Starring Miyu Irino, Kana Hanazawa, Fumi Hirano

For high school student Takao, a summer shower is a source of artistic inspiration . . . but when he skips school in order to sketch in a rainy garden, he finds a muse in Yukari, an older woman who seems ad...

Directed by Søren Lind and Larissa Sansour • 2022 • United Kingdom, Denmark

AS IF NO MISFORTUNE HAD OCCURRED IN THE NIGHT is a three-channel video work featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning, and inherited trauma, performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish and accompanied by arc...

Directed by Stanley Kwan • 1989 • Hong Kong
Starring Maggie Cheung, Sylvia Chang, Siqin Gaowa

Hong Kong New Wave auteur Stanley Kwan takes his abiding interest in the experiences, struggles, and inner lives of women to New York City in this rich portrait of female friendship among three immigran...

Directed by Jean Eustache and Jean-Michel Barjol • 1970 • France

Jean Eustache returned to his hometown, the farming community of Pessac, to create this cinema-verité record of the ritual slaughter of a pig, codirected with Jean-Michel Barjol. The documentary captures in unflinching detail—and i...

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1980 • France
Starring Alix Clio-Roubaud, Boris Eustache

Winner of the 1982 César Award for Best Short Film, ALIX’S PICTURES is Jean Eustache’s playful meditation on the ambiguity of images and the elusiveness of interpretation. In a room, a young woman (Alix Cléo Rou...

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1982 • France
Starring Michel Delahaye, Jean Douchet, Bertrand Van Effenterre

Jean Eustache’s final film—commissioned for the French television series “Contes modernes” (“Modern Tales”)—is a sharp satire of contemporary man’s dehumanization at the hands of specialized...

Directed by Hugo Fregonese • 1950 • United States
Starring James Mason, Märta Torén, Dan Duryea

This unconventional blend of gritty noir and dreamy romance stars James Mason as Frank Matson, a gangland doctor who, in a daring double cross, steals not only his mobster boss’s loot, but his moll La...

Directed by Makoto Shinkai • 2007 • Japan
Starring Kenji Mizuhashi, Yoshimi Kondou, Satomi Hanamura

Young love, missed connections, and unrequited feelings collide in a stunning romance from visionary director Makoto Shinkai. Told in three vignettes, 5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND explores the joys an...

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1971 • France
Starring Jean Eustache, Odette Robert, Boris Eustache

Before paying homage to his grandmother Odette Robert in the autobiographical MY LITTLE LOVES, Jean Eustache made NUMÉRO ZÉRO, a documentary portrait in which Robert answers questions about her diffic...

Directed by Paul Shemisi, Nizar Saleh, Rob Jacobs, and Anne Reijniers • 2022 • Congo, Belgium

Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for a screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they’re stopped at the airport because the ...

Directed by Olivier Assayas • 2016 • France
Starring Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz

With this intimate supernatural drama, the celebrated French filmmaker Olivier Assayas conjures a melancholy ghost story set in the world of celebrity and haute couture. Starring Kristen Stewart, ...

Directed by Adam Piron • 2022 • United States

YAANGNA PLAYS ITSELF is an ode to the memories of El Aliso, the sycamore tree that once stood at the center of Yaangna, the Indigenous Gabrieleno village that Los Angeles grew out from.

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1974 • France
Starring Ingrid Caven, Henri Martinez, Martin Loeb

Jean Eustache’s second and final narrative feature, MY LITTLE LOVES, follows Daniel (Martin Loeb) as he navigates the bewildering world of early adolescence. Living with his grandmother (Jacqueline Dufra...

Directed by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa • 2018 • Uganda, Austria

PROMISED LANDS is a fragmentary, essayistic meditation on (among other things) art, fact, fiction, memory, rights to land, place, and displacement that marks the culmination of a substantial body of work by the late artist Emma Wolukau-W...

Directed by Phil King • 2024 • United Kingdom
Starring Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson, Chris Acland

One of the defining bands of the shoegaze wave that washed over the indie-rock world in the 1990s, Lush mesmerized with their otherworldly vocals set against a swirling wall of sound. Assembled by fo...

Directed by Shirley Clarke • 1980 • United States

Avant-garde dancer Blondell Cummings’s intensely expressive choreography and director Shirley Clarke’s fractured editing convey a woman’s inner turmoil.

Directed by Jean Eustache • 1981 • France

The French television series “Les enthousiastes” asked art aficionados to offer their thoughts on, and interpretations of, paintings that they themselves selected. For Jean Eustache’s episode, Jean-Noël Picq (of A DIRTY STORY) chose the third panel of Hi...

Directed by Mabel Cheung • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Cherie Chung, Chow Yun-fat, Danny Chan

A heartfelt tale of love and loneliness unfolds in New York City in this hugely popular romantic drama, the second film in director Mabel Cheung’s Migration Trilogy. Hong Konger Jennifer (Cherie Chung) ar...

Directed by John Carluccio • 2019 • United States
Starring Maurice Hines, Debbie Allen, Cheryl Davis

This intimate, emotionally engaging portrait of the charismatic song-and-dance virtuoso Maurice Hines (1943–2023) follows him from his tap-dancing childhood into his late ’70s. Maurice and friend...