Directed by Karim Aïnouz • 2024 • Brazil, France, Germany
Starring Iago Xavier, Nataly Rocha, Fábio Assunção

The neon-hued Motel Destino, a roadside sex hotel steaming under the burning blue skies of the northeastern coast of Brazil, is run by hotheaded Elias (Fábio Assunção) and his restless yo...

Directed by Daniel Peddle • 2005 • United States
Starring Kisha Batista, Marquise Vilson, Octavio Sanders

Filmed over the course of five years, this bold, candid documentary follows the journeys of six masculine-presenting, genderqueer New Yorkers who defy labels in their quest to live authentic...

Directed by Steven Spielberg • 1977 • United States
Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon

Pure movie magic of the highest order, this beloved science-fiction landmark from Steven Spielberg gazes, with awe-inspiring wonder, into the infinite unknown. In the night skies near his Mun...

Directed by Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence and Megan Trufant Tillman • 2025 • United States
Starring Josiah Cross, Danny Glover, Mia Isaac

Sumptuously shot in a nighttime New York City bathed in neon and melancholic longing, this evocative reverie on queer yearning and repression begins with a midnight...

Directed by Wes Anderson • 2007 • United States, France
Starring Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman

In this prologue to Wes Anderson’s THE DARJEELING LIMITED, a man (Jason Schwartzman) and his former lover (Natalie Portman) reunite in a Paris hotel room for a charged encounter suspended between ...

Directed by Perry Henzell • 1972 • Jamaica
Starring Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw

Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff is Ivan, a rural Jamaican musician who journeys to the city of Kingston in search of fame and fortune. Pushed to desperate circumstances by shady record producers and corrup...

Directed by Miloš Forman • 1996 • United States
Starring Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton

Director Miloš Forman brings his slyly subversive sensibility to this wickedly entertaining, stranger-than-fiction look at one man’s notorious public persona and unconventional private life. Wo...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 2008 • United States
Starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin

When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister, Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt), she brings a long history of personal demons, family conflict, and tragedy ...

Directed by Yann Gonzalez • 2009 • France
Starring Julien Doré, Julie Brémond, César Domboy

Three disaffected high school students meet a mysterious stranger for a philosophical journey to the edge of existence.

Directed by Yann Gonzalez • 2012 • France
Starring Claire Ballu, Pauline Bécam, Valentin Chauvet

With this blast of synth-soaked teenage delirium, director Yann Gonzalez captures the ecstatic communion of an all-night rave giving way to breaking dawn.

Directed by Wes Anderson • 2007 • United States
Starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman

In director Wes Anderson’s THE DARJEELING LIMITED, three estranged brothers reunite for a meticulously planned, soul-searching train voyage across India one year after the death of their father....

Directed by Gary Hustwit • 2007 • United Kingdom

Developed in 1957 by Swiss designers Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann, the typeface Helvetica quickly appeared in corporate logos, signage for transportation systems, fine-art prints, and myriad other contexts, becoming one of the most ubiquitous...

Directed by Gary Hustwit • 2011 • United States

Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and around 75% will call a city home by 2050. But while some cities are experiencing explosive growth, others are shrinking. The challenges of balancing housing, mobility, public space, c...

Directed by Patrick Tam • 1982 • Hong Kong
Starring Leslie Cheung, Pat Ha, Kent Tong

An audacious blast of pop subversion, this touchstone of the Hong Kong New Wave by director Patrick Tam begins as a blissed-out portrait of carefree youth—and continually spins off into ever more shocking realm...

Directed by Preston Sturges • 1941 • United States
Starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake

Tired of churning out lightweight comedies, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) decides to make O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?—a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. After his pr...

Directed by Terence Young • 1963 • United Kingdom
Starring Sean Connery, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya

International crime outfit SPECTRE has hatched a plan to steal a decoder that will access Russian state secrets and irrevocably disrupt the world order. It’s up to James Bond (Sean Connery) to ...

Directed by Yann Gonzalez • 2012 • Portugal, France
Starring Julie Brémond, Paula Guedes, Eurico Cardoso

With her mother as master of ceremonies, a young stripper in a traveling sex show descends into the increasingly surreal depths of Porto, Lisbon. But what happens when she finds true love?

Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1982 • France
Starring Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Arielle Dombasle

“Who doesn’t daydream? Who doesn’t build castles in the air?” A proverb by French poet Jean de La Fontaine provides the inspiration for the second film in Eric Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs seri...

Directed by Yann Gonzalez • 2006 • France
Starring Kate Moran, Thiago Telès, Salvatore Viviano

A woman (Kate Moran) passes through a series of intense carnal encounters, only to find herself increasingly alone.

Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1984 • France
Starring Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini

In Eric Rohmer’s wry, gracefully constructed fourth entry in his cycle of Comedies and Proverbs, a young woman learns the hard way that “he who has two women loses his soul; he who has two houses loses ...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1985 • United States
Starring Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the...

Directed by Shinji Somai • 1985 • Japan
Starring Youki Kudoh, Yuichi Mikami, Tomokazu Miura

A work of raw, elemental power widely regarded as director Shinji Somai’s finest achievement, this intensely visceral take on the coming-of-age film follows an ensemble of junior-high students in a provin...

Directed by David Lynch • 1999 • United States
Starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton

In between the dark, florid surrealism of the LA-set neonoirs LOST HIGHWAY and MULHOLLAND DR., director David Lynch took a detour to America’s heartland for this surprisingly down-to-eart...

Directed by William Fruet • 1972 • Canada
Starring Carol Kane, Donald Pleasence, Doris Petrie

A harrowing family tragedy plays out with unflinching naturalism in this at once relentlessly raw and deeply compassionate tale of innocence lost, winner of the 1972 Canadian Film Award for Best Feature...