Directed by Henry Hathaway • 1953 • United States
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters

Marilyn Monroe dazzles in her star-making turn as a devious femme fatale in this sultry tale of seduction and murder. While on vacation at Niagara Falls, Rose Loomis (Monroe) plots to murder her...

Directed by Steven Feinartz • 2025 • United States

Frank, caustic, and fearlessly funny, comedian and podcast pioneer Marc Maron has built his career on holding nothing back. Yet the famously outspoken comic continues to reveal new sides of himself in this poignant documentary. Filmed in the wak...

Directed by Alex Cox • 1984 • United States
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter

A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez ...

Directed by Martin Scorsese • 1988 • United States
Starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly per...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1988 • United States
Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell

Jonathan Demme brings an effortlessly breezy screwball verve and affectionate eye for ’80s suburban kitsch to this gloriously gaudy comic firecracker, built around a bravura performance b...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1991 • United States
Starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: ser...

Directed by Terry Zwigoff • 2001 • United States
Starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi

Terry Zwigoff’s first fiction film, adapted from a cult-classic comic by Daniel Clowes, is an idiosyncratic portrait of adolescent alienation that is at once bleakly funny and wholly endearin...

Directed by John M. Stahl • 1945 • United States
Starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain

Novelist Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen (Gene Tierney), a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he...

Directed by David Lynch • 1990 • United States
Starring Laura Dern, Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe

David Lynch throws pulp melodrama, THE WIZARD OF OZ, surreal-kinky violence, and Elvis into a cauldron and brews this nightmarish soap opera in which outlaw lovers Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura...

Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1998 • United States
Starring Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen Barkin

It is 1971, and journalist Raoul Duke barrels toward Las Vegas—accompanied by a trunkful of contraband and his slightly unhinged Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo—to cover a motorcycle race. What shoul...

Directed by Martin Ritt • 1958 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles

Sex, pyromania, and epic family drama heat up this southern-gothic scorcher adapted from three works by William Faulkner. In his first screen pairing opposite his soon-to-be wife Joanne Woodward, P...

Directed by Nicholas Ray • 1956 • United States
Starring James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau

Though ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray’s BIGGER THAN LIFE is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father...

Directed by Ulu Grosbard • 1978 • United States
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton

Dustin Hoffman gives one of his most electrifying performances in this riveting story of an ex-con battling for a new life and love in the glare and tension of the big city. After years b...

Directed by Gary Hustwit • 2024 • United States, United Kingdom

A documentary as innovative as its subject, this kaleidoscopic portrait of visionary musician, producer, and self-described “sonic landscaper” Brian Eno is a different experience every time it’s shown. Using custom non-AI software, ...

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg • 1967 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew

“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” Paul Newman delivers one of his most celebrated performances as a man who will not surrender to authority—even at the cost of his life. When Luke ...

Directed by Curtis Hanson • 1990 • United States
Starring Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane

Weak-willed Los Angeles yuppie Michael Boll (James Spader) finds his life transformed when he meets a mysterious stranger named Alex (Rob Lowe), whose charm and confidence gradually rub off on him. As Ale...

Directed by Terry Zwigoff • 2006 • United States
Starring Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich

Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) dreams of becoming a great artist—perhaps the greatest artist of the twenty-first century. Enrolling at Strathmore College, he finds himself surrounded by the quirky...

Directed by Wim Wenders • 1984 • France, West Germany
Starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski

New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (WINGS OF DESIRE) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in PARIS, TEXAS, a profoundly moving character study written by ...

Directed by Terence Young • 1962 • United Kingdom
Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman

In his explosive film debut, James Bond (Sean Connery) embarks on a mission that takes him to Jamaica, where mysterious energy waves are interfering with U.S. missile launches. As he unravels ...

Directed by Lewis Allen • 1947 • United States
Starring John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster

Lurid Technicolor, deep-dish melodrama, and gay subtext abound in this pulpy noir firecracker. In the desert town of Chuckawalla, Nevada, tempers flare, passions spark, and violence erupts when Pa...

Directed by Stephen Herek • 1989 • United States
Starring Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin

It’s a totally bodacious odyssey when slacker SoCal teens Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves)—in danger of failing their high school history report, with potentially disastrous consequences f...

Directed by Monte Hellman • 1966 • United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Harry Dean Stanton

Working from a thoughtful script by Jack Nicholson, Monte Hellman fashioned this moody and tense western about a trio of cowhands who are mistaken for robbers and must outrun and hide f...

Directed by Sergei Loznitsa • 2025 • France, Germany, Romania
Starring Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, Anatoli Beliy

Summoned with a blood-written note smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic Soviet prosecutor (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) pushes past the jail’s leery authorities to int...