Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1990 • United States
Starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso

Renegade director Abel Ferrara—working in collaboration with his regular screenwriter Nicholas St. John—brings his murky moral worldview and eye for pulp imagery to this kinetic, stylish...

Directed by Russ Meyer • 1970 • United States
Starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom

In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing “King of the Nudies” Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title...

Directed by Carla Simón • 2025 • Spain, Germany
Starring Llúcia Garcia, Mitch Martín, Tristán Ulloa

An orphaned young woman’s search through the shards of her family’s past becomes an encounter with the missing pieces of her identity, in this graceful reflection on memory and inheritance. Marina...

Directed by Susan Seidelman • 1985 • United States
Starring Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn

If you know what to look for, you can find almost anything in the personal ads . . . including the love of your life! Rosanna Arquette is irresistible in her first starring role and pop star Madonn...

Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita • 2005 • Japan
Starring Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yuu Kashii

For bandmates Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi, the dream of playing their final high school concert together is dashed when their lead vocalist quits the band. Desperate, they recruit the very first person they see: K...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1992 • United States
Starring Harvey Keitel, Peggy Gormley, Victor Argo

Abel Ferrara’s harrowing vision of sin, Catholic guilt, and the search for salvation in a grimy New York City underworld is one of the most controversial and indelible works of the art of the 1990s...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1993 • United States
Starring Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar

Abel Ferrara brings his subversive vision to the sci-fi/horror genre with this potent adaptation of the novel by Jack Finney (previously filmed twice as INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS). “They get yo...

Directed by Gints Zilbalodis • 2024 • Belgium, France, Latvia

A thrilling tale of friendship and survival that took indie animation to ecstatic new heights of ambition and imagination, this Academy Award–winning international sensation follows a courageous cat after its home is devastated by a g...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1993 • United States, Italy
Starring Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo

One of outsider auteur Abel Ferrara’s most daring, emotionally raw forays into the depths of human torment, DANGEROUS GAME is a fascinatingly fractured, self-reflexive vision of moviemaking as a p...

Directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan • 2001 • United States, Canada
Starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson, Tara Reid

Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid), and Valerie (Rosario Dawson) dream of becoming rock stars with their small band Josie and the Pussycats. Given the cha...

Directed by Oliver Stone • 1991 • United States
Starring Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan

Oliver Stone applies his brand of fevered excess to the brief, incendiary life of Jim Morrison with this hallucinatory look at his turbulent, acid-fueled ascent and spectacular implosion. Embodied with...

Directed by David Lynch • 1986 • United States
Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper

Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funn...

Directed by Lou Adler • 1982 • United States
Starring Diane Lane, Ray Winstone, Peter Donat

In the punk classic that became a touchstone for the riot grrrl movement, seventeen-year-old orphan Corinne Burns (Diane Lane) chucks her job flipping burgers, discovers eyeliner, and becomes a countercul...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1984 • United States
Starring Tom Berenger, Melanie Griffith, Billy Dee Williams

Cult auteur Abel Ferrara offers a bracing plunge into the sordid neon underbelly of 1980s Times Square in this stylishly pulpy neonoir sleazefest. There’s a psychopath loose on the streets...

Directed by Miloš Forman • 1984 • United States
Starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge

Sumptuous, deliciously irreverent, and graced with immortal music, Miloš Forman’s marvelous adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s play returns in a new restoration. One of the great cultural events...

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni • 1970 • United States
Starring Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor

Italian art-cinema titan Michelangelo Antonioni delivered a jolt of jarring modernist abstraction to Hollywood with this startling journey into the 1960s counterculture, one of the most d...

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 Paul Thomas Anderson • 1997 • United States
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds

It’s 1977—back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business, and business was booming—and idealistic porn producer Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. ...

Directed by Sophy Romvari • 2025 • Canada, Hungary
Starring Eylul Guven, Amy Zimmer, Iringó Réti

A singular coming-of-age story, this revelatory feature debut by Sophy Romvari heralds the arrival of a major new cinematic voice. In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven) and her Hungar...

Directed by Abel Ferrara • 1981 • United States
Starring Zoë Lund, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto

Abel Ferrara’s exploitation-scuzz classic takes place in the cesspool of 1980s New York, where mute garment-district worker Thana (Zoë Lund, who also cowrote Ferrara’s BAD LIEUTENANT) is raped once, t...

Directed by Michael Mann • 1981 • United States
Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky

The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with THIEF, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most ri...

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 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...