Directed by Lionel Jeffries • 1977 • United Kingdom
Starring David Tomlinson, Frances de la Tour, Bonnie Langford
Welcome to the wild, weird, and wondrous world of the Wombles! Based on the enormously popular children’s television series “The Wombles,” which took England by storm in the seventie...
Directed by Vincent Bal • 2001 • Netherlands
Starring Carice van Houten, Theo Maassen, Sarah Bannier
This charmingly original Dutch family favorite is catnip for all friends of felines. Through a strange accident, a cat named Minoes is transformed into a young woman (Carice van Houten) and befri...
Directed by Byron Haskin • 1964 • United States
Starring Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West
Special-effects wunderkind and genre master Byron Haskin (THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE OUTER LIMITS) won a place in the hearts of fantasy-film lovers everywhere with this gorgeously designed journey into...
Directed by Jack Arnold • 1954 • United States
Starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
In this pulp-horror classic (originally shot in 3D), American scientists on an Amazon expedition get more than they bargained for when a dark tributary turns up a prehistoric man with gills. Hal...
Directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki • 2019 • Japan, United States
Baseball is life for the die-hard competitors in the hundredth annual Koshien, Japan’s wildly popular national high-school baseball championship, whose alumni include MLB stars Shohei Ohtani and Hideki Matsui. But for coach Mizutani and...
Directed by Kim Mordaunt • 2013 • Australia, Lao
Starring Sitthiphon Disamoe, Suthep Po-ngam, Loungnam Kaosainam
This tender, beautifully observed family tale is steeped in the landscapes, traditions, and folklore of rural Laos. It’s there that mischievous ten-year-old Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe) ...
The charming hand-drawn animation of Michael Sporn is on delightful display in two sensitive and imaginative shorts centered around unforgettable animals. Based on the beloved children’s classic by William Steig (author of SHREK!), ABEL’S ISLAND tells the tender story of an elegant and romantic m...
Directed by Richard Thorpe • 1952 • United States
Starring Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason
Hollywood’s third adaptation of the classic adventure novel by Anthony Hope (following a 1922 silent version and the 1937 Ronald Colman vehicle) ups the ante with spectacular Technicolor, sumptu...
Directed by Sara Newens and Mina T. Son • 2014 • United States
Inside a cramped gym, the clacking sounds of hollow plastic balls whirling at eighty miles per hour are punctuated by exclamations of victory and bitter cries of defeat. Welcome to the hidden world of competitive ping pong. Three fie...
Directed by William A. Seiter • 1933 • United States
Starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase
Legendary comedy team Laurel and Hardy’s finest feature finds the pair going to elaborate lengths to deceive their disapproving wives in order to attend the annual convention of their Shriners-...
Directed by Don Bluth • 1982 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Peter Strauss
The first feature directed by former Disney animator Don Bluth—who left the legendary studio to pursue his own projects when he began to feel that Disney was no longer upholding its previous high ...
Directed by John Huston • 1982 • United States
Starring Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett
It’s a hard knock life! One of the most beloved movie musicals of all time—adapted from the smash Broadway hit based on the popular “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip—is a ray of cinematic sunshine....
Directed by Adrià García and Víctor Maldonado • 2007 • Spain, France
Starring Lloyd F. Booth Shankley, Robert Paterson, Roger Carel
This visually stunning, wildly inventive fantasy explores the mystery of the night in a sweeping nocturnal adventure full of ALICE IN WONDERLAND–esque characters an...
Directed by Jean-François Laguionie • 2011 • France
Starring Kamali Minter, Michael Sinterniklaas, Eden Riegel
In this visually sumptuous, wryly inventive animated parable, a kingdom within a painting is divided into three castes: the impeccably colored Alldunns, the incomplete Halfies, and the ...
Directed by Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, and Benjamin Renner • 2012 • France
Starring Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall
Deep below snowy cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears w...
Directed by Michel Ocelot • 2011 • France
Starring Julien Béramis, Marine Griset, Yves Barsacq
Every night, a girl, a boy, and an elderly technician meet in a little cinema, sharing tales that capture their fancy. Together, they act out magnificent fables from around the world, including stories...
Directed by Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol • 2010 • France
Starring Marcia Gay Harden, Anjelica Huston, Steve Blum
Dino is a cat who leads a double life. By day he lives with Zoé, a little girl whose mother is a detective in the Parisian police force. But at night, Dino works with Nico—a s...
Directed by David Lean • 1948 • United Kingdom
Starring Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh
Following the success of GREAT EXPECTATIONS, David Lean applied his sterling craftsmanship to another beloved Charles Dickens classic and once again set the standard for all future screen adaptations....
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1935 • Japan
The final still-extant silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu is an exquisitely tender portrait of everyday survival in 1930s Japan. Anticipating the neorealist poetry of BICYCLE THIEVES, AN INN IN TOKYO follows unemployed ne’er-do-well Kihachi (Takeshi Saka...
Directed by Satyajit Ray • 1956 • India
Starring Pinaki Sengupta, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee
Satyajit Ray had not planned to make a sequel to PATHER PANCHALI, but after the film’s international success, he decided to continue Apu’s narrative. APARAJITO picks up where the first film leaves of...
Directed by Chester Erskine • 1952 • United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable, about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act, was written as a meditation on mode...
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1961 • Soviet Union
When Sasha, a seven-year-old violin protégé, meets Sergei, a steamroller working in his neighborhood, he starts to open up from his strictly imposed routine of practice. Made as a thesis film for the VGIK Soviet film school, this early work by A...
Directed by René Clair • 1935 • United Kingdom
Starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette
An old-world ghost gets a taste of new-world values in this sly supernatural satire. When an ancient Scottish castle is taken down and moved to Florida to be rebuilt brick by brick, the new America...
Directed by Karel Zeman • 1955 • Czechoslovakia
Starring Petr Herrmann, Vladimír Bejval, Josef Lukáš
A beguiling mix of natural history and science fiction, this early feature by Karel Zeman follows four schoolboys on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes an...
