Directed by Cameron Crowe • 1989 • United States
Starring John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney

Cameron Crowe made his auspicious directorial debut with this beloved teenage romantic comedy, which breathed new life into the high-school movie with its refreshingly authentic characters and irresist...

Directed by RaMell Ross • 2018 • United States
Starring Quincy Bryant, Daniel Collins

An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people, RaMell Ross’s HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING looks at the lives of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rura...

Directed by Brady Corbet • 2015 • United States, United Kingdom, Hungary
Starring Robert Pattinson, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham

A child’s angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses- shattering feature debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Brady Corbet (THE BRUTALIST). A po...

Directed by Cameron Crowe • 1992 • United States
Starring Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick

Six young Seattle urbanites just starting their lives—with bills to pay, budding careers, heightened social awareness, and restless hearts—share their dreams, their music, and the common courty...

Directed by Jeff Tremaine • 2002 • United States
Starring Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera

The MTV sensation made the leap to the big screen with this feature-length shock-fest in which Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of maniacs perform the daredevil stunts and gross-out pranks no one ...

Directed by John Waters • 1977 • United States
Starring Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe

Described by John Waters as “a lesbian melodrama about revolution,” the third installment in the director’s Trash Trilogy, following FEMALE TROUBLE and PINK FLAMINGOS, is a demented fairy tale wherein a scr...

Directed by Richard Kelly • 2001 • United States
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, James Duval

Described by director Richard Kelly as “‘The Catcher in the Rye’ as told by Philip K. Dick,” this cult classic is a mind-altering experience whose metaphysical enigmas are still being unraveled. T...

Directed by Dennis Hopper • 1980 • United States
Starring Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell

Dennis Hopper’s hurricane-force domestic tragedy is the ’80s answer to EASY RIDER, following troubled youth subculture to its frightening, screaming, self-annihilating extreme. Just out of prison ...

Directed by John Turturro • 2005 • United States
Starring John Turturro, James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet

Produced by the Coen brothers, John Turturro’s third directorial effort is an audacious, truly one-of-a-kind musical bursting with heart and imagination. In working-class Queens, one family’s ...

Directed by John Turturro • 1992 • United States
Starring John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Katherine Borowitz

Winner of the Caméra d’Or at Cannes for best first-time director, John Turturro’s deeply personal, emotionally intense directorial debut draws from his own family experiences as it tell...

Directed by Richard Shepard • 1991 • United States
Starring David Bowie, Rosanna Arquette, Marlee Matlin

A brilliantly bizarro, lost-and-found gem of early-1990s independent cinema, this surreal screwball caper casts none other than David Bowie and Rosanna Arquette as Monte and Lucy, a pair of s...

Directed by Michael Lehmann • 1988 • United States
Starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Kim Walker

The ’80s teen comedy gets a deliciously warped and wicked twist in this acidic, ultraquotable cult classic. In one of her definitive roles, Winona Ryder stars as Veronica Sawyer, who becomes pa...

Directed by Alex Ross Perry • 2015 • United States
Starring Elisabeth Moss, Katherine Waterston, Kentucker Audley

Elisabeth Moss delivers a fearless performance in this tour-de-force portrait of psychological breakdown directed by her frequent collaborator Alex Ross Perry. She stars as Catherine...

Directed by Ethan Hawke • 2018 • United States
Starring Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh Hamilton

He was the greatest country singer you’ve (probably) never heard of: a genius, a loser, a philosopher, a drunk, a poet, a rebel, and a ramblin’ man who lived each day of his too-short life on his own ...

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 Tom DiCillo • 2006 • United States
Starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Alison Lohman

Having brilliantly lampooned the world of low-budget filmmaking in LIVING IN OBLIVION, director Tom DiCillo and Steve Buscemi reteamed for another wicked satire of the entertainment industry, prese...

Directed by Steven Soderbergh • 2011 • United States
Starring Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor

Steven Soderbergh brings his clockwork-precise craftsmanship to this meticulously constructed thriller featuring some of the most dazzling fight choreography this side of Hong Kong genre...

Directed by Gregg Araki • 1997 • United States
Starring James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton

You can practically smell the pheromones wafting off this kaleidoscopic odyssey, which finds director Gregg Araki crossing soap-operatic elements with blasts of science fiction, indie-kid cool, and sh...

Directed by Karyn Kusama • 2000 • United States
Starring Michelle Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Calderon

Bullied by her father at home and feeling adrift at school, Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez) finds refuge in an unexpected pocket of her native Brooklyn—a timeworn boxing gym, where she lea...

Directed by Bob Odenkirk • 2003 • United States
Starring Michael Blieden, Stephanie Courtney, Matt Price

Perhaps the finest conversation movie this side of MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ, Bob Odenkirk’s directorial debut invites you along for a stimulating evening of hilarious, engrossing, and disarmingly...

Directed by Michael Roemer • 1984 • United States
Starring Brooke Adams, Jon DeVries, Ari Meyers

Like director Michael Roemer’s prior features—the powerful civil-rights-era landmark NOTHING BUT A MAN and the offbeat mob comedy THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY—this continuously surprising, cuttingly incisi...

Directed by Timothy Carey • 1962 • United States
Starring Timothy Carey, Gil Barreto, Betty Rowland

Timothy Carey—the unforgettable character actor whose weird, wiggy energy brought a manic edge to classics like THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY—wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this outrag...

Directed by Lizzie Borden • 1976 • United States
Starring Kathryn Bigelow, Ariel Bock, Marion Cajori

While Lizzie Borden’s features BORN IN FAMES and WORKING GIRLS have taken their place as landmarks of feminist cinema, her debut—the fascinating experimental documentary REGROUPING—has gone large...

Directed by Noah Baumbach • 2013 • United States
Starring Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner

Greta Gerwig is radiant as Frances, a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her intimate but shifting bond with her best friend, Sop...