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 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 • 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 John Carpenter • 1980 • United States
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins

Long-buried secrets come back to haunt a small town in this triumph of atmosphere and creeping unease from genre great John Carpenter. Drawing inspiration from the moody masterworks of Val L...

Directed by Ben Stiller • 1994 • United States
Starring Winona Ryder, Ben Stiller, Ethan Hawke

Arguably the definitive Gen X cinematic statement, this zeitgeist-defining comedic drama captures the anxiousness and uncertainty of postcollege life in the 1990s with sharp wit and generational insigh...

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 2024 • United States
Starring Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Nastassja Kinski

One of the most intoxicating cinematic achievements of the 1980s is given spectacular new life in this director-approved reimagining, which includes six minutes of never-before-seen fo...

Directed by Allan Moyle • 1995 • United States
Starring Anthony LaPaglia, Liv Tyler, Renée Zellweger

The ultimate in Gen X slacker cinema, this box-office bomb turned certified cult classic unfolds over the course of one pivotal day at Empire Records, an independent Delaware vinyl shop where ne...

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 Werner Herzog • 2009 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer

Two of contemporary cinema’s most electrifying eccentrics, Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage, join forces for a thoroughly unhinged pulp fever dream. Not—despite the title—a remake of or sequel to the si...

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 Joan Tewkesbury • 1979 • United States
Starring Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine

The sole theatrical feature directed by Joan Tewkesbury—whose screenplays for NASHVILLE and THIEVES LIKE US yielded two of Robert Altman’s finest films—is an endlessly intriguing, shaggy-dog ...

Directed by Slava Tsukerman • 1982 • United States
Starring Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas

One of the coolest and most outrageously stylish oddities to emanate from the 1980s indie underground is a postpunk science-fiction fantasia set in New York’s zonked-out bohemian demimonde....

Directed by Paul Schrader • 2013 • United States
Starring Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Gus Van Sant

“American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis and acclaimed director Paul Schrader join forces for this daring and infamously divisive erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex, and surveillance. Manip...

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...