Directed by Roland Joffé • 1984 • United Kingdom
Starring Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, many thought the killing would end. Instead it started a long nightmare in which millions of Cambodians would die in the “killing fields.” This...

Directed by Jonathan Demme • 1986 • United States
Starring Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels, Ray Liotta

A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous—just the beginni...

Directed by Michael Mann • 2001 • United States
Starring Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali (Will Smith) goes from motormouthed upstart to heavyweight champion to 1960s political lightning rod in Michael Mann’s epic, thrillingly kinetic biopic, which masterfully subver...

Directed by Vincente Minnelli • 1952 • United States
Starring Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon

Appearances are everything in Hollywood. Kirk Douglas gives a magnetic, Oscar-nominated performance as conniving producer Jonathan Shields, who turns talent, charisma and ruthlessness into fil...

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1988 • United States
Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, David Hyde Pierce

Joan Micklin Silver’s wonderfully affectionate spin on the romantic comedy infuses the genre with a fresh, personal perspective, following an unmarried Jewish woman’s search for fulfillme...

Directed by Norman Jewison • 1987 • United States
Starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia

A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny ...

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 Cameron Crowe • 2001 • United States
Starring Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz

Cameron Crowe’s heady remake of Alejandro Amenábar’s Spanish science-fiction hit OPEN YOUR EYES reunites him with JERRY MAGUIRE star Tom Cruise as a man on a mind-bending search for his soul. Young,...

Directed by Wesley Ruggles • 1937 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Lee Bowman, Melvyn Douglas

It’s comic romance amid the snowy Alps when successful American fashion designer Kay Denham (Claudette Colbert) jets off from Paris to a Swiss vacation resort where she finds herself juggling...

Directed by Preston Sturges • 1942 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor

This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, fin...

Directed by Woody Allen • 1977 • United States
Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Carol Kane

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton make for one of the great screen couples of the 1970s in this brilliantly bittersweet Oscar winner. Walking a fine line between humor and pathos, Allen plays a neurotic Manh...

Directed by Garry Marshall • 1991 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo

SCARFACE costars Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer reunited for this tender and witty tale of unlikely romance adapted by theater legend Terrence McNally from his own play. Frankie (Pfeiffer) i...

Directed by Frank Capra • 1934 • United States
Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly

Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark...

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier • 1984 • France
Starring Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma

Bertrand Tavernier paints a bittersweet family portrait with a delicacy worthy of Ozu. On a Sunday in 1912, Monsieur Ladmiral (Louis Ducreux), a painter in the twilight of his life, gets together w...

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier • 1999 • France
Starring Maria Pitarresi, Philippe Torreton, Nadia Kaci

Director Bertrand Tavernier brings a vivid social realism and rich humanism to this stirring study of one man fighting against the odds to make a difference. Daniel Lefebvre (Philippe Torreton)...

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier • 1976 • France
Starring Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert

In nineteenth-century France, a crazed former soldier (Michel Galabru) embarks on a killing spree across the country. His crimes spark a frantic manhunt, and he soon becomes the prey of an a...

Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1980 • France

For a French television series about grandmothers, Chantal Akerman interviews elderly women who survived the Shoah, including her own mother, whose experience in the Holocaust reverberated throughout the artist’s life and work.

Directed by Margreth Olin • 2023 • Norway

Executive produced by Liv Ullmann and Wim Wenders, Songs of Earth is a majestic, awe-inspiring symphony for the big screen. Director Margreth Olin’s eighty-four-year-old father is our guide, bringing us through Norway’s most scenic valley, where he grew ...

Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson • 2017 • United States

The films of Kevin Jerome Everson are rigorously crafted, thoughtfully illuminating records of Black American working-class life that bring into focus the often invisible routines of work and labor. In Tonsler Park, Everson trains his black...

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1938 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton

The great Ernst Lubitsch lends his famously sophisticated touch to this whimsical farce about a spoiled American millionaire who uses his wealth to lure an attractive French aristocra...

Directed by Leilah Weinraub • 2018 • United States

Charting the eight-year run of Shakedown, a peripatetic black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles, director Leilah Weinraub attempts “to portray the before and after of a utopic moment.” Weinraub presents a world unto itself, shaped by the desires...

Directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes • 1933 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners

Claudette Colbert delivers a tour-de-force performance as a struggling single mother turned notorious nightclub sensation in this wildly plotted pre-Code melodrama. Unabl...

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier • 1974 • France
Starring Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis

In Bertrand Tavernier’s masterful feature debut, clockmaker Michel Descombes (Philippe Noiret, in the first of many collaborations with the director) finds his well-ordered life blown apart by ...

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille • 1934 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon

Master of the epic screen spectacle Cecil B. DeMille outdid himself with this lavish account of the Egyptian queen (a vampish Claudette Colbert) whose powers of seduction first charm Ju...