Directed by Joel Coen • 1994 • United States
Starring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman

The Coen brothers’ sparky satire of corporate greed is an irresistibly inventive take on the Preston Sturges/Frank Capra–style screwball comedy constructed with clockwork precision. When the foun...

Directed by Sarah Minter • 1991 • Mexico
Starring Ciro Basilio, Ana Hernandez, Marco Pavon

Alma (Ana Hernández) spends her days in screen printing, selling records at swap meets, and rehearsing plays and making fanzines with her friends. But Mexico City’s vibrant counterculture scene won’t keep...

Directed by Sarah Minter • 1986 • Mexico

Sarah Minter’s howl of punk angst follows teenage Kara as he boards a train without a ticket or destination, leaving behind the slums of Ciudad Neza where he once raised hell with his friends. Cutting back and forth between Kara’s anarchic escapades as a ...

Directed by Mati Diop • 2009 • France, Senegal
Starring Alpha Diop, Cheikh M'Baye, Ouli Seck

A group of young men contemplate making the treacherous voyage by sea from Senegal to Europe in Mati Diop's debut short, a prelude of sorts to her acclaimed feature of the same name.

Directed by Sandhya Suri • 2018 • India, France, United Kingdom
Starring Mia Maelzer, Ravi Choudhuri, Vittha Nagnath Kale

As the harvest approaches in a small Indian town, Lalla, a poor agricultural laborer caught in an unsatisfying marriage, risks everything to find the sense of fulfillment she...

Directed by Xan Cassavetes • 2004 • United States

Catnip for cinephiles, Xan Cassavetes’s richly absorbing documentary traces the euphoric rise and tragic descent of Z Channel, Los Angeles’s first pay-cable service, and its virtuosic film programmer Jerry Harvey. Launched in 1974, Z Channel quic...

Directed by Bette Gordon • 1983 • United States
Starring Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard M. Davidson

The provocative, sexually charged tale of a woman’s journey of self-discovery, Bette Gordon’s independent landmark offers a bold challenge to conventional notions of feminism and pornography. ...

Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1995 • United States
Starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt

Terry Gilliam’s grungy, gonzo riff on Chris Marker’s LA JETÉE (with a host of try-and-spot-’em Hitchcock allusions thrown in) stars Bruce Willis as a prisoner in the year 2035 who’s zapped back in ...

Directed by David Koepp • 2004 • United States
Starring Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello

Following a bitter separation from his wife (Maria Bello), famed mystery writer Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter...

Directed by Erle C. Kenton • 1932 • United States
Starring Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams

A twisted treasure from Hollywood’s pre-Code horror heyday, ISLAND OF LOST SOULS is a cautionary tale of science run amok, adapted from H. G. Wells’s novel “The Island of Dr. Moreau.” In one o...

Directed by Sarah Minter • 2010 • Mexico

Twenty years after filming NOBODY IS INNOCENT, her indelible portrait of the Mierdas Punk youth gang, Sarah Minter returned to Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl to make this documentary profiling the surviving actors from that film. Each of the Mierdas has taken his ...

Directed by Walé Oyéjidé and Jake Saner • 2020 • Italy
Starring Alieu Kebbeh, Favor Joseph

A pair of refugees transcend their difficult histories while settling in a quiet Italian town in this triumphant portrait, featuring stunning, color-drenched cinematography.

Directed by Mauro Bolognini, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, and Luchino Visconti • 1967 • Italy, France
Starring Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Massimo Girotti

Five of Italy’s greatest directors contributed segments—each starring the divine Silvana Mangano—to this offbeat...

Directed by Isabel Sandoval • 2011 • Philippines
Starring Isabel Sandoval, Publio Briones III, Dominic Milano Palomo

Writer, director, and star Isabel Sandoval’s feature debut is an intricately plotted, pulp-noir political thriller set on the margins of the Philippines. Wishing to start a new li...

Directed by Allan Moyle • 1980 • United States
Starring Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson

Problem teens Pamela (Trini Alvarado) and Nicky (Robin Johnson) bust out of a mental institution and go straight through the looking glass into Koch-era New York City, a grimy wonderland wherein the...

Directed by Bonnie Friedman and Deborah Shaffer • 1975 • United States

Two young, frustrated single mothers join forces to make a new kind of family unit for themselves and their children.

Directed by John Carpenter • 1978 • United States
Starring David Birney, Lauren Hutton, Adrienne Barbeau

She’s beautiful, successful, and has just moved into a glamorous high-rise apartment in Los Angeles. But strange events and an ominous, unseen stalker soon turn the charmed life of television...

Directed by Lynne Ramsay • 2012 • United Kingdom
Starring Tom Litten

Stunning monochrome cinematography and impressionistic sound design turn a young man’s aquatic odyssey into a ravishing sensory experience.

Directed by Bill Morrison • 2021 • United States
Starring Gísli Fannar Gylfason, Erlendur Sveinsson, Peter Bagrov

During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four reels of 35 mm film, seemingly of Soviet provenance. Unlike the film find explored...

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow • 1990 • United States
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown

Action auteur Kathryn Bigelow renders this sleek and stylish police thriller with almost painterly abstraction. Day one on the force, and rookie cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) faces suspe...

Directed by Goran Stolevski • 2018 • Republic of Macedonia
Starring Sara Klimoska, Igor Angelov, Antonija Belazelkoska

A teenage tomboy challenges the patriarchal code of her conservative Macedonian town when she dares to take part in a religious ritual traditionally reserved for men in this emp...

Directed by Reema Sengupta • 2018 • India
Starring Kani Kusruti, Vijay Varma

In this socially incisive look at the struggle of women in contemporary India, a young woman flees an abusive marriage only to find herself faced with a new challenge: finding an apartment in a city where renting as a s...

Directed by Derek Jarman • 1979 • United Kingdom
Starring Peter Bull, David Meyer, Neil Cunningham

Derek Jarman transforms William Shakespeare’s final great play—about the magician Prospero (Heathcote Williams), who lives on an enchanted island with his daughter, Miranda (Toyah Willcox), and exa...

Directed by Sarah Jacobson • 1996 • United States
Starring Lisa Gerstein, Chris Enright, Greg Cruikshank, Marny Snyder Spoons

The punk-spirited films of Sarah Jacobson combine B-movie aesthetics, riot grrrl feminism, and the DIY ethos of the 1990s zine scene into unfiltered and subversive looks...