Directed by Qiu Yang • 2019 • China, France
Starring Xue Jiayi, Shuxian Li, Frank Sun

With a heartbreaking mix of intimacy and restraint, director Qiu Yang depicts the enormous pressure a young student faces as she desperately attempts to quit her school dance team.

Directed by Juliet Bashore • 1986 • United States
Starring Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin

Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the naive Tigr and the magne...

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 Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2009 • United States
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed

The Coen brothers’ acerbic, anxiety-inducing portrait of a man in crisis features a sensational performance from Michael Stuhlbarg as a 1960s Jewish physics professor at a Minnesota...

Directed by Jerry Carlsson • 2017 • Sweden
Starring Ayla Turin, Cecilia Milocco, Peter Melin

Marall, a young girl, accompanies her parents to a dinner party where the strange social rituals of the adult world take an unsettling turn.

Directed by Joan Chen • 2000 • United States
Starring Winona Ryder, Richard Gere, Anthony LaPaglia

The second film directed by actor-filmmaker Joan Chen brings together the beauty and star power of Richard Gere and Winona Ryder for a timeless, unabashedly heart-tugging romantic melodrama. He sta...

Directed by Matthew Galkin and Steven Cantor • 2006 • United States

An intimate, authentically raw portrait of indie legends the Pixies captures their trying, tense, and ultimately triumphant return as one of rock music’s greatest bands. A decade after their turbulent breakup in 1993, the band’s...

Directed by Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie • 2015 • France, Canada
Starring Jules Langlade

A boy channels his inner Michael Jackson in this experimental dance film set to a pulsing electro-pop beat.

Directed by Camille Billops and James Hatch • 1982 • United States

One of the many films that Camille Billops and James Hatch made centering on Billops’s family, SUZANNE, SUZANNE presents a devastating portrait of the artist’s niece, haunted by the abuse she suffered as a child and the passivity...

Directed by Larry Cohen • 1976 • United States
Starring Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis

A rooftop sniper guns down fourteen pedestrians on the streets of New York City. A mild-mannered dad takes a shotgun and blows away his wife and children. A cop goes on a sudden shooting spree at...

Directed by Isabel Sandoval • 2012 • Philippines
Starring Jodi Sta. Maria, Mylene Dizon, Raquel Villavicencio

Political and patriarchal forces intrude upon the cloistered world of a Filipino convent in Isabel Sandoval’s simmering psychological drama. As President Ferdinand Marcos tightens his gr...

Directed by Steven-Charles Jaffe • 2013 • United States

Step inside the brilliantly warped imagination of legendary cartoonist Gahan Wilson, whose morbidly witty, subversive illustrations enlivened the pages of magazines like the ”New Yorker,” “Playboy,” and “National Lampoon” for nearly fifty ...

Directed by James Whale • 1935 • United States
Starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive

In James Whale’s celebrated sequel to his 1931 horror classic, Mary Shelley’s monster forces his creator, Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive), to make him a mate. Horror icon Boris Karloff reprises his...

Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2013 • United States
Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake

The visionary chroniclers of eccentric Americana Joel and Ethan Coen present one of their greatest creations in Llewyn Davis, a singer barely eking out a living on the peripheries ...

Directed by Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio • 1978 • United States

Christine Choy and Cynthia Maurizio offer a rare look at the degradation faced by women in prison, interviewing women who suffer daily within a system that disregards their humanity and neglects their basic needs.

Directed by Richard Sandler • 1999 • United States

Over the course of six years, street photographer and filmmaker Richard Sandler documents the Giuliani-era transformation of Manhattan’s Times Square, as mom-and-pop stores and the colorful characters who made the intersection a “speakers’ corne...

Directed by Geri Ashur, Peter Barton, Marilyn Mulford, and Stephanie Palewski • 1971 • United States

The Newsreel collective’s JANIE’S JANIE breaks with the group’s usual format for a more personal approach, following a woman’s journey to self-determination; or, as Janie says, “First I was my fa...

Directed by Lucio Fulci • 1982 • Italy
Starring Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross

A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning the Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detective Fred Williams (Jack Hedley) follows the trail of butchery from the dec...

Directed by Asif Kapadia • 2012 • United Kingdom

Interweaving aerial views of London with the testimonies of a cross section of its inhabitants, Asif Kapadia traces the social, political, and economic upheavals that marked the city's journey toward hosting the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

Directed by Isabel Sandoval • 2019 • Philippines, United States
Starring Isabel Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon Farren

This poignant human drama from acclaimed writer-director-star Isabel Sandoval follows Olivia (Sandoval), an undocumented Filipina trans woman, after she has secured a job as a live-...

Directed by Lee Philips • 1977 • United States
Starring Lee Grant, Helen Hunt, Lelia Goldoni

Aired on NBC just months after the success of CARRIE, this similarly themed tale of teenage telekinesis and witchcraft features a gripping performance from Lee Grant as a mother struggling to deal with t...