Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2007 • United States
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

A deadly game of chance and destiny plays out against the stark backdrop of early-1980s West Texas in Joel and Ethan Coen’s powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. When he hap...

Directed by Tom Tykwer • 1998 • Germany
Starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup

Two star-crossed lovers have only minutes to change the course of their lives in this electrifying art-house smash hit. Time is running out for Lola (Franka Potente). She’s just received a frantic ph...

Directed by Fritz Lang • 1953 • United States
Starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin

Fritz Lang’s hard-boiled cop vs. criminals yarn stars Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion, a police detective and family man driven by grief to conduct a relentless vendetta against a mobster (Alexander Scourby)...

Directed by Michael Powell • 1960 • United Kingdom
Starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey

Having brought British cinema into exalted realms of fantasy and imagination, Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic invest...

Directed by Charles Vidor • 1946 • United States
Starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready

“Gilda, are you decent?” Rita Hayworth tosses her hair back and slyly responds, “Me?” in one of the great star entrances in movie history. GILDA, directed by Charles Vidor, features a sultry Hayw...

Directed by Tony Scott • 2006 • United States
Starring Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, federal agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secre...

Directed by Otto Preminger • 1944 • United States
Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb

One of the most sophisticated noirs of the 1940s, Otto Preminger’s classic mystery stars Gene Tierney as Laura Hunt, a Manhattan advertising executive who is murdered just before she is set to mar...

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 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 Nicholas Ray • 1951 • United States
Starring Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond

When hardened big-city police detective Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) roughs up one too many suspects, he’s sent to the countryside to cool his heels and help search for the murderer of a small-town schoolg...

Directed by Hugo Haas • 1952 • United States
Starring Hugo Haas, Cleo Moore, Mona Barrie

One of a string of intriguing low-budget noirs directed in Hollywood by Czech actor turned gutter auteur Hugo Haas, STRANGE FASCINATION stars the filmmaker himself as a renowned concert pianist whose relatio...

Directed by Alexander Payne • 1999 • United States
Starring Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, Chris Klein

Perky, overachieving high schooler Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) gets on the nerves of social-studies teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) to begin with, but after she launches h...

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1983 • United States

This video documents “Cake Walk,” an installation and performance piece by artist Houston Conwill, staged in November 1983 at Linda Goode Bryant’s pioneering New York gallery Just Above Midtown. The piece refers to the cakewalk dance that develo...

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1989 • United States

The first part of Ulysses Jenkins’s VIDEO GRIOTS TRILOGY—a series of video meditations on history and culture in the which the filmmaker uses archival footage, photographs, image processing, and an elegiac soundtrack to construct an “other” hist...

Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson • 2014 • United States

Employees of the Cleveland Water Department hunt for leaks in the infrastructure of Cuyahoga County.

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 2007 • United States

In NOTIONS OF FREEDOM, Ulysses Jenkins charts the history of jazz—what he calls “the first true American art form”—from its beginnings in New Orleans and the American South to the classic work of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and through th...

Directed by Robert Florey • 1941 • United States
Starring Peter Lorre, Evelyn Keyes, Don Beddoe

Directed with striking expressionist flair by French émigré filmmaker Robert Florey, this poisonous tale of the American dream turned sour stars Peter Lorre as Janos, a Hungarian immigrant who arrives...

Directed by Charles Vidor • 1941 • United States
Starring Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes

Ida Lupino is at her hard-edged best in this mood-drenched tale of murder and madness in a remote mansion on the English moors. She plays Ellen Creed, the full-time housekeeper and companion to Leon...

Directed by Mati Diop • 2011 • France
Starring Nilaya Bal, Nour Mobarak, Alban Guyon

In an isolated chalet in the snowy reaches of the French Alps, the relationship between a teenage girl and her babysitter assumes increasingly complex, intimate dimensions.

Directed by John Boulting • 1948 • United Kingdom
Starring Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell

One of darkest and most sordid of all British noirs, this startlingly bleak, violent adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene delves into the seedy underbelly of the seaside reso...

Directed by Chick Strand • 1979 • United States

Made in collaboration with its subjects, Chick Strand’s masterpiece SOFT FICTION gives five women the space to, in Strand’s words, perform “an exorcism of [an] experience.” Strand captures the slippery, vivid memories of erotic fantasy, confusing s...

Directed by Fritz Lang • 1954 • United States
Starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford

In this adaptation of Emile Zola’s “La bête humaine,” veteran Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) returns from Korea to his job as a railroad engineer and quickly succumbs to the advances of his boss's wif...

Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson • 2009 • United States

City employees and former residents recount the history of one of the first predominantly Black neighborhoods in Mansfield, Ohio, historically referred to as Company Line. Established during the postwar migration of Blacks from the South to...

Directed by John Gilling • 1957 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard

International location shooting in handsome black-and-white CinemaScope sets this globe-trotting noir thriller, alternately titled INTERPOL, apart from the pack. Following the deat...