Directed by Samuel Fuller • 1959 • United States
Starring Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta

Pulp maestro Samuel Fuller lends his slam-bang stylistic punch to this complex, fascinating noir that doubles as a trenchant social document of 1950s America. When a stripper is murdered in LA’s...

Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson • 2016 • United States

During an ears, nose, and throat examination, Shadeena Brooks recounts a horrible event that she witnessed.

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 2006 • United States

Ulysses Jenkins looks at the Katrina catastrophe in New Orleans through the lens of the Planet X doomsday myth and a proclamation of coming disaster to African Americans issued by avant-garde jazz prophet Sun Ra.

Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1946 • United States
Starring Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King

Bathed in a downbeat noir mood and smoky jazz-lounge atmosphere, this haunting melodrama stars Ida Lupino as husky-voiced singer Petey Brown, who takes a job performing in a divey nightclub. She’s carryi...

Directed by Lech Kowalski • 1980 • United States

A groundbreaking documentary about the origins of punk rock, D.O.A.: A RIGHT OF PASSAGE is centered around the Sex Pistols’s 1978 tour of the United States, which ended with the group breaking up. Following the band with handheld cameras through t...

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1978 • United States

Performance artist and video visionary Ulysses Jenkins lays bare the psychic trauma wrought by the media’s stereotyped portrayal of Black Americans.

Directed by Billy Wilder • 1944 • United States
Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Wo...

Directed by John Farrow • 1948 • United States
Starring Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan

One of the finest suspense thrillers of the 1940s, THE BIG CLOCK stars Ray Milland as a hapless crime-magazine editor plunged into a web of danger when he begins being systematically framed ...

Directed by Lewis Allen • 1947 • United States
Starring John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster

Lurid Technicolor, deep-dish melodrama, and gay subtext abound in this pulpy noir firecracker. In the desert town of Chuckawalla, Nevada, tempers flare, passions spark, and violence erupts when Pa...

Directed by Spike Lee • 2000 • United States
Starring Steve Harvey, Bernie Mac, Cedric the Entertainer

Spike Lee’s dynamic document of a legendary stand-up comedy tour captures Steve Harvey, D. L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac performing back-to-back sets before a packed audien...

Directed by William A. Wellman • 1939 • United States
Starring Ida Lupino, Ronald Colman, Walter Huston

Based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling, this handsomely mounted, movingly melancholy adaptation features a sterling performance from Ronald Colman as soldier-turned-artist Dick Heldar, who stru...

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1990 • United States

The second installment 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 “oth...

Directed by Henri Georges-Clouzot • 1968 • France
Starring Laurent Terzieff, Bernard Fresson, Elisabeth Wiener

The final film by director Henri-Georges Clouzot was also his only complete feature in color, and he makes wildly psychedelic use of the medium to tell this kinky, kaleidoscopically st...

Directed by Earl McEvoy • 1950 • United States
Starring Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, Dorothy Malone

Based on a true story, this race-against-the-clock thriller follows the frantic efforts to stop a potentially deadly epidemic before it turns catastrophic. Jewel smuggler Sheila Bennet (Evelyn Ke...

Directed by Marquise Mays • 2021 • United States
Starring Stephanie Woodson, Breanna Taylor, Bria Smith

Highlighting both the joys and trials of growing up Black in the Midwest, three young Milwaukee residents confront and reconcile the unrequited love between them and their city. Through outspo...

Directed by Corrado Farina • 1973 • Italy Starring Carroll Baker, George Eastman, Isabelle De Funès

Based on the notorious S&M comics of Guido Crepax, this psychedelic Euroshocker stars Carroll Bak...

Directed by Josell Ramos • 2003 • United States
Starring Larry Levan, David Mancuso, Frankie Knuckles

The origins of New York City’s legendary underground dance-club culture are explored in this kinetic cult documentary—a vivid chronicle of a scene that became an oasis for the city’s queer and B...

Directed by Vincent Sherman • 1943 • United States
Starring Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie

When Bette Davis turned down the lead role in this juicy, dark-hearted backstage melodrama (a decision she later regretted), it paved the way for Ida Lupino to take on one of her finest dramatic sh...

Directed by Ulysses Jenkins • 1991 • United States

The third work 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 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 Ulysses Jenkins • 1983 • United States

Featuring the artist-filmmaker’s regular collaborators Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi, this 1983 performance by Ulysses Jenkins issues a forceful condemnation of American indifference to the crises faced by the developing world.

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 Rungano Nyoni and Hamy Ramezan • 2014 • Denmark
Starring Yusuf Kamal El-Ali, Zeinab Rahal, Amira Helene Larsen

An Arab woman fleeing her abusive husband seeks refuge in a Danish police station—but her plight is soon lost in translation.

Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1941 • United States
Starring Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis

Marking the moment when the gritty gangster sagas of the 1930s began giving way to the romantic fatalism of ’40s film noir, HIGH SIERRA also contains the star-making performance of Humphrey Bogart, w...