Directed by Edward Zwick • 1989 • United States
Starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes

The heart-stopping story of the first Black regiment to fight for the Union army in the Civil War, GLORY is an epic drama that brings a stirring true chapter of American history to the scree...

Directed by Jim Abrahams • 1990 • United States
Starring Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Laila Robins

In a role practically tailor-made for her brand of angsty outsider cool, Winona Ryder stars as Dinky Bossetti, a fifteen-year-old antisocial goth girl in small-town Ohio whose rebellious attitude ma...

Directed by Peter Weir • 1998 • United States
Starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris

An instant classic that anticipated the rise of reality TV, Peter Weir’s brilliantly meta marvel of a movie—part media satire, part thought-provoking exploration of the very nature of consciousness—feature...

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson • 2017 • United States
Starring Daniel Day Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville

Amid the the glamour of 1950s London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing ro...

Directed by Peyton Reed • 2003 • United States
Starring Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce

A playfully postmodern take on the Doris Day/Rock Hudson sex comedy, this giddily inventive update delights in the midcentury style and clothes while offering a fresh perspective on the genr...

Directed by Gus Van Sant • 1995 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix

The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. I...

Directed by Stephanie Rothman • 1971 • United States
Starring Celeste Yarnall, Michael Blodgett, Sherry E. DeBoer

Toeing the line between exploitation and art cinema, Stephanie Rothman’s follow-up to her hit THE STUDENT NURSES deconstructs vampire mythology with a subversive feminist spirit and ...

Directed by George A. Romero • 1985 • United States
Starring Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato

In the third film in writer-director George A. Romero’s Living Dead saga (after NIGHT and DAWN), a small group of scientists and soldiers have taken refuge in an underground missile silo, w...

Directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr. • 1985 • United States
Starring Geoff Edholm, David Schachter, Billy Lux

The first feature-length drama about AIDS remains an urgent and timeless record of an entire era in gay history. When twenty-five-year-old gay yuppie David (David Schachter) volunteers to b...

Directed by Anita Thacher • 1986 • United States
Starring Catherine Lloyd, Owen Roth, Jeffree Clapp

Like the challenges to our assumptions posed by “Alice in Wonderland,” issues of scale, materiality, and relationships are raised within a child’s “game-like” structure in this film/installation w...

Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld • 2001 • United States
Starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Scott Cohen

The early-2000s romantic comedy gets a bi-curious twist with this girl-meets-girl indie charmer. After dating a string of disappointing men, neurotic New York journalist Jessic...

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1974 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield

The ultimate Watergate-era paranoia thriller, Francis Ford Coppola’s cold-sweat neonoir stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an obsessive audio-surveillance expert who has been hired to track ...

Directed by Tze Chun • 2006 • United States

A string of break-ins breeds distrust in a racially mixed neighborhood outside of Boston.

Directed by John Cromwell • 1939 • United States
Starring Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis

Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis form a memorable love triangle in this emotion-laden romantic melodrama. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Alec Walker (Grant) finds a shot at true happines...

Directed by Marion Gering • 1934 • United States
Starring Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Edward Arnold

Scripted in part by Preston Sturges, this charming romantic farce features a rare and winning comic performance from Sylvia Sidney as the princess of the fictional European kingdom of Taronia, who ...

Directed by Jerry Zucker • 1990 • United States
Starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg

In one of the most unique and memorable cinematic love stories of all time, Sam (Patrick Swayze), a former banker now existing as a ghost, discovers his death wasn’t just a random robbery gone ba...

Directed by Takashi Shimizu • 2003 • Japan
Starring Noriko Sakai, Shingo Katsurayama, Chiharu Niiyama

Takashi Shimizu’s sequel to his international hit delivers more of the indelibly creepy atmosphere and tension-enhancing nonlinear style that made the original a J-horror sensation. Here, the cu...

Directed by Alejandro Saevich • 2017 • Mexico
Starring Jacobo Lieberman, José María Yazpik, Alonso Íñiguez

The outgoing president of Mexico just wants to ride out his final days in office in peace—but first he’ll have to deal with a most unusual crisis in this deadpan geopolitical satire.

Directed by Nguyen Tan Hoang • 2000 • United States

Memories of a childhood on a refugee boat spark erotic desires for shirtless captors.

Directed by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner • 2020 • Germany, Netherlands

Inspired by the existence of taxonomies of monsters at the heart of early modern European science, A DEMONSTRATION explores and reinterprets a way of seeing the natural world that is almost impossible to imagine from tod...

Directed by Andrew Bergman • 1994 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez

A true fairy tale unfolds in New York when a humble police officer leaves a two-million-dollar tip to a hard-luck waitress in this whirlwind romantic comedy inspired by a real-life story. Charlie ...

Directed by Christopher Harris • 2004 • United States

Taking its name from the Jim Crow–era prohibition against Black men looking at white women, this hand-processed, optically printed amalgam is a hypnotic inspection of sexual desire, racial identity, and film history.

Directed by Ufuoma Essi • 2021 • United Kingdom

BODIES IN DISSENT is an exploration of the body as a central site of remembrance and resistance, exploring ideas around “bodily insurgency” and using the body as an archive, a point of return, a position of refusal, and a broker between transgenera...

Directed by Otto Preminger • 1953 • United States
Starring Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman

Closing out the landmark cycle of noirs he began with LAURA, Otto Preminger directs this tale of a passion gone haywire. Frank Jessup (Robert Mitchum) is a regular guy with a steady girl and a d...