Directed by Neil Jordan • 1984 • United Kingdom
Starring Angela Lansbury, Sarah Patterson, David Warner

Adapted from a story by Angela Carter (who cowrote the script), Neil Jordan’s bewitching feminist fairy tale brings “Little Red Riding Hood” and werewolf fables together to haunting effect. A ...

Directed by Alison Nguyen • 2021 • United States

This video work by visual artist Alison Nguyen centers on a computer-generated woman raised by the Internet in isolation in a virtual void. From the apartment where she has been placed, Andra8 works as a digital laborer, surviving off the data fro...

Directed by Takashi Miike • 2001 • Japan
Starring Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto

Visceral, bloody, and often hilarious, Takashi Miike’s gonzo gore opera (an adaptation of the manga by Hideo Yamamoto) is one of the most influential and notorious genre films of the twenty-first centur...

Directed by Eagle Pennell • 1977 • United States
Starring Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman

The first of Eagle Pennell’s wryly observed studies of working-class male friendships and anxieties, A HELL OF A NOTE is a bittersweet slice-of-life short in which a trio of recently fired construction worke...

Directed by Larilyn Sanchez and Riza Manalo • 2004 • United States, Philippines

A migrant worker sends her dead mother back home in unexpected fashion.

Directed by Todd Haynes • 2015 • United States
Starring Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler

Todd Haynes’s sumptuous, aching adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Price of Salt” deploys the mechanics of classical melodrama in service of a moving and subversive queer love story for ...

Directed by Jennifer Kent • 2014 • Australia
Starring Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall

An instant cult classic of psychological horror, the feature debut from Jennifer Kent packages a disquieting exploration of trauma, grief, and healing in the form of a spellbinding fairy-tale nightma...

Directed by Billy Wilder • 1942 • United States
Starring Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson

The great Billy Wilder made the leap from hitmaking Hollywood screenwriter to acclaimed writer-director with this fizzy, innuendo-laden (“Why don’t you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martin...

Directed by Kimi Takesue • 2004 • United States
Starring Joyce Perrone, Keiichi Kondoh, Sarah Zhang

Eight-year-old Juliette sits at the side of the local pool waiting for another lonely summer day to pass when a Japanese couple unexpectedly arrives. Fascinated by the mysterious black-clad woman ...

Directed by Anna Biller • 2016 • United States
Starring Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell

Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However, her sp...

Directed by Mitchell Leisen • 1939 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore

Arriving at Paris’s Gare de l’Est train station with only her gold lamé gown on her back, penniless American ex-showgirl Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) must use her wiles in order to work h...

Directed by Jack Gage • 1948 • United States
Starring Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn

How far will an actress go for a good part? Rosalind Russell delivers a tour-de-force performance in this sumptuously mounted, noir-tinged psychological mystery as Valerie Stanton, a Broadway star weary o...

Directed by Mitchell Leisen • 1944 • United States
Starring Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone, Arturo de Córdova

“Rebecca” author Daphne du Maurier’s swashbuckling novel gets a deluxe film adaptation, complete with lavish seventeenth-century period detail, gorgeous Technicolor cinematography, and a ...

Directed by Janah Elise Cox • 2021 • United States

Two tons of snow—flown from New Hampshire to Puerto Rico in 1952 in order to “gift” Puerto Ricans a “white Christmas”—become a metaphor for the colonialist paternalism of America’s relationship to Puerto Rico.

Directed by Wim Wenders • 1997 • United States
Starring Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne

A haunting meditation on the causes and effects of violence in life and art, Wim Wenders’s sprawling meta-commentary on the media and voyeurism unfolds in a paranoid vision of Los Angeles where a...

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1930 • United States
Starring Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Claude Allister

Jeanette MacDonald's independent-minded countess leaves her foppish prince fiancé at the altar, and whisks herself away to the Riviera. There, she strikes the fancy of the sly Count Rudo...

Directed by Hung Nguyen • 2006 • United States

A Vietnamese American family reckons with their ailing father’s decision to leave home and enter a monastery in this intimate, emotionally charged look at the lingering traumas of forced migration.

Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler • 2019 • United States
Starring Isobel Arnberg, Eric Brown

A lonely security guard—tasked with overseeing a building that houses the infrastructure of the internet—finds herself drawn into a digital dating vortex in this sinister, surrealist tale of love in the ...

Directed by Phillip Noyce • 1993 • United States
Starring Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger

Adapted by erotic-thriller specialist Joe Eszterhas (BASIC INSTINCT, SHOWGIRLS) from a novel by Ira Levin (ROSEMARY’S BABY, THE STEPFORD WIVES), this sleek, steamy tale of sex, death, and voyeur...

Directed by Michael Mann • 2004 • United States
Starring Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith

Michael Mann’s ever-stylish eye turns Los Angeles into a sleek neonoir night world in this precision-crafted thriller. Tom Cruise is icy-cool charismatic as Vincent, a silver-haired professional c...

Directed by Richard Thorpe • 1937 • United States
Starring Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty

The original screen version of playwright Emelyn Williams’s oft-adapted stage mystery gave Robert Montgomery—tired of his casting as rich playboys in light comedies—a chance to prove h...

Directed by Takashi Shimizu • 2002 • Japan
Starring Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Takashi Matsuyama

A cursed house—where years earlier a woman, her son, and cat were murdered—has some seriously spooky surprises in store for all who pass through its door. When social worker Rika (Megumi Okina) is sen...

Directed by Jane Campion • 1996 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey

Jane Campion’s dreamily impressionistic adaptation of Henry James’s classic novel follows the fortunes of the free-spirited Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman), a bright-eyed America...

Directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr. • 1977 • United States

In June of 1977, director Arthur J. Bressan Jr. mobilized camera crews across the country to document the national Gay Freedom Day marches in six different cities. The result was the first American feature-length documentary by and about L...