Directed by John Huston • 1941 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Mary Astor

A cinematic landmark for a number of reasons—it was the first film directed by John Huston, the film that launched Humphrey Bogart to stardom, and one of the first true noirs—this breathlessly entert...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1975 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning

On a sweltering August day, novice criminals Sonny (Al Pacino) and Sal (John Cazale) attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank in order to pay for Sonny’s lover’s gender confirmation surgery—a situation that qu...

Directed by Mike Nichols • 1967 • United States
Starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross

One of the most beloved American films of all time, THE GRADUATE earned Mike Nichols a best director Oscar, brought the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience, and introduced the world ...

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 2001 • United States
Starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Harrison Ford

A work of overwhelming, visionary power, Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory Vietnam War epic stands as one of the twentieth century’s most monumental works of art. Ordered to “terminate ...

Directed by Paul Schrader • 1997 • United States
Starring Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn

Driven by powerhouse performances from Nick Nolte and an Oscar-winning James Coburn, Paul Schrader’s searing adaptation of the novel by Russell Banks is an emotionally intense exploration of family, ...

Directed by Federico Fellini • 1960 • Italy
Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée

The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, LA DOLCE VITA rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success—ironically, by offering a damning critique of the ...

Directed by Tobe Hooper • 1985 • United States
Starring Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Patrick Stewart

A mind-scrambling alien-zombie-vampire sextravaganza unlike any other horror film of the 1980s, this wildly out-there sci-fi spectacle from THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE director Tobe Hooper flop...

Directed by William Castle • 1959 • United States
Starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long

B-movie maestro William Castle and cult star Vincent Price join forces for this unabashedly entertaining old-dark-house thriller, which blends creepy atmospherics with a touch of camp outrageousn...

Directed by Alan J. Pakula • 1971 • United States
Starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland

With her Oscar-winning turn in KLUTE, Jane Fonda reinvented herself as a new kind of movie star. Bringing nervy audacity and counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels—a call girl and aspiring actor wh...

Directed by Billy Wilder • 1957 • United States
Starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton

Agatha Christie’s masterful stage play gets a brilliantly entertaining screen adaptation courtesy of Billy Wilder, who deftly balances courtroom intrigue and black comedy for a triumph of st...

Directed by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz • 1973 • United States
Starring Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Joy Bang

A woman (Marianna Hill) arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover that the town is under the influence of a strange cult th...

Directed by Robert Altman • 1974 • United States
Starring George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss

Robert Altman’s distinctive brand of loose-limbed naturalism reached sublime heights with this freewheeling buddy comedy. Elliott Gould and George Segal make for one of the most delightfully offbe...

Directed by Sam Wood • 1933 • United States
Starring Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin

Jean Harlow and Clark Gable cemented their status as MGM’s most bankable star pairing with this sizzling pre-Code tale of love outside the law. A cynical blonde who is not above swindling her dates, Ruby ...

Directed by Taylor Hackford • 1995 • United States
Starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer

Kathy Bates, who won a Best Actress Oscar for MISERY, commands the screen in another chilling Stephen King adaptation that’s part atmospheric whodunit, part searing human drama. Sel...

Directed by Sharlene Bamboat • 2021 • Canada

Filmmaker Sharlene Bamboat explores questions of distance and proximity, identity and otherness, through scenes from the daily interactions between two queer women, a poet and a cameraperson. Moving between three locations—Montreal, Batticaloa, and th...

Directed by Jennifer Reeder • 2018 • United States
Starring Angelica Ross

A lone woman marks her trail and sheds some excess baggage along the way in this feminist western-meets-horror fever dream.

Directed by Marco Bellocchio • 2021 • Italy
Starring Marco Bellocchio, Alberto Bellocchio, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio

1968 was the year Camillo died. Nearly fifty years after the death of his twin brother at the age of twenty-nine, acclaimed director Marco Bellocchio (FISTS IN THE POCKET) gathers h...

Directed by George Cukor • 1932 • United States
Starring Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman

Often touted as the inspiration for A STAR IS BORN, this iconic showbiz drama produced by David O. Selznick was nominated for an Academy Award for best screenplay. After alcoholic director Max Carey (Lo...

Directed by Niki Lindroth von Bahr • 2019 • Sweden
Starring Linnéa Wikblad, Staffan Westerberg, Arja Saijonmaa

A lullaby before the great disaster. Two pigeons visit a zoo without animals, a snail measures his blood pressure at the doctor, in the CERN laboratory something has gone terribly wrong...

Directed by Fritz Lang • 1938 • United States
Starring Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Harry Carey

One of the most delightfully offbeat Hollywood films of the 1930s, this unclassifiable and often overlooked gem from director Fritz Lang blends crime, comedy, romance, and songs by Kurt Weill into a B...

Directed by Otto Preminger • 1959 • United States
Starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara

A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he belie...

Directed by John M. Stahl • 1932 • United States
Starring Irene Dunne, John Boles, George Meeker

The first of three film adaptations Universal made of Fannie Hurst’s tear-jerking novel chronicles the fate-battered relationship of Ray (Irene Dunne) and Walter (John Boles), two star-crossed lovers...

Directed by Bob Rafelson • 1970 • United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Karen Black

Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in EASY RIDER, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study FIVE EASY PIECES. Nicholson plays the now ...

Directed by Lucio Castro • 2019 • Argentina
Starring Juan Barberini, Ramón Pujol, Mía Maestro

In his alluring debut feature, Lucio Castro offers both a sun-soaked European travelogue and an epic, decades-spanning romance. When Ocho (Juan Barberini), a thirtysomething Argentine poet on vacation i...