Directed by Robert Benton • 1979 • United States
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander

Groundbreaking in its empathetic look at both the emotional and legal fallout of divorce, this landmark drama features powerhouse performances from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as a couple w...

Directed by Anthony Banua-Simon • 2020 • United States

The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen by many as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyperexploitation of workers, and destructive environmental extraction that h...

Directed by William Friedkin • 1997 • United States
Starring James Gandolfini, Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott

William Friedkin’s remake of the 1957 Sidney Lumet/Henry Fonda classic brings together a powerhouse ensemble cast that includes Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Ossie Davis, Edward James Olm...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1957 • United States
Starring Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb

12 ANGRY MEN, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system that is as riveting as it is spare, this iconic adap...

Directed by Miranda July • 2005 • United States
Starring John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson

With this compassionate, startling comedy that could have come from no other artistic sensibility, the brilliant Miranda July reveals a world both familiar and strange—an original vision of creativ...

Directed by Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, and George Hickenlooper • 1991 • United States

“We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane.” In 1976, director Francis Ford Coppola arrived in the Philippines to...

Directed by Lauren Wolkstein • 2013 • France
Starring Anna Margaret Hollyman, Camille Claris, Ulysse Grosjean

A thirty-year-old American woman crashes a teenage party in the South of France, leading the guests to wonder who she is and what she is doing there.

Directed by George Cukor • 1932 • United States
Starring Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Lukas

Fresh from her success in WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD? (also directed by George Cukor), Constance Bennett, one of the most popular Hollywood stars of the 1930s, suffered nobly for this moving maternal me...

Directed by William A. Wellman • 1933 • United States
Starring Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Cortez

Loretta Young gets one of her finest showcases in this incident-packed pre-Code tale of a woman’s descent into crime. She stars as the streetwise Mary Martin, who, while on trial for murde...

Directed by Céline Sciamma • 2014 • France
Starring Karidja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh

Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects, and the “boys’ law” in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes he...

Directed by Miloš Forman • 1996 • United States
Starring Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton

Director Miloš Forman brings his slyly subversive sensibility to this wickedly entertaining, stranger-than-fiction look at one man’s notorious public persona and unconventional private life. Wo...

Directed by Jean Grémillon • 1937 • France, Germany
Starring Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Pierre Etchepare

The first collaboration between filmmaker Jean Grémillon and legendary actor Jean Gabin, this adaptation of a novel by André Beucler features the young Gabin as a Casanova of the French Fore...

Directed by Arthur Penn • 1967 • United States
Starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman

The film that forever changed Hollywood filmmaking, Arthur Penn’s New Hollywood landmark injected a jolt of fresh energy into the studio system with its kinetic style and frank depiction of sex and ...

Directed by Nicole Amani Magabo Kiggundu • 2020 • Uganda
Starring Cloe Kabuye, Esther Tebandeke, Oyenbot

A tragic twist of fate shatters an eight-year-old Ugandan girl’s idealized image of the family she thought she knew.

Directed by Paul Schrader • 2013 • United States
Starring Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Gus Van Sant

“American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis and acclaimed director Paul Schrader join forces for this daring and infamously divisive erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex, and surveillance. Manip...

Directed by Michael Mann • 1986 • United States
Starring William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen

Michael Mann’s hypnotic, hyperstylized adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel “Red Dragon” was the first film to introduce audiences to the infamous Hannibal Lecter. Will Graham (William Petersen) is a...

Directed by Gregory La Cava • 1933 • United States
Starring Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Halliday

This delightful pre-Code romance from MY MAN GODFREY director Gregory La Cava stars Constance Bennett and Pert Kelton as Lorry and Minnie, a pair of wisecracking shady ladies who leave priso...

Directed by Tony Williams • 1982 • Austrlia, New Zealand
Starring Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott

When a young woman (Jacki Kerin) inherits a creaky retirement home, she finds herself plunged into a waking nightmare of murder, madness, and a legacy of evil that may be inescapable. Awash in...

Directed by Peier Tracy Shen • 2020 • United States
Starring Chedi Chang, Zita Bai, Grace Chang, Gary Liu

A young Chinese American girl’s carefree innocence collides with the harsh reality of her parents’ broken relationship.

Directed by Slava Tsukerman • 1982 • United States
Starring Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas

One of the coolest and most outrageously stylish oddities to emanate from the 1980s indie underground is a postpunk science-fiction fantasia set in New York’s zonked-out bohemian demimonde....

Directed by Jermaine Manigault • 2020 • United States
Starring Patrick Decile, Corey Knight, Felipe Galganni

A young African American man struggling to find his place within his community confronts the often-rigid definitions of Black masculinity.

Directed by Hal Ashby • 1973 • United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young

Jack Nicholson is at his very best in this acclaimed tragicomedy written by Robert Towne and directed by Hal Ashby. Two hard-boiled Navy petty officers, Buddusky (Nicholson) and Mulhall (Otis Young), ar...

Directed by King Vidor • 1929 • United States
Starring Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine

HALLELUJAH is a cinematic milestone: the first feature from a major studio to star an entirely Black cast, and the first talkie made by titan director King Vidor. Infused with spirituals...

Directed by Leo McCarey • 1937 • United States
Starring Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter

MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW, by Leo McCarey, is one of the great unsung Hollywood masterpieces, an enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap. Be...