Directed by Olive Nwosu • 2019 • Nigeria
Starring Chidera Chidiume, Ebube Ndubisi, Ukamaka Ekwenze

A bored, mischievous young boy stirs up trouble in his small Nigerian town—and discovers that his actions have consequences and that there are still things he cannot understand.

Directed by Edmund Goulding • 1932 • United States
Starring Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Billie Dove

Two girls, friends from the New York slums, take very different paths in their quest for fame and fortune in BLONDIE OF THE FOLLIES. Practical working girl Blondie (former Ziegfeld girl Mari...

Directed by Benjamin Crotty • 2014 • France
Starring Andy Gillet, Iliana Zabeth, David Baïot

When his husband is sent on a mission to Djibouti, Roger (Andy Gillet) remains behind with his adopted daughter, the temperamental Roxy, at Fort Buchanan, an army base in the middle of the woods. Over th...

Directed by Jean Grémillon • 1938 • France, Germany
Starring Raimu, Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Blanchar

In this moody crime thriller, the well-respected shopkeeper Monsieur Victor (Raimu)—who clandestinely does business with a gang of criminals in the French port town of Toulon—holds onto a terrib...

Directed by Clarence Brown • 1934 • United States
Starring Joan Crawford, Gene Raymond, Franchot Tone

One of the quintessential working-girl vehicles Joan Crawford starred in throughout the 1930s, SADIE MCKEE follows the fortunes of the eponymous heroine, who trades in her maid’s uniform for bla...

Directed by Mircea Toia and Călin Cazan • 1984 • Romania
Starring Mirela Gorea, Marcel Iureș, Dan Condurache

Set to a killer synth prog soundtrack, the first animated film from Romania is a loopy and lysergic science-fiction eyeball-twirler that plays something like 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY on psyc...

Directed by Nicole Otero • 2019 • United States
Starring Tei Shi, Myron Donley, Vincent Ticali

A solitary woman wanders a noirish urban nightscape. Her journey across a mostly vacant city, obscured by darkness, cascades in space and time, away from one feeling and in search of another.

Directed by Thomas Vinterberg • 2020 • Denmark
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang

Four friends, all teachers at various stages of middle age, find themselves stuck in a rut. Unable to share their passions either at school or at home, they embark on an audacious experiment:...

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang • 2020 • Taiwan
Starring Lee Kang-sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy

Taiwanese titan Tsai Ming-liang continues his exquisite examinations of alienation, isolation, and the fleeting beauty of human connection in one of his sparest and most intimate works. The director’s longti...

Directed by Alain Resnais • 1961 • France
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff

Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais’ epochal LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD has been puzzling appreciative viewers for de...

Directed by Nathalie Álvarez Mesén • 2021 • Sweden, Costa Rica
Starring Wendy Chinchilla Araya, Ana Julia Porras Espinoza, Daniel Castañeda Rincón

This revelatory first feature from Nathalie Álvarez Mesén is a mesmerizing portrait of a woman in the process of taking ownership of her body and sel...