Directed by Frank Capra • 1934 • United States
Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly

Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight from Frank Capra, about a spoiled runaway socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter (Clark...

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 Peter Sollett • 2002 • United States
Starring Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie Diaz

Vividly set amid New York City’s Dominican community, this warm, naturalistic slice-of-life is one of the brightest gems of early-2000s American independent cinema. Growing up on the Lower East Side,...

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 Norman Jewison • 1987 • United States
Starring Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia

A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny ...

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 Joan Micklin Silver • 1988 • United States
Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, David Hyde Pierce

Joan Micklin Silver’s wonderfully, warmly Jewish spin on the romantic comedy follows literary, uptown-dwelling Manhattanite Izzy Grossman (a luminous Amy Irving), who finds herself caught...

Directed by Billy Woodberry • 2024 • France, Portugal

Director Billy Woodberry examines the life and legacy of Mário Pinto de Andrade, a Pan-African thinker, activist, and founder of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) whose work was critical to the African liberation movem...

Directed by Steve Gordon • 1981 • United States
Starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud

Dudley Moore delights as the world’s richest and most lovable drunk in this giddy, bubbly modern screwball. He stars as Arthur, a spoiled, perpetually soused New York City millionaire whose family ...

Directed by Román Viñoly Barreto • 1953 • Argentina
Starring Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nelly Panizza

This fascinating, long-overlooked remake of Fritz Lang’s M offers a fresh perspective on the landmark thriller by focusing on the lives of the female characters ignored in earlier iteration...

Directed by John M. Stahl • 1934 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson

Adapted from the novel by Fannie Hurst, this groundbreaking look at American racial attitudes traces the complex relationship that develops between Bea Pullman (Claudette Colbert), a wido...

Directed by Pierre Chenal • 1951 • United States, Argentina
Starring Richard Wright, Gloria Madison, Willa Pearl Curtis

One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright’s “Native Son” (first published in 1940) exposed the injustices of urban African American life through the eyes ...

Directed by Buster Keaton • 1926 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O’Neil

Cited by Buster Keaton as one of his personal favorites among his own films, this knockabout adaptation of a Broadway play revolves around a case of mistaken identity between two Alfred Butlers—o...

Directed by Sara Gómez • 1967 • Cuba

Legendary rumba musician Alberto Zayas serves as a guide for this vibrant journey through Cuban musical history and culture.

Directed by Buster Keaton • 1924 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton

Reality and movie fantasy merge to brilliantly surreal effect in one of Buster Keaton’s most formally innovative features—a whirlwind of astonishing optical tricks and meta-cinematic invention. H...

Directed by William Greaves • 1972 • United States

Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM, William Greaves was also the director of over one hundred documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. NATIONTIME is a report o...

Directed by Frank Lloyd • 1937 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens

One of seven films frequent costars Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray made together, this proto-“Crucible” examination of small-town suspicion and paranoia unfolds in seventeenth-century...

Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen • 1952 • Argentina
Starring Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene

Originally intended as the third film in a trilogy of Cornell Woolrich adaptations (the first two of which comprise director Carlos Hugo Christensen’s NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR) only to be...

Directed by Sara Gómez • 1965 • Cuba

Sara Gómez looks at the changes wrought by the Cuban revolution through its impact on tobacco production.

Directed by Woody Allen • 1977 • United States
Starring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Carol Kane

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton make for one of the great screen couples of the 1970s in this brilliantly bittersweet Oscar winner. Walking a fine line between humor and pathos, Allen plays a neurotic Manh...

Directed by Axelle Ropert • 2021 • France
Starring Jade Springer, Léa Drucker, Philippe Katerine

Taking a child’s-eye view of a disintegrating family, director Axelle Ropert offers a supremely sensitive, richly layered reimagining of the divorce drama. Solange (Jade Springer, in a revelatory per...

Directed by Mitchell Leisen • 1943 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase

Love blossoms in the unlikeliest of places—the muddy underground river tunnels of New York City—in this screwball delight directed with characteristic panache by Mitchell Leisen. After ace p...

Directed by Herbert Ross • 1977 • United States
Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings

Richard Dreyfuss delivers an Academy Award–winning performance in this Neil Simon–penned classic in which romance blooms between two complete opposites forced to share a New York City apartmen...

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver • 1977 • United States
Starring John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum

Inspired by director Joan Micklin Silver’s time working at New York’s storied alt weekly the “Village Voice,” this unsung gem of 1970s slice-of-life seriocomedy offers an incisive, bitterswe...