Directed by Steven Spielberg • 2002 • United States
Starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton

It’s 2054, a future in which psychic “precogs” are able to envision murders before they happen. When he’s pegged as the soon-to-be killer of a man he doesn’t know, detective John Anderton (Tom...

Directed by Cameron Crowe • 1989 • United States
Starring John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney

Cameron Crowe made his auspicious directorial debut with this beloved teenage romantic comedy, which breathed new life into the high-school movie with its refreshingly authentic characters and irresist...

Directed by Miloš Forman • 1975 • United States
Starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito

In an insane world, who’s to say who is mad? One of the defining films of the New Hollywood, Miloš Forman’s electrifying tale of oppression and rebellion stars a live-wire Jack Nicholson in wha...

Directed by Peter Weir • 1998 • United States
Starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris

An instant classic that anticipated the rise of reality TV, Peter Weir’s brilliantly meta marvel of a movie—part media satire, part thought-provoking exploration of the very nature of consciousness—feature...

Directed by Andrew Niccol • 1997 • United States
Starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law

One of the most intelligent and thought-provoking science fiction films of the 1990s, this engrossing thriller unfolds in a not-too-distant future where a society obsessed with genetic perfection divides...

Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1999 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack

Stanley Kubrick’s final magnum opus, an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s “Dream Story,” is one of the great late films—an unsettlingly enigmatic journey into erotic fantasy and ...

Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck • 2006 • Germany
Starring Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch

Set in East Berlin in the early 1980s, this acclaimed debut feature from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck focuses on GDR’s pervasive and chilling surveillance state. The successful ...

Directed by Sergio Leone • 1968 • Italy, United States
Starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale

Sergio Leone breathed new life into the western with this masterful epic, which stands as one of the genre’s most timeless artistic achievements. Henry Fonda, cast against his good-guy...

Directed by Jonathan Glazer • 2004 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston

Coscripted by frequent Luis Buñuel collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, the second feature from Jonathan Glazer is a haunting metaphysical mystery starring Nicole Kidman as a widowed New Yorker ...

Directed by Phillip Noyce • 1989 • Australia
Starring Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane

It’s anything but smooth sailing in this tightly wound maritime thriller, featuring a sensational Nicole Kidman in her international breakthrough performance. Adapted from a novel by pulp master Charles Wi...

Directed by Stephen Daldry • 2002 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep

The powerhouse trio of Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman deliver masterful performances in Stephen Daldry’s exquisitely multilayered adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Pr...

Directed by Cameron Crowe • 2000 • United States
Starring Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand

Writer-director Cameron Crowe drew from his own extraordinary teenage experiences for this vivid and heartfelt 1970s-set coming-of-age odyssey, which follows fifteen-year-old William Miller (P...

Directed by Frank Borzage • 1936 • United States
Starring Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday

The smoldering romanticism of director Frank Borzage and the elegant wit of producer Ernst Lubitsch merge beautifully in this glittering comedy about a crime spree that leads to love. In the mo...

Directed by Richard Linklater • 2006 • United States
Starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson

In a not-too-distant future where America has lost its “war” on drugs, Fred (Keanu Reeves), an undercover cop obsessed with taking down a notorious drug dealer, is one of many people hooked ...

Directed by Noah Baumbach • 2007 • United States
Starring Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black

Margot Zeller (Nicole Kidman) is a short-story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of the wedding between her estranged sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and h...

Directed by Cameron Crowe • 1992 • United States
Starring Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick

Six young Seattle urbanites just starting their lives—with bills to pay, budding careers, heightened social awareness, and restless hearts—share their dreams, their music, and the common courty...

Directed by Brady Corbet • 2015 • United States, United Kingdom, Hungary
Starring Robert Pattinson, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham

A child’s angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses- shattering feature debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Brady Corbet (THE BRUTALIST). A po...

Directed by Don Siegel • 1964 • United States
Starring Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson

Ernest Hemingway’s gripping short story “The Killers” has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. In 1964, Don Siegel—initially slated to direct the 1946 version—took it on, creating th...

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 George Lucas • 1971 • United States
Starring Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley

Before STAR WARS, director George Lucas created this haunting vision of the future starring Academy Award winner Robert Duvall. In the twenty-fifth century, humans exist in a computer-contr...

Directed by Brian De Palma • 1984 • United States
Starring Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry

Brian DePalma weaves a sleekly stylish tale of seduction, mystery, and murder in the Hitchcock tradition. Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), an unemployed actor, is asked to house-sit a luxurious apar...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1971 • United States
Starring Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam

A prescient vision of the rise of the surveillance state, this paranoid heist thriller stars Sean Connery as Duke Anderson, an ex-con just out of prison who hatches a daring scheme to rob every unit...

Directed by René Clair • 1941 • United States
Starring Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young

French director René Clair brings a touch of continental élan to this saucy, Production Code–defying romantic comedy, the first of four films he made in Hollywood, with Marlene Dietrich at her coqu...

Directed by Sean Baker • 2008 • United States
Starring Prince Adu, Karren Karagulian, Aiden Noesi

Staking out territory on the cold winter streets of midtown Manhattan, West African immigrant Lucky (Prince Adu) uses the gift of gab and a hustler’s shrewdness to peddle designer knockoffs for Leba...