Directed by Bruce “Pacho” Lane and Alan Govenar • 1981 • United States

Meet Leonard St. Clair, a.k.a. Stoney: a paraplegic little person, a carnival sword-swallower as a child, and a tattoo artist since 1928, he is a font of strange and incredible tales about the art of tattooing and other unrel...

Directed by Tomas McCabe and Andrei Rozen • 2003 • United States

BUMS’ PARADISE depicts the lives of men and women who lived in an abandoned landfill in Albany, California, vividly portraying the vibrant community they built as well as the amazing artworks that they created, and ultimately follo...

Directed by Catherine Breillat • 1996 • France
Starring Isabelle Renauld, Francis Renaud, Laura Saglio

Catherine Breillat traces the shockingly violent disintegration of a May-December affair in PERFECT LOVE, arguably her most realistic and disturbing study of romance gone wrong. When twice-divo...

Directed by Omar Al Dakheel • 2023 • United States

In New York City, a group of volunteers launch the first Muslim Patrol to combat the rising hate crimes in their community while also solving issues of their own.

Directed by Jacques Audiard • 2001 • France
Starring Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet

Jacques Audiard’s electrifying romantic thriller features a pair of sensational performances from Emmanuelle Devos and Vincent Cassel as two outsiders drawn together by an attraction to danger....

Directed by Alexander Hall • 1936 • United States
Starring George Raft, Dolores Costello, Ida Lupino

In this comic charmer, illicit casino operator Johnny Lamb (George Raft) hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton (Dolores Costello) as his hostess, in order to help her get back on her fe...

Directed by Raoul Walsh • 1946 • United States
Starring Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King

Bathed in a downbeat noir mood and smoky jazz-lounge atmosphere, this haunting melodrama stars Ida Lupino as husky-voiced singer Petey Brown, who takes a job performing in a divey nightclub. She’s carryi...

Directed by Fritz Lang • 1953 • United States
Starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin

Fritz Lang’s hard-boiled cop vs. criminals yarn stars Glenn Ford as Dave Bannion, a police detective and family man driven by grief to conduct a relentless vendetta against a mobster (Alexander Scourby)...

Directed by Harrod Blank • 2009 • United States

What if you could morph your car into a mobile work of art and drive it down the road for all to see? What would it look like? What would the world think of you? How would you be changed? AUTOMORPHOSIS looks into the minds and hearts of a delightfu...

Directed by C Prinz • 2024 • United States

Through an ecstatic fusion of monologue, music, and dance, this at once lusciously stylized and emotionally raw collaboration between actor-musician Jeremy Pope and filmmaker C Prinz explores and expands notions of Black masculinity as it confronts the ...

Directed by Irving Lerner • 1958 • United States
Starring Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi

Vince Edwards stars as a hired assassin whose latest “assignment” (Caprice Toriel) is about to testify against the mob. But this particular target is not so easy to get at. So he waits . . . ...

Directed by Alejandro Amenábar • 1997 • Spain
Starring Penélope Cruz, Eduardo Noriega, Chete Lera

A dazzling science-fiction thriller circling around Hitchcockian themes of double identities and obsession, the sophomore feature from Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar (THE OTHERS) is a stylisti...

Directed by Veronica Rutledge • 2022 • United States

A PLACE ON THE EDGE OF BREATH is a moving window into the relationship between Ava Fiadh and Shaawan Francis as they share some of their most intimate moments during life and gender transitions over the course of a year.

Directed by Kevin Jerome Everson • 2017 • United States

The films of Kevin Jerome Everson are rigorously crafted, thoughtfully illuminating records of Black American working-class life that bring into focus the often invisible routines of work and labor. In Tonsler Park, Everson trains his black...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 2007 • United States
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke

Renowned director Sidney Lumet brought five decades of cinematic mastery to bear in his final film, a riveting thriller that achieves the weight of Greek tragedy. A typically virtuosic Phil...

Directed by Eloise Sherrid and Lauryn Welch • 2022 • United States

Samuel Geiger has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a connective-tissue disorder that causes severe chronic pain. This short magical-realist documentary about life and love with a chronic illness combines paintings and live-action footage ...

Directed by Henry Hathaway • 1935 • United States
Starring Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday

Based on George du Maurier’s classic and intensely romantic novel, PETER IBBETSON tells the otherworldly tale of two childhood sweethearts reunited as adults, only to be separated again through a t...

Directed by John Turturro • 1992 • United States
Starring John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Katherine Borowitz

Winner of the Caméra d’Or at Cannes for best first-time director, John Turturro’s deeply personal, emotionally intense directorial debut draws from his own family experiences as it tell...

Directed by Harrod Blank and Joanne Shen • 2022 • United States

This short documentary is a heartwarming portrait of Idaho hermit Richard “Dugout Dick” Zimmerman, who lived in caves that he dug on the banks of the Salmon River. It was the hope of finding precious metals that kept him digging and...

Directed by Joseph H. Lewis • 1953 • United States
Starring Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen

Directed in typically dynamic, imaginative style by B-noir maestro Joseph H. Lewis (GUN CRAZY, THE BIG COMBO) this atmospheric, Louisiana-set cat-and-mouse thriller follows an obsessive lie...

Directed by Archie Mayo • 1942 • United States
Starring Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell

French screen legend Jean Gabin made his Hollywood debut in this broodingly fatalistic noir melodrama. He stars as an alcoholic dockworker who, following a night of heavy drinking, wakes up with no me...

Directed by Jacques Audiard • 2005 • France
Starring Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï

A visceral remake of James Toback’s 1978 film FINGERS played at fever-pitch intensity, this gritty neonoir, which swept the César Awards, centers on Tom (Romain Duris), a thuggish real-estate broke...

Directed by Catherine Breillat • 2004 • France
Starring Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi

After attempting suicide, a young woman (Amira Casar) makes a startling proposition to the man (Rocco Siffredi) who rescued her: she will pay him to watch her naked body over the course of four nights as long as ...

Directed by Med Hondo • 1979 • Algeria, Mauritania, France
Starring Robert Liensol, Roland Bertin, Hélène Vincent

Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s staggering WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY is a sui generis amalgam of historical epic, Broadway revue, Brechtian theater, and joy...