Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2023 • United Kingdom
Starring Renee Bailey, Tomi Ogunjobi, Emmanuel Kojo

What happened in 1940s London when two women of different generations, both fighting against colonialism, came together to put their fervor and imagination into writing a revolutionary play?

Directed by Errol Morris • 2003 • United States
Starring Robert S. McNamara

This Oscar-winning documentary is a twentieth-century fable, the story of an American dreamer who rose from humble origins to the heights of political power. Robert S. McNamara was both witness to and participant in many...

Directed by Bigas Luna • 1992 • Spain
Starring Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà, Penélope Cruz

The pleasures of sex and food entwine to outrageous effect in this wickedly seductive, darkly surreal romance. A teenage Penélope Cruz makes a memorable film debut as Silvia, a worker in a small-town underwe...

Directed by Larry Cohen • 1973 • United States
Starring Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund

A brutal assault at the hands of a racist cop changes the life of Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson), who will grow up to become the reigning head of Harlem’s Black mafia in this blistering blaxploitation...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1984 • France
Starring Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier

This overlooked jewel in the filmography of French New Wave titan Jacques Rivette is a beguiling haunted-house mystery about the riddles of love and art. Jane Birkin and Geraldine Chaplin star a...

Directed by David Cronenberg • 1988 • United States, Canada
Starring Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske

In DEAD RINGERS, David Cronenberg tells the chilling story of identical twin gynecologists—suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality—who share the sa...

Directed by Don Siegel • 1968 • United States
Starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens

A key prototype of the gritty, morally murky police procedurals that would proliferate in the 1970s, this lean, mean urban thriller from Don Siegel stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York C...

Directed by Fernando Trueba • 1992 • Spain, France, Portugal
Starring Jorge Sanz, Penélope Cruz, Maribel Verdú

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this rollicking, sensual romp unfolds in early-1930s Spain, where Fernando (Jorge Sanz), a handsome young Civil War deserter,...

Directed by Woody Allen • 1971 • United States
Starring Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán

Writer-director Woody Allen’s supremely silly third feature channels the absurdity of the Marx brothers for a side-splitting satire of Cold War politics and American imperialism. He stars as bumb...

Directed by Ivan Passer • 1971 • United States
Starring George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss

J (George Segal), a former New York City hairdresser turned heroin junkie, sees his life spiral out of control as he bounces between committing petty crimes, a new relationship with a free-spirited ...

Directed by Little Egypt Collective • 2024 • United States

In the Southern Illinois region of Little Egypt, a sound recordist gathers sonic ephemera as he revisits the flat fields where once stood Pyramid Courts—the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of his hometown, C...

Directed by Na Jiazuo • 2021 • China
Starring Liu Jiuxiao, Huang Miyi, Sha Baoliang

An at once gritty and intoxicatingly stylized portrait of a group of outcasts struggling to survive in a fading riverside town, STREETWISE unfolds in 2004 in Zhenwu, one of the many small villages in the Sichuan ...

Directed by Tony Bui • 1999 • Vietnam, United States
Starring Đơn Dương, Nguyễn Ngọc Hiệp, Harvey Keitel

The first American feature to be filmed in Vietnam in the aftermath of the war, Tony Bui’s gorgeous, richly textured portrait of everyday life in a rapidly changing, increasingly westernized ...

Directed by John Farrow • 1948 • United States
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund

Noir fatalism and shivery supernatural menace merge in this atmospheric adaptation of a darkly existential novel by pulp master Cornell Woolrich. Edward G. Robinson stars as John Triton, a stage m...

Directed by Norman Jewison • 1989 • United States
Starring Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen

Based on the acclaimed novel by Bobbie Ann Mason, IN COUNTRY is a powerful portrait of one Kentucky family’s struggle to heal the wounds caused by America's involvement in Vietnam, as seen through th...

Directed by Diao Yinan • 2019 • China
Starring Hu Ge, Gwei Lun-mei, Liao Fan

When small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong (Hu Ge) accidentally kills a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the lam from both the police as well as dangerous gangsters out for the reward. Hidin...

Directed by Alison Tavel • 2024 • United States

Winner of the SXSW Audience Award for Documentary Feature, RESYNATOR marks filmmaker Alison Tavel’s directorial debut, chronicling her ten-year journey as she uncovers the revolutionary synthesizer her late father created in the 1970s. What begins ...

Directed by Xiaolu Wang • 2024 • United States

A one-take recording captures a family’s visit to the bamboo green at the foot of the Helan Mountains.

Directed by Jerry Schatzberg • 1971 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint

A fragile romance unfolds against the backdrop of 1970s New York in this unsparing look at heroin addiction, scripted by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne and directed by Jerry Schatzberg. Taking its t...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1968 • United States
Starring George Segal, Jack Warden, Joseph Wiseman

Director Sidney Lumet made his first foray into comedy with this wildly irreverent farce, rich in 1960s New York City flavor and Borscht Belt humor. When their buddy, the writer Leslie Braverman (“...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1989 • France
Starring Benoît Régent, Bulle Ogier, Fejria Deliba

Four women, a shadowy conspiracy, and a whole lot of acting exercises: we’re firmly in Jacques Rivette territory in one of the director’s most spellbinding explorations of the thin line between everyda...

Directed by Razan AlSalah • 2024 • Canada, Lebanon, Palestine

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice, from land and labor, from Haifa to Beirut to a Gulf offshore oil platform. A STONE’S THROW trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and...

Directed by Antoinetta Angelidi • 2008 • Greece

Filmed in 1980 and completed in 2008, Antoinetta Angelidi’s candid self-portrait is a song to life and an incantatory vision of pregnancy as a kind of ritual.

Directed by Yang Qing • 2016 • China
Starring Chen Kun, Bai Baihe, Qin Hao

This wild, genre-blasting blend of rollicking comedy and blood-spattered crime caper follows three friends who, when they open a hot pot restaurant in a former bomb shelter, are surprised to discover that it’s linked by a...