Directed by Alan Arkin • 1971 • United States
Starring Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia

The black-comic stage play by writer and Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer provides the basis for Alan Arkin’s directorial debut, a surreal satire of urban alienation and the sensele...

Directed by Nguyễn Hồng Nghi and Phạm Kỳ Nam • 1959 • North Vietnam
Starring Phi Nga, Mạnh Linh, Song Kim

The first feature shot in North Vietnam is a stirring, strongly anticolonialist tale of two lovers, Vận (Mạnh Linh) a guerrilla fighter for the North, and Hoài (Phi Nga), a young woman from ...

Directed by Rob Marshall • 2009 • United States, Italy
Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz

A supernova ensemble cast—including Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren, and an Oscar-nominated Penélope Cruz—lights up this extravagant musical take on F...

Directed by Michel Khleifi • 1984 • Palestine, Belgium

Ma’loul is a Palestinian village in Galilee which was destroyed by the Israeli armed forces in 1948. The former inhabitants are only allowed to visit once a year, on the anniversary of Israel’s independence, and have developed a new traditio...

Directed by Joyce Chopra • 1999 • United States
Starring Mary McDonnell, William Russ, Jack Coleman

Director Joyce Chopra brings her usual sensitivity to this made-for-television look at a woman in the process of rebuilding her shattered home. When Linda (Mary McDonnell) discovers that her husba...

Directed by Woody Allen • 2008 • Spain, United States
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem

Woody Allen scored one of the biggest critical and commercial hits of his career with this witty, luminous tale of art, love, and sex under the Spanish sun. Rebecca Hall and Scarlett Jo...

Directed by Daphne Xu • 2024 • United States

A playful audiovisual experiment layers ping pong games at New York City’s Seward Park with advice from an immigration lawyer.

Directed by Samy Benammar • 2024 • Algeria, Canada

“Mom, you brought me back to our homeland. All I know about these harsh landscapes I learned from books written by the hand that burned these mountains. I try to undo the colonial myths engraved into my memory, but the hills escape my gaze. Do y...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1991 • France
Starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart

Jacques Rivette’s abiding fascination with the interplay between life and art receives one of its most spellbinding treatments in this sensuous, hypnotic exploration of the creative process. Taking...

Directed by Dick Fontaine • 1970 • United States

Writer and firebrand provocateur Norman Mailer, accompanied by rabble-rousing journalist Jimmy Breslin, takes to the streets of New York City in his colorful and ultimately failed 1969 run for New York City mayor.

Directed by Liu Jian • 2023 • China
Starring Dong Zijian, Zhou Dongyu, Ren Ke

Strikingly detailed, hand-drawn animation vividly evokes the idle, idealistic world of slacker youth in the precious days before adult responsibility in Liu Jian’s charmingly wistful slice-of-life gem. In 1990s China, ...

Directed by Sidney Lumet • 1975 • United States
Starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning

On a sweltering August day, novice criminals Sonny (Al Pacino) and Sal (John Cazale) attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank in order to pay for Sonny’s lover’s gender confirmation surgery—a situation that qu...

Directed by John Farrow • 1949 • United States
Starring Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell

A seductively evil Ray Milland is a devil in disguise in this unique noir take on the Faust legend, a fiendish fusion of crime thriller and dark fantasy. In his quest to clean up his city’s crimin...

Directed by David Cronenberg • 1979 • Canada
Starring William Smith, Claudia Jennings, John Saxon

A rare non-horror outing from David Cronenberg, FAST COMPANY may be far removed from his famously fleshy freakouts, but this crackerjack car-racing thriller is a fast and fun joyride directed with h...

Directed by Joseph Douglas Elmhirst • 2023 • United Kingdom
Starring Xavier Alexander Keating, Tamara Lawrance, Clover Webb

“When we dream, we dream in patois.” Una (Clover Webb), a Jamaican woman living in 1980s London, reveals her feelings of alienation through a poetic, patois-inflected inner...

Directed by Ray Yeung • 2019 • Hong Kong
Starring Tai Bo, Ben Yuen Foo-wah, Patra Au Ga-man

This supremely sensitive romance is the moving story of two closeted married men who find unexpected connection in their twilight years. One day Pak (Tai Bo), seventy, a Hong Kong taxi driver who refuses ...

Directed by Ossie Davis • 1970 • United States
Starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart

Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Ossie Davis directs this rollicking blend of gritty neonoir and buddy-cop comedy, one of the first and most influential of the cycle of Blaxploitation fil...

Directed by Don Siegel • 1968 • United States
Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark

Fresh from his star-making collaborations with Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood inaugurated his next great creative partnership with this exciting police thriller, the first of five major films he made wi...

Directed by Phạm Kỳ Nam • 1963 • North Vietnam
Starring Trà Giang • Trần Phương • Minh Tri

Acclaimed as one of the most important films in Vietnamese cinema history, this galvanizing ode to the courage of the Vietnamese women who fought against French imperialism features a stunning performance ...

Directed by Roman Polanski • 1968 • United States
Starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon

Horrifying and darkly comic, ROSEMARY’S BABY was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory Mia Farro...

Directed by Svetlana Romanova • 2023 • Russia

Filmed in the Yakutian Arctic and constructed out of personal poems and notes, this visual essay poses questions about our perception of contemporaneity and image production’s intersection with the creation of narratives around the idea of love (roma...

Directed by Ham Tran • 2006 • United States
Starring Kiều Chinh, Long Nguyen, Diem Lien

Inspired by the true stories of Vietnamese refugees who fled their land after the fall of Saigon—and those who were forced to stay behind—JOURNEY FROM THE FALL follows one family’s struggle for freedom. April...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1994 • France
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Tatiana Moukhine, Jean-Marie Richier

Jacques Rivette puts his own inimitable stamp on the immortal story of Joan of Arc with this sprawling, two-part study, which brings a new perspective to her much-mythologized life by for...

Directed by Jacques Rivette • 1994 • France
Starring Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard

Jacques Rivette puts his own inimitable stamp on the immortal story of Joan of Arc with this sprawling, two-part study, which brings a new perspective to her much-mythologized life by forgoin...