Directed by Lionel Rogosin • Arthouse • 1959 • US • English, Afrikaans with English subtitles
Starring Zacharia Mgabi, Vinah Bendile, Miriam Makeba

In making this powerful mix of documentary and drama, director Lionel Rogosin aimed to reveal the harsh injustice of apartheid in Sophiatown, a Sout...

Directed by István Szabó • Drama • 1984 • Hungary, Germany, Austria • German with English subtitles
Starring Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe

Set in the lead up to WWI, István Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning and Academy Award nominated film charts the rise of Alfred ...

Directed by Mohamed Diab • Drama • 2016 • Egypt, France • Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Nelly Karim, Hany Adel, Mohamed El Sebaey

Officially selected by the Cannes Film Festival and the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Academy Awards, "Clash" is tale of resi...

Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2009 • Israel, France • Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Amos Gitai, Rivka Gitai

“Carmel” is Amos Gitai's deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques...

Directed by Derek Jarman • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • UK • English
Starring Nigel Terry, Garry Cooper, Tilda Swinton

Derek Jarman's profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtati...

Directed by Justin Pemberton • Documentary • 2020 • New Zealand • English, French with English subtitles
Featuring Thomas Piketty, Francis Fukuyama, Joseph Stiglitz

Based on the international bestseller by rock-star economist Thomas Piketty, this captivating documentary is an eye-opening journey...

Directed by Bruno Dumont • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent, Robert Leroy

Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as sculptor Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin's protégé and later mistress. Inspired by the correspondence wit...

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée • Drama • 2012 • Canada • French with English subtitles
Starring Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Evelyne Brochu

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée ("Dallas Buyers Club"), "Café de Flore" is a love story about people separated by time and place, but connected in profound an...

Directed by Andreas Johnsen • Documentary • 2016 • Denmark • English, Danish w/ English subtitles
Featuring Josh Evans, Roberto Flore, Ben Reade

"Bugs" is an artful and thoughtful new documentary that provides a perfect entry point to insect cuisine. Watch as filmmaker Andreas Johnsen and his te...

Directed by Taika Waititi • Comedy • 2010 • New Zealand • English
Starring Taika Waititi, James Rollestone, Ricky Lee Waipuka-Russell

An international hit from acclaimed director Taika Waititi ("Thor: Ragnarok"), this Berlin Film Festival winner is a hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale ab...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux • Drama • 1925 • US • Silent with English intertitles
Starring Paul Robeson, Marshall Rodgers, Lawrence Chenault

This bold and controversial film by pioneer independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux follows the path of an escaped convict who poses as a pastor in a small s...

Directed by Gianfranco Rosi • Documentary • 1993 • Italy • English, Hindi, Italian with English subtitles

Academy Award Nominee Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the liv...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux • Drama • 1938 • US • English
Starring Carman Newsome, Ethel Moses, Alec Lovejo

An idealistic young man attempts to establish a school in a rural location, but encounters opposition from both the black and white communities. Oscar Micheaux himself was a former homestea...

Directed by Richard Press • Documentary • 2010 • US • English
Featuring Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Iris Apfel

A delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of bicycle-riding octogenarian Bill Cunningham, the beloved 'New York Times' style photographer who was famous for his weekly columns "...

Directed by Ken Loach • Drama • 2020 • UK • English
Starring Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone

British master Ken Loach is one of the only directors to win the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival not once but twice. Known for his socially conscious filmmaking, Loach updates his...

Directed by Andres Veiel • Documentary • 2018 • Germany • English, German with English subtitles
Featuring Joseph Beuys

A chronicle of the life and work of the iconoclastic, 20th-century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys. This documentary is not a portrait in the traditional se...

Directed by Yuval Adler • Thriller • 2013 • Israel • Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Tsahi Halevi, Shadi Mar'i, Hitham Omari

"Bethlehem" tells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and ...

Directed by Kantemir Balagov • Arthouse • 2020 • Russia • Russian w/ English subtitles
Starring Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov, Konstantin Balakirev

In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-a...

Directed by Pamela B. Green • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Jodie Foster, Alice Guy-Blache, Agnes Varda, Ava DuVernay, Geena Davis

Narrated by Jodie Foster, this full feature documentary rewrites film history, revealing for the first time the full scope of the life and work of cine...

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein • Drama • 1926 • Russia • Russian (Silent)
Starring Aleksandr Antono, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece remains one of the most influential silent films of all time. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on board the armore...

Directed by Christian Petzold • Arthouse • 2012 • Germany • German w/ English subtitles
Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke

Winner of two awards at the Berlin Film Festival, Christian Petzold's "Barbara" follows a young doctor, played by Nina Hoss ("Tar"), who has a...

Directed by Gabriel Mascaro • Arthouse • 2014 • Brazil • Portugese w/ English subtitles
Starring Dandara de Morais, Geová Manoel Dos Santos, Maria Salvino Dos Santos, Antônio José Dos Santos, Gabriel Mascaro

A steamy romance begins in a Brazilian coastal town in this Locarno Film Festival winner...

Directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac • Arthouse • 2013 • China • Mandarin w/ English subtitles
Starring Tao Zhao, Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Lanshan Luo, Jia-yi Zhang, Meng Li

Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke, this daring, poetic and...

Directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac • Arthouse • 2018 • France • French w/ English subtitles
Starring Andranic Manet, Gonzague Van Bervesseles, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam, Corentin Fila, Nicolas Bouchaud, Sophie Verbeek

A serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile leaves behind his stead...

Directed by Bette Gordon • Arthouse • 1985 • US • English
Starring Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard Davidson

Emerging out of the underground NYC arts scene that produced the late 80's boom in American independent cinema, Bette Gordon's "Variety" is a sexually charged tale of a woman's journey ...

Directed by Emir Kusturica • Arthouse • 1997 • Federal Republic of Yugosolavia • Serbian, German, French, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, "Underground" is a visionary masterpiece where hope, ...

Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui • Arthouse • 1988 • US, Japan • English, Japanese with English subtitles
Starring Carrie Hamilton, Diamond Yukai

Aspiring rocker Wendy (Carrie Hamilton) hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big. She forms a romantic and musical connection with Hiro (Diam...

Directed by Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret • Arthouse • 2023 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Mallory Wanecque, Timéo Mahaut, Johan Heldenbergh

Winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, "The Worst Ones" captures a film within a film a...

Directed by Hernán Findling • Horror • 2021 • Argentina • Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Vanesa González, Federico Bal, Christian Sancho

An indie film director schemes with his shady producer to make their recently completed movie a hit with the help of a mysterious artificial intellige...

Directed by Jean Renoir • Drama • 1945 • US • English
Starring Norman Lloyd, Carol Naish, Betty Field

Jean Renoir wrote and directed this adaptation of George Sessions Perry's novel “Hold Autumn in Your Hand”. The story follows the struggles of an idealistic farmer trying to raise a family and a...

Directed by James Blue • Arthouse • 1962 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Pierre Prothon, Jean Pelegri, Marie Decaitre

Filmed in Algiers and the surrounding countryside during the late stages of the Algerian War, under the pretext that it was a documentary about the wine industr...

Directed by Michal Aviad • Drama • 2018 • Israel • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Liron Ben-Shlush, Menashe Noy, Oshri Cohen

This beautifully performed drama about the everyday struggles of being female in the workplace follows a mother of three who tries to balance her home life with th...

Directed by Jamal Sims • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Anthony Davis

Drop into the electric and subversive underground dance scene known as bucking. As voguing exploded out of the ballroom scene of NYC, bucking was boldly pioneered in the clubs of the Deep South as a new form of se...

Directed by Morris Engel • Drama • 1958 • US • English
Starring Viveca Lindfors, John Myhers, Chiarina Barile

A work of artistic finesse and great emotional candor by celebrated independent filmmaker Morris Engel, “Weddings and Babies” is a bittersweet tale of love, hope and sacrifice, staged t...

Directed by Anna Biller • Comedy • 2007 • US • English • Mature Content
Starring Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno

“Viva” is a cult retro spectacle about a bored 1970s housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi (writer/director A...

Directed by Sergio Sollima • Crime • 1970 • US • English
Starring Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jill Ireland

After a bloody double-cross leaves him for dead, professional hit man Jeff (Charles Bronson) tracks the shooter and his beautiful mistress to New Orleans. But when Jeff takes both reven...

Directed by Alejandro Loayza Grisi • Arthouse • 2022 • Bolivia, Uruguay, France • Quechua, Spanish with English subtitles
Starring José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque

In the starkly beautiful Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple lives a tranquil life herding llamas. When an uncomm...

Directed by Beth B • Arthouse • 1994 • US • English
Starring Suzy Amis, Fred Ward

After the disappearance of her two children, a nightclub hostess (Suzy Amis) is confronted in her home by an aggressive police lieutenant (Fred Ward) who subjects her to a series of ruthless interrogations. Directe...

Directed by Carlos Conceição • Arthouse • 2023 • Angola, Portugal, France • Portuguese, Nyaneka with English subtitles
Starring João Arrais, Vicente Gil, Anabela Moreira

Angolan-Portuguese director Carlos Conceição’s audacious and enigmatic “Tommy Guns” invokes the ghosts of Angola’s colonial pa...

Directed by Jean-Jacques Vierne • Adventure • 1961 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Bouise, Jean-Pierre Talbot, Félix Fernández

In Tintin’s first-ever live-action adaptation, Captain Haddock sets sail to Istanbul, accompanied by our cow-licked hero and his cohorts. There th...

Directed by Philippe Condroyer • Adventure • 1964 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Jean Bouise, Jean-Pierre Talbot, Félix Fernández

Welcome to the charming and colorful world of Tintin! Hergé’s classic comic book characters leap to the silver screen starring the intrepid boy-rep...

Directed by Maya Zinshtein • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
Featuring Pat Robertson, Yael Eckstein, John Hagee

In this provocative look at strange political bedfellows, Israeli filmmaker Maya Zinshtein investigates the political alliance between American evangelicals, Israel’s right wing, and...

Directed by Laurence Olivier, John Sichel • Theater • 1970 • US, Europe • English
Starring Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell

Anton Chekhov's classic play about the lives of three sisters living in exile in a remote Russian village is given the all-star treatment by director and star L...

Directed by Nancy Kelly • Western • 1991 • US • English
Starring Rosalind Chao, Chris Cooper, Michael Paul Chan

Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Nancy Kelly's feminist Western "Thousand Pieces of Gold" won immediate acclaim for its portrayal of the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a yo...

Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof • Arthouse • 2021 • Germany, Czech Republic, Iran • Farsi with English subtitles
Starring Ehsan Mirhosseini, Shaghayegh Shoorian, Kaveh Ahangar

Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, this Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner by Mohammad Rasoulof is an anthology...

Directed by Deborah Scranton • Documentary • 2006 • US • English
Featuring Zack Bazzi, Duncan Domey, Ben Flanders

Immediate, raw, and direct, “The War Tapes” is the first film shot by the soldiers themselves, bypassing the embedded reporter filter and providing an intimate front-row look at how ...

Directed by Philip Kaufman • Drama • 1979 • US • English
Starring Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Linda Manz

Featuring a golden oldies soundtrack and a talented cast of young up-and-comers, this cult classic from Phillip Kaufman follows the exploits of an Italian-American gang in the Bronx in 1963, turni...

Directed by Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot • Documentary • 2022 • France • French with English subtitles
Featuring Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot, Blanche Madeleine Dumenil Duchesne

The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devote...

Directed by Marcel Ophuls • Documentary • 1972 • France, Switzerland, Germany • French with English subtitles
Featuring Pierre Mendes France, Sir Anthony Eden, Christian de la Maziere

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, "The Sorrow and The Pity" has been acclaimed as one of the ...

Directed by Eugene Green • Arthouse • 2017 • France, Belgium • French with English subtitles
Starring Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Regnier, Fabrizio Rongione

The American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugene Green exists in his own special artistic orbit and his film "The Son of Joseph" is perhaps his mo...

Directed by Lina Wertmüller • Comedy • 1974 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Agostina Belli

A blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, "The Seduction of Mimi" is a raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmull...

Directed by Claudio Caligari • Thriller • 1998• Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Valerio Mastrandrea, Marco Giallini, Allesia Fugardi

"The Scent of the Night" is a provocative thriller in which a former policeman turns full-time criminal and goes on a downward spiral in 1990s Rome...

Directed by Chris Eska • Drama • 2014 • US • English
Starring Ashton Sanders, Keston John, Tishuan Scott

On the outskirts of the Civil War, white bounty hunters send a young boy on a mission into the north to find a fugitive freed man by earning his trust and luring him back to the south. Groun...

Directed by Gabriel Lichtmann • Drama • 2021 • Argentina • Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Thelma Fardin, Hector Diaz, Rafael Spregelburd

"The Red Star" is a mockumentary following Laila Salama, a mysterious woman who may have contributed to the 1960 kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Buen...

Directed by Jerry Rothwell • Documentary • 2021 • US,UK • English
Featuring Jordan O'Donegan,, Jeremy Dear, David Mitchell

This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work that e...

Directed by Marcus Lindeen • Documentary • 2018 • Sweden • English, Swedish, French, German, Japanese, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Fe Seymour, Maria Bjornstam

In the summer of 1973, a young international crew of six women and five men embarked together on an un...

Directed by Frank Simon • Documentary • 1968 • US • English
Featuring Jack Doroshow, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick

More than 40 years before “RuPaul's Drag Race", this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive d...

Directed by Nathaniel Kahn • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Jeff Koons, Jerry Saltz, Jeffrey Deitch

"The Price of Everything" examines the role of art and passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society. Featuring collectors, dealers, and a rich range of artists from Jeff Ko...

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • Silent • 1919 • German • German w/ English intertitles
Starring Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke

Made in Germany by legendary director Ernst Lubitsch, this 1919 film follows an oyster tycoon who decides to find a prince to marry his daughter, but things don...

Directed by Jacques Deray • Crime • 1972 • US, France • English
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret

In this gritty 70s action classic from Jacques Deray ("La Piscine"), Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French hitman hired to kill a Los Angeles mafia boss by his son and daugh...