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Javier Bardem shines in this dark satire about a glad-handing business owner threatened with scandal and controversy.
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 03:35
A witty English drama from John Schlesinger about an unusual triangle: a man and a woman both in love with the same man.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:09
The classic Harlem Renaissance novel by Ella Larsen about the American delusion of race is beautifully adapted by Rebecca Hall.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:31
Claire Denis’ latest film explores one of her important themes: how desire in man-woman relationships is more complicated than we often assume.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:35
Alfred Hitchcock made this appeal to join the fight against Hitler a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now this film is valued for being one ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 05:48
In the history of Indian film, there’s a dividing line between approximately the first forty years of the movie industry, and the release, in 1955,...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:33
A gripping drama based on real events that occurred during the Serbian attack on Bosnia in 1995 brings home to us the nightmare of modern war.
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:18
The yearning and frustrations of two teenage girls in 1950s New Zealand leads to tragedy, in this wildly expressive film based on an actual murder ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:23
A Finnish woman on a Russian train is aggravated by the man with which she’s forced to share a compartment: an insensitive young tough guy with a c...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:12
The meanings that we access through works of art are not confined to the conscious intentions of the artists. This critical truth came to mind whil...
- Added: Aug 03, 2022
- Length: 03:29
A spellbinding portrait of an elderly couple in crisis, the wife suffering from dementia, the husband unable to cope, in a film composed entirely i...
- Added: Aug 03, 2022
- Length: 03:22
Lost Illusions is an adaptation of a classic 19th-century novel by Honoré de Balzac. The history of film is full of examples of great books that ha...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:26
Artist and director Ulrike Ottinger presents her recollections of living and working in Paris in the 1960s.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:23
An experiment in how people will react to videos of Israeli army and settler interactions with Palestinians becomes a fascinating study challenging...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:32
Guillermo del Toro adds his own Gothic sensibility to this thrilling new version of an old film noir.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:15
David Cronenberg pioneered a certain type of horror movie that came to be called “body horror.” Throughout his career, in such films as The Brood, ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:36
Three stories about chance and imagination, written and directed by the up-and-coming director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:19
George Orwell’s dystopian novel was made into a great film in the year of its title: 1984.
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:33
The film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical is a delightful expression of solidarity in a predominately Latino N.Y. neighborhood, wit...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:38
After the success of the massive two-part crime film Dr. Mabuse in 1922, Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou, now husband and wife, embarke...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 02:52
French writer-director Céline Sciamma has followed up her big success from 2019, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with a surprising story of childhood, ...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 03:28
Victor Kossakovsky shows us the experience of farm animals without the mediation of human words and concepts, in a film that extends compassion to ...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 03:23
French director Mia Hansen-Løve is a real cinephile. She loves to think and talk about film history and the works of famous filmmakers. Although sh...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:01
Paul Thomas Anderson pays humorous tribute to the 1970s in southern California in this story of a teenage entrepreneur who falls for a clever young...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:26
Todd Haynes tells the story of this influential New York rock band in the cinematic style of the man who discovered them: Andy Warhol.
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:29
