Movies & TV

It's a matter of record that on February 25, 1964, Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) upset Sonny Liston in Miami for the title. Afterwards, he convened in the hotel room of Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir) with Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom, Jr...

This extraordinary debut from documentarian Bing Liu weaves a story of skateboarding, friendship, and fathers and sons into a coming-of-age journey of courageous vulnerability. Over the course of several years and with his camera always at the ready, Liu...

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance), discovers that his...

Founded in 1959, the Newport Folk Festival grew over the years to encompass blues, country, and pop music and become one of America's premier musical events. Documentarian Murray Lerner's film includes footage from the 1963-66 concerts and features...

A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in The Exterminating Angel (El ?ngel exterminador), a daring masterpiece from Luis Bu?uel (Belle de jour, The Discreet Charm of the...

City Lights, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant...

This moving film from Mike Leigh (TOPSY-TURVY) is an intimate, invigorating, and amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a...

Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianna (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.

This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (I Know Where I'm Going!, the Red Shoes). a group of nuns - played by some of Britain's best...

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This funny, exciting, and unique Western depicts the unlikely partnership that unfolds between an ex-soldier (Sidney Poitier) and a conniving man of the cloth (Harry Belafonte). At first suspicious and disdainful of each other, the two eventually find no...

A powerful film debut by Emily Watson fuels writer/director Lars Von Trier's unusual, passionate drama. Bess McNeill (Watson), a naive and pious girl from a remote Scottish village, is happy after marrying virile oil rig worker Jan Nyman (Stellan...