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Even among cinemas greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like...

Having holed up in a seedy Paris boardinghouse, frustrated young lovers Ren?e (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) botch their suicide pact-and pimp resident Edmond (Louis Jouvet) advises Pierre to flee. As a recovering Ren?e pleas for her...

In contemporary Lagos, engineer Mofe (Jude Akuwudike) dreamed of emigrating to Spain, but the bureaucratic nightmare spinning out of a family tragedy might mean those dreams are over. Bartender Rosa (Temi Ami-Williams) sought new lives for herself and...

In his first and only self-directed lead performance, John Cassavetes portrays a dissolute novelist immersing himself in his current subject-the seedy lives of the local prostitutes. His existence is paralleled with that of his long-unseen sister (Gena...

Diahann Carroll is radiant in an unforgettable, Oscar-nominated performance as Claudine, a strong-willed single mother, raising six kids in Harlem, whose budding relationship with a gregarious garbage collector (an equally fantastic James Earl Jones) is...

For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Starring Judy Davis as a free-spirited and...

One of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema for the audaciousness of it's attack on the Catholic Church, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life massacre that occurred in 1968, eight years before the film's release, when a...

In LES COUSINS, Claude Chabrol (LES BONNES FEMMES) crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character...

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For two weeks every six months, single dad Lenny (Ronald Bronstein) gets custody of "the guys"-his 7- and 9-year-old sons (Frey Ranaldo, Sage Ranaldo). Unfortunately for Lenny and his children, he can't figure out if he is supposed to act like a father...

Impressive debut from filmmaker David Gordon Green is a lyrical, highly praised drama set in a small, rundown North Carolina town around Independence Day, where a multi-racial group of children finds it's own moral code. Nasia dumps boyfriend Buddy to go...

One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini's most radical provocations, Teorema finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness...