Movies & TV

Melodrama casts noir shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. It's iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship,...

A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. en route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside pavilion. Made by...

A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, Here Comes Mr. Jordan stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident. He finds...

Gimme Shelter DVD

The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (WORLD ON a WIRE) paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker's 1955 ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. a lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab...

Joe Mantegna plays Baltimore homicide detective Bobby Gold in what appears, at first blush, to be a gritty, straightforward cop opera. Soon, however, Gold is assigned to a murder case that he doesn't want, a case involving a Jewish woman's murder. As he...

In exchange for their promotion, beautiful albeit bickering influencers Yaya (Charlbi Dean) and Carl (Harris Dickinson) were invited aboard a luxury cruise where the one-percenter guests had their every whim addressed by the put-upon crew. After a power...

This masterly adaptation of George Orwell's chilling parable about totalitarian oppression gives harrowing cinematic expression to the book's bleak prophetic vision. In a rubble-strewn surveillance state where an endless overseas war props up the...

A world-weary artist (Alejandro Ferretis) departs his home in Mexico City for the rural country to prepare for his suicide. After arriving in a remote canyon, he finds lodging in the rickety home of an elderly Indian widow (Magdalena Flores). Through...

Bob Fosse co-wrote and directed this glittery, surrealistic musical based on his own life. Roy Scheider is Joe Gideon, a demanding musical director trying to balance his work on a Broadway production with his hectic personal life and a consuming drug...

Crafted for German public television, this rediscovered, lyrical social drama miniseries from Rainer Werner Fassbinder flavorfully follows the life of a young tool factory laborer (Gottfried John) as he courts a beautiful coworker (Hanna Schygulla),...

During the Ming Dynasty, calculating functionary Zhao (Ying Bai) connived the execution of a political rival... and wanted to make sure that the dead man's children did not survive their cross-country flight to Mongolia. After tracking the youths to a...