Movies & TV

Cool and detached hit man Jef Costello (Alain Delon) always conducted his deadly trade by his own version of the samurai Bushido, or code of honor. He'll find his credo sorely tested when his latest contract killing nets both a tenacious police pursuit...

Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. A cultured, naively idealistic German officer is billeted in the home of a...

This deadpan tragicomedy about a group of impoverished, outcast artists living the bohemian life in Paris is among the most beguiling films by Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki (LE HAVRE). Based on stories from Henri Murger's influential mid...

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellinis 8 (Otto e mezzo) turns one mans artistic crisis into a grand epic of...

Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning'S DVD

Stodgy, affianced paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) had his worries between finding the last bone for a brontosaur skeleton and wheedling a six-figure grant for his museum. He then caught the interested eye of flighty, fun-loving society gal Susan...

A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand cameras, Ichikawa captured...

In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsus attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors got director Seijun Suzuki...

An unsung comic triumph from David Lean, this film stars the legendary Charles Laughton as the harrumphing Harry Hobson, the owner of a boot shop in late Victorian Northern England. When his haughty, independent daughter Maggie (Brenda de Banzie),...

In Ethiopia, the flowering, stimulant-bearing plant known as khat is a major commodity, for ritual use by the Sufi Muslim populace and for those who have a more secular purpose for it's euphoria-inducing properties. Jessica Beshir's engrossing...

Attractive Oslo twentysomething Julie (Renate Reinsve) had it together-except for any inkling about what she wanted from either career or relationships. Her search for answers over the course of four years, as she juggles affairs with an older graphic...

Heiress Joan Prentice (Sylvia Sidney) was charmed enough by handsome but hard-drinking reporter Jerry Corbett (Fredric March) to steer him to the altar. She believed that she could get him to embrace his dream of being a playwright-and to let go of the...