Drama

In late-'30s Germany, a clan of wealthy industrialists had begun to do business with the Nazi Party. The night the Reichstag burned, the family's Hitler-hating patriarch was assassinated-and their slow degeneration over the ensuing years would reflect...

Far from the religious drama it's title implies, this powerful French drama follows the slacker-like existence of a 20-year-old epileptic man who spends his time riding around on his motorbike with his unemployed pals, and the violence that erupts when...

With a father having gone to the gallows, Danny Hawkins (Dane Clark) grew up with no end of stigma and bullying in his small town... and one fateful night, a fistfight with privileged, lifelong tormentor Jerry Sykes (Lloyd Bridges) turned deadly. Having...

The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann's bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con...

With THE MUSIC ROOM, Satyajit Ray (PATHER PANCHALI) brilliantly evokes the crumbling opulence of the world of a fallen aristocrat (the beloved actor Chhabi Biswas) desperately clinging to his way of life. His greatest joy is the music room in which he...

Once an undisputed judo champ, Sze-To Bo (Louis Koo) was now an alcoholic karaoke bar manager on the margins. Between an ambitious kid (Aaron Kwok) looking to challenge him, an old rival (Tony Leung Ka Fai) with an agenda, a mentor (Hoi Pang Lo) seeking...

In Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness plays Jock Sinclair a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. A lifetime military man, Sinclair expects respect and loyalty from his men...

There has never been another movie like Boyhood, from director Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused). An event film of the utmost modesty, it was shot over the course of twelve years in the director's native Texas and charts the physical and emotional...

This is the definitive counterculture blockbuster. The down-and-dirty directorial debut of former clean-cut teen star Dennis Hopper, Easy Riderheralded the arrival of a new voice in film, one pitched angrily against the mainstream. After the film's...

Francois Truffaut followed up the international phenomenon Jules and Jim with this tense tale of infidelity. The unassuming Jean Desailly (Le doulos) is perfectly cast as a celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, who embarks on an affair...

Considered by many to be the finest British film ever made, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (THE RED SHOES), is a stirring masterpiece like no other. Roger Livesey dynamically embodies outmoded English...

This psychologically acute, visually striking modernist work was director Michelangelo Antonioni's follow-up to the epochal L'AVVENTURA. Marcello Mastroianni (DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE) and Jeanne Moreau (JULES AND JIM) star as a novelist and his frustrated...