Drama

Thrilling and sensitive story traces the lives of two hoops-loving teens and next-door neighbors-Monica (Sanaa Lathan), who wants to be the first female NBA player, and Quincy (Omar Epps), who dreams of becoming a pro court star like his dad-from high...

The final film from Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story) was also his last masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man's dignified resignation to life's shifting currents and society's modernization. Though widower Shuhei (frequent Ozu leading man Chishu...

A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout it's history, Kenji Mizoguchi had already been directing movies for decades when he made...

Potent and brooding film noir from Nicholas Ray, with Humphrey Bogart as short-fused screenwriter Dixon Steele, exonerated in the murder of a hat-check girl through the alibi of intrigued new neighbor Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame). But as the romance...

This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish)...

Gilda, are you decent? Rita Hayworth tosses her hair back and slyly responds, "Me?" in one of the great star entrances in movie history. Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor, features a sultry Hayworth in her most iconic role, as the much-lusted-after wife...

Salo Or 120 Days Of Sodom/Bd Blu-Ray

Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer was commissioned by producers in France to create a film portrait of a French historical figure, and the result was this masterpiece of world cinema. Ren?e Falconetti, in her only film role, is impeccable as the...

Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason (Lolita) as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he...

Director Lizzie Borden's controversial and critically praised film tracks a day in the life of high-end hooker Molly (Louise Smith) and her colleagues at a busy Manhattan brothel, as they deal with the demands of the clientele-and the machinations of...

This entrancing first color feature from Jean Renoir (The Rules of the Game), shot entirely on location in India; is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the...

In his late color masterpiece "Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)," director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career-the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal...