Drama

In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noel Coward (DESIGN FOR LIVING) and the craft of filmmaker David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) melded harmoniously in one of cinemas greatest writer-director collaborations. With the wartime military drama sensation IN...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's fifteen-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Doblin's great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a prolific director who, at age thirty-four, had already made over thirty films. Fassbinder's immersive epic...

The multifaceted, deeply personal work of Eric Rohmer has had an effect on cinema unlike any other. One of the founding critics of the history-making Cahiers du cinema, Rohmer began translating his written manifestos to film in the 1960s, standing apart...

Abbas Kiarostami first came to international attention for this wondrous, slyly self-referential series of films set in the rural northern-Iranian town of Koker. Poised delicately between fiction and documentary, comedy and tragedy, the lyrical fables in...

Bo Widerberg'S New Swedish Cinema Blu-Ray

Three-disc set includes: The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (1972)Luis Bu?uel's classic satire is filled with savage wit and some of the director's most surrealistic images. The gatherings of groups of bourgeois friends, and the dreams of various...

This masterwork by Krzysztof Kie?lowski (Three Colors) is one of the twentieth century's greatest achievements in visual storytelling. Originally made for Polish television, Dekalog focuses on the residents of a housing complex in post-Communist Poland,...

Two decades after it's original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray's breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration. The Apu Trilogy brought India into the golden age of...

Vienna-born, New York raised Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express) directed some of the most influential and stylish dramas ever to come out of Hollywood. Though best known for his later star-making collaborations with actor Marlene Dietrich, von...

When Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn-theater directors, writers, actors, and longtime friends-sat down for a stimulating meal in 1981's My Dinner with Andre, they not only ended up with one of cinema's unlikeliest iconic scenarios but launched a film...

In "Before Sunrise" (1995) American traveller Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and French student Celine (Julie Delpy) meet while on a Vienna-bound train and share a mutual attraction. With less than 24 hours before having to go their separate ways, the two decide to...

In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a filmmaker in his native Provence. His early masterpieces Marius, Fanny, and Cesar mix theatrical stagecraft with realistic location photography to create an...