Drama

On the news of her last child's passing, 80-year-old Lesotho widow Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo) resignedly went about wrapping up her affairs and waiting for the end. Upon finding that a governmental dam project stands to flood out her impoverished...

Jacques Offenbach's fantasy work is magnificently brought to the screen by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ("The Red Shoes"). Robert Rounseville stars in the title role of the German romanticist, regaling a tavern crowd about his fantastical but...

For his acclaimed follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a slice of New York City rarely seen on-screen: Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being...

One of the 1960s' great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara (The Face of Another). Eiji Okada (Hiroshima mon amour) plays an amateur...

Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale ''The Killers'' is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak (Criss Cross), in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style and...

In early-'60s Louisiana, young Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) was troubled by the indiscretions of her loving but philandering doctor father Louis (Samuel L. Jackson). Her turning to a local voodoo queen (Diahann Carroll) for resolution may have...

After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiantly intellectual and formally cutting-edge. EVERY MAN FOR...

Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the decaying rural South must confront a tangle of difficult choices. An ambitiously constructed, elegantly photographed meditation on adolescence, the first full-length film by director David...

On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it more than 1, 500 of it's 2, 200 passengers. In his unforgettable rendering of Walter...

In his cinematic salute to the nascent youth counterculture of the 1960s (whom he described as "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola"), filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard depicts the stormy romance between radical and would-be writer Paul (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and...

A modest miracle of twenty-first-century neorealism, the acclaimed debut feature by Ramin Bahrani speaks quietly but profoundly to the experiences of those living on the margins of the American dream. Back in his home country of Pakistan, Ahmad (Ahmad...

The directorial debut of actor Paul Dano reveals a filmmaking talent of remarkable intelligence and restraint. Adapted by Dano and Zoe Kazan from the novel by Richard Ford, this meticulously crafted portrait of the American nuclear family in crisis...