Drama

This stirring Soviet drama is set during World War II and focuses on Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) and Rybak (Vladimir Gostyukhin), partisan soldiers captured by the Germans in Belarus while searching for food for their unit. As one of them suffers...

The trailblazing independent auteur John Cassavetes pushes his raw, uncompromising emotional realism to it's limit in this unflinching portrait of masculinity in crisis. Cassavetes joins Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk both of whom would become key...

The final film completed by Ernst Lubitsch, this zany, zippy comedy of manners, set in England on the cusp of World War II, is one of the worldly-wise director's most effervescent creations. Jennifer Jones shines in a rare comedic turn as Cluny Brown, an...

In it's home country, Frantisek Vlacil's MARKETA LAZAROVA has been hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made; for many U.S. viewers, it will be a revelation. Based on a novel by Vladislav Vancura, this stirring and poetic depiction of a feud between...

Irene Vail (Jean Arthur) fled to Paris in order to escape her possessive shipping magnate husband Bruce (Colin Clive), and she was rescued from his would-be ruinous blackmail attempt by gallant waiter Paul Dumond (Charles Boyer). While the two fell madly...

Blu-ray. Before he got up close and personal with Joan of Arc, the Danish cinema genius Carl Theodor Dreyer (VAMPYR) fashioned this finely detailed, ahead-of-it's-time examination of domestic life. In this heartfelt story of a housewife who, with the...

Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjvstrvm (THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE)is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching...

Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the Partition of India and come to depend on it's eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury). She...

Ingmar Bergman's Shame is at once an examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Max von Sydow and LIV Ullmann star as musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm,...

This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman (Nashville) may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema that transformed Hollywood in the early 1970s. It stars Warren Beatty (Bonnie and Clyde) and Julie Christie (Don't...

Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, this immersive account by Stuart Cooper of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with...

In the waning days of World War II, young Polish Resistance fighter Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski)-charged with assassinating an incoming commissar-shoots the wrong man. Ordered to make good, his lessening appetite for the mission wanes further still as he...