Drama

With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jane Campion brought to the screen the harrowing autobiography of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. Three actors in turn take on the lead role (including Kerry Fox in a...

With this bracing drama, made at the climax of the anti-apartheid movement, director Euzhan Palcy issued a devastating indictment of South Africa's racist government and made history in the process, becoming the first black woman to direct a Hollywood...

In a small Montana town, three women find their fates intersecting: a workers' comp lawyer (Laura Dern) faced with having to talk down a dissatisfied client, a housewife (Michele Williams) whose pursuit of building her dream home reveals a flawed...

It's 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler (DAYS OF HEAVEN) decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. His debut feature, MEDIUM COOL, plunges us into that moment. With...

Having holed up in a seedy Paris boardinghouse, frustrated young lovers Ren?e (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) botch their suicide pact-and pimp resident Edmond (Louis Jouvet) advises Pierre to flee. As a recovering Ren?e pleas for her...

In contemporary Lagos, engineer Mofe (Jude Akuwudike) dreamed of emigrating to Spain, but the bureaucratic nightmare spinning out of a family tragedy might mean those dreams are over. Bartender Rosa (Temi Ami-Williams) sought new lives for herself and...

In his first and only self-directed lead performance, John Cassavetes portrays a dissolute novelist immersing himself in his current subject-the seedy lives of the local prostitutes. His existence is paralleled with that of his long-unseen sister (Gena...

For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Starring Judy Davis as a free-spirited and...

In LES COUSINS, Claude Chabrol (LES BONNES FEMMES) crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character...

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Impressive debut from filmmaker David Gordon Green is a lyrical, highly praised drama set in a small, rundown North Carolina town around Independence Day, where a multi-racial group of children finds it's own moral code. Nasia dumps boyfriend Buddy to go...

One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini's most radical provocations, Teorema finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness...