Drama

With her Oscar-winning turn in Klute, Jane Fonda arrived full-fledged as a new kind of movie star. Bringing nervy audacity and counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the focal point of a missing-person...

Having refined his craft in the silent era, Kenji Mizoguchi was an elder statesman of Japanese cinema fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other younger directors by the time he made Ugetsu. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime...

This Oscar-winning melodrama, one of Pedro Almodovar's most beloved films, provides a dizzying, moving exploration of the meaning of motherhood. In an instant, nurse Manuela (Cecilia Roth) loses the teenage son she raised on her own. Grief-stricken, she...

While touring 19th-century Japan, kabuki performer/female impersonator Yukinojo Nakamura (Kazuo Hasegawa) tracked down the three prosperous merchants who had disgraced and driven his parents to suicide a generation before... and utilized his acting...

The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (WORLD ON a WIRE) paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker's 1955 ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS. a lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab...

This masterly adaptation of George Orwell's chilling parable about totalitarian oppression gives harrowing cinematic expression to the book's bleak prophetic vision. In a rubble-strewn surveillance state where an endless overseas war props up the...

A world-weary artist (Alejandro Ferretis) departs his home in Mexico City for the rural country to prepare for his suicide. After arriving in a remote canyon, he finds lodging in the rickety home of an elderly Indian widow (Magdalena Flores). Through...

Bob Fosse co-wrote and directed this glittery, surrealistic musical based on his own life. Roy Scheider is Joe Gideon, a demanding musical director trying to balance his work on a Broadway production with his hectic personal life and a consuming drug...

In this provocative Academy Award winner from French director Serge Bourgignon, a psychologically damaged war veteran and a neglected child begin a startlingly intimate friendship - one that ultimately ignites the suspicion and anger of his friends and...

The extraordinary, internationally embraced YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO...), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang (A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY), follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending...

Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing footage tragedies harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline of the fortunes of an affluent...

Between the breaking scandal on his bad-boy behavior and his latest project's rotten reviews, dissipated movie star Arindam Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar) was glad to be grabbing a Delhi-bound train for an awards dinner. Coaxed into an interview by an...