Drama

In the town of Twin Peaks, everyone has their secrets but especially Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). In this prequel to his groundbreaking 1990s television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show,...

In the nineties, Andri Gregory mounted a series of spare, private performances of Anton Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA in a crumbling Manhattan playhouse. These treasures of pure theater would have been lost to time had they not been captured on film, with subtle...

Bengal, the mid-19th century: With his son (Soumitra Chatterjee) gone to pursue his studies in Kolkota, a wealthy old landowner (Chhabi Biswas) is seized by the delusion that his dutiful new daughter-in-law (Sharmila Tagore) is the goddess Kali...

Alike (Adepero Oduye) is a bright teen from Brooklyn, and she's at peace with her lesbian leanings. That's more than can be said for her churchgoing mom (Kim Wayans) and doting cop dad (Charles Parnell), who are in denial about her sexual identity. They...

As World War II splits Europe, sixteen-year-old German Jew Salomon (Marco Hofschneider) is separated from his family after fleeing with them to Poland, and finds himself reluctantly assuming various ideological identities in order to hide the deadly...

David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life in his most iconic film. With intense performances by Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rosellini, Kyle MacLachlan, and Laura Dern, and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, Blue Velvet...

One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the early 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a...

Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. With austere simplicity, the director tells the story of the rape and murder of the...

This major early achievement by Michelangelo Antonioni bears the first signs of the cinema-changing style for which he would soon be world-famous. Le amiche (The Girlfriends) is a brilliantly observed, fragmentary depiction of modern bourgeois life,...

Unsparing and naturalistic drama from writer/director/star Barbara Loden (Elia Kazan's wife) filters a "road movie" story through the sensibilities of 1970s independent cinema. Having lost her job-and custody of her kids-rudderless working-class divorc?e...

Steven Soderbergh wrote and directed this witty, revealing, masterfully acted look at the sexual games people play. A philandering husband (Peter Gallagher), his frigid wife (Andie MacDowell), and his sultry mistress (Laura San Giacomo)-who is also his...

Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, Jules and Jim charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary Francois Truffaut (THE 400 BLOWS) directs, and Jeanne Moreau (ELEVATOR...