Drama

With his trademark mixture of empathy and scrutiny, Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) has changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the United States, and his career began with two remarkable tales of American eccentricity: Gates of Heaven and...

This striking drama from Lynne Ramsey is set in a tough section of Glasgow during a 1973 garbage strike. The focus is on a 12-year-old boy who accidentally drowns his best friend, but decides to keep quiet because he can't relate to family members. He...

A graceful drawing-room drama and piercing character study riven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, William Wyler's The Heiress, starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland (in an Oscar-winning turn), is classic Hollywood filmmaking...

Playing like "Romeo and Juliet" on heroin, the bizarre love story of punk rock pioneer Sid Vicious and American groupie Nancy Spungen is graphically brought to the screen by Alex Cox. Gary Oldman plays the Sex Pistols bassist, and Chloe Webb is his...

A gripping thriller and a tragic drama of nearly Greek proportions, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar-nominated international breakthrough of Austrian filmmaker G?tz Spielmann. In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex (the mesmerizing Johannes...

Director David Lean's adaptation of Arthur Laurents' play "The Time of the Cuckoo" stars Katharine Hepburn as Jane Hudson, a never-married, middle-aged American woman on vacation in Venice, Italy. She becomes unexpectedly drawn to handsome and charming...

Set amidst the trendy jazz clubs and coffeehouses of Chicago, this bright and contemporary look at romance in middle-class black culture follows the blossoming relationship between author Darius Lovehall (Larenz Tate) and photographer Nina Mosley (Nia...

Ten years after making his mark on Spanish cinema with The Spirit of the Beehive, Victor Erice returned to filmmaking with this adaptation of a novella by Adelaida Garcia Morales, which deepens the director's fascination with childhood, fantasy, and the...

Censored by Soviet officials upon release, writer/director Sergei Paradjanov's lavish and visually stunning masterpiece paints a portrait of 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Using a series of tableaux and poems to tell the story of the...

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This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish-German identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer (Nina Hoss, in a dazzling, multilayered performance) has her...

One of the world's most influential and provocative filmmakers, the Academy Award-winning Austrian director Michael Haneke (Amour) diagnoses the social maladies of contemporary Europe with devastating precision and staggering artistry. His 2000 drama...