Drama

James Stewart, Hardy Kr?ger, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, and Ernest Borgnine star in this saga of a group of men who are stranded in the Sahara when their plane crashes. A rescue is unlikely, and their numbers are already starting to dwindle. Now,...

The deceptively simple story of a donkey named Balthazar and his treatment (and, often, mistreatment) at the hands of various owners over the years, writer/director Robert Bresson's touching allegorical drama is regarded as a landmark of French cinema...

Criterion Blu-ray. At the turn of the twentieth century, three Australian army lieutenants are court-martialed for alleged war crimes committed while fighting in South Africa. With no time to prepare, an Australian major, appointed as defense attorney,...

Twelve-year-old Anaos is fat. Her sister, fifteen-year-old Elena, is a beauty. While the girls are on vacation with their parents, Anaos tags along while Elena explores the dreary seaside town. Elena meets Fernando, an Italian law student; he seduces her...

An Oscar-winning performance by Robert de Niro and poetic direction by Martin Scorsese highlight this riveting drama based on the life of middleweight boxing champion Jake La Motta. The superbly staged fight scenes are wonderfully complemented by a...

Lino Brocka broke through to international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, the second film in the director's turn to more serious-minded filmmaking after building a career on mainstream films he described as soaps. A young fisherman...

A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life, Ermanno Olmi's The Tree of Wooden Clogs lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo. Filming on an abandoned...

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award-winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio de Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope...

The first gay-themed Best Picture Academy Award-winner-and the first to be initially rated "X"-director John Schlesinger's gritty drama stars Jon Voight as Joe Buck, a Texas-born stud who heads to New York City with dreams of life as a high-paid hustler,...

After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones's...

Award-winning tale of two women from Hungary, centering around the unlikely friendship that develops between Kata (Katalin Berek), a middle-aged widow whose married lover won't give her the child she wants, and Anna (Gy?ngyv?r Vigh), a teenage ward of...

Director Ken Russell's moving adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence's novel is set in 1920s England and chronicles the complicated romantic lives of artist Gudrun Brangwen (Glenda Jackson, who won a Best Actress Oscar) and her sister, schoolmistress Ursula...