Drama

Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason (Lolita) as a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he...

A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout it's history, Kenji Mizoguchi had already been directing movies for decades when he made...

By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them-the homeless father and son...

American filmmakers Chris and Tony Sanders (Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth) opted for a work retreat to F?r?, the Swedish isle where Ingmar Bergman resided. As the trip revealed and exacerbated the fissures in their union, she found fodder for her stalled...

Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on the celebrated short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by...

Potent and brooding film noir from Nicholas Ray, with Humphrey Bogart as short-fused screenwriter Dixon Steele, exonerated in the murder of a hat-check girl through the alibi of intrigued new neighbor Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame). But as the romance...

In this warmhearted comic yarn from Aki Kaurismdki (THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL), fate throws the young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (LA VIE DE BOHHME'S Andri Wilms), a kindly bohemian who shines shoes for a living, in...

Brooklyn cabbie and Angolan ?migr? Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) had to brace himself for a reunion after 17 years when his wife Esther (Zainab Jah) and daughter Sylvia (Jayme Lawson) landed at the airport. The fitful assimilation back into one...

In late-19th-century Shanghai, the volatile lives of a group of concubines are detailed, as rich and privileged men try to keep the women subservient to them by creating a sheltered and decadent world for themselves inside the city's brothels. This...

Twelve-year old Anaos is fat. Her older sister, Elina, is a teenage beauty. While on vacation with her parents, Anaos tags along behind Elina, exploring the dreary seaside town. Direction: Catherine Breillat Actors: Anais Reboux, Roxane Mesquida Special...

Jean-Pierre Melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful adaptation of an influential underground novel written during the Nazi occupation of France. A cultured, naively idealistic German officer is billeted in the home of a...

The great Andrei Tarkovsky's debut feature, this film is an evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth.