Drama

New German Cinema icon Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) kicked off a new phase of his young career when he made the startling The Merchant of Four Seasons. In this despairing yet mordantly funny film, Fassbinder charts the decline of a...

Hollywood actor turned idiosyncratic auteur Robert Montgomery (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) directs and stars in this striking crime drama based on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes. He plays a tough-talking former GI who comes to a small New Mexico town to shake...

12 ANGRY MEN, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big-screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Roses teleplay stars Henry Fonda as...

Gus Van Sant's 1985 debut feature is about a deadbeat who has a crush on a Mexican immigrant. Bonuses: interview, documentary, storyboard gallery, film essay.

Three years after Saigon's fall, Japanese journalist George Lam (Shiomi Akutagawa)-who'd been evenhanded in his coverage of the Viet Cong-was invited back to chronicle the improvements under the new regime. Feeling that what he'd been presented was...

Ousmane Sembene (Xala, Faat Kine) was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century but his name deserves to be better known in the rest of...

With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign...

In 1934, Jean Renoir stepped off the soundstage and headed to the South of France, where he captured vivid human drama amid the bucolic splendor and everyday social rituals of the countryside. Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants...

Vladimar Ivashov, Shauna Prokhorenko. After he performs an incredible feat of bravery, a Russian soldier on leave to visit his mother helps locals on his way home and falls in love with a country girl who's on her way to see her wounded boyfriend, also a...

Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova. This poignant drama tells the story of a young Czechoslovakian train dispatcher learning about life and love during WWII. In Czech with English subtitles. 1966/color/89 min/NR/fullscreen.

Bette Midler exploded onto the screen with her take-no-prisoners performance in this quintessential film about fame and addiction from director Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond). Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her...

Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for this compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnsons play, from director Nicolas...