Drama

With this bracing drama, made at the climax of the anti-apartheid movement, director Euzhan Palcy issued a devastating indictment of South Africa's racist government and made history in the process, becoming the first black woman to direct a Hollywood...

The expanses of the American Northwest take center stage in this intimately observed triptych from Kelly Reichardt. Adapted from three short stories by Maile Meloy and unfolding in self-contained but interlocking episodes, Certain Women navigates the...

Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale ''The Killers'' is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak (Criss Cross), in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style and...

A young executive hunts down his father's killer in director Akira Kurosawa's scathing the Bad Sleep Well. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect in...

Having holed up in a seedy Paris boardinghouse, frustrated young lovers Ren?e (Annabella) and Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) botch their suicide pact-and pimp resident Edmond (Louis Jouvet) advises Pierre to flee. As a recovering Ren?e pleas for her...

In contemporary Lagos, engineer Mofe (Jude Akuwudike) dreamed of emigrating to Spain, but the bureaucratic nightmare spinning out of a family tragedy might mean those dreams are over. Bartender Rosa (Temi Ami-Williams) sought new lives for herself and...

For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Starring Judy Davis as a free-spirited and...

On the eve of WWII, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London. Director: Alfred Hitchcock; stars Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.

In LES COUSINS, Claude Chabrol (LES BONNES FEMMES) crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character...

One of the iconoclastic Pier Paolo Pasolini's most radical provocations, Teorema finds the auteur moving beyond the poetic, proletarian earthiness that first won him renown and notoriety with a coolly cryptic exploration of bourgeois spiritual emptiness...

Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock's elegantly crafted Rebecca, his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel, the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who believes...

In the 1950s, noted New York saxophonist Dale Turner (Dexter Gordon) was losing his battles with substance abuse, and sought a needed change of scenery in Paris. Befriended by a local fan, graphic artist Francis Borler (Francois Cluzet), Dale gets clean....