Drama

In ALAMBRISTA!, a farm worker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from...

At his doctor's request, Alain, a disillusioned alcoholic writer, leaves a clinic in Versailles where he is drying out and returns to Paris to visit his friends and old haunts. Alain has made up his mind to commit suicide and, giving himself a 48 hour...

Loosely adapted from William Faulkner's controversial novel Sanctuary, this notorious pre-Code melodrama stars Miriam Hopkins as Temple Drake, the coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge. When a boozehound date strands her at a...

An anarchistic, loutish poet (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) gives booze-soaked and bitter voice to his disdain for polite society as he goes on a destructive jag through the countryside, wrecking the lives of those unfortunate enough to be intimate with him...

This is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (THE KID WITH A BIKE), who would go on to become a force in world filmmaking. The brothers brought the unerring eye for detail and the compassion for those on society's lowest rungs...

When her grandmother passed, 8-year-old Nelly (Jos?phine Sanz) went with her parents to a cleanout of her mother's (Nina Meurisse) childhood house... only to find her overwhelmed mom returned to their home overnight. Opting to play in the woods, she met...

The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sal?, or The 120 Days of Sodom has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic... It's also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker's transposition of the Marquis de...

A tough-minded black jazz trumpeter slogs through a series of performances in ratty bars and strip clubs, while his lighter-skinned younger siblings enjoy-at least temporarily-the various privileges of "passing" in Manhattan's white power elite. This...

Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of it's various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. Charged by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and...

This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish)...

At loose ends in Buenos Aires, vagabond gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) thought his luck was finally on the uptick when he made an unlikely friend of--and got a job offer from--wealthy casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready). Cold reality set...

Latvia, 1919: The end of the Russian Civil War. An aristocratic young woman becomes involved with a sexually repressed Prussian soldier. When she is rejected by her love, the young woman is sent into a downward spiral of psychosexual depression,...