Drama

Kon Ichikawa's powerful film centers on the terrifying brutality of war. As World War II comes to a close, Japanese troops in retreat in the Philippines run out of supplies and discipline crumbles, leading to horrifying acts of desperation. Director Kon...

Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer was commissioned by producers in France to create a film portrait of a French historical figure, and the result was this masterpiece of world cinema. Ren?e Falconetti, in her only film role, is impeccable as the...

My Own Private IdahoDVD

Director Lizzie Borden's controversial and critically praised film tracks a day in the life of high-end hooker Molly (Louise Smith) and her colleagues at a busy Manhattan brothel, as they deal with the demands of the clientele-and the machinations of...

Kon Ichikawa's antiwar classic depicts the aftermath of the Burmese campaign of World War II and centers on a soldier who, after a series of horrifying experiences, come to realize that his vocation is to bury the unknown dead. Director Kon Ichikawa Star...

Toronto UHF television executive Max Renn (James Woods) discovers an underground program-possibly out of Malaysia-where people are tortured and murdered on camera... and is slowly drawn into a hallucinogenic world of living TV sets and programmable...

Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu shot to international prominence with this rigorously realistic Palme d'Or-winning second feature. In 1987, during the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, college roommates Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and G?bi?a (Laura...

This bittersweet film from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men. Conceived as a short...

Elaine May crafted a gangster film like no other in the nocturnal odyssey Mikey and Nicky, capitalizing on the chemistry between frequent collaborators John Cassavetes and Peter Falk by putting them on-screen together as small-time mobsters whose...

After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiantly intellectual and formally cutting-edge. EVERY MAN FOR...

Considered by many to be the finest British film ever made, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (THE RED SHOES), is a stirring masterpiece like no other. Roger Livesey dynamically embodies outmoded English...

In this magnificently inscrutable late-sixties masterpiece, Marco Ferreri, one of European cinema's most idiosyncratic auteur, takes US through the looking glass to one seemingly routine night in the life of an Italian gas mask designer, played, in a...