“Santa Sangre is every inch a Jodorowsky film, wheeling between genres, styles, and spiritual traditions as easily as its soundtrack shifts from traditional Mexican music to a pulsating horror-movie score. Drawing on his training in mime and his fascination with Gnosticism, Jodorowsky converted a story about a bizarre murderer i more »
A bar mitzvah mishap causes a major rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem. more »
Tells the true and untold story of prolific rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur. more »
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge. more »
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms. more »
The wife of a successful movie producer takes a car trip from the south of France to Paris with one of her husband's associates. more »
Past Life tracks the daring late 1970s odyssey of two sisters - an introverted classical musician and a rambunctious scandal sheet journalist - as they unravel a shocking wartime mystery that has cast a dark shadow on their entire lives. more »
A holistic medicine practitioner attends a wealthy client's dinner party after her car breaks down. more »
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation. more »
“In 9th-century Kyoto, a nobleman's bride is raped by a bandit; the nobleman is murdered, or possibly he is a suicide. This double crime is acted out four times, in the versions of the three participants, each giving an account that increases the prestige of his conduct, and in the version of a woodcutter who witnessed the episo more »
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today. more »
At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tension, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events. more »
“G.W. Pabst's 1929 follow-up to his notorious Pandora's Box, again with the American starlet Louise Brooks, though this time as sexual victim rather than predator. The daughter of a pharmacist, she is seduced by a shop assistant and launched on a series of humiliations, which include bearing a baby out of wedlock, a term in a re more »
A couple deals with their cultural differences as their relationship grows. more »
A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the middle ages. more »
“An epileptic teenager channels all his hopes and dreams into a single project: the mass murder of his wealthy family, which he intends as a public service. Marco Bellocchio's first film is a fierce, punkish mash of political satire and family melodrama, veins that Bellocchio would continue to pursue…” more »
“One of the most sophisticated slapstick comedies ever made…The hero, a symphony conductor is played by Rex Harrison, who is at one of his comic peaks. During a concert the conductor, convinced that his wife has been unfaithful to him, fantasizes how he will handle the situation in three different ways, according to the style of more »
“The 1987 film River's Edge was a film that shocked audiences and critics alike with its depiction of aimless teenagers in a dead-end town….A fictionalized account of a 1981 murder case in Milpitas, California, in which 16-year-old Anthony Jacques Broussard strangled 14-year-old Marcy Conrad and dumped her body near the foothill more »
In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife. more »
“Humphrey Bogart's most exciting role was Sam Spade…This film, the first directed by John Huston, is an almost perfect visual equivalent of the Dashiell Hammett thriller. Huston used Hammett's plot design and economic dialogue in a hard, precise directorial style that brings out the full viciousness of characters so ruthless and more »
“With his first movie for a major studio, Meyer simply did what he'd been doing for years, only bigger and better. That's to say, he turned the homely story of an all-girl rock band's rise to fame under their transsexual manager into a delirious comedy melodrama, soused in self-parody but spiked with dope, sex and thrills.” more »
“Despite cries of outrage from hard-line Chandler purists, this is, along with Hawks' The Big Sleep, easily the most intelligent of all screen adaptations of the writer's work….Altman constructs not only a comment on the changes in values in America over the last three decades, but a critique of film noir mythology: references, more »
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. more »
Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year-old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back and sparked a global movement. more »
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live. more »
