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Javier Bardem shines in this dark satire about a glad-handing business owner threatened with scandal and controversy.
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 03:35
Lost Illusions is an adaptation of a classic 19th-century novel by Honoré de Balzac. The history of film is full of examples of great books that ha...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:26
David Cronenberg pioneered a certain type of horror movie that came to be called “body horror.” Throughout his career, in such films as The Brood, ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:36
Three stories about chance and imagination, written and directed by the up-and-coming director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:19
George Orwell’s dystopian novel was made into a great film in the year of its title: 1984.
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:33
The film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical is a delightful expression of solidarity in a predominately Latino N.Y. neighborhood, wit...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:38
French writer-director Céline Sciamma has followed up her big success from 2019, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with a surprising story of childhood, ...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 03:28
Victor Kossakovsky shows us the experience of farm animals without the mediation of human words and concepts, in a film that extends compassion to ...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 03:23
Paul Thomas Anderson pays humorous tribute to the 1970s in southern California in this story of a teenage entrepreneur who falls for a clever young...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:26
An evil eye changes the appearance of two young people in love so that they can’t recognize one another, in a film from the country of Georgia that...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:31
Bernard Shaw’s popular comedy, about a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can turn a street person into a lady, was given near-perfect for...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:02
One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans ca...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:49
Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 05:14
Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:42
Thomas Vinterburg’s Oscar-winning comedy tells of four men who decide to use a small amount of alcohol to reinvigorate their jobs and personal live...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:24
The traditional way of beekeeping preserved by a Macedonian woman runs up against the modern motive for profit at all costs, in this gorgeous docum...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:24
Ken Loach and Paul Laverty present another great film about working class life: a portrait of an English family having to find a way to support the...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:23
The latest film by the darkly absurdist Swedish director Roy Andersson tackles the vexing subject of religion.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:22
Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:23
Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaugh...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:21
A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 03:36
A film by Channing Godfrey Peoples tells of a single mother (Nicole Beharie) in an African American neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, who wants he...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:19
In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her rela...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:33
Transposing Jack London’s autobiographical novel to Italy, Pietro Marcello highlights the conflict of socialist idealism with the individualistic d...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:05
In his latest and most personal film, Pedro Almodóvar contemplates aging, regret, the need to make films, and life as a gay man in Spain.
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 04:07
