Alfred Hitchcock's Aventure Malgache
While preparing backstage, an actor tells his castmates about an adventure he had during World War II in the Axis-controlled French colony of Madagascar working for the Resistance and clashing with the collaborationist local police chief.
Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage & Aventure Malgache
Two short, absorbing dramas of wartime espionage and murder, rediscovered! Legendary master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directed these forgotten classics in 1944 to aid the French resistance.
Bushman
Bushman tells the story of a young Nigerian who settles in the Bay Area at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and is falsely accused of terrorism during events at a university strike. With irony, poetry, and a delicate touch, David Schickele’s unshakeable debut sets up a thoughtful and provocativ…
The Daughter
Adapted from The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, a man returns to his hometown and unearths a long-buried family secret. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.
The Giants
THE GIANTS is a moving coming-of-age film about small kids with enormous hearts. Brothers Seth (Martin Nissen) and Zak (Zacharie Chasseriaud) are two young teens left to their own devices when their mother abandons them in their dead grandfather's house. As money grows thin during the long summer da…
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Loulou
One evening Nelly meets Loulou, a down-and-out young man. After her husband kicks her out, she goes off to live with Loulou.
Oh, Canada
Paul Schrader and Richard Gere reunite more than 40 years after American Gigolo in this moving portrait of an aging artist telling his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late.
Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection
This essential collection features 17 films, including seven new restorations, by the prolific independent director whose pioneering explorations of contemporary Black life paved the way for generations. Presented in partnership with the Library of Congress.
A Paris Education
Shooting in timeless black and white and interweaving references to philosophy, music, and cinema, unsung auteur Jean Paul Civeyrac’s story of a young cinephile who moves to Paris for film school is an ode to the creative process and the heady days of student life.
Paul Verhoeven's Tricked
Part behind-the-scenes documentary, part narrative feature, PAUL VERHOEVEN'S TRICKED is the result of an ambitious experiment in filmmaking. Director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) shoots four minutes of the film Tricked, and crowd-sources the remainder of the script. With a brisk pac…
Rude Boy
Set against a background of riots, anti-racist demos, and police hostility, this unforgettable film portraits the UK at a moment when subcultural shock troops met those of a rising right wing in the streets. Merging documentary and fiction, Rude Boy follows a roadie for The Clash—the most fier…
Sorry We Missed You
The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, a wrenching, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy”.
La Syndicaliste
This investigative thriller set in the world of nuclear power and corrupt politics tells the true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), an influential head union representative who became a whistleblower and was violently targeted for exposing secrets that shook the French nuclear sector.
Thousand Pieces of Gold
Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventually Charlie (Chris Coope…