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Army of Crime

Period Drama · World Cinema · War

In Robert Guédiguian’s taut, internationally acclaimed thriller, set during the French Resistance, Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his French wife (Virginie Ledoyen) lead a ragtag assortment of volunteers — Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Italians, Spaniards and Arme…

Back to Normandy

Documentary

Filmmaker Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, In the Land of the Deaf) travels to the Normandy countryside to catch up with the locals he helped cast in a movie three decades earlier - a starting point for a remarkably rich exploration of memory, history, madness, life and death, and, of course, t…

Dracula's Fiancee / Lost in New York

Fantasy · Staff Picks · Cult

Dracula's Fiancee stars Jacques Regis as a vampire hunter whose pursuit of the descendants of Count Dracula leads him to a convent of supernatural beings from a parallel world. Also included is Lost in New York, a modern-day Alice in Wonderland in which two siblings explore the wastelands of Ma…

Happily Ever After

Drama

Writer-director Yvan Attal takes a "funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire" (Jami Bernard, NY DAILY NEWS) in HAPPILY EVER AFTER, a bittersweet comedy about the battle of the married sexes.

A History of Israeli Cinema

Historic Drama · Film Documentaries · Art Documentaries

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than 70 years of Israeli film with commentary from filmmakers, scholars and critics

Home

A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road’s construction, allowing rush hour tr…

I'm Going Home

World Cinema · Drama · Comedy

Michel Piccoli is a Parisian theater actor struggling to deal with grief, age, and a demanding American film director played by John Malkovich in this powerful masterpiece by Manoel de Oliveira.

Korkoro

World Cinema · War · Drama

In this passionate WWII drama, a tightly-knit family of Gypsies journeys through occupied France, trying to avoid the violent Vichy patrols. Directed with wit and vigor by Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom), Korkoro unearths the hidden story of the Romany people's joys and struggles during the war.

Lady Chatterley

Romance · Based on Literature · Period Drama

Pascale Ferran's intelligent, deeply moving, and exquisitely photographed Lady Chatterley brings D.H. Lawrence's most celebrated and notorious literary work to the screen.

Mademoiselle Chambon

World Cinema · Romance · Drama

An elegant, moving tale of an unexpected romance between a married man (Vincent Lindon) and his son's homeroom teacher (Sandrine Kiberlain, Lindon's former wife) — and their attempt to keep their desires from turning into a full-blown affair. A modern-day Brief Encounter, crafted with enormous…

Oporto of My Childhood

Biography · History · Documentary

With the rigor of inspiration, director Manoel de Oliveira returns to Oporto (commonly referred to as Porto), the city of his birth, to reveal a society unseen by most travelers or tourists.

La Petite Jerusalem

World Cinema · Cannes Film Festival

Winner of the script prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, Karin Albou's La Petite Jerusalem pits intimacy against sex and ideology against divinity, "with candor, sympathy and excellent cinematography," (Nathan Lee, The New York Times). Offering an unusual glimpse into an unseen, cloistered world…

The Sun

Historic Drama · World Cinema · War

The final portrait in a series on the lives of dictators by Alexander Sokurov, THE SUN is a re-imagining of Emperor Hirohito's final days in power during the waning days of WWII. Hirohito wanders through his palace in a child-like state of denial. But reality soon intrudes as American soldiers overr…

Tehilim

World Cinema · Family

From director Raphael Nadjari. In contemporary Jerusalem, an average middle class Jewish family balances the rituals of family, friends, religion and workaday life. But when middle-aged father and husband Eli (Shmuel Vilozni) unaccountably vanishes after a fluke car accident, the ensuing legal and e…

To Be and to Have

World Cinema · Documentary

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Tough Being Loved by Jerks

Documentary

Because he had published the twelve Danish cartoons that had triggered the wrath of Muslims worldwide, Philippe Val, the editor of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, was cited to court by the Great Mosque of Paris, the World Muslim League and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France.

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

Biography · Film · Documentary

For over two decades, Frances Marion was one of the most powerful names Hollywood; now, her fascinating story come alive in this insightful documentary narrated by Uma Thurman and Kathy Bates.