American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees…
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. This is one of David Cronenberg’s most provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking sex and violence.
Two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of their desire (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery––in her own home. French New Wave pioneer Jean-Luc Godard takes to the streets of Paris to re-imagine the gangster genre.
One of the most influential political films in history, Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (La bataille d’Alger) vividly recreates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s.
In Jean-Luc Godard’s subversive Contempt, Michel Piccoli is a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director, a crude and arrogant American producer, and his disillusioned wife, Camille as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of The Odyssey.
World-renowned director David Lynch (“Eraserhead,” “The Elephant Man,” “Blue Velvet”) brings his incomparable visual artistry to “Twin Peaks,” a disturbing mystery about the life of a seemingly typical small town.
In this fable-morality subtitled “A Song of Two Humans”, the “evil” temptress is a city woman who bewitches farmer Anses and convinces him to murder his neglected wife, Indre.
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village’s theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater’s projectionist.
This award-winning animated film is based on director Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical comic book by the same name. The film is a Bildungsroman about a young girl’s coming-of age set against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution.
Imaginatively exploring questions of faith, familial responsibility, delinquent behaviour, dental phenomena, academia, mortality and Judaism – and intersections thereof – A Serious Man is the new film from Academy Award®-winning writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen.
Depression-era drifters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker embark on a life of crime. They crave adventure – and each other. We are unprepared for the cascading violence that follows; we learn they can be hurt – and dread they will be killed.
An aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer decides to strip the veneer off his existence and find meaning in his final days. Ikiru offers a multifaceted look at a life through a prism of perspectives, and is considered by some to be Akira Kurosawa’s greatest achievement.
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
A father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish, stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then travel to Sydney, and search Sydney Harbour find Nemo.
Remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks film, which follows the rise of Tony Montana (Al Pacino), a Cuban emigre who, with his friend Manny Ray, builds a strong criminal empire in early 1980’s Miami.
New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an L.A. office building.
When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts.
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric Oscar winner, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
A emotional drama set in the outskirts of Scotland, where Bess, a naive young woman, falls in love with and marries a handsome oil rig worker, Jan. Soon, an unfortunate work accident cripples Jan for life, which shatters Bess’ world completely…