A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
A Parisian waif (Audrey Tautou) takes it upon herself to improve the lives of others in this warm and whimsical fable from Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Based on the bestselling book by Cormac McCarthy, the film chronicles how a drug-deal-went-wrong changes the lives of various criminals and the local sheriff in a small town bordering Mexico.
Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest American comedies, Woody Allen’s cinematic coming of age is a look at the ups and downs of one couple’s relationship.
Three decades of life in the mob as seen by Henry Hill, a gangster who climbs up the ladder and watches it all come crashing down.
One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.
Jerry Lundegaard has money problems. To settle them he decides to have his wife kidnapped. He hires two thugs to do the job, offering them a cut from the ransom, which he plans to force her rich father to pay. But the kidnapping turns sour.
Mulholland Drive is David Lynch’s Sunset Boulevard. He skillfully guides us along a winding path between past and present, dream and reality, character and archetype. Winner of the Cannes 2001 directing award.
The “Man With No Name” returns, this time teaming with two gunslingers in pursuit of a cache of gold. From sun-drenched panoramas to hard close-ups, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of the most ambitious and stylistically influential westerns ever made.
Tarantino’s Sundance hit, which made his name, is a brutal, twisted tale of honor among thieves.
Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Hans Landa. She escapes to Paris, where she becomes the owner of a cinema. Elsewhere, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution.
In one of the most beloved American films of all time, a jaded expatriate in the early days of World War II finds himself faced with a difficult choice when an old flame re-enters his life.
Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader.
The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of director François Truffaut’s own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, petty crime, and a friendship—between director and his on-screen counterpart, Jean-Pierre Léaud—that would last a lifetime.
After a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess in Ingmar Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s apocalyptic search for meaning.
In 1930s Los Angeles, private eye Jake Gittes is hired by a woman to tail her husband, only to find himself caught in a web of personal and political scandal.
Cidade de Deus is an overwhelming film about the life of the notorious outer suburb of Rio de Janeiro of the same name, based on a book by Paulo Lins.
A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates, in this classic horror/sci-fi film from Ridley Scott.
A movie star (Bill Murray) with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected newlywed (Scarlett Johansson) meet up as strangers in Tokyo, Japan and form an unlikely bond in Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning tale of displacement.
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.