Set in a sun-dappled retreat for women with nymphomania, this drama from the ever-dynamic Denis Côté was written with a sexologist but, distinctively, administers no decisive cure. Obsessions continue to ripple across the film’s waters, in a radical acceptance of how people live and find pleasure.
In Paweł Łoziński’s cleverly inventive film, a humble patch of pavement in Warsaw might hold the key to the mysteries of the universe. Structured around casual conversations with passersby, this playful and heartfelt celebration of the everyday cherishes the cycle of the seasons—and of life itself.
A Faustian pact with the Devil is brought to life in exquisitely hand-painted images in this deliciously dark adaptation of a Brothers Grimm story. Expansively shapeshifting before our eyes, Sébastien Laudenbach’s startlingly original animation unfolds like a shadowy and half-remembered fever dream.
Godard’s ‘60s films are legend, but his career went far beyond the French New Wave. Roundly condemned by the Vatican for its risky retelling of the Virgin Mary’s story, this is a highlight of his under-rated ‘80s period, as cinema’s great experimenter refused to soften his provocative edge.
Lars von Trier returns to the original haunted hospital of his ’90s TV sensation with this dazzling limited event series. Set in the run-up to Christmas, The Kingdom Exodus serves an incomparable blend of horror and humor on a compulsively entertaining path towards the promise of Armageddon.
Park Chan-wook ended his “Vengeance Trilogy” in style—and to great blockbuster success—with this characteristically twisted and baroque thriller, whose star Lee Young-ae will forever haunt our dreams. A stunning descent to the dark side, marking the end of the series’ rocky road towards salvation.
Peter Sarsgaard has an unnerving knack for bringing brilliant, somewhat vain intellectuals to life—and his high-wire performance as a daring sociologist in Experimenter is no exception. Between actor, character, and director Michael Almereyda, cleverness is off the charts in this unorthodox biopic.
An electrifying adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road is both a brutal examination of mortality and a study of father-son relationships. With raw performances from Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron, it perfectly captures the dark mood of a post-apocalyptic world.
Submerged in the fugue state of an affluent woman suspected to have blood on her hands, The Headless Woman is mysteriously elliptical. With an air of unnamed haunting, this final film in Lucrecia Martel’s “Salta Trilogy” alludes to the disappeared people buried in Argentina’s ruthless past.
Nine years after The Headless Woman, Argentine master Lucrecia Martel returns with this ingenious adaptation of the frenzied first-person novel Zama, brilliantly inserting her own contemporary commentary on masculinity and colonialism. A singular and stupefying, cutting-edge period drama.
Rose Plays Julie is an icy revenge thriller from the brilliant Irish filmmaking duo Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor (Helen). With a tightly-coiled lead performance from Ann Skelly, this slippery exploration of doubling and identity offers a masterclass in contained suspense.
Picking up in the immediate aftermath of the first season’s startling cliffhanger, The Kingdom II sees the troubled hospital plagued by the rise of a greater evil. Masterfully harmonizing mordant humor and poignant pathos, Lars von Trier’s TV phenomenon scales new heights of white-knuckle suspense.
International star Mads Mikkelsen picked up the Best Actor prize at Cannes for what’s become one of the most acclaimed arthouse films of that decade. Thomas Vinterberg’s tightly plotted and provocative allegory of mass hysteria has an ending that is sure to leave you rattled.
Winner of multiple awards, Xavier Giannoli’s lush adaptation of Balzac’s masterpiece smolders with the sins and pleasures of 19th-century Paris. Led by a dazzling Benjamin Voisin, this lavish parable of literary fame and moral decay elegantly mirrors our own era of misinformation.
South Korean genre maestro Park Chan-wook teamed up with actor Song Kang-ho (Parasite) to kick off his “Vengeance” trilogy in style. Endlessly inventive in its visual imagination, and with a sly political undercurrent, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is a deliciously cynical kidnap-gone-wrong thriller.
Partly motivated by Susan Sontag’s staging of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo, For Ever Mozart brings Godard back to the Bosnian War, a focus of his latter career. Told in four semi-linked episodes, the film is a melancholic, yet divine, reflection on cinema’s role in high art and the real world.
Ben Wheatley’s take on J.G. Ballard’s dystopian classic evokes the cinema of Nicolas Roeg, originally slated to direct the film in the ‘70s. With a glitzy cast including Tom Hiddleston, Elisabeth Moss and Jeremy Irons, the film’s escalating class tensions ignite a madness that descends into mayhem.
Transporting Abbé Prévost’s controversial 1731 novel to a postwar context, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s volatile adaptation links its infamous femme fatale to the opportunism that bred under the Nazi occupation of France. When deception becomes a means of survival, the purity of love is put to the test.
Ahead of The Kingdom Exodus arriving exclusively on MUBI, we’re thrilled to present the first season of Lars von Trier’s cult TV phenomenon. Stunningly restored in never-before-seen versions, The Kingdom I is a wickedly funny supernatural mystery. Let the battle between good and evil commence!
Sculpting has rarely been as sexy as in Jacques Doillon’s vigorous and sensual portrait of French maestro Auguste Rodin. Vincent Lindon plays the artist with intense fervor, taking us through various points in Rodin’s life to reveal his passion in both art and in love.
Venezuela’s submission to the Oscars® this year, Lorenzo Vigas’s gripping thriller beats with a politically conscious heart. Informed by the plight of migrant workers in Mexico, the central mystery of mistaken identity is shatteringly poignant, capturing the human cost when lives become disposable.
Hollywood is wholly weird in this inescapably Lynchian, provocative debut short. Strap in for fifteen fantastical minutes of offbeat, twisty pleasure, as two queer sex-worker starlets dare to take on a lecherous film-industry executive and marvelously remake cinema for themselves.
Cycles can be difficult to break when opportunity is limited. For lack of a way out, bad patterns end up being passed from one generation to another. As a family tries with admirable good humor to shake its specters and turn new leaves, one son attends to these efforts in intimate documentary form.
Matthew Rankin’s ingenious debut feature is a hilarious and visually stunning reimagining of a Canadian Prime Minister’s rise to power. Not your ordinary history lesson, the film takes inspiration from various film movements—including German Expressionism—to form a wacky, lavishly creative treat.
One of today’s most unique auteurs, Roy Andersson reached new heights of absurdity with this deadpan tragicomedy, a Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival. Told in episodic tableaux, Andersson’s hilariously existential scenes throb with a strange—and strangely satisfying—desperation.
Hou Hsiao-hsein’s Daughter of the Nile stars pop musician Yang Lin as the center of a story revealing the shimmering ephemera of youth culture in 1980s globalized Taipei. Delicately crafted, Hou’s majestic family drama finds beauty, and profundity, in the stuff of everyday life.
Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien reunites with his Millennium Mambo and Three Times star Shu Qi for the sublime The Assassin. This historical wuxia finds Shu’s enigmatic woman knight returning from exile and torn between love and duty. An elliptical, enchanting experience.
An amnesia pandemic is the backdrop for this subtly poignant and elegantly composed tragicomedy. The deadpan debut of former Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator Christos Nikou, Apples is an allegorical meditation on memory, identity and technology that heralds a profound new voice in the Greek Weird Wave.
For MUBI’s first-ever restoration project, we are thrilled to present Metin Erksan’s unsung masterwork, an achingly gorgeous love story inspired by Sufi tales. Imbued with a longing for self-actualization amid modern loneliness, this mercurial wonder evokes the fatal idealism of cross-class romance.
Billy Tipton! Maybe you know the name from the inspirational roll call of Le Tigre’s riot grrl classic, “Hot Topic.” With an array of documentary methods, No Ordinary Man expands that celebratory shout-out to explore the legacy of the jazz virtuoso, a luminary in the trans-masculine community.
