It Was Just an Accident
Dir. Jafar Panahi
You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…
The Mission
Dir. Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss
In this documentary about John Allen Chau — the American Christian missionary reportedly killed when he tried to preach the…
The Son's Room
Dir. Nanni Moretti
The Son’s Room is about grief, but there’s something refreshing about the way it depicts how the family navigates it,…
Barton Fink
Dir. Joel Coen
Barton Fink is remarkable for many reasons, the most immediate of which is its style. Fink’s Hollywood, contrary to most…
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Dir. Ken Loach
You might expect a movie about the Irish struggle for independence from the British Empire during the 1920s to be…
Missing
Dir. Nicholas D. Johnson & Will Merrick
When Big Tech and trolls have all but villainized the internet, it’s hard to forget that good can come out…
sex, lies, and videotape
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
Remarkably, Steven Soderbergh was only 26 years old when he directed this coolly assured debut, the searingly candid script of…
The Class
Dir. Laurent Cantet
Taking place almost entirely in a single classroom, the two-hour-plus runtime of this French drama breezes past thanks to its…
The Leopard
Amid the unification of 1860s Italy, a Sicilian prince grapples with the collision between his family’s ancient privilege and revolutionary…
Underground
A group of slaves plan a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by…
Underground
Dir. Emir Kusturica
A group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love and hate.
Taxi Driver
Dir. Kang Bo-seung & Lee Dan
A former special forces soldier delivers revenge for victims of injustice while working for a secret organization that fronts as…
Paris, Texas
Dir. Wim Wenders
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull…
Eternity and a Day
Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years…
The Pianist
Dir. Roman Polanski
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman’s experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city…