Wonder Boys
Dir. Curtis Hanson
Michael Douglas plays Grady Tripp, a craggy, lovable English professor struggling to finish the follow-up to a very successful first…
Mississippi Burning
Dir. Alan Parker
FBI agents Rupert and Alan (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) visit Jim Crow-era Mississippi to investigate the disapperance of three…
If Beale Street Could Talk
Dir. Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins’ follow up to his award-winning film Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk is a highly compelling tale that…
A Room with A View
Dir. James Ivory
A Room with a View is downright beautiful. Amidst the impressionistic scenery of Florence’s and England’s countrysides, paired with iconic…
Selma
Dir. Ava DuVernay
The award-winning third feature by director Ava DuVernay, Selma, was released around the 50th anniversary of the historically significant marches…
War and Peace
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of…
The Stunt Man
Dir. Richard Rush
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a…
Coming Home
Dir. Zhang Yimou
When adapting a novel, sometimes the book is too long to fit into a whole feature, so filmmakers would create…
Prince of the City
Dir. Sidney Lumet
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the…
Runaway Train
Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find…
The Ides of March
Dir. George Clooney
A slow-burning US political drama, The Ides of March is a character-driven film with great performances from Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman and George Clooney (who…
Promising Young Woman
Dir. Emerald Fennell & Female director
A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dir. Woody Allen
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker…
A Soldier’s Story
Dir. Norman Jewison
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army…
The Right Stuff
Dir. Philip Kaufman
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter…
A Room with a View
Dir. James Ivory
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and…
King Richard
Dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green
The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become…
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Dir. Joel Coen
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small…
Sophie’s Choice
Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly…
The Killing Fields
Dir. Roland Joffé
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter…
Places in the Heart
Dir. Robert Benton
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and…
The Elephant Man
Dir. David Lynch
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous…