A deeply unpleasant, provocative horror film that pushed the boundaries of cinema.
A little something for the Scott Fitzgerald (and Gossip Girl) fans.
Legendary director Akira Kurosawa's final film is a quiet, bittersweet thank you.
A gangster’s son finds a new way of living in this intense, piano-playing neo-noir.
Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay both won Berlinale Best Actress and Best Actor for this movie. They play a couple who are only a few days away from their 45th marriage anniversary when they learn that the remains of the husband’s first lover have been found. He then starts obsessing about his previous relationship, to […]
This mesmerizing romance from Abbas Kiarostami follows a couple whose relationship transforms over the course of a day.
A meticulous and whimsical account of the making of the influential comic opera The Mikado.
This blistering portrayal of a passionate but dysfunctional marriage features an unforgettable performance from the award-winning Gena Rowlands.
Picked by Roger Ebert as the fifth best film of the decade. An observant, tender film about the little details in loneliness and then in relationships as we move through life. It’s funny, at times darkly so, and features a great performance by John Hawkes as Richard, an eccentric shoe salesman dealing with an ended marriage trying to turn his life […]
“California Dreamin’” by the Mamas and the Papas. You will fall in love with that song (if you haven’t already) after watching this movie. Two stories, entangling into one; both about Hong Kong policemen falling in love with mysterious women. It was recommended by my friend after I said I loved Frances Ha. I don’t […]
In a series of flashbacks, this drama traces the final steps of a transient woman on her uncharted journey across the French countryside to her lonely end.
A writer succumbs to dark depths in this surreal and stylish film from the Coen Brothers.
Identical twins spiral into a bloody identity crisis in Cronenberg’s body-horror cult film.
I don’t want to go too much into detail, but this film is an acting masterpiece. From start to finish it drags you into the characters’ life and really makes you feel for the main character. It shows you how hard it really is for the main character to struggle with what she’s going through. […]
Dheepan is a French film from the director of A Prophet. It contrasts elements of Sri Lankan and French culture to provide interesting insights into both, while crafting a heart-wrenching and heartwarming tale of makeshift families in unimaginable circumstances. Like A Prophet, Dheepan makes occasional and shocking use of violence to underscore elements of culture and […]
Jacques Demy adapts this strange fairytale through this eccentric yet enchanting comedic musical.
A gay man and a political prisoner change each other's lives through their stories in this wonderfully made drama.
Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York – but not the glamorous NYC of Woody Allen movies. Taking place primarily in the gritty and rapidly gentrifying North Brooklyn, the black and white film paints a picture of an extended adolescence. Focusing on the goofy and carefree Frances, who loses her boyfriend, her best friend and […]
A Southern family faces the truth of what they’ve become in this powerfully performed timeless melodrama.
Messy and meandering, this film is the perfect tribute to the last day of high school.
Philipp Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney play siblings in this understated drama.
A woman joins some acquaintances on a sailing trip only to get caught in a storm. They are rescued by a seemingly empty cruise ship and struggle to make sense of the mysteries that unfold. Definitely one of those “The less you know the better” type of films. If you like well-written creepy thrillers with […]
One of Martin Scorsese’s earliest films is a funny and perceptive mother-son dramedy.
For fans of Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, a romantic biopic that breathes life back into one of the greatest-ever poets..
Stressful and sublime, Sidney Lumet’s last hurrah follows two desperate brothers as they fall down a dark path of greed and violence.
Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of King Lear is an epic historical drama set in sixteenth-century Japan, abundant with blood, betrayal, and battles for ultimate power..
Todd Haynes’ sumptuous, unabashed melodrama finds a paradoxically perfect marriage between form and content.
