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Adua and Her Friends

Adua and Her Friends

Comedy · World Cinema · Drama

A rare masterpiece and a wonderful example of Italian Cinema starring two European film icons, Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni, Adua and her Friends tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome.

Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage & Aventure Malgache

Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage & Aventure Malgache

War · Short Films · Drama

Two short, absorbing dramas of wartime espionage and murder, rediscovered! Legendary master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directed these forgotten classics in 1944 to aid the French resistance.

Alma's Rainbow

Alma's Rainbow

Comedy · Lesbian · Drama

Ayoka Chenzira’s overlooked classic, newly restored and ripe for rediscovery, is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn who live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.

The Big Animal

The Big Animal

Comedy · Drama

A camel is left on couple's doorstep in this gentle parable about tolerance, directed by Jerzy Stuhr, written by Krzysztof Kiewslowski and filmed by Oscar-winner Pawel Edelman.

Bless Their Little Hearts

Bless Their Little Hearts

Drama

In this key masterpiece of the LA Rebellion, written by Charles Burnett and directed by Billy Woodberry, one man's frustrating and futile search for steady works takes a toll on his marriage and his family.

Bushman

Bushman

Docudrama · Drama

Bushman tells the story of a young Nigerian who settles in the Bay Area at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and is falsely accused of terrorism during events at a university strike. With irony, poetry, and a delicate touch, David Schickele’s unshakeable debut sets up a thoughtful and provocativ…

Chac: The Rain God

Chac: The Rain God

Adventure · Drama

Based on the culture of the Popul Vuh, CHAC: THE RAIN GOD follows a village's attempts to solve a terrible drought by sending their best and brightest to a diviner in the mountains.

The Clay Bird

The Clay Bird

History · Drama

A family is torn apart by religion and war when young Anu is sent from his loving home to study at a strict madrasah in the months leading up to Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan.

Come Back, Africa/Black Roots

Come Back, Africa/Black Roots

World Cinema · Documentary · History

Working secretly with activists and ordinary Africans, Lionel Rogosin created the first film exposing apartheid. He then took the fight for equality home to the US with the astonishing Black Roots.

The Conformist

The Conformist

Historic Drama · World Cinema · RT Certified Fresh

Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's Italy starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed man trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – who joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in.

The Connection

The Connection

Jazz · Drama

In a downtown loft, a group of junkies gather to wait for their connection... while a clueless documentarian attempts to film them. Clarke's film was banned on release and remains powerful and transgressive.

Conversation Piece

Conversation Piece

World Cinema · Drama

This new restoration of Luchino Visconti’s personal and provocative chamber study starring Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Helmut Berger explores themes of class, sex, art, and fascism and preserves Visconti’s precise chromatic design, elegant interior compositions, and sonic detail…

Crime of Love

Crime of Love

World Cinema · Drama

A forgotten classic, Crime of Love is a story about two factory workers living in Northern Italy who form a romantic connection. The film gives a good idea of the north-south mentality clash in Italy. The workers from the north and the south may have the same political ideas, but when they go home t…

The Daughter of Dawn

The Daughter of Dawn

Native and Indigenous Americans · Western · Drama

Lost for almost a century, this rousing melodrama of love and jealousy was filmed in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma with an all-Native American cast of Kiowa and Comanche actors.

The Dragon Painter

The Dragon Painter

Silent · Romance · Drama

Long considered lost, THE DRAGON PAINTER survives today as a shining example of Asian-American cinema, starring Sessue Hayakawa (The Bridge on the River Kwai) as a delusional hermit recruited by a famed artist to pass on his legacy.

The Dumb Girl of Portici

The Dumb Girl of Portici

Silent · Romance · Drama

Long lost, this thrilling drama features the work of two great women artists: filmmaker Lois Weber and prima ballerina Anna Pavlova

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 3: Starewicz’s Fantasies

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 3: Starewicz’s Fantasies

Silent · Fantasy · Drama

Featuring 3 surviving films from director Ladislas Starevich, including The Dragonfly and the Ant (1913), Christmas Eve (1913), and The Lily of Belgium (1915).  

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 7: Evgeni Bauer

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 7: Evgeni Bauer

Comedy · Silent · Drama

These three films by the magnificent and macabre Evgeni Bauer reveal the distinctive eroticism and dark melodrama of early Russian cinema.

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 1 and 2: Beginnings/Folklore and Legend

Early Russian Cinema, Vol. 1 and 2: Beginnings/Folklore and Legend

Silent · Short Films · Drama

This two-volume set features a half-dozen selection of some of Russia’s earliest cinematic productions.

The Edge of the World

The Edge of the World

Romance · Drama

Two families living on a remote island off of Scotland are torn asunder by a race between their sons in this thrilling romantic drama from director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Stairway to Heaven).

The Exiles

The Exiles

Native and Indigenous Americans · Documentary · Drama

From dusk to dawn, a group of young Native Americans in Los Angeles, hang out, dance, drink, flirt, and remember life on the reservations they have left in this glistening black-and-white film.

Filibus

Filibus

Crime · Silent · Drama

Flying high above the clouds in her dirigible, Filibus steals from the rich… before mysteriously vanishing into the clouds. But when famed a famed detective sets out to catch her, this cross-dressing master criminal has other plans. Newly remastered and restored by the Eye Filmmuseum.

From the Archives of Modern Art

From the Archives of Modern Art

Documentary · Short Films · Drama

In six hilarious and sometimes bawdy short films, artist Eleanor Antin charts the career of one of her many personas — Eleanora Antinova, the once celebrated African-American ballerina of Diaghlev’s Ballets Russes.

Il Generale Della Rovere

Il Generale Della Rovere

Based on True Story · World Cinema · War

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1959 Venice Film Festival, directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring world cinema icon Vittoria de Sica (The Bicycle Thief), IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE is a film based on the true story of Emanuele Bardone, who, during the height of WWII, exploits his fellow Italian…

Hindle Wakes

Hindle Wakes

Silent · Romance · Drama

Directed by Maurice Elvey, this British adaptation of the popular stage play provides laughs, thrills and revelations about women's liberation for audiences on both sides of the pond!

Hitch Hike

Hitch Hike

World Cinema · Drama

While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer (international superstar franco Nero of Django) and his beautiful wife (Corinne Clery, the Story of O and Moonraker) pick up a stranded motorist (David Hess of Last House on the Left infamy). But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath,…

Household Saints

Household Saints

Comedy · Religion · Romance

Nancy Savoca’s chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family boasts memorable performances from Vincent D’Onofrio, Tracey Ullman, Lili Taylor, and Michael Imperioli, and showcases a unique voice in 1990s independent filmmaking.

I Cannibali

I Cannibali

World Cinema · Drama

I Cannibali, third feature film by Liliana Cavani, starring a trio of excellent actors (Pierre Clementi, Britt Ekland and Tomas Milian), is a modern reinterpretation of Sophocles' tragedy, made during the protest years of 1967-69. A film that stands out for its visionary intelligence, in the context…

I'm Going Home

I'm Going Home

Comedy · World Cinema · Drama

Michel Piccoli is a Parisian theater actor struggling to deal with grief, age, and a demanding American film director played by John Malkovich in this powerful masterpiece by Manoel de Oliveira.

In the Land of the Head Hunters

In the Land of the Head Hunters

Photography · Native and Indigenous Americans · History

In 1911, photographer Edward S. Curtis traveled to British Columbia to work with members of the Kwakwaka'wakw to create a film celebrating the art and culture of this Native American people.

Legong: Dance of the Virgins

Legong: Dance of the Virgins

Romance · Drama

Filmed entirely in Bali in 1935, LEGONG: DANCE OF THE VIRGINS is a tragic tale of love denied featuring a new restoration and soundtrack by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Losing Ground

Losing Ground

Comedy · Drama

Decades after her death, Kathleen Collins has finally been rediscovered as a groundbreaking writer, playwright and independent filmmaker. Losing Ground is her second film, the story of a Black professor and her straying artist husband.

Maborosi

Maborosi

World Cinema · Romance · Drama

After the mysterious death of her husband, a young mother remarries and moves with her son to a remote seaside village in the first feature by director Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters). 

Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer

Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer

Silent · Drama

Cinematic poet Evgeni Bauer combined the technical virtuosity of D.W. Griffith with the terror of Edgar Allan Poe for beautiful effect, captured by this collection of his three most beloved productions.

Made in New Jersey: Films From Fort Lee

Made in New Jersey: Films From Fort Lee

Comedy · Silent · Drama

This special edition 2-disc Blu-ray set gathers 14 wonderful and historically significant films and 2 documentaries from archives around the world.

Madness (Vacanze per un Massacro)

Madness (Vacanze per un Massacro)

Drama · Crime · World Cinema

After brutally killing two farmers with a pitchfork, an escaped murderer Joe Brezy makes a bee-line for the holiday cottage where five years earlier he stashed a substantial amount of ill-gotten loot.

The Magic Box: The Films of Shirley Clarke

The Magic Box: The Films of Shirley Clarke

Documentary · Experimental · Drama

This three-disc set collects the vast array of Shirley Clarke's astonishing short, dance, and avant-garde films along with her Oscar®-winning documentary Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World

Maladonna and Malombra

Maladonna and Malombra

Cult · Drama

In 1984 Bruno Gaburro directed two provocatively erotic dramas both starring Eurosleaze favorite Paola Senatore (Emmanuelle in America, Salon Kitty).

The Man Without a World

The Man Without a World

Romance · Drama

THE MAN WITHOUT A WORLD is credited to Soviet director Yevgeny Antinov...who is nothing but a persona created by contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin, the true artist behind this fiendish and fabulous ode to classic cinema.

Many Wars Ago

Many Wars Ago

Period Drama · World Cinema · War

In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy.

Naked Acts

Naked Acts

Comedy · Drama

Celebrated as a key film in the canon of Black independent cinema of the 1990s, Bridgett M. Davis’s Naked Acts tells the story of an aspiring actor who has just landed her first major role, but must overcome her fear of disrobing in public when she learns it requires a nude scene.

Napoli Napoli Napoli

Napoli Napoli Napoli

World Cinema · Documentary · Drama

With his crooked face and rough demeanor Abel Ferrara looks and acts like he could have been born in Naples, Italy, the subject and location of his raw and “hyperreality” film Naples Naples Naples. Inspired by real events, this docudrama, narrated by the director, depicts a young woman m…

On the Bowery: The Films of Lionel Rogosin Vol. 1

On the Bowery: The Films of Lionel Rogosin Vol. 1

Documentary · History · Drama

Lionel Rogosin's portrait of life on New York's skid row remains devastating and powerful more than sixty years later. Also features making-of docs by the filmmaker's son Michael Rogosin.

One Hundred Steps

One Hundred Steps

Crime · World Cinema · Drama

The shocking story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist who vocally opposed the mafia in the 1970s and paid a brutal price.

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

World Cinema · Drama

This box-set presents 38 remarkable films made by Paolo Gioli between 1969 and 2013, expressing his playfully deconstructive attitude towards motion picture technology, as seen in his early hand-painted films, his unusual manipulations of camera mechanisms and optics, and his unique interest in home…

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Mystery · Thriller · Horror

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Piccadilly

Piccadilly

Crime · Silent · Drama

American actress Anna May Wong had to travel to Europe for her greatest role, as Shosho, the scullery maid whose sultry dancing makes her the toast of London in E.A. Dupont's silent masterpiece.

Queen Kelly

Queen Kelly

Silent · Drama

In Eric von Stroheim’s lost silent masterpiece, Gloria Swanson stars as an innocent but flirtatious convent girl from the imaginary European country of Cobourg-Nassau who catches the eye of the prince and the ire of the mad queen he is set to marry.

Rocco and His Brothers

Rocco and His Brothers

Crime · World Cinema · Drama

The tragedy of Luchino Visconti’s searing family drama is set in motion when brothers Rocco and Simone both fall in love with the mercurial Nadia. Presented by Martin Scorsese. 

Seduction

Seduction

World Cinema · Drama

Maurice Ronet (Purple Noon) stars as Giuseppe Lagana, a European playboy who returns to his home in the Sicilian town of Catania to settle his deceased father’s affairs. He reunites with an old friend, Caterina (Lisa Gastoni), and a mid-life romance is kindled from the sparks of their youthful…

Shoes

Shoes

Silent · Drama

In Lois Weber's feminist masterpiece, teenaged shopgirl Eva is on her feet all day to support her family. As the soles of her boots disintegrate, her desperation grows.

Le Soldatesse (aka The Camp Followers)

Le Soldatesse (aka The Camp Followers)

World Cinema · Drama

In WWII, Lieut. Martino is tasked with delivering twelve prostitutes to various military outposts across the Axis territory, to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

The Spanish Dancer

The Spanish Dancer

Historic Drama · Period Drama · Silent

One of the great romance epics, The Spanish Dancer is action-packed, witty, and romantic with huge sets and a cast of thousands. Brenon keeps the adventure going full steam ahead while Negri and Moreno show why they were huge stars of their day.

Steam - The Turkish Bath

Steam - The Turkish Bath

LGBTQ · World Cinema · Romance

Tired of his troubled marriage, an Italian businessman's life changes dramatically after he learns that an aunt has left him property in Istanbul. Francesco (Alessandro Gassman) arrives to the Turkish city hoping that he can take care of the matter swiftly and return to Italy. He is surprised to dis…

Swept Away

Swept Away

Cult · Comedy · World Cinema

Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, Swept Away is the most famous and controversial film about sex, love, and politics from influential Italian director Lina Wertmüller, the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Director.

To Be Twenty

To Be Twenty

World Cinema · Erotic · Drama

Twenty, beautiful, sexy and liberated, and fed up with their provincial lives, Lia and Tina decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find a commune where they can stay and live the life of free love... or so they think.

Two Friends

Two Friends

Lesbian · Drama

The first feature film by director Jane Campion and writer Helen Garner tells the history a teenage friendship going backward in time, from the relationship's bittersweet end to its hopeful beginning.

Village of Dreams

Village of Dreams

Fantasy · Drama

Known to everyone in their idyllic Japanese village as “the brats,” twin brothers Yukihiko and Seizo cause mischief in the name of high adventure, unaware of how due they are for change in the wake of World War II.

A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta)

A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta)

Drama

A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta) tells the story of a group of kids who live in one of the poorest and most disreputable neighborhoods in Rome.

Waves of Lust

Waves of Lust

Drama · Thriller

Two carefree youngsters are invited for a weekend cruise on a yacht owned by a ruthless and cynical industrialist.