Drama

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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.

Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

Documentary · Biography

A Hollywood star at age two, Baby Peggy was a has-been at 11, forced to perform in vaudeville to support her family. As Diana Serra Cary, she became an author and advocate for children's rights.

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 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.

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.

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!

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'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.

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

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.

Money Man

Money Man

Art · Documentary · Biography

Is a dollar worth anything on paper, or is it simply in the eye of the beholder… or the spender? Filmed by director Philip Haas, Money Man followed artist J.S.G. Boggs as he created drawings dangerously close to legal currency.

NOTFILM

NOTFILM

Documentary · Biography

After restoring the short Film, Ross Lipman wanted to explore its surprising history. He ended up making a mesmerizing feature-length essay about Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton and other luminaries! 

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.

The Olive Thomas Collection

The Olive Thomas Collection

Comedy · Documentary · Biography

Beautiful, talented and charismatic, Olive Thomas reigned as a Hollywood star briefly but magically… and her untimely death was mourned worldwide. Also features her charming comedy, The Flapper

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.

Ornette: Made in America

Ornette: Made in America

Documentary · Music · Jazz

Ground-breaking filmmaker Shirley Clarke combined forces with Ornette Coleman to create this dazzling window into the life of the great jazz artist and innovator. 

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.

Portrait of Jason

Portrait of Jason

Documentary · Biography

Shirley Clarke filmed gay actor, hustler, chanteuse Jason Holliday's 12-hour soliloquy, creating a documentary that Ingmar Bergman said was "the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.”  

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. 

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.

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.

Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

Art · Documentary · Biography

Director Philip Haas follows land artist Richard Long on his walk across Algeria’s Hoggar, a volcanic region of the Sahara Desert.

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.

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

Drama

In a film that both evokes and translates the message of Zen Buddhism, two monks and a young boy living on a remote mountain respond to the beauty of the world around them and to unanswerable koans about the meaning of life and death.

Winsor McCay: The Master Edition

Winsor McCay: The Master Edition

Animation · History · Biography

Winsor McCay was the first master of animation and one of its greatest and most influential artists. His films — joyous, hilarious and beautiful —continue to delight and astonish audiences today. 

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood

Documentary · Biography · Film

For over two decades, Frances Marion was one of the most powerful names Hollywood; now, her fascinating story come alive in this insightful documentary narrated by Uma Thurman and Kathy Bates.