Drama

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Alma's Rainbow

Alma's Rainbow

Lesbian · Comedy · 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.

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

Drama · Docudrama

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…

Come Back, Africa/Black Roots

Come Back, Africa/Black Roots

Drama · World Cinema · Documentary

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

Western · Drama · Native and Indigenous Americans

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

Drama · Romance · Silent

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

Drama · Romance · Silent

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

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

Drama · Documentary · Native and Indigenous Americans

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

Drama · Silent · Crime

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.

Household Saints

Household Saints

Romance · Religion · Drama

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.

In the Land of the Head Hunters

In the Land of the Head Hunters

Photography · Drama · 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.

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.

Made in New Jersey: Films From Fort Lee

Made in New Jersey: Films From Fort Lee

Drama · Comedy · Silent

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

Experimental · Drama · Documentary

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.

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.

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

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

Drama · Documentary · History

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.

Piccadilly

Piccadilly

Drama · Silent · Crime

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

Drama · Silent

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

Drama · World Cinema · Crime

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

Drama · Silent

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

Drama · Historic 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.