Drama

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Adua and Her Friends

Adua and Her Friends

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

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.

The Balcony (Special Edition)

The Balcony (Special Edition)

Comedy · Drama

In a very special brothel known as the “Balcony,” the customers live out their wildest dreams, oblivious to a revolution that’s going on outside.

Black Gravel

Black Gravel

War · Drama · Film Noir

In this gripping Cold War noir, tensions simmer between residents of a small German village and the soldiers of a U.S. military base.

Bluebeard aka Landru

Bluebeard aka Landru

Drama · Thriller · Biography

Legendary French New Wave director Claude Chabrol brings the shocking true story of serial killer Henri Désiré Landru to the screen with Bluebeard.

Cartouche (Special Edition)

Cartouche (Special Edition)

Drama · World Cinema · Action

18th-century master thief, swordsman and rogue Louis-Dominique Bourguignon, alias Cartouche meets the beautiful bandit Venus and launches a series of scandalous raids that rock the Parisian aristocracy.

La Chinoise

La Chinoise

Drama · World Cinema

Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky), form …

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.

Duet for Cannibals

Duet for Cannibals

Comedy · Drama

New Restoration Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolvin…

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.

Freud (aka Freud: The Secret Passion)

Freud (aka Freud: The Secret Passion)

Drama · Biography

The film follows renowned Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud’s descent into man’s unconscious as he develops the notion that neurosis stems from sexual repression.

I Cannibali

I Cannibali

Drama · World Cinema

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…

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Based on True Story · Historic Drama · Drama

Acting legends Spencer Tracy (Judgment at Nuremberg) and Fredric March (The Iceman Cometh) go toe-to-toe in this thrilling recreation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the century. The great Stanley Kramer (On the Beach) directs this masterpiece featuring Gene Kelly (On the Town) in a rare, cr…

Isadora

Isadora

Drama · Biography

This film biography follows pioneering dancer Isadora Duncan through years of triumph and tragedy including her taboo-breaking performances, shocking love affairs, and scandalous public behavior.

Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg

Based on True Story · Academy Award Winners · Drama

The event the world will never forget! Winner of Two Academy Awards including Actor in a Leading Role (Maximilian Schell, The Black Hole) and nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture Judgment at Nuremberg is a magnificent achievement in filmmaking, boasting brilliant performances …

L'Immortelle

L'Immortelle

Drama · World Cinema · Cult

L'MMORTELLE is a cinematic arabesque that teases the eye with visual delights yet sadistically confounds expectations. A Frenchman (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) traveling in Istanbul becomes entranced by a mysterious woman who seems to encourage his attentions but remains just beyond his reach. His erot…

One Potato, Two Potato

One Potato, Two Potato

Drama

When a white divorcée falls in love with an African-American man, her ex-husband takes her to court in the hopes of getting custody of her child. Her new husband is advised to flee to keep his new family together, but instead he confronts the biased system.

The Oscar

The Oscar

Melodrama · Drama

Frankie Fane has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. Now, as he’s preparing to win his first Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly reminisces about their life together, his ruthless struggle to the top and the people he’s stepped on to make it there.

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

Drama · World Cinema

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 Quare Fellow

The Quare Fellow

Drama · Culture · World Cinema

Legendary Irish playwright Brendan Behan's insider's look at life on death row is a film "studded with gem-like performances" (Hollywood Reporter) that packs "a harsh Irish eloquence and a brutal dramatic punch" (New York Times).

Rififi in Paris aka Du rififi a Paname / The Upper Hand

Rififi in Paris aka Du rififi a Paname / The Upper Hand

Drama · Thriller · Crime

In Paris, a grizzled gold-smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want a piece of the action. To make matters worse, he must match wits with a coin-tossing Mafioso and the U.S. Treasury Department.

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. 

September Storm 3D

September Storm 3D

Adventure · Drama · 3D Movies

The long-lost 1960 3-D and Cinemascope feature September Storm is back, fully restored by the 3-D Film Archive!  New DCP now available! This drama of treasure hunters exploring the Mediterranean Sea was the last 3-D picture filmed in the 1950s, and the first to be released in 3-D CinemaSco…

Seven Days... Seven Nights aka Moderato Cantabile

Seven Days... Seven Nights aka Moderato Cantabile

Drama

A wealthy, bored housewife believes she has witnessed a murder in a quayside bistro.

Shakespeare Wallah

Shakespeare Wallah

Drama · World Cinema

A 2K restoration of the true story of Geoffrey Kendal and his family of traveling theatrical players and the ever-evolving colonial relationship between Great Britain and India.

Stranger on the Run

Stranger on the Run

Western · Drama · Thriller

Washed-up, alcoholic vagabond Ben Chamberlain drifts into a godforsaken railhead town looking for a woman named Alma. When that woman winds up dead, Ben finds himself wrongfully accused of murder by the corrupt railroad chief deputy Vince McKay and his trigger-happy posse.

The System AKA The Girl-Getters

The System AKA The Girl-Getters

Comedy · Drama

Oliver Reed is the leader of a gang of handsome but unscrupulous young bachelors, who spend a hot summer on a seaside resort in pursuit of women.

The Nun (1965) aka La Religieuse

The Nun (1965) aka La Religieuse

Based on Literature · Drama · World Cinema

Adapted from Denis Diderot’s novel, THE NUN (1965) follows a rebellious nun (played by an incandescent Anna Karina) who is forced into taking her vows. Initially shunted into a restrictive, torturous convent, she eventually moves on to a more liberated one, where she becomes an object of Mothe…

The Thomas Crown Affair

The Thomas Crown Affair

Thriller · Crime · Drama

Genius rogue Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a crime-of-the-century bank heist and finds himself pitted against a nemesis as powerful as he is, his devil-may-care attitude hurls him into an edge-of-your-seat game of intrigue and suspense.

The Two of Us

The Two of Us

War · Drama

Claude Berri's THE TWO OF US is the classic story of an 8-year old Jewish boy in Nazi-occupied France, sent to live in the country with his parents' Catholic friends. A 4K restoration.

Vice and Virtue

Vice and Virtue

Drama · World Cinema · Cult

In Nazi occupied France, two sisters navigate very different courses. Juliette (Annie Girardot) is surrounded by the spoils of war, being the mistress of an SS colonel. Justine (Catherine Deneuve), whose husband is seized by fascists on their wedding day, is taken to a chateau in the country, where …

Woman Times Seven

Woman Times Seven

Comedy · Drama · Romantic Comedy

Screen legend Shirley MacLaine lights up the screen in this collection of seven sexy stories of love and adultery set against the romantic backdrop of Paris.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Academy Award Winners · Drama · World Cinema

A sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica (Two Women, Marriage Italian Style) is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious. Acade…