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.

The Annihilation of Fish

The Annihilation of Fish

Drama · Romance

This charming film by celebrated Black independent filmmaker Charles Burnett stars Lynn Redgrave as a woman with an imaginary lover, Margot Kidder as her energetic landlady, and James Earl Jones as her love interest who is also battling unseen demons.  

La Belle Noiseuse

La Belle Noiseuse

Drama · World Cinema

Jacques Rivette’s exploration of artistry and eroticism, earned him a Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and a Palme d'Or nomination.

The Benoit Jacquot Collection

The Benoit Jacquot Collection

Drama · World Cinema

Three classics by director Benoit Jaquot.

Bodies, Rest & Motion

Bodies, Rest & Motion

Drama · Romance

Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth, Phoebe Cates, and Eric Stoltz star in this left-field Gen-X romantic dramedy that harkens back to the anti-establishment cinema of the previous generation…fittingly, Easy Rider’s Peter Fonda makes a cameo appearance.

Daughters of the Dust

Daughters of the Dust

Drama · National Film Registry

A new restoration of one of the most celebrated independent American films. At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the m…

The Films of Maurice Pialat – Volume 3

The Films of Maurice Pialat – Volume 3

Drama · Biography · World Cinema

After leaving the asylum, Vincent Van Gogh settles in Auvers-sur-Oise, in the home of Doctor Gachet, an art lover and patron. Vincent keeps painting amidst the conflict with his brother, Theo, and the torments of his failing mental health. He has an affair with Marguerite, his host's daughter. Howev…

For Ever Mozart

For Ever Mozart

Drama · Art

Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the attempts by a young group of idealists to stage a play in war-torn Sarajevo and an elderly director's efforts to …

The Garden (Jarman)

The Garden (Jarman)

Drama

Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, THE GARDEN was born of director Derek Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis – writhing with sorrow and anger, and yet so vividly alive to the loveliness of being.

Highway Patrolman (Special Edition)

Highway Patrolman (Special Edition)

Crime · Action · Drama

Against his father’s wishes a naïve kid from Mexico City joins the Federal Highway Patrol. His simple desire to do good rapidly comes into conflict with the reality of police work in a lonely rural environment populated by poor farmers, rich drug dealers, beautiful women—and his fat…

Household Saints

Household Saints

Comedy · Romance · 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.

Howards End

Howards End

Drama · Romance · 4K UHD DISC

One of Merchant Ivory's undisputed masterpieces, this adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic 1910 novel is a saga of class relations and changing times in Edwardian England. Margaret Schlegel and her sister Helen become involved with two couples: a wealthy, conservative industrialist and his wife, and…

Hyenas

Hyenas

Drama · Comedy · World Cinema

One of the treasures of African cinema, Senegalese master Djibril Diop Mambéty’s long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki (1973) is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Du?rrenmatt’s play The Visit, which in Mambéty’s imagi…

Joan the Maid - Parts 1 & 2

Joan the Maid - Parts 1 & 2

History · Drama · World Cinema

Director Jacques Rivette's two-part epic based on the life of Joan of Arc.

Kadosh

Kadosh

Drama · World Cinema · Cannes Film Festival

"Incandescent" portrayals by two Israeli actresses illuminate the plight of women within Orthodox Judaism today. Using superb cinematography, ethnic music, and authentic Jerusalem locations, Israel's best known filmmaker renders a heartbreaking chamber story of two sisters and their broken marriages…

Korczak

Korczak

Drama · World Cinema · Historic Drama

Henryk Goldszmit had become a Polish icon in the 1930s through his writings, teachings, and radio programs for children. When the kids from his Warsaw orphanage were to be deported to the gas chambers of Treblinka, he refused to abandon them, and with them he died.

Luminous Motion

Luminous Motion

Drama

LUMINOUS MOTION (1998) is a dreamlike and erotically charged thriller from critically acclaimed director Bette Gordon (Variety). Deborah Kara Unger (The Game) stars as an unnamed hustler who seduces and robs gullible men while criss-crossing the country with her ten-year-old son Phill…

Maborosi

Maborosi

Drama · Romance · World Cinema

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). 

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.

Poison

Poison

Drama

Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves trio of transgressive tales-“Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo”-that build toward a devastating climax.

Queen Margot

Queen Margot

War · History · Romance

She is beautiful. She is Catholic. She is the King’s sister. She is Marguerite de Valois. Her brothers call her Margot. He is Protestant. They say that he is rude, that he never shaves, that he smells of garlic and sweat. He is Henri de Navarre. They are forced to marry in a political move to …

Rhythm Thief

Rhythm Thief

Drama

Winner of the jury prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, RHYTHM THIEF stars Jason Andrews (Last Exit to Brooklyn) as a NYC music bootlegger who finds himself in deep trouble after ripping off the music of an all-girl punk band (fronted by rocker Cynthia Sley of the Bush Tetras). "A Lower East Si…

Steam - The Turkish Bath

Steam - The Turkish Bath

LGBTQ · Drama · 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…

Thousand Pieces of Gold

Thousand Pieces of Gold

Western · Romance · Historic Drama

Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. She is trafficked to a nefarious saloonkeeper in Idaho's gold country. Eventually Charlie (Chris Coope…

Tous les Matins du Monde

Tous les Matins du Monde

Music & Dance · Drama · Biography

Monsieur de Sainte Colombe is reclusive composer who lives with his two beautiful daughters. Their lives are forever changed by the flamboyant young student Marin Marais who fascinates Colombe and entrances his daughters.

Village of Dreams

Village of Dreams

Drama · Fantasy

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.