Drama
3 Faces
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari travel to the rural northwest of Iran after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbid her from studying acting in Tehran. Amusing encounters abound, but they soon discover that the local hospitality is rivaled by the desire to prot…
3 Hearts
One night in provincial France, Marc (Benoît Poelvoorde) meets Sylvie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) after missing his train back to Paris. Instantly and intensely drawn to one another, they wander through the streets until morning in rare, almost choreographed, harmony.
An Act of Defiance
In this riveting historical drama, ten political activists (including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters) face a possible death sentence for conspiracy to commit sabotage after they are arrested by the apartheid South African government during a raid in the town of Ri…
Alps
Yorgos Lanthimos's follow-up to his Academy Award nominee (and cult sensation) DOGTOOTH is another darkly comic, absurdist vision of (in)human relationships, focusing on a mysterious underground organization that helps mourners get over their losses by impersonating the deceased.
Aquarius
Acclaimed Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho continues examines the alienating effects of urban over-development in Recife, Brazil.
Arabian Nights (2015)
Arabian Nights is a monumental and dazzlingly original three-part film by Miguel Gomes (Tabu) that uses the structure of one thousand and one nights in order to tell the story of contemporary Portugal.
The Artist and the Model
In an occupied France, not far away from the Spanish border, a famous sculptor who is tired of life and wars finds the desire to work on his last masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish girl comes knocking.
The Attack
Amin Jaafari's picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing leaves nineteen dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife Sihem, who also died in the explosion, was responsible.
August Winds
Shirley (Dandara de Morais) is a big fish in a small pond withdreams of becoming a tattoo artist. After a tropical storm hits her tiny costal village, Shirley is forced to confront the duel between life and death, loss and memory, the wind and the sea.
The Awakening
Hoax exposer, Florence Cathcart, discovers a terrifying truth at a boarding school and soon the ghost hunter becomes the hunted in this shocking mystery.
Back in the Day
"Back in the Day" is a gritty tale about Anthony Rodriguez (William DeMeo), an Italian/Puerto Rican teenager who's taken under the wing of a local mob boss (Michael Madsen) and a boxing trainer (Danny Glover) to turn him into a contender.
Barbara
A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
Beanpole
In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world when a shocking accident brings them closer… and also seals their fates.
Believe Me
When a tuition bill threatens Sam's dream of law school and leaves him thousands of dollars debt, he convinces his three roommates they can make a killing exploiting church crowds, starting a sham charity and raising funds for a cause made out of thin air.
Blancanieves
A re-telling of the classic "Snow White," Blancanieves is a breathtakingly beautiful homage to the black-and-white Golden Age of European silent cinema, set in a romanticized 1920s Seville.
Breathe In
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
Budapest Noir
A murder mystery set in Budapest 1936, just as Hungary was preparing to allign itself with Hitler. A young beautiful girl is found dead and no one wants to investigate - except a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they seem.
Capital
When the CEO of France's Phenix Bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil is crowned as his replacement. From legendary Academy Award®-winning writer/director Costa-Gavras MISSING, Z, AMEN)
Casanova, Last Love
London, 18th century. Casanova (Vincent Lindon), famous for his taste of pleasure and gambling, arrives from Paris, forced into exile. In this city he knows nothing about, the libertine meets on several occasions a young prostitute, Marianne de Charpillon (Stacy Martin).
Chained For Life
Jess Weixler (Teeth) and Adam Pearson (Under the Skin) star in this brilliantly oddball, acerbically funny foray into gonzo surrealism about a movie star "slumming it" in an outré art-horror film being shot in a semi-abandoned hospital.
Le Chef
Jean Reno stars as a veteran chef who faces off against his restaurant group’s new CEO. When management tries to sabotage Reno's Michelin star, he brings in a younger chef (Michaël Youn) who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
Chinese Puzzle
A 40-year-old father of two still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves from Paris to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him so he decides to move there as well.
Churchill
Ninety-six hours before the World War II invasion of Normandy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) struggles with his severe reservations with Operation Overlord and his increasingly marginalized role in the war effort.
Clouzot: Early Works
Kino Classics is proud to present CLOUZOT: THE EARLY WORKS, which collects six varied features he worked on from 1931-1933: frothy comedies, boxing dramas, musicals and melodramas.
Come What May
May 1940. To escape the imminent German invasion, the inhabitants of a small village in northern France flee their homes, like so many millions of their compatriots.
Confession of a Child of the Century
Paris 1830. Betrayed by his mistress, Octave falls into despair and debauchery- "the disease of the century". The death of his father takes him to the country where he meets Brigette, a young widow ten years his elder. Octave falls passionately in love, once more. But will he have the courage to bel…
Cosmos
The late Andrzej Zulawski's final film, a literary adaptation suffused with his trademark freneticism, transforms Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's novel of the same name into an ominous and manic exploration of desire.
Les Cowboys
At a country western gathering somewhere in the east of France, Alain dances with his daughter Kelly, 16, as his wife and their young son, Kid, watch from the sidelines. But on this day, Kelly disappears, and the family falls apart. Alain embarks on a relentless search for his daughter, even though …
Custody
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this tense family drama that will keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their throats.
The Daughter
Adapted from The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, a man returns to his hometown and unearths a long-buried family secret. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.
Deliver Us
Five people in a small town join forces to plan the perfect murder of the town psycho, only to realize that once you start playing God, it's easy to end up as the Devil.
Diary of a Chambermaid
Léa Seydoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois…
The Divine Order
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Divine Order is set in Switzerland in 1971 where, despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade, women were still denied the right to vote. Uplifting and crowd-pleasing, this charming, captivating …
Dukhtar
In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl’s marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins.
A Faithful Man
Louis Garrel’s sophomore feature, in which he also stars alongside Lily-Rose Depp and Laetitia Casta, is at once a beguiling bedroom farce and a playful inversion of the patriarchal tropes of the French New Wave.
Farewell, My Queen
Léa Seydoux stars as one of Marie Antoinette's ladies-in-waiting, seemingly an innocent but quietly working her way into her mistress's special favors, until history tosses her fate onto a decidedly different path.
Flight (4KUHD)
An airline pilot miraculously lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe. While the world begs to embrace him as a true American Hero, the everyman is forced to hold up to the scrutiny of an investigation that brings into question his behavior the night before the doomed flight.
Marihuana / Narcotic (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 4)
Dwain Esper was not only one of the most notorious figures of the exploitation genre (due to his ruthless business practices) he was also its greatest stylist. With an utter disregard for the laws of cinematic convention, his low-budget films verge on the avant-garde as they breathlessly wallow in e…
The Forbidden Room
From Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson. A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the or…
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
Paris, 1891. Painter Paul Gauguin ventures alone to Tahiti. Impoverished and solitary, he settles deep into the Tahitian jungle, where he meets the Maoris and Tehura, his muse, who will inspire his most iconic works of art.
Girls of the Sun
A French journalist, Mathilde, comes to cover the attack in Kurdistan and bears witness to the story of these exceptional “Girls of the Sun” warriors.
Godard Mon Amour
Director Michel Hazanavicius's (THE ARTIST) loving tribute to one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later marries her.
Gomorrah: Fourth Season
Gomorrah: Fourth Season continues the worldwide gangster show phenomenon that is based on Roberto Saviano’s best-selling book and the subsequent award-winning film of the same name.
Gomorrah: Second Season
At the start of Season 2 it appears that the era of the Savastano clan, which once reigned supreme over Naples, seems to be definitively over. A power vacuum, the biggest ever in Camorra history, now yawns like a chasm.
Gomorrah: Third Season
Gomorrah: Third Season continues the worldwide gangster show phenomenon based on Roberto Saviano’s best-selling book and the subsequent award-winning film of the same name.
Goodbye to Language
Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Goodbye to Language is a triumphant masterpiece from Jean-Luc Godard.
Guest of Honour
David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, and Luke Wilson star in this story of a father and daughter attempting to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets from Academy Award nominee Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter).
Headshot
A darkly turbulent crime noir from Thai new wave director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, HEADSHOT is an existential thriller, ripe with shadowy paranoia that will turn your world upside-down, literally.
Heal the Living
Three stories are carefully woven together: a group of friends on a road trip that ends in tragedy; a woman who learns that her heart is beginning to fail; and two teams of doctors and medical experts attempting to save lives.
Hermia & Helena
A young theater director travels from Buenos Aires to New York for an artist residency to work on a new Spanish translation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. But a growing longing for the friends and lover she left behind, combined with a series of mysterious postcards, leads h…
The Image Book
The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world.
In the Courtyard
Middle-aged musician Antoine suddenly decides to end his career. After several days' aimless wandering, he is hired as the caretaker of an old residential building in Paris. Mathilde is a recently retired resident, generous-spirited and deeply involved with the management of the building. After she …
In the House
A sixteen-year-old boy schemes his way into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher.
In the Name of My Daughter
Acclaimed director ANDRÉ TÉCHINÉ brings a gripping real-life thriller to the screen. 1976. When her marriage falls apart, Agnès Le Roux (ADÈLE HAENEL) moves back to the South of France from Africa to live with her mother, Renée (CATHERINE DENEUVE), owner of …
The Indian Doctor: Complete Series
A highly educated Indian doctor, and his beautiful upper class wife, who, attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London, leave India in 1963 only to find themselves sent to a small practice in a Welsh coal mining village.
Indivisible
Dasy and Viola (Angela and Marianna Fontana) are conjoined twin sisters living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and, thanks to their performances at local weddings, communions and baptisms, have become the breadwinners for their entire family.
The Insult
In today's Beirut, an insult blown out of proportion finds Toni, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, in court.
Ixcanul
In this dreamlike fusion of documentary and fable, two young, impoverished Mayan lovers escape from their servitude on a remote Guatemalan coffee plantation and attempt to make their way to the United States.
Jafar Panahi's Taxi
Internationally acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (This is Not a Film) drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse (and yet representative) group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world, while bei…
Just Like a Woman
The poignant tale of two women, barely more than casual acquaintances, who escape the prisons of their unhappy marriages and embark on a revealing journey of self discovery that leads them to the importance—and true meaning—of friendship.