The 3D Nudie-Cuties Collection
Nudie-Cuties were popular in grindhouse theaters in the early 1960’s but they were eventually replaced with more explicit fare. 3-D was a natural for this genre with such titillating promises as “A girl in your lap” and “They dance right off the screen into your arms.&rd…
Anatahan
NEW RESTORATION! Inspired by an actual event during WWII, Josef von Sternberg's Anatahan, tells the story of a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan during the waning days of the war. The war ends, unbeknownst to the men, and they engage in their ow…
And Now, Miguel
Oscar-winning director Joseph Krumgold follows a 12-year-old New Mexican boy's mission to visit the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in this underappreciated documentary.
Araya
Margot Benacerraf captured the life of the Venezuelan saliñeros in this masterpiece of poetic filmmaking. A forerunner of feminist Latina cinema, Araya won the 1959 International Critics Prize in Cannes.
The Bloody Brood
Two years before directing the 3-D cult favorite The Mask (1961), Julian Roffman made his feature directorial debut with this early canuxploitation film, The Bloody Brood (1959).
Cast a Dark Shadow
Death and seduction are the themes of this newly-restored thriller from the golden age of British noir. In Cast a Dark Shadow, Dirk Bogarde (The Servant, The Damned) stars as “Teddy” Bare, a smooth-talking cad who maintains a life of leisure by preying on a series of lonely, wealthy wome…
Come Back, Africa
In making this mixture of documentary and drama, director Lionel Rogosin’s aimed to reveal the harsh injustice of apartheid in Sophiatown, a South African ghetto where Black citizens formed their own vibrant community and culture. Rogosin spent a year meeting with locals in order to capture th…
Come Back, Africa/Black Roots
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.
Fear and Desire: Premiere Version
Stanley Kubrick's first feature is an existential drama that has the feeling of a waking dream rather than a conventional war film. Following a complicated history of cuts and versioning, audiences can finally see Fear and Desire as it was first released and witness the tentative blossoming of …
Girl Gang
By the late 1940s, exploitation producers such as George Weiss (Test Tube Babies, Glen or Glenda?) drifted away from the pseudo-educational framework of the genre and began producing risqué crime melodramas. No films better represent the “mainstreaming” of exploitation than GIRL G…
The Hitch-Hiker
Remembered as one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s, Ida Lupino's THE HITCH-HIKER remains the only classic film noir directed by a woman. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of Billy Cook, this is the tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip who are held captive by a hom…
The Holly and the Ivy
A recently widowed minister's zeal for attending to his parishioners leads him to neglect the needs of his own family, until emotions boil over one Christmas.
Jazz on a Summer's Day
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, …
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Sex becomes sport as Valmont and Juliette manipulate each other into having extra-marital affairs. Juliette points Valmont towards the 16-year-old Cécile, since she has eyes on Cécile’s prospective fiancé Court.
Love In The City
Six top Italian filmmakers pooled their talents on the omnibus "reality" feature Amore in Citta (Love in the City).
Maigret Sets a Trap
Inspector Maigret tries to trap a killer and discovers why a happily married, wealthy, and talented man should want to bump off women at night. Jean Gabin is perfect as Georges Simenon's secure and steady sleuth, and old-hand Jean Delannoy expertly keeps up the pace and suspense in this enjoyable wh…
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Maigret is summoned by the Countess to the Château de Saint-Fiacre, where she shows him a letter she has received predicting the day on which she will die.
The Mystery of Picasso
Filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot and painter Pablo Picasso used experimental and innovative techniques to create an entirely new kind of art documentary — one that is both joyous and suspenseful.
On the Bowery
ON THE BOWERY chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, a part-time railroad worker adrift on New York’s skid row. When the film first opened in 1956, it exploded on the screen, jump-started the post-war American independent scene and shortly won an Oscar nomination. Restored b…
Pin-Down Girl
No films better represent the “mainstreaming” of exploitation than GIRL GANG and PIN-DOWN GIRL, and no actor was more suited to such low-grade potboilers than deadpan baritone Timothy Farrell. PIN-DOWN GIRL stars Peaches Page as a woman caught in the vice-riddled world of female wr…
Razzia Sur La Chnouf
After a spell in the U.S.A., master criminal Henri Ferré dit ‘Le Nantais’ returns to Paris and is recruited by the head of a major narcotics ring. Merchandise has been disappearing and Henri is assigned two hitmen to eliminate unreliable dealers.
Story of a Love Affair
Story of a Love Affair (1950) is the legendary Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature, a powerful statement on the delusions and violence sparked by a passionate love. This deeply tragic romance already exhibits the astonishing formal control and penetrating insights into the human condition that wo…
The Big Combo
This iconic film noir crime film directed by Joseph H. Lewis stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlevy, as well as Jean Wallace, who was Wilde's wife at the time. It also included the final screen appearance of actress Helen Walker. Police Lt. Leonard Dia…
The Wide Blue Road
Set in a fishing village on Italy's Dalmatian coast, Yves Montand plays Giovanni Squarciò, a rogue fisherman whose livelihood is threatened when a new chief of police is installed in town.