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Attack of the Robots

Sci-Fi · Cult · Comedy

Attack of the Robots (Cartes sur table) stars Eddie Constantine as a wise-cracking superspy investigating a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed glasses. The trail of these mindless automata leads him to the lair of a seductive villainess (Fra…

The Balcony (Special Edition)

Drama · Comedy

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

War · Crime · Drama

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

The Blood Beast Terror

Cult · Horror · Thriller

This classically told monster movie directed by Vernon Sewell is set in motion when mutilated bodies begin appearing in the English countryside, drained of blood. Horror icon Peter Cushing stars as Detective Inspector Quennell, brought in to investigate the deaths.

La Chinoise

World Cinema · Drama

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 …

Le Combat dans l'Ile

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Coming Apart

Drama

Rip Torn gives one of the great screen performances as a psychiatrist secretly filming his own mental breakdown in Milton Moses Ginsberg's classic exploration of dark eroticism and self-referential cinematic form. Anticipating the camcorder-driven diary films of today, the entire film is shot into a…

The Confrontation

Religion · Period Drama · Historic Drama

Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion. Set in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken power, dancing, singing Communist students debate C…

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.

Walden

Avant Garde · Art Documentaries

Walden, Jonas Mekas' first completed diary film, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas'friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Velvet Underground.

Duet for Cannibals

Drama · Comedy

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 Eleanor Roosevelt Story

Academy Award Winners · War · Documentary

Pulitzer prize winner Archibald MacLeish scripted this touching portrait of the woman who emerged from a privileged but painful childhood to become a powerful humanitarian. Academy Award winner for Best Documentary. Introduced by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Exiles

Documentary · Drama · 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.

Fantomas (Hunebelle)

Action & Adventure · World Cinema · Cult

Pierre Souvestre’s Fantômas was originally adapted for the screen by legendary filmmaker Louis Feuillade (Les vampires) in 1913. André Hunebelle (OSS 117: Mission for a Killer) introduced a revamped and modernized version of Fantômas to the 1960s OSS 117 and 007 audience.

Fantomas Unleashed

Action & Adventure · World Cinema · Cult

In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre. Journalist Fandor develops an inge…

Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

Action & Adventure · World Cinema · Cult

In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply. Journalist Fandor and commissaire Juve are invited to Scotland by Lord McRashley (played by Jean-Roger Caussimon). Lord McRashley, one of Fantômas' potenti…

For Men Only/School for Sex

Cult · Sexuality · Comedy

Before becoming the director of some of British cinema's most gruesome horror films (such as Frightmare, Schizo, and The Flesh and Blood Show), Pete Walker was a pioneer of the distinctively British sexploitation genre known as “slap and tickle.”

Wages of Sin (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture, Volume 10)

Drama

Obliterated by the sensational leanings of '60s exploitation, whatever's left of Der Arzt stellt fest... comes to us as Wages of Sin, a soapy drama set in a women’s clinic accompanied by a live lecture and additional shorts on childbirth.

The Girl Hunters

Film Noir

Private Eye, Mike Hammer's sexy secretary Velda is missing... and Hammer's hot on her trail. Mickey Spillane himself, the best-selling author of The Girl Hunters, turns in a "tremendous" performance (Time magazine) in the leading role. Count on some pulse-pounding action when Hammer tangles with a r…

Girl on a Motorcycle

Culture · Erotic · Romance

A wildly sexy time capsule from the swinging sixties, THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE (1968) stars Alain Delon (Le samoura) and Marianne Faithfull—two actors at the height of their impressive cool—as lovers with a taste for the open road.

Greenaway: The Early Films

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Greenaway: The Shorts

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Hercules in the Haunted World

Horror · Cult

Mario Bava helmed this entry in the series, in which Hercules (Reg Park) must journey to the bowels of Hell to recover a magical plant that is the only hope of a dying princess.

The Collected Films of Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin: I Need a Ride to California

Drama

Inspired by day-glo psychedelia, societal upheaval, and sexual liberation, Morris Engel crafts the story of Lilly, a naïve, lonely young Californian who finds herself in New York City. Lilly embraces the flower child movement, right down to the bare feet and a ring of daisies in her blond hair.…

Kyiv Frescoes

Experimental · Drama

A 4K restoration of Sergei Parajanov's never-completed visual ballad of life in the aftermath of war.

L'Immortelle

Erotic · World Cinema · Drama

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…

Le Gai Savoir

World Cinema · Experimental

While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Leaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy"--the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements--the two deconstruct the m…

London in the Raw

Culture · Documentary · Cult

“The world’s greatest city laid bare!”, roars the tagline to LONDON?IN?THE?RAW (1964), a salacious documentary that tours the strip-clubs and underground dives of the still-swinging city.

Marriage Italian Style

Academy Award Nominees · Drama

In this Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren's Filumena as a young prostitute. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is furious, and resorts to a series of…

The Mask 3D

3D Movies · Horror

After the shocking death of a disturbed patient, psychiatrist Dr. Allan Barnes (Paul Stevens) comes into possession of the ancient tribal mask that supposedly drove the young man to his doom. When Barnes puts on the mask, he is assailed with nightmarish visions of monsters, occultists, and ritual to…

Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968

Documentary

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OSS 117 Is Unleashed

Action & Adventure · Thriller

An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.

OSS 117: Mission to Tokyo

Action & Adventure

After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack, if they don't pay.

OSS 117: Double Agent

Action & Adventure

Agent OSS 117 infiltrates an organization that specializes in political assassinations, by assuming the identity of one of its top assassins.

OSS 117: Mission For a Killer

Action & Adventure

A wave of political crimes is washing over South America. Secret agent OSS 117 in charge of cleaning up the affair, is ambushed several times but manages to get rid of the killers on his trail. With a Brazilian woman, Anna Maria, he reaches the Amazon forest where he finds Natives growing a mysterio…

OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok

Action & Adventure · Thriller

Agent OSS 117 is sent to Thailand to unravel the mysteries behind the man called Dr. Sinn.

Portrait of Jason

Biography · Documentary

Shirley Clarke filmed gay actor, hustler, chanteuse Jason Holliday's 12-hour soliloquy, creating a documentary that Ingmar Bergman said was "the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.”  

Primitive London

Culture · Youth Film · Documentary

An outrageous jolt of British exploitation, PRIMITIVE?LONDON (1965) is an exposé of the hidden desires and bizarre vices that percolate behind the exterior of English life.

The Quare Fellow

Culture · World Cinema · Drama

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).

The Queen

Documentary · LGBTQ · Cannes Film Festival

More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag, as well as LGBTQ icons Flawless Sabrina and Crystal LaBeija.

The Rape of the Vampire

Cult · Vampires · Horror

A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the Supernatural.

The Red and The White

Period Drama · Historic Drama · War

A haunting, powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war. Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, The Red and The White details the murderous entanglements between Russia's Red soldiers and the counter-revolutionary Whites in the hills along the Volga. The epic conflict moves with s…

Robbery

Crime · Mystery · Cult

Inspired by true events, Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London’s criminal underworld.

Rocco and His Brothers

World Cinema · Crime · Drama

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. 

The Round-Up

War · Period Drama · History

Miklós Jancsó’s most renowned work depicts a prison camp in the aftermath of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. After the Hapsburg monarchy succeeds in suppressing Lajos Kossuth's nationalist uprising, the army sets about arresting suspected guerillas, who are subject to torture and …

The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming

War · Comedy

When sightseeing Soviet commander (Alan Arkin, The In-Laws) runs his submarine aground off the New England coast, his crew's attempts to find a boat to dislodge the sub almost starts World War III. Arkin leads and all-star cast that includes Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Keith and Jonathan Win…

September Storm 3D

Adventure · 3D Movies · Drama

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…

Siberian Lady Macbeth

Film Noir

In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman's adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk.

The Sorrow and the Pity

History · War · Documentary

What did French people of do during WW II? Marcel Ophüls' Oscar-nominated documentary shattered the myth of an undivided and universally resistant France under the Vichy government.

The Specialists aka Gli Specialisti

Adventure · Spaghetti Western · Cult

Notorious gunfighter Hud Dixon arrives in Blackstone, a town where his brother was wrongfully accused of robbing a bank and lynched for it. As Hud seeks revenge, he starts to discover the truth behind the stolen loot.

Sweet Love, Bitter

Biography

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Vice and Virtue

World Cinema · Drama · 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 …

The Whip and The Body

Horror · Romance · Cult

Christopher Lee (Dracula: Prince of Darkness) stars as Kurt Menliff, the sadistic son of a wealthy Count, who returns to the family castle, much to the dismay of his family, their servants, and the beautiful woman with whom he shares a fondness for the lash (Daliah Lavi). When Kurt is found murdered…

Winter Wind

History · Historic Drama · Drama

In the mid-1930s a group of Croatian anarchists led by the grim revolutionary ascetic Marko Lazar (played by the film’s French producer Jacques Charrier) escape a bungled ambush in Yugoslavia crossing the dense forests at that country's Northern border in an effort to seek refuge in Hunga…

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Academy Award Winners · World Cinema · Drama

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…