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92 in the Shade

Crime · Drama

Newly re-mastered in HD! Set in Key West, Florida, Peter Fonda (Killer Force, Ulee’s Gold) plays Tom Skelton, a bum who gets a job as a fishing guide in his old hometown. Nobody wants to have anything to do with Skelton, least of all rival guides Nichol Dance and Carter (Warren Oates, Bring Me…

All Screwed Up

Comedy · Romantic Comedy · World Cinema

An anarchically outrageous comedy from Lina Wertmüller, ALL SCREWED UP is ripe for rediscovery, an accomplishment as impressive as the classics she made before and after: Love and Anarchy (1973) and Swept Away (1974).

Alma's Rainbow

Comedy · Lesbian · 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.

Amnesia

A one-minute video that compresses with an economy of time and textual editing a direct assault on the languages of hate and intolerance. 

Anamorphosis

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The Annihilation of Fish

Romance · Drama

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.  

Archangel

Romance · Drama · RT Certified Fresh

In 1919, one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles arrives in the northern Russian town of Archangel where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I.

Asylum

Documentary · Health and Healing

A truly unique documentary that examines the controversial ideas of psychiatrist and philosopher R. D. Laing. ASYLUM is both an exploration of Laing's alternative theories on schizophrenia and an invaluable record of the day-to-day lives of some forgotten members of society.

Baara

World Cinema

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The Bitch

Romance · Drama

Film and television icon Joan Collins (TV’s Dynasty, The Stud) reprises her role as the beautiful Fontaine, a high-living, pleasure-seeking divorcee who meets her match in the first class cabin on a flight to London.

Black Chariot

Robert Goodwin wrote, produced, and directed this lost gem of American independent cinema. Opening during a tense meeting between members of an underground Black Power group that leads to a stunning foot chase, Goodwin’s film weaves past and present to tell the story of the social awakening of…

Black Box

A man is tortured by his girlfriend and then locked inside a black box.

Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism

Lesbian · Documentary · LGBTQ

Bloodsisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism immerses the viewer in the San Francisco leather dyke scene, shattering assumptions about gender and lesbian sexuality, while broadening the discussion about personal expressions of eroticism and their political implications.

The Blues Under the Skin

Documentary · Music

In the early 1970s, during a resurgence of interest in the Delta blues, music documentarian Roviros Manthoulis traveled to the Mississippi Delta to capture the remnants of the authentic American blues, filming candid interviews and intimate performances by such legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Sonny Te…

Boatman

Earth Day · Documentary · Spirituality

Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the lives of subcultures and displaced peoples the world over.  His first feature, Boatman (1993), captures life and death on the Gang…

Bodies, Rest & Motion

Romance · Drama

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.

The Boss

Historic Drama · Crime · Thriller

Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film-the final part of his Milieu Trilogy-is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld.

The Braddock Chronicles

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Brakhage

Documentary · Biography · Film Documentaries

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of the greatest artists of our time. From 1952, at the age of nineteen, until his death, Brakhage created more than 400 films, ranging in length from several seconds to several hours, constantly and consi…

Breakheart Pass

Western · Adventure

At the height of the frontier era, a locomotive races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission. But one by one, the passengers are murdered! Their only hope is John Deakin (Charles Bronson), a mysterious prisoner-in-transit who must fight for his life, and the lives of everyone on the tra…

Bushman

Drama · Docudrama

Bushman tells the story of a young Nigerian who settles in the Bay Area at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and is falsely accused of terrorism during events at a university strike. With irony, poetry, and a delicate touch, David Schickele’s unshakeable debut sets up a thoughtful and provocativ…

Butley

Theatre

Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a lecturer who experiences a truly awful day.

Caliber 9

Thriller · World Cinema

In the first time of the Tirology, small-tiem gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes that he has …

Chac: The Rain God

Drama · Adventure

Based on the culture of the Popul Vuh, CHAC: THE RAIN GOD follows a village's attempts to solve a terrible drought by sending their best and brightest to a diviner in the mountains.

The Cherry Orchard

Based on Literature · Period Drama · World Cinema

Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Stars Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling.

The Comb (from the Museums of Sleep)

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The Comeback

Cult · Thriller · Horror

Pop star Jack Jones (best remembered for the theme from The Love Boat) plays a singer who is haunted by the death of his estranged wife, and led into a confrontation with the killer, in THE COMEBACK. A sleek and entertaining slasher film from director Pete Walker, it is a bloody illustration of the …

The Conformist

World Cinema · Historic Drama · RT Certified Fresh

Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's Italy starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed man trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – who joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in.

Conversation Piece

Drama · World Cinema

This new restoration of Luchino Visconti’s personal and provocative chamber study starring Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Helmut Berger explores themes of class, sex, art, and fascism and preserves Visconti’s precise chromatic design, elegant interior compositions, and sonic detail…

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Documentary · LGBTQ · Biography

Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity, attitude and self-understanding. This ground-breaking work combines interviews with Tom (prior to his death in 1992) and his leather men acolytes with hundreds o…

A Delicate Balance

Theatre

An invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore in this exceptional adapatation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

The Demoniacs (Unrated Extended Cut)

Cult · Erotic · Horror

A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, THE DEMONIACS (Les Demoniaques) concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier) of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered.

The Devil Queen (Kino Cult #53)

Cult · Crime · Drama

Rio de Janeiro’s criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: Diaba, a drag queen with a taste for power and violence. When the police come after her boy toy, Diaba attempts to find a scapegoat to take the blame and a plot to dethrone Her Majesty arises!  

Die Screaming, Marianne

Cult · Horror

Marianne (Susan George, STRAW DOGS), following the sudden death of her mother, stands to inherit the family fortune, along with several documents that could incriminate her corrupt judge of a father. Now, her sister and her father both want their hands on Marianne's inheritance and they'll stop at n…

Diva Dolorosa

Documentary · Film Documentaries · Film

In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate) affectionately captures the spirit of the World War One-era cinema diva. In all-but-lost gems such as La donna nuda(1914), and Tigre reale (1916), superstars such as Lyda Borelli and Pina…

The Double Headed Eagle

Documentary · War

A fascinating experiment in documentary filmmaking, THE DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE charts the stealthy rise of the Nazi party in the wake of World War I.

Eden and After

Cult · Horror · World Cinema

From the darkly erotic imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Trans-Europe-Express) comes EDEN AND AFTER, a dreamlike fable in which a group of decadent French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman.

Electra, My Love

Cannes Film Festival · World Cinema · Based on Literature

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra, still burning with hatred towards his murderer, the tyrant Aegisztosz, attempts to rouse an apathetic population against the rule of this usurper.   A richly inventive adaptation of the two-thousand-year-old Greek …

F.T.A.

War · Music · Music Documentaries

In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland toured an anti-war comedy show across Southeast Asia. Despite being highly controversial, it was a huge success among stationed soldiers. Out of circulation and difficult to see for decades, F.T.A. has now been fully restore…

Fascination

Cult · Erotic · Horror

The masterpiece of renowned French filmmaker Jean Rollin, FASCINATION follows a swaggering thief who hides out in a lavish chateau, holding the occupants at gunpoint. When night falls, he discovers that these two maids are in fact the gatekeepers to a ring of bloodthirsty women.

Ferdinando & Carolina

Historic Drama · Comedy

NEW DCP COMING SOON! In the dazzling court of 18th century Naples, against their wishes, young King Ferdinando will wed Carolina, the sweet 16 year-old daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. As the monarchies of Europe hold their breath, something unexpected happens. King Ferdinando and Carol…

Film About a Woman Who...

Performing Arts

Yvonne Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

Flaming Ears

Sci-Fi

This pop sci-fi lesbian extravaganza set in the year 2700 in the fictional burned-out city of Asche follows the tangled lives of three women. Truly underground and shot on Super 8, Flaming Ears is original for its playful disruption of narrative conventions, its witty approach to film genre, and its…

The Flesh and Blood Show (Kino Cult #43)

Cult · Horror

Shuttered and cursed by an especially tragic production of Othello, a seaside theatre reopens its doors as a groovy musical revue, only to have several performers fall victim to the deadly curse.

G-MAN

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix.

Galileo

Theatre · Drama

Based on the play by Bertolt Brecht (originally translated by Charles Laughton), GALILEO explores not merely the infamous historical figure, but the philosophical concepts for which he was both celebrated and condemned.

Ganja & Hess

African-American · Vampires · Horror

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film Ganja & Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity.

The Giant Woman and the Lightning Man

Documentary · History · Art

Philip Haas’s eye-popping film covering Australian Aboriginal artwork takes viewers through the stunning, painstaking step-by-step processes of preparing paintings by desert tribesmen.

Glitterbug

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Graduate First

Drama

In a town in northern France, teenagers sitting for the baccalaureate await the fateful date with anxiety tempered with indifference.

Guimba the Tyrant

World Cinema

Acclaimed at home and at the Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festivals as the African film event of the year, Guimba weaves a captivating tale of sexual power plays, set against the grand sweep of a precolonial African empire.

H Is for House

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Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Cult · Horror

Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian genre known as giallo, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening examples: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (Il rosso segno della follia).

Heartworn Highways

Documentary · Music · Music Documentaries

In the mid-70’s, James Szalapski captured lightning in a bottle, a fleeting moment in music history. Namely, the birth of Outlaw Country Music, heralding a new, close-knit generation of renegade musicians, inspired by Willie and Waylon.  Typically, they gathered at Guy and Susanna Clark&r…

High Heel Nights

Intimate portraits of gay artists and drag performers talking about gender, identity, and all the fine lines around it. The film is an important reminder that for us today drag queen performances are accepted in the mainstream, however there was a time when it was strictly underground.

Highway Patrolman

Action · Drama

Repo Man director Alex Cox went south of the border to film this dramatic tale of a rookie member of Mexico’s national highway patrol, who struggles to keep on the straight and narrow in a department rife with corruption. This is a new 4K restoration overseen by the director.

Home Before Midnight

Cult · Horror

A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.