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The AIDS Show

History · Documentary

THE AIDS SHOW combines excerpts from a collaborative piece of theatre written in an unprecedented health crisis with interviews from the show's creators and performers, producing a powerful hybrid of documentary and drama about the community most affected by the disease – gay men.

About Tap

Documentary · Music & Dance · Music Documentaries

About Tap features stylistic performances and recollections by three of America’s leading male tap dancers: Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde and Chuck Green. By introducing viewers to a unique history of dance, director George Nierenberg strives to answer the question, “How does an artist disco…

Alex Cox Program

Cult

This special program put together in partnership with the Texas Theatre features two cult classics from Repo Man director Alex Cox followed by a 20-minute interview with the man himself!

The Angelic Conversation

LGBTQ

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The Atomic Cafe

History · Documentary · Earth Day

This darkly funny and eerily relevant 1982 cult classic about how to stop worrying and love the bomb is pieced together from government-produced educational and training films, newsreels and advertisements. Presented in a sparkling 4K digital restoration.

BIX: "ain't none of them play like him yet"

Documentary · Biography · Jazz

Using archival photographs and rare footage and interviews with friends and colleagues, Oscar® winner Brigitte Berman's acclaimed documentary paints a vivid portrait of a vanished era and brings to life the only cornetist Louis Armstrong regarded as an equal.

Before The Nickelodeon

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Silent

Noted film historian Charles Musser co-wrote and directed this definitive tribute to Edwin S. Porter, the mechanic and cameraman for Thomas Edison, now recognized as a major contributor to the evolution of film structure. From the time of The Great Train Robbery in 1903 until Griffith started at Bio…

Belladonna

A number of somber talking heads frankly describe their most personal and perverse attitudes on sex, violence and other family matters. 

The Boat is Full

War · Jewish Interest · Drama

Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film (1981), The Boat is Full is a tense and heartbreaking drama that captures the plight of refugees during WWII.

Broken Noses

Sports · Documentary

Profiles lightweight boxer Andy Minsker and his boxing club for boys.

The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer

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Camille Claudel

History · Biography · Drama

The biography of the iconic French sculptor Camille Claudel in a tale of love, betrayal and female empowerment, starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu.

Caravaggio

Historic Drama

Derek Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. CARAVAGGIO incorporates the painter's precise aesthetic into the movie's own vis…

China: A Century of Revolution

China · Documentary

CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION is a six-hour tour de force journey through the country’s most tumultuous period. First televised on PBS, this award-winning documentary series presents an astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical comment…

Circle of Deceit

War

Set in Beirut during the 1970s Civil War, Bruno Ganz and Hanna Schygulla star in this extraordinary film about how the West in general and jouralists in particular confront terrorism in the Middle East. This film has only become more relevant with age.

Colonel Redl

Academy Award Winners · Cannes Film Festival · Period Drama

Set in the lead up to WWI, Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning Colonel Redl charts the rise of Alfred Redl to head of counter-intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt

History · Documentary · Biography

The Memorial Quilt was started by the NAMES Project in the summer of 1987...and by the fall of '88, the quilt had grown to include 8,288 panels. Through on-the-scene documentation, filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman wove the NAMES Project's efforts to memoralize AIDS victims into an emotion…

Confidence

Period Drama · War · Academy Award Nominees

1980's Confidence was nominated for the Academy Award and Szabó won Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Director. In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion…

The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy

Drama

Brothers Victor, Jose and Felipe are enlisted by Miss Malloy to restore her Victorian mansion on the Hudson so she can host one last party before she dies. 

Dance of Hope

Documentary

Academy Award winning filmmaker Deborah Shaffer directs this documentary of the aftermath of the political repression of General Augusto Pinochet. The wives, mothers and sisters of the disappeared courageously struggle for the truth and justice in Chile.

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China

History · Documentary · Art

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney bring the bustling streets of three-hundred-year-old China to life through their analysis of the 72-foot-long seventh scroll of "The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour" by Wang Hui.

Dramolet (Stille Nacht I)

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The Draughtsman's Contract

Drama

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Emergency Kisses

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The Escapees

Horror · Cult · Drama

THE ESCAPEES is among Rollin's most personal films, and has been remastered in HD from the original 35mm negative. Jean Rollin's THE ESCAPEES revisits the director's fascination with pairs of women who wander, dreamlike, through a modern dystopia (Requiem for a Vampire, Two Orphan Vampires). Two fem…

The Falls

Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the unique pleasures of his post-DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT oeuvre, THE FALLS is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway’s prolific career. Shot as a pseudo-documentary, this magnum opus dazz…

Family Viewing

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Fela Kuti: "Music is the Weapon"

African-American · Music & Dance · Music Documentaries

Shot in Lagos at the peak of his career in 1982, this documentary contains interviews with Fela detailing his thoughts on politics, Pan-Africanism, music and religion. For all who wish to know more about an artist at the heart of African musical history, FELA KUTI: MUSIC IS THE WEAPON is an essentia…

Film Before Film

Documentary

An amusing and encyclopedic look at the "pre-history' of cinema, including peep shows, magic lanterns, and early animation.

Finye

World Cinema

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Fire From the Mountain

Documentary

Nicaraguan author Omar Cabezas’ personal memoir of revolution and reconstruction. 

Five and the Skin

Drama

A man, Ivan, returns to Manila, seemingly aimless. At the whim of his wanderings and his encounters, the writer strolls through the fascinating megalopolis in search of his past and the meaning of his existence.

From the Archives of Modern Art

Drama · Documentary · Short Films

In six hilarious and sometimes bawdy short films, artist Eleanor Antin charts the career of one of her many personas — Eleanora Antinova, the once celebrated African-American ballerina of Diaghlev’s Ballets Russes.

Glitterbox: Derek Jarman x 4

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Good Fight

Documentary · War

2,800 American volunteers fought with distinction in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. They returned home after the Loyalist defeat to encounter suspicion as premature anti-fascists. Branded Communist sympathizers, blacklisted for years and unable to get work, many paid dearl…

Gorky Park

Mystery · Crime · Based on Literature

When three murder victims are discovered in Moscow’s Gorky Park detective Arkady Renko is determined to identify the bodies and find the killer. But when the clues point toward the involvement of the KGB, Renko is hunted by the secret police and confronted by an intricate web of deception and …

The Grey Fox

Period Drama · Western · Drama

After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) emerges in 1901 a free man without a place in 20th century society…until he sees The Great Train Robbery and is inspired to once again do what he does best.

He Was Once

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I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Comedy · Cannes Film Festival · LGBTQ

Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story about a waifish daydreamer with artistic aspirations is structured around a video-recorded confession and won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Kaddish

Documentary · World Cinema · Jewish Interest

In Steve Brand’s timeless documentary KADDISH -- as bracing as any fiction -- we witness a candid portrait of a young Jew coming to terms with his father's traumatic history. It is the story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zol…

Kamikaze Hearts

Documentary · Lesbian · Cult

Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the naive newcomer Tigr and her partner, the magnetic, imperious porn veteran Sharon Mitchell — caught in a …

The Last of England

Culture · Historic Drama · Avant Garde

An apocalyptic roar of a movie, this is Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. It is both deeply personal and grimly historical, and is undoubtedly one of the most important British films of all time.

Let There Be Light

Documentary · War

Labeled too disturbing and controversial for its time, John Huston's legendary film about the effects of war and post-traumatic stress returns with fully restored sound and visual quality.

Let's Get Lost

Documentary

Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives, and his children in what tur…

Lightning over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy

As eccentric a picture of America as has emerged in the last two decades. Like Buba’s earlier short films, it chronicles the decline of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a hard-luck town which once flourished as “Pittsburgh’s shopping center.” It concerns a director (Buba, playing hims…

Link

Horror · Cult · 4K UHD DISC

Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dange…

The Living Dead Girl

Horror · Cult

Bloodier and more violent than his own tastes preferred, THE LIVING DEAD GIRL forced Rollin to work against the grain in his own preferred genre - and he transformed himself in the process.

Loulou

Romance · Drama

One evening Nelly meets Loulou, a down-and-out young man. After her husband kicks her out, she goes off to live with Loulou.

The Man Who Envied Women

Performing Arts

Around a familiar theme—the breakup of a marriage—Rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womanizer, Jack Deller, the man “who almost knows too much about women.”

Masque of the Red Death

Cult

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Matter Of Heart

Health and Healing · Documentary · Biography

The original, compelling and inspiring portrait of Carl Gustav Jung, whose extraordinary genius and humanity projected his voice far beyond the realm of psychiatry, redefining the essential nature of who we are and what we hope to become. Stirring score by John Adams.

Mephisto

Historic Drama · Academy Award Winners · Based on True Story

The 1981 Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film) Mephisto concerns a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of this Faustian pact by finally achieving the stardom he has long craved.   

My Brother's Wedding

Drama

Pierce Mundy works at his parents' South Central dry cleaners with no prospects for the future. With his best friend just getting out of jail and his brother busy planning a wedding to a snooty upper-middle-class black woman, Pierce navigates his conflicting obligations while trying to figure out wh…

My Twentieth Century

Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire was awarded the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all re…

Next of Kin

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The Night of the Hunted

Sci-Fi and Fantasy · Erotic · Horror

A man driving home late one night nearly hits a beautiful, scantily-clad woman who is running wild in the streets; he takes her back to his apartment, they make love, and he discovers that she has already forgotten where they met. She is rapidly losing her memory, a woman without a past. The amnesia…

Night of the Juggler (4KUHD)

Crime · Thriller · Action

A twisted psychotic kidnaps a teenaged girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer. Her determined father, a hard-hitting ex-cop, doggedly pursues them through New York’s seamy streets and the grimy subterranean corridors beneath the city itself.

Nightmare City

Horror · Thriller · World Cinema

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Nostalghia

4K UHD DISC · Drama

Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra (L'Avventura) and newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, Nostalghia is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.