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Fernando Di Leo: The Italian Crime Collection Vol. 2

Crime · Action · World Cinema

Fernando Di Leo was a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970's. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy.Di Leo's films demonstr…

Film Socialisme

Avant Garde · Culture · World Cinema

Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt) triumphantly returns to the screen with FILM SOCIALISME, "a remarkable and beautiful and challenging" (Glenn Kenny, MSN) essay on the state of Mediterranean life, culture and history.

Filmworker

Film Documentaries · RT Certified Fresh · Documentary

After starring as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, Leon Vitali gave up his acting career to toil in obscurity as Stanley Kubrick’s devoted aide-de-camp. This candid, often funny, and sometimes shocking documentary offers a singular perspective on a creative genius.

Finding Fela

Music & Dance · Documentary · African-American

Directed by Alex Gibney, this is the story of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's life, his music, his social and political importance and how his impact transformed the life of many Nigerians and rights activists throughout the world.

Fire at Sea

RT Certified Fresh · Academy Award Nominees · Documentary

An Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary Feature and the first nonfiction film to ever win the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Fire at Sea takes place in Lampedusa, a remote Mediterranean island that has become a major entry point for refugees into Europe. Award-w…

Forbidden Films

1,200 feature films were made in Germany’s Third Reich. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda.

The Forbidden Room

RT Certified Fresh · Sundance Film Festival · Avant Garde

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…

The Force

Documentary · Sundance Film Festival

At a powderkeg moment in American policing, The Force goes deep inside the embattled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, the rise of Black Lives Matter and an explosive scandal.

The Forgotten Kingdom

Spirituality · Drama · World Cinema

Atang Mokoenya is an unemployed, aimless young man who spends his days idling in the slums of Johannesburg. When his father dies, Atang must give up his selfish ways and fulfill his father's humble last wishes: to be buried in the rural mountain kingdom of Lesotho, the country they left 15 years ear…

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Art Documentaries

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several…

George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

Architecture · Documentary · Art Documentaries

A feature documentary as mercurial as its subject: the impresario of the international avant-garde art movement Fluxus (1962-78). Featuring interviews with Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik.

Gerhard Richter Painting

Staff Picks · Fine Art · Art Documentaries

GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING offers unprecedented insight into the life and work of one of the greatest artists of our time, and is a "gorgeously rendered work of art" (Variety) in its own right.

A Gesar Bard's Tale

Spirituality · Biography · Meditation

As a boy, Dawa was an illiterate Tibetan nomad whose life revolved around herding yaks. At 13, his life changed: through a series of visions, Dawa acquired the gift of telling the epic story of Tibet's King Gesar. Now, at 35, Dawa receives a salary from the government as a guardian of national cultu…

The Giants

Cannes Film Festival · Drama · World Cinema

THE GIANTS is a moving coming-of-age film about small kids with enormous hearts. Brothers Seth (Martin Nissen) and Zak (Zacharie Chasseriaud) are two young teens left to their own devices when their mother abandons them in their dead grandfather's house. As money grows thin during the long summer da…

Gipsy Queen

Drama

Single mother Ali works herself to the bone as a cleaner at the Ritze nightclub so that her two children can have the opportunities inherent in a German life and education. Ali discovers the boxing ring in the basement of the Ritze, and it brings back memories.  As she starts to box again, she …

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Horror · Vampires · Based on Literature

The first Vampire Western ever made in the Farsi language, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave.

The Goddesses of Food

Documentary · Food & Wine

In November of 2013, TIME Magazine released an international cover story called “The Gods of Food”. Unfortunately, not a single female chef appeared on the list. The new documentary, THE GODDESSES OF FOOD is here to change popular perception. In the male dominated food universe, dis…

Golden Kingdom

Health and Healing · Spirituality · Culture

Golden Kingdom is a narrative feature film about four orphan boys, novice monks living in a Buddhist monastery in a remote part of Northeast Burma. 

Goodbye Gauley Mountain

Documentary · Earth Day · Nature

Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle activate the metaphor "Earth as lover" and join the fight against mountain top removal (MTR) in Appalachia

Goodbye to Language

Cannes Film Festival · 3D Movies · Drama

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Goodbye to Language is a triumphant masterpiece from Jean-Luc Godard.

The Gospel of Eureka

Documentary

Love, faith and civil rights collide in a southern town as evangelical Christians and drag queens step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes in this documentary narrated by Mx Justin Vivian Bond.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Music · Documentary · African-American

This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with Jones’s bold aesthetic.

Great Directors

Documentary · Art Documentaries

Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary GREAT DIRECTORS. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Say…

The Great Museum

Documentary · Art Documentaries

Featuring unprecedented access to an influential and multi-faceted institution, The Great Museum reveals the inner-workings of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, one of the most important art institutions in the world.

The Great Mystical Circus

Drama · World Cinema

Reality and fantasy collide in the story of a family-owned circus spanning five generations of decadence, love and loss, as told by Cinema Novo master Carlos Diegues (Bye Bye Brazil, Quilombo). Starring Vincent Cassel and with a score by Chico Buarque. 

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined A Generation

Art Documentaries · Music Documentaries

Featuring poignant interviews with Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Don McLean, Peter Yarrow, Arlo Guthrie, Lucy and Carly Simon, Tom Chapin and Judy Collins, among dozens of other music luminaries, GREENWICH VILLAGE: MUSIC THAT DEFINED A GENERATION combines talking heads with rare archival footage …

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

Photography

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Grind Reset Shine

Drama

Unsatisfied with his place in New York’s art scene, Artist Peter Bjorn relocates to Berlin in search of change. Meanwhile in a remote Polish village, Alicia prepares to become a nun but, feeling home in nature, her reveries continually distract her from her religious p…

Gueros

RT Certified Fresh · World Cinema · Tribeca Film Festival

WINNER OF 5 MEXICAN ARIEL "ACADEMY AWARDS" INCLUDING BEST PICTURE AND BEST DIRECTOR! The winner of five Ariels (the Mexican Academy Awards), including Best Picture and Best Director, GUEROS is one the most striking Latin American debuts of 2015. Sombra and Santos have been living in angst-ridden lim…

Guest of Honour

Drama

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).

Hannah Arendt

In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta (Vision,Rosa Luxemburg) for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist.

Happy Times

Horror · Comedy · Action

A seemingly friendly dinner party erupts into a night of violence and terror at a lush Hollywood estate.

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

Documentary

Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don’t recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanl…

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Film Documentaries · Documentary · Art Documentaries

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a personal documentary about the iconic actor in his intimate moments, with clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs.

Headshot

Drama · World Cinema · Tribeca Film Festival

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.

Hermia & Helena

Drama · World Cinema

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…

Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil

Biography · Fine Art · Documentary

In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch will be holding a special exhibition devoted to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, who died 500 years ago.

Hitler's Hollywood

Film Documentaries · Documentary

This follow-up to From Caligari to Hitler traces the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the cinema of the Third Reich: an explosion of lavish, escapist films celebrating a German utopia and subtly legitimizing a brutality that continues to haunt the modern world. Features new English narration by…

Homeland: Iraq Year Zero

Documentary

An extraordinary personal look at the people of Iraq prior to and immediately after the US invasion of 2003.

Hooligan Sparrow

Peabody Award Winners · Art Documentaries · Documentary

State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, AKA Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to Hainan Province to seek justice for six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. But the scale and intensity of the government's reactio…

Horses of God

Cannes Film Festival · Historic Drama · Drama

Ten year-old Yachine and his 13-year-old brother Hamid live in Sidi Moumen, an impoverished slum on the outskirts of Casablanca. Hamid, though just a child, works hard to sustain his family by any means, but eventually get involved with the "wrong crowd" and becomes one of the local neighborhood bos…

Hostages (Season 1)

Thriller · Episodic Cinema · Drama

When four masked men violently break into the Danon family home, taking them hostages, the family of four will be shaken to the core and their lives will change forever.

House of Hummingbird

Drama

Eun-hee is a curious 14-year-old growing up in a country on the brink of enormous change. Ignored and rejected by her family, Eun-hee finds her escape roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, experiencing all that life has to offer.

Human

Environment · Documentary · Earth Day

Using testimonies and aerial images, filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand confronts the realities and diversity of human conditions.

I Am Chris Farley

Documentary · Biography

Chris Farley lived his life full speed and committed to make everyone around him laugh out loud. His hilarious, touching and wildly entertaining story - from his early days in Madison, Wisconsin, through his work at the legendary Second City to his rapid rise to the top of the comedy world on &ldquo…

I Am Woman

Drama · Biography

This uplifting biopic tells the story of Helen Reddy, the fiercely ambitious Australian singer behind the 1971 megahit anthem that became the rallying cry of the women’s liberation movement.

I Am the Ambassador

I am the Ambassador is a ten-episode documentary series that depicts the life of the former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark, Rufus Gifford. As an ambassador from the United States he works to continuously establish and maintain the relationship between the U.S. and Denmark, while also…

I Was, I Am, I Will Be

Romance · Drama · World Cinema

After a Kurdish gigolo and an airline pilot meet at a Turkish resort, their lives change in unexpected ways. Given the opportunity to study and work in Germany, Baran moves from a troubled past to a complicated present, with the prospect of a promising future not far from his grasp. Meanwhile, his m…

I Wish I Knew

Documentary · Historic Drama

Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant portrait of this fast-changing port city.

The Idol

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · Based on True Story

For Mohammed and Nour, nothing less than playing the world famous Cairo Opera Hall will do. It might take them a lifetime to get there but, as Mohammed will find out, some dreams are worth living for.

If I Were You

Romantic Comedy · World Cinema

Madelyn (Marcia Gay Harden) is a successful, self-possessed, middle-aged businesswoman - until she finds out that her husband's late nights at work are actually intimate dinners with a sexy young aspiring actress, Lucy (Leonor Watling).

The Image Book

Cannes Film Festival · RT Certified Fresh · Drama

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 Another Country

Drama · World Cinema · Comedy

Legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert stars in a film from South Korean master Hong Sang-soo. In a triptych of overlapping stories, three different French women (a filmmaker, an adulterer and a divorce- Huppert, Huppert and...Huppert) visit a small Korean resort town and encounter a flirtatious …

In The Image

Documentary · Art Documentaries

Palestinian women volunteers are given video cameras and record the brutality and human rights violations by Israelis that are a part of their daily lives.

Indivisible

Drama

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. 

InnSæi – the Power of Intuition

Illustrated with gorgeous animation and stunning imagery, InnSæi is a film like no other, and one that offers radical insights into how we think and sense the world today.

Invitation to Dance

Music & Dance · Documentary · American Independent

Invitation to Dance is an eye-opening insider's account of disability in 21st century America. The film traces Simi Linton's personal growth as a disabled woman, and the larger historically significant developments around her over the past 40 years.

Ixcanul

Health and Healing · Native and Indigenous Americans · Family

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.

Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student's Journey

Documentary

The result of exclusive, intimate access to renowned yogi B. K. S. Iyengar, this documentary about the hugely popular practice is required viewing for anyone with an interest in yoga, wellness, spirituality, or the connection of mind and body.

Jafar Panahi's Taxi

Culture · Comedy · Drama

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…