In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent classic A Story of Floating Weeds in color with the celebrated cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover ...

John Cassavetes’ devastating drama details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Starring Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands (in two of the most harrowing screen performances of the 1970s) as a married couple, deeply in love, yet unable to express their love in terms the other can understand, the film is ...

At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, Revolution Studios' Across the Universe is an original movie musical springing from the imagination of renowned director Julie Taymor (Frida, Titus, and the Broadway smash hit musical The Lion King) and writers Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (The Commitments).

Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.

In the mid-16th century after annihilating the Incan empire, Gonzalo Pizarro leads his army of conquistadors over the Andes into the heart of the most savage environment on earth in search of the fabled City of Gold, El Dorado. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature, and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), The Wrath ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of twenty - nine, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowsky (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love - ...

The personal and romantic peccadilloes of a Brazilian household come to light in this melodrama. Alice (Carla Ribas) works in a beauty salon and tries to keep her house in order with the help of her mother (Berta Zemel), though with four men in the house it's no small challenge. Alice's husband Lindomar (Zecarlos Machado) is a surly cab driver ...

Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau - following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk's heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small - town America. Sirk utilizes expressionist colors, reflective surfaces, and frames - within - frames to convey the loneliness and isolation of a matriarch trapped by the snobbery of her children ...

All the Real Girls is set in a small mill town that gets smaller and more run down with each passing year. Paul (Paul Schneider) has lived here all his life, never been out of the country. It's never really occurred to him. He lives a cozy, affectionate life with his mom, Elvira (Patricia Clarkson) and he works as a ...

When his love of music lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview the up-and-coming band Stillwater, William embarks on an eye-opening journey on tour with the band, despite the objections of his protective mother.  With the help of the lovely “band aid” Penny Lane, William finds himself drawn into the band’s inner circle.  But as he becomes ...

Autorickshaw driver Amal is content with the small but vital role he serves - driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away.

From the makers of Ray, Amazing Grace tells the inspiring story of William Wilberforce and his passion and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th century.

Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city's leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream.

Before being deployed for active duty, a young Marine takes a four-day Thanksgiving leave to return home to Bakersfield, California. There he meets a young woman, tries to connect with old friends, and confronts his volatile home life.

Based on the life and work of underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar- a prickly poet of the mundane who knows that all the strategizing in the world can't save a guy from picking the wrong supermarket checkout line.

With An Angel at My Table, Academy Award–winning filmmaker Jane Campion brings to the screen the harrowing true - life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty - stricken childhood to a misdiagnoses of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, international literary fame. Beautifully capturing the color ...

The astounding success of Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman revolutionized the foreign film market and turned Brigitte Bardot into an international star. Bardot stars as Juliette, an 18 - year - old orphan whose unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St. Tropez; her sweet but naive husband Michel (Jean - Louis Trintignant) endures beatings, insults, and mambo ...

From award winning director Rebecca Miller comes this poignant coming-of-age story about a young girl caught between the harsh realities of a difficult family life and the fantasy world she escapes to inside her head. Angela marked Miller's directorial debut when it premiered at Sundance in 1995. Miller uses her own signature palate to paint a world brimming with magic ...

An impossible romance between Molly, a 21 year old American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty.

Told in three segments ranging from satirical to tragic, the film is a wildly original look at American manners, prejudices, and family dynamics.