"Left home at the age of seven/one year later I'm carryin' an AK-47." For hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier in Sudan's brutal civil war, these lyrics are hardly empty posturing. They are the bitter reality of a young man who wa more...
"The most frankly sensual movie in memory," (Los Angeles Times) Pascale Ferran's intelligent, deeply moving, and exquisitely photographed Lady Chatterley brings D.H. Lawrence's most celebrated and notorious literary work to the screen. more...
Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as Jacques Laurent, a former pornographic filmmaker who returns to the industry in this controversial and explicit drama from director Bertrand Bonello. more...
In this dark, sensual and visually sumptuous drama set in in 1920's China, Ju Dou (Gong Li), is forced into marriage to Yang Jin-Shan (Li Wei), the wealthy owner of a silk dying mill. She is repeatedly mistreated and tortured by her elderly husband for more...
This audacious contemporary classic dramatizes a fascinating experiment with the question "What would Jesus do?" The film put a welcoming spotlight on boyish Quebec actor Lothaire Bluteau and firmly cemented Denys Arcand (Decline of the America more...
When the students of Tennessee's Whitwell Middle School began studying the Holocaust as a way to learn about intolerance and diversity, nobody could have predicted the results. In 2001, the Paper Clip Project culminated in a unique memorial that changed more...
Described as "kinky material trapped in a cage of Victorian propriety" (The New York Times), Psychopathia Sexualis is a dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance. more...
Brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen. Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool hall more...
Digitally remastered from the large format film originally presented in IMAX theaters, this picturesque documentary explores the ruins of the ancient Mayan civilization, including examinations of their palaces, temples, and mysterious pyramids. more...
Director Derek Jarman's (Caravaggio, The Tempest) feature film debut Sebastiane lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics. more...
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies yet still resounds with the brilliance and charm of his later works. Directed by Peter Hall using The Royal Shakespeare Academy's cast of actors, this 1968 version is one of t more...
SUPER SIZE ME is one man's journey into the world of weight gain, health problems and fast food. It's an examination of the American way of life and how we are eating ourselves to death. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by more...
Macbeth and Banquo, victorious generals in the army of Duncan, King of Scotland, encounter three prophesying witches on their journey home from battle, Macbeth's ambitions are kindled by the witches' prediction that he will someday be king. more...
Based on the true story and a bestselling novel, this powerful epic captures the incredible journey of German soldier Clemens Forell in his dramatic escape from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. Through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, more...
In the harsh, unforgiving landscape of the Outback, Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcer Captain Stanley: the only way to save younger brother Mikey from the gallows is to track down and kill Arthur, his more...
Deeply moving and surprisingly entertaining, Dark Days is an eye-opening experience that shatters the myths of homelessness by revealing a thriving community living in tunnels beneath New York City and honestly capturing their resilience and strength. more...
Africa: The Serengeti takes you on an extraordinary journey to view a spectacle which few humans have ever witnessed, the Great Migration across the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and Kenya. James Earl Jones narrates this stunning, award-winning film more...
Who's your favorite Stooge? If Curly is your man, then you're sure to love this collection of classic Curly shenanigans. How can one man screw up plumbing, medical malpractice, football and the opera? more...
Apple-lover Jonathan Chapman has come of age. Follow Johnny as he sews apple seeds across the land, under the instruction of his true love Betty Nature and to the dismay of the Smithville despot Jack Smith, in this classic American folk tale. more...
The Strength Of Mankind Has Always Been Its Women For this ambitious screen version of one the most powerful works of classic Greek theater, director Michael Cacoyannnis (ZORBA THE GREEK, THE CHERRY ORCHARD) unleashes the talent. more...
The Housekeeper is the latest from one of France's best loved directors, Claude Berri (Jean De Florette). Set in Paris and the majestic beaches of Normandy, the film follows Jacques (The Taste of Others' Jean-Pierre Bacri) a forlorn bachelor living alone more...
Violent and sensual, Hit Man File is a unique new Asian action film with a distinctive Thai identity. Hit Man File's story of ambition, revenge, murder and sacrifice reveals hypnotic beauty beneath the flash and grit of Bangkok's underworld. more...
Perhaps one of the most underrated songwriters of the last century, BE HERE TO LOVE ME chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of Townes Van Zandt with a simple unpredictability that mimics the way the artist lived his short life. more...
This film is a rare, behind the scenes look at the preparation of an actor taking on the role of a lifetime, and of a Prime Minister taking on the greatest crisis of her life. On October 6, 1973, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, more...
The sequel to 5 DEADLY VENOMS sees the venom mob return as four crippled masters out for vengeance. Though they are legless, blind, deaf, and brain damaged, the heroes learn superhuman techniques to battle an evil warlord and his army. more...
Described as "kinky material trapped in a cage of Victorian propriety" (The New York Times), Psychopathia Sexualis is a dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance. more...
It's the summer of 1888, and Casey Frank (Elliot Gould) is a down-on-his-luck baseball player on the league's losingest team, the Mudville Hogs. Hard work, determination, and a little bit of magic turn Casey into the game's most popular slugger. But even more...
