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Director: Alex Ross Perry
Stars: Stephen Malkmus, Scott Kannberg, Bob Nastanovich
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA, Germany

’90s indie-rock band Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour. But as preparations get underway, surreal tributes emerge: an off-Broadway musical adaptation of their songs, a museum devoted entirely to the band’s legacy, and a shamelessly awards-baiting Hollywood biopic.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Follows a mysterious herd of ghost elephants in the jungles of Angola.

Director: Mona Fastvold
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK

Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, is proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. This film depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers’ worship through song and dance, based on real events.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France, Luxembourg

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to confirm the man’s identity.

Director: Joachim Trier
Stars: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom

An intimate exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Stars: Robson Andrade, Rubens Santos, Licínio Januário
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany

In 1977, a technology expert flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife in search of peace. He soon realizes that the city is far from being the refuge he seeks.

Director: Chloe Zhao
Stars:
Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK

After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Stars: Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaser
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: France, Germany

This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer. Wim Wenders shot this unique portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.

Director: Olivia Peace
Stars: Madeline Grey DeFreece, Rachel Sennott, Daniel Taveras
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA

Two best friends attend the funeral of a Hebrew school classmate who died by suicide and accidentally damage their friendship beyond repair.

Director: Ryūsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

Director: Leos Carax
Stars: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland

The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfect couple, healthy, happy, and glamourous. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious girl with an exceptional destiny, will change their lives.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Fran Lebowitz, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Alec Baldwin
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality.

Director: Laura Citarella
Stars: Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina, Germany

With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Stars: Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Poland

The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.

Director: Colm Bairéad
Stars: Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

Director: Justine Triet
Stars: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Country: France

A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki, Aimyon
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan

While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy’s mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the “long-awaited one.”

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Japan

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bağcı
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Sweden, Turkey

A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.

Director: Leos Carax
Stars: Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, Nastya Golubeva Carax
Genre: Drama
Country: France

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.

Director: Sean Wang
Stars: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Director: Gary Hustwit
Stars: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA

Visionary musician and artist Brian Eno — known for producing David Bowie, U2, Talking Heads, among many others; pioneering the genre of ambient music; and releasing over 40 solo and collaboration albums — reveals his creative processes in this groundbreaking generative documentary: a film that’s different every time it’s shown.

Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Stars: N/A
Genre: Animation
Country: Belgium | France | Latvia

A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.

Director: Émilie Tronche
Stars: N/A
Genre: Animated
Country: Spain, France

Samuel is 10 years old. He’s keeping a diary, and he has a problem. His problem is that Basile told the tall Julie that Samuel loved her. Which isn’t true, he doesn’t care about Julie. It’s only that, she laughed at one of his jokes once and he thought she was nice to do so.

Director: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Stars: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy

Loosely adapted from Dante’s Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.

Director: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
Stars: Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Simon McBurney
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, France

A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.

Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Stars: Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrovic
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Turkey, Norway

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
Stars: Craig Foster, Tom Foster
Genre: Documentary
Country: South Africa

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.

Director: Spike Lee
Stars: David Byrne, Jacqueline Acevedo, Gustavo Di Dalva, Daniel Freedman
Genre: Documentary, Music, Musical
Country: USA

Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman’s brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.

Director: Eskil Vogt
Stars: Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom

During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren’t looking. In this original and gripping supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn.

Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Stars: Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography
Country: Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Finland, Italy, Spain, Estonia, Slovenia

FLEE tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time.

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Stars: Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France

The story of two mothers who bond in unexpected way after giving birth the same day.

Director: Céline Sciamma
Stars: Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France

Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse.

Director: Questlove
Stars: Dorinda Drake, Barbara Bland-Acosta, Darryl Lewis, Ethel Beatty
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA

Documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity.

Director: Joel Coen
Stars: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: United States

A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.

Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Director: Greta Gerwig
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.

Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico

A year in the life of a middle-class family’s maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan

A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Dimitri Basil, Jean-Pierre Gos
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland | France

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand.

Director: Barry Jenkins
Stars: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn’t commit.

Director: JR, Agnès Varda
Stars: Agnès Varda, JR, Jeannine Carpentier
Genre: Documentary
Country: France

Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

Director: Robin Campillo
Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel
Genre: Drama
Country: France

Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.

Director: Raoul Peck
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King
Genre: Documentary
Country: Switzerland | France | Belgium | USA

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Director: Chantal Akerman
Stars: Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman
Genre: Documentary
Country: Belgium | France

Chantal Akerman films her mother, an old woman of Polish origin who is short lifetime, in her apartment in Brussels. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, sometimes accompanied by Sylvaine, Chantal’s sister. Also, and to show how small the world has become, Chantal remains in contact with her mother at other times of the year via Skype from lands as far away from Belgium as Oklahoma or New York.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Stars: Leanne Benjamin, Kausikan Rajeshkumar, Jo Shapcott
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | USA | UK

A documentary that goes inside one of the great museums of the world: The National Gallery in London.

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Stars: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland | Denmark | France | UK

A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.

Director: Aleksey German
Stars: Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksandr Chutko, Yuriy Tsurilo
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia

In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like, planet.

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Belgium | Spain

Adèle’s life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria | France | Germany

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple’s bond of love is severely tested.

Director: Pip Chodorov
Stars: Pip Chodorov, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France | USA

What is experimental film, and why is it called that? Artists and poet working in celluloid since before WWI have always found themselves in a no man’s land. Excluded both from the art world and from the film industry, they bodly created a grassroots network for making and showing their films. They also created a profound body of work that continues to influence our culture. I wanted to share a few of the films I love and introduce you some of the free, radicals artists who made them.

Director: Christian Marclay
Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Bette Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Scenes from various films and TV programs that feature clocks, or some verbal mention of time, combine to make a 24 hour timepiece movie.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy | Belgium | Iran

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.

Director: Claire Denis
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France | Cameroon

Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan | Netherlands | Hong Kong

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

Director: Agnès Varda, Laura Obiols
Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Country: France

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Sabine Azéma, Isabelle Carré, Laura Morante
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong | China | France | Italy | Germany

Several women enter a science fiction author’s life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.

Director: Ousmane Sembene
Stars: Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré
Genre: Drama
Country: Senegal | Burkina Faso | Morocco | Tunisia | Cameroon | France

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Norway | Italy | Finland | Germany | Austria

Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan’s son from another marriage and his granddaughter.

Director: Pelin Esmer
Stars: Mithat Esmer
Genre: Documentary
Country: Turkey

This is a documentary about a passionate collector. A man who has been collecting for 70 years, collecting everything one can imagine. A man who lives in his own house like a guest of his collections. A man who tries to freeze time, as if to hold on to present. In this documentary, you will follow this passionate collector through the vivid streets of Istanbul, among the crowd, in search of new collection items while trying to understand his perception of life and collection.

Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada

The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior’s endurance and battle of its menace.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Martin Scorsese
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy | USA

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.

Director: Anand Tucker
Stars: Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK

The tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France

A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.

Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Stars: Makiko Esumi, Takashi Naitô, Tadanobu Asano
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young woman’s husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.

Director: Matthew Barney
Stars: Matthew Barney, Dave Molyneux, Graham Molyneux
Genre: Short, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA | France | UK

An experimental short film from the Cremaster series which alludes to the position of the reproductive organs during the embryonic development process.

Director: Boaz Yakin
Stars: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Merzak Allouache
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | Denmark | Spain | Sweden

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Shûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô, Bunshi Katsura Vi
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan

In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.

Director: Bille August
Stars: Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden | Denmark | Finland | France | Germany | UK | Italy | Norway | Iceland

In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.

Director: Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels
Stars: Conrad L. Hall, John Bailey, Vilmos Zsigmond
Genre: Documentary, History
Country: Japan | USA

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the “DP” (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to look; changes in movies (the arrival of sound, color, and wide screens) required creative responses from DPs; and, these artisans constantly invent new equipment and try new things, with wonderful results. The narration takes us through the identifiable studio styles of the 30s, the emergence of noir, the New York look, and the impact of Europeans. Citizen Kane, The Conformist, and Gordon Willis get special attention.

Director: Isao Takahata
Stars: Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan

A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.

Director: John Singleton
Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Hudhail Al-Amir
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany | France | Poland

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Director: Alejandro Agresti, Gábor Altorjay, José Luis Guerín, Clemens Klopfenstein, Tato Kotetishvili, William Mbaye Ousmane, Eagle Pennell, Dirk Rijneke, Mrinal Sen, Mildred Van Leeuwaarden, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Carlos Reichenbach, Béla Tarr
Stars: n/a
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Country: Argentina | Netherlands

A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.

Director: Brian Gibson
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Renée Soutendijk, Craig T. Nelson
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK | West Germany | Hungary | USA

A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Marie Trintignant
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland

An innocent virgin spies on his frontal neighbor and falls in love with her, thus starts using tricks on her which he hopes will lead to them meeting.

Director: Joris Ivens
Stars: Joris Ivens, Henxiang Han, Zhuang Liu
Genre: Documentary
Country: France | UK | West Germany | Netherlands

An elderly, asthmatic filmmaker travels to China, hoping to film the wind.

Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Richard Linklater, James Goodwin, Dan Kratochvil
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

A nameless young character goes into travels to the country, meeting some acquaintances and strangers as well, having banal conversations, dedicating his existence into daily mundane activities. Richard Linklater presents an unconventional narrative, barely composed of dialogue and consisting in observing life and actions.

Director: Laurie Anderson
Stars: Laurie Anderson, Joy Askew, Adrian Belew
Genre: Documentary, Music
Country: USA | Canada

Concert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic “United States Live,” and several new songs, which incorporate a unique blend of film, animation, dance, and electronics.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

Director: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Reinhold Messner, Lotte Eisner
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: West Germany

A self portrait documentary by Werner Herzog.

Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills, Robin Houston
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

Director: Terry Hughes, Ian MacNaughton
Stars: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Musical
Country: UK

The Monty Python troupe perform a combination of classic sketches and new material at the Hollywood Bowl.

Director: John Carpenter
Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Horror, Thriller

An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

Director: John Huston
Stars: Brad Dourif, John Huston, Dan Shor
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA

A Southerner–young, poor, ambitious but uneducated–determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany | France

In early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep despair?

Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: Ana Torrent, Conchita Pérez, Mayte Sanchez
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain

In the twilight of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, an eight-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt, trying their best to acclimatise to a new reality. Will they summon up the courage to grow up?

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy | France

Pasolini’s artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer’s most erotic tales.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy’s capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini’s life.

Director: Mike Leigh
Stars: Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Stars: Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Marquard Bohm
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany | Italy

On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best out of the situation. When the director arrives the material is still missing and so they still wait and try to make the best out of the situation.

Director: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman
Stars: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France

Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Riccardo Billi, Federico Fellini, Gigi Reder
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
Country: Italy | France | West Germany

A ragout of real memories and mockumentary, as Fellini explores a childhood obsession: circus clowns.

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

Director: Elio Petri
Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

Director: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Stars: Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany | Italy

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia | Italy

A volunteer fire department throws a party for their former boss with the whole town invited, but nothing goes as planned.

Director: Joseph Losey
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up sleeping with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Director: Sergio Leone
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè
Genre: Western
Country: Italy | Spain | West Germany

Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.

Director: Stuart Burge
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Robert Lang
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

General Othello’s marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

Director: Sergei Parajanov
Stars: Ivan Mikolaychuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Soviet Union

A timeless Carpathian story – the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father’s killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.

Director: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Stars: Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Frantisek Zvarík
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia

A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed “Aryan controller” of a Jewish widow’s store.

Director: Kaneto Shindô
Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan

Two women kill samurais and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Bernard Noël, Macha Méril, Philippe Leroy
Genre: Drama
Country: France

A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA

Surprised that their contract victim didn’t try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Patrice Moullet, Marino Masé, Geneviève Galéa
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France | Italy

During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anna Karina, Michel Subor, Henri-Jacques Huet
Genre: War, Drama
Country: France

During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France | Italy

A burglar betraying other criminals, prepares for a big heist with a trusted friend that might be as untrustworthy as he.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzen, Christian Charrière
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France

The friendship of Bertrand and Guillaume is complicated when the womanizing Guillaume begins to pursue a charming girl named Suzanne.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Stars: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon
Genre: Drama, Short
Country: France | Algeria

A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch’s beautiful look-alike descendant, with only the girl’s brother and a handsome doctor standing in her way.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France

With her mother away for the weekend, a brash and precocious ten-year-old country-girl sets out to explore Paris during a Métro strike, under her uncle’s not-so-watchful eye. Can a little girl cause so much chaos in the heart of the city?

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany | France | Italy

In 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse uses hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American industrialist.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Director: Stanley Donen
Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK

An actress who has given up on love meets a suave banker and begins a flirtation with him…even though he’s already married.

Director: Louis Malle
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Jacques Dumesnil
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures and how humanity remembers itself.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chikage Awashima, Ryô Ikebe, Teiji Takahashi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

Director: Max Ophüls
Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France | Italy

The diamond earrings of a French aristocrat, a wedding gift from her husband, cause a series of conflicts as they change hands repeatedly.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Director: Federico Fellini
Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy | France

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

Noriko is twenty-seven years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay at home caring for her father.

Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur
Genre: Comedy
Country: France

Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town ‘Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre’. All inhabitants are scoffing at Francois, the postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff under his direction nearly leads into a catastrophy – but everybody tells him, how important his work is.

Director: Alain Resnais
Stars: Claude Dauphin
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France

The biography of Dutch artist Van Gogh, illustrated only with images of his paintings and drawings, or details of those, and according dramatic musical score.

Director: Laurence Olivier
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, John Laurie
Genre: Drama
Country: UK

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.

Director: Henry Koster
Stars: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA

An angel in human form enters the life of a bishop in order to help him build a new cathedral and repair his fractured marriage.

Director: Maya Deren
Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Genre: Short
Country: USA

Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.

Director: Vittorio De Sica
Stars: Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy

A four-year old boy, Pricò, becomes the subject of emotional folly by his fluctuant parents and inattentive relatives.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan

Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
Genre: Thriller, War
Country: USA

An aircraft factory worker goes on the run after being wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Japan

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun’s palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano’s vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord.

Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A hard-working, white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA

On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: USA

In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Country: USA

Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. She uses her influence to get him released early, and he tries to go straight after marrying her, but things don’t work out, and they both go on the lam.

Director: George Stevens
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA

A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK

A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective’s cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.

Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A simple, small town man inherits a massive fortune, making him the target for scammers and publicity-seekers. Overwhelmed by the turn his life has taken, and awoken to another use for his new-found fortune, he makes a momentous decision.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Chôko Iida, Kôji Mitsui
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan

A kabuki actor’s mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover’s son.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn’t the most important man in his workplace.

Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA

A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.

Director: King Vidor
Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA

An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer,  Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany

Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.

Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany

After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls’ reform school.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Genre: Crime, Film Noir, Thriller
Country: UK

After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.

Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton
Genre: Drama
Country: USA

Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.

*Note: this title is currently a “lost film.”

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK

A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Stars: Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Director: Hans Richter
Stars: Stella F. Simon
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: Germany

Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray’s work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.

Director: Marcel Duchamp
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: France

A spiral design spins dizzily. It’s replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

Director: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Stars: n/a
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Germany

A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union

The Film Version Of Gorki’s Great Story Of The 1905 Revolution

Director: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick
Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Genre: Horror
Country: USA

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA

A nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.

Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer (as Fred Neymeyer), Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA

A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA

Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.

Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Sweden

On New Year’s Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Helge Nissen, Halvard Hoff, Jacob Texiere
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark

In 4 episodic tales of human suffering; the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God’s favor.

Director: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
Stars: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem – a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Wilbur Higby
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to a level where he is inaccessible to her.

Director: W.W. Young
Stars: Viola Savoy, Herbert Rice, Harry Marks
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA

Alice goes with her sister to a picnic and then she falls asleep and starts dreaming about a wonderland full of talking animals and walking playing cards.

Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France

Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.

Director: Segundo de Chomón
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France | Spain

Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.

Director: Cecil M. Hepworth, Percy Stow
Stars: May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth
Genre: Short, Family, Fantasy, Silent
Country: UK

Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors. A key opens a small door: eventually, she’s through into a garden where a dog awaits. Later, in the rabbit’s home, her size is again a problem. She tries to help a nanny with a howling baby, then a Cheshire cat directs her to a tea party where the Mad Hatter and March Hare dunk a dormouse. Expelled from the party, Alice happens on a royal processional: all the cards in the deck precede the Queen of Hearts, who welcomes then turns on Alice and calls on the royal executioner. Alice must run for her life.

Director: Edwin S. Porter (uncredited)
Stars: Gilbert M. ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson, A.C. Abadie, George Barnes
Genre: Crime, Short, Action, Silent
Country: USA

A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.