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Alexander Mackendrick directed some of the best Ealing comedies (The Ladykillers, The Man in the White Suit) and one of the grittiest American noirs, Sweet Smell of Success, before taking the reins of the film department at the then-new Californ...

Each year more than 6,000 fourth and fifth graders in the New York City public school system learn to foxtrot, merengue, rumba, tango, and swing dance in hopes of winning the citywide team ballroom dance contest. This joyfully riveting film-Spellb...

Poor Marco, accidentally born into an overcrowded Australian-Italian household, he is relegated to his parents' bedroom. Nine years later, armed with a vivid imagination, an obsession with Dame Edna Everage, and a warped sense of Catholicism, Marc...

A fun, kid's cyber-adventure movie about three best friends, Max, Jessica, and Scot, who spy on their families, sneak into each other's house, and organize elaborate pranks. The trio makes up a cool, sophisticated team of junior operatives who are...

A journey through the cosmos within, this video was made with paint, ink, and paper on digitally manipulated 16mm and 35mm film strips. No film or video cameras were used to capture any source imagery.

In Belgrade, just after the war, a. A veteran (Lazar Ristovski) attempts an emotional connection with a refugee woman and her autistic daughter. This pessimistic picture of post-war Serbia has drawn the ire of the nationalist right-wing, and the p...

A masterwork of silent cinema directed by Paul Czinner and starring the acclaimed German language theater actress Elisabeth Bergner. Else, a lively young girl, finds her existence suddenly crushed by the bankruptcy of her father (Albert Bassermann...

Samuel is desperately searching for his girlfriend, Jenn, and follows a mysterious trail of her words written on pieces of paper that are left in the oddest of places. As he slowly discovers the story behind her disappearance, Samuel unearths a ha...

For the people featured in this film body modification is more than a few tattoos and peircings. This eye-popping documentary offers the stories of people who regard augmenting their bodies as a way of life, whether for artistic reasons or out of...

A frequent and inventive daydreamer, little Sergio learns from his parents that he will soon have a baby brother. When he subsequently imagines that he is incinerating this new sibling on the family barbecue, he is overcome - hilariously - with a ...

Ohio natives Ruth (Betty Garrett) and her sister Eileen (Janet Leigh) settle in Greenwich Village to respectively become a writer and actress. And the duo finds romance in magazine editor Bob (Jack Lemmon) and soda jerk Frank (Bob Fosse.) This mus...

Araki's first theatrical release in five years is a stunning, uncompromising film about two Kansas teenagers coming to terms with their molestation by their Little League coach. A gutsy departure for this director, Mysterious Skin reveals a new ma...

A recently-married couple from divergent backgrounds is expecting their first child. Andy, born in Japan, is the son of Lutheran missionaries from the Midwest and Maital, born in Israel, is the daughter of Jewish Iraqi immigrants. Their committed ...

They say opposites attract. What about an Aryan Brother who falls for a black woman who thinks she's Adolf Hitler after their meeting in a mental institution? This seemingly impossible connection is the start of a love story unlike none other. Jer...

Having grown up in a tiny hardscrabble village in the Mexican highlands, Martin sets out for Mexico City to seek his own destiny, and to save his father and mother from the marginalization to which they seem destined. An impressively crafted and m...

Two co-workers decide to meet in a hotel room to have an affair.

This Russian sword-and-sorcery cum horror film sets the the Warriors of Light against the Warriors of Darkness and is based on a trilogy of novels by Sergei Lukyanenko. At home, the film smashed Russian box-office records, and its U.S. distributor...

Dublin 1986. Nora has never kissed a boy, but who has time for that when the arms race is out of control and the world is falling apart? Now two Frenchmen are about to change her life: Antoine, the French exchange student, and Nostradamus, the see...

Brothers and native Arkansans Brent and Craig Renaud track the soldiers of an Arkansas National Guard unit as they undergo the forced transformation from "weekend warriors" and leave family and friends behind to head off for the dangerous duty of ...

The title refers to the studied and quirky passion of Philip Ashforth Coppola's desire to catalogue and archive every station in the New York City subway system. This New Jersey printing press operator self-published and self-financed a multi-volu...