Follows the story of young, barely literate shepherd boy Gavino who lives under the thumb of his tyrannical peasant father. He is ultimately rescued from his family and his isolated lifestyle by a call to military service, eventually emerging as a brilliant linguist and scholar.

Buster is an absent-minded butterfly-chasing entomologist who stumbles into the midst of warring...

A timeless romance based on the legend of the Flying Dutchman. Ava Gardner, one of the most beautiful screen goddesses of all time, plays Pandora, a woman who has never fallen in love. When she meets the dashing but doomed captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit an ultimate act of love.

Brash and opinionated retiree Paulette (Bernadette Lafont) lives alone in a housing project on the...

In the vein of such classic coming of age films as Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, Diane...

A comedy of manners in which Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier marry on the condition that each will retain his or her individual sexual freedom. But when each subsequently flaunts extra-marital escapades in the face of the other, an amusing battle of the sexes ensues.

A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintain his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.

In this classic short about a theater production gone awry, Buster Keaton plays a stagehand who dreams he is every character in a vaudeville show.

Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.

Now Playing Long the woman-behind-the-man, Bernadette Chirac (Catherine Deneuve) arrives at the...

Franck Adrien (Albert Dupontel), a bank robber convicted of a heist and sentenced to six months in...

An acclaimed French novelist living in New York, having fled the Nazis many years ago, returns to...

Gracie works behind the drugstore lunch counter with George as her customer. George gets a bone caught in his throat and Gracie serves him a piece of pie. “Here’s a piece of pie.” “Is that necessary?” “No, it’s apple.”

A twisted relationship between a wealthy English couple and a young woman they take in, plays out...

She is beautiful. She is Catholic. She is the King’s sister. She is Marguerite de Valois. Her...

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their...

Award-winning filmmaker, Marina Willer (Cartas da Mãe), creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her father’s family journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Photographed by Academy Award® nominee César Charlone (City of God), the film travels from war-torn Eastern Europe to the color and light of South America and is told through the voice of Willer’s father Alfred (as narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith, Quantum of Solace), who witnessed bureaucratic nightmares, transportations and suicides but survived to build a post-war life as an architect in Brazil. As the world struggles with the current refugee crisis, RED TREES is a timely look at a family besieged by war who finds peace across an ocean.

A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife. He dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs “I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You” and “Shine.”\r\n

A big-screen spectacle that ranks as one of the monumental accomplishments of the silent era, ROBIN...

Paris, 1880. 40 year-old Rodin (Vincent Lindon) finally receives his first state commission, “The...

Roseland is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York...

In any discussion of Buster Keaton’s silent films, The Saphead, despite its historical...

In this wry, satiric comedy of manners, Napoleonic Era con man Eugene Francois Vidocq uses his considerable sophistication, charm, and powers of seduction to rise from extreme poverty to become Chief of Police in Paris where he plans to rob the city's seemingly impregnable bank.

'What Is a Home Without a Mother' reads the sign on the wall of Buster and Big Joe's bachelor pad...

Thomas is fourteen and perhaps because not much happens in his remote village in southwestern...

In this World War II saga, four Allied men struggle to survive in a lifeboat on the North Sea after their plane is shot down. One of the men carries secret documents that can save London from Nazi destruction. In a daring race against time, will their rescuers save them before Nazi U-boats, stormy seas, exposure, and enemy-mined waters kill them?

Multi-disciplinary French artist Prune Nourry has gained international recognition for her...

Buster gets word that if he can be married by seven o’clock that evening he will inherit $7,000,000. When his sweetheart refuses, he proposes to everyone in skirts, including a Scotsman. Hopeful still, he advertises for a bride and is horrified to discover 500 would-be=brides hot on his trail in a hilarious chase to the finish.

Witty and urbane, Robert Benchley spoofs scientific lectures by attempting to explain the mating habits of polyps and getting hilariously entangled by his examples.

A gentle Chekhovian comedy about a traveling theater group set in India in the early 1960s, just over ten years after the country won its independence. The Buckingham Players try to uphold English theatrical tradition by staging Shakespeare for the general public, boarding schools, and local royalty, but are unable to compete with the wildly popular Bollywood film industry. The film traces the developing relationship between the acting troupe’s young ingénue, Lizzie (Felicity Kendal), and Sanju (Shashi Kapoor), a wealthy Indian playboy. But their romance is beset by hindrances, not the least being the jealous machinations of Manjula (Madhur Jaffrey), a fiery film star who is also in love with Sanju.

Buster plays a movie projectionist who daydreams himself into the movies he is showing and merges with the figures and the backgrounds on the screen. While dreaming he is Conan Doyle's master detective, he snoops out brilliant discoveries.

Starting in 1999, Claude Lanzmann made several films that could be considered satellites of SHOAH,...

Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia began a lifelong battle with the Mafia when she first dared...

After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweetheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries and tries again, singing 
“In My Hideaway,” “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” “Lovable,” “Snuggled On Your Shoulder.”

Four sailors enter a Singapore dive, meet a Chinese girl from Brooklyn, and find there's more to her than meets the eye. Two songs.

Follows a day in the life of a young Parisian woman who begins a new job at a four star hotel the same day she reveals to her boyfriend that she is pregnant. The film is shot in real time in the style of the French New Wave.

Based on the memoirs of author Curzio Malaparte, diplomatic liaison between the Allied and Italian...

One year after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, philosopher...

The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.

Based on the popular Wallace novel, Bosambo (Robeson) is used by Sanders (Leslie Banks), the British administrator, to keep the other natives in line and satisfied with British governance. Later, Bosambo is rewarded for his efforts by being proclaimed King over all the tribes.

Over the last two decades, a rise in physical attacks and verbal assaults on Jews has been recorded...

Legendary blues singer Bessie Smith and the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra tell the story of a woman who is deserted by her boyfriend for a St. Louis floozy. She then sings the title song, an elaborate ten-minute production number with dance sequences and a chorus by the Hall Johnson Choir.

On St. Martin’s Lane in London, a popular spot for street performers, a busker (Charles Laughton) works a poor girl (Vivien Leigh) into his act. As her popularity rises, he guides her to stardom even though it means sacrificing his love for her. Leigh is mesmerizing in her final film before Gone With the Wind.

Abandoned by his mother (Sara Forestier) at the age of 6, Malony (Rod Paradot) is constantly in and...

Buster plays the son of a steamboat captain who falls in love with the daughter of a rival steamboat owner. When a cyclone rages, Buster proves himself a hero by rescuing his love and her father from a watery grave.

A local politician tries to break a reporter who writes a negative story about him, crushing his political ambitions. Charming chaos follows when the writer, now in love with the daughter of the politician, is sued by her father, ending in an uproarious courtroom confrontation.

Under the direction of legendary filmmaker Frank Capra, Harry Langdon is at his charming, childlike...

Joan Crawford plays a wealthy, successful playwright who marries a mediocre actor (Jack Palance) only to discover that he married her for her money and plans to murder her with the aid of a former flame.

Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin opts for a shortcut and happens across a fatal car...