Set in the 1970s, CRAZY is a funny, touching, revelatory drama about a dysfunctional family and the growing pains of a teenager tormented by his burgeoning bisexuality. As played by Grondin, Zach is an outsider in his ...

This unmitigated joy of a film is truly hilarious, even as parts of it break your heart. It follows the progress of a generation, personified in three wartime buddies who drift apart and then briefly converge again. ...

Fosse's groundbreaking "Cabaret," a Broadway musical-turned-showstopping film event, was itself based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood. While the film considers Germany's dark, historic slide from ...

Austrian director and arch provocateur Michael Haneke crafts a compelling, suspenseful thriller in Cache, deftly suggesting the menace of global terrorism by locating it in the troubled domestic experience of an iconic ...

By now, we're all acquainted with the women-in-prison genre films that have "cult sleaze" stamped all over them. But Cromwell's "Caged!" was the first and best of these movies, because it had a progressive social ...

Actor/Director Chahine’s long-lost masterpiece (aka, “The Iron Gate”) is finally available again, and time has not dulled its impact. Shot in the noir style, with a plot Hitchcock would have loved, this unnerving film ...

Based on a true story, "Northside" is a triumph of documentary realism and noir storytelling for Hathaway and leading man Jimmy Stewart. Filmed on location and narrated in Movietone-newsreel style, this legal thriller ...

In his breakout film, the great Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski (“Red,” “The Double Life of Veronique”) creates a darkly funny satire of one man’s obsession with moviemaking in a totalitarian society. Filip’s ...

In a career that practically spanned the history of motion pictures, Jack Cardiff became one of the most respected cinematographers in the business, with his most notable achievement the magic he worked with the early ...

Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, the tragic, oft-told love story of the Lady of the Camellias here gets the grand treatment from Cukor, MGM, and the resplendent Garbo - whose face, as always, seems lit with white ...

Compared to Martin Scorsese's excessively graphic re-make, J. Lee Thompson's original is a subtler, vastly more chilling exercise, with Mitchum's Cady a searing portrait of evil and barely contained violence. The story ...

Hoffman's uncanny portrayal of brilliant misfit Truman Capote is reason enough to see this vivid, unnerving film, but the focus on his writing of "Blood" lets us peer into the tortured psyche of a man who always felt ...

"Blood" made an overnight star of the Tasmanian Flynn, and no wonder. His combination of good looks, athleticism, and sheer personality brought back the swashbuckler in one fell swoop. Curtiz's direction is predictably ...

Based on a Rudyard Kipling story, this heartwarming adventure saga follows the transformation of a bratty pantywaist into a decent young man under the tutelage of Tracy's gentle fisherman. Bartholomew is a natural ...

This harrowing film blends the Friedman's early light-hearted home movies with footage of the unfolding scandal, juxtaposing a seemingly idyllic family life with a domestic situation rife with anger, resentment and ...

For her debut feature, Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki directs a gentle, slice-of-life drama that deals head on with important issues (religion, gender restrictions, extramarital conflict) in Middle East culture. She ...

Balabanov’s acidic, ultra-dark satire of perestroika-era Russia—the name refers to the body bags of dead soldiers brought back from the failed war in Afghanistan—opens as a brutal realist drama about perversity and ...

Set in the swinging disco era, De Palma's moody, absorbing study of an ex-con trying to stay on the straight and narrow offers just the right mix of noirish urban atmosphere and cathartic mob drama. Perfecting yet ...

Director Olivier Assayas’s colorful and ambitious saga manages to capture all the complexities of 1970s geopolitics and still deliver a wildly entertaining and suspenseful ride. Even with a run time of five hours, this ...

One of the first films with an all-black cast targeted to white as well as black audiences, Preminger's film reflects a seamless transference of Bizet's tale and music to the mid-twentieth century. The movie stands out ...