Opulent set design, gliding camera movements, and a dream cast of mid-century Europe’s finest acting talent outfit Max Ophuls’s wry, elegant look at the fleeting nature of love and desire. The carousel and waltz are ...

A mournful melodrama about conflicted love and the pain of loss, Gance’s “La Roue” emerged out of two momentous events in the fabled French director’s life: the sudden loss of his wife, and a fateful meeting with ...

One of Chabrol's most jarring suspense films opens with a shocking scene of domestic violence before settling into a quiet, disturbing tale of moral corruption and wicked duplicity. Audran tweaks our sympathies as the ...

"La Sierra" lets the young residents and gunmen in a notorious Colombian slum speak for themselves, revealing their attitudes toward death, prison, and endemic violence, while observing the surprisingly familial ...

One of Fellini's most enduring masterpieces, "La Strada" is achingly sad and yet at times almost giddy, thanks to Fellini's feel for the transient, uncertain lives of traveling-circus performers (a lifelong interest of ...

Through Visconti's unsparing lens, we witness the daily repetition of back-breaking labor and ongoing pain of injustice the fishermen face. All this is seen and felt amidst images of stark, breathtaking beauty. ...

Zeffirelli’s incredibly lush film pairs Verdi’s powerful music with stunning, eye-popping imagery. The Academy Award–nominated costumes and art direction are incredibly sumptuous, but it’s the director’s inspired ...

This enthralling, Oscar-winning biopic depicts how French singing icon Edith Piaf channeled the anguish of her troubled life into sublime songcraft. ...

A controversial and deeply ambivalent film about Vichy collaborators and the Resistance, Malle's troubling "Lucien" is based partly on the director's own youthful experiences during the German Occupation. Lucien's ...

One of Disney's most endearing family classics, "Tramp" is a marvel of lively animation, bright voice acting, and sensational songwriting, courtesy of the inimitable Peggy Lee (who also voices the sinister ...

D.H. Lawrence’s scandalous novel, an erotic classic, has been adapted for the big screen before, but never with as much unrestrained, heavy-breathing sensualism or adulterous abandon. This is no high-grade smut flick, ...

Hollywood charmer Frank Capra won an apple cart full of Oscar nominations for this tender Depression-era comedy, based on a Damon Runyon tale, coaxing crisp performances from Robson, William, and Guy Kibbee as a judge ...

Made at the height of the Albanian refugee crisis, Amelio's absorbing drama is a nightmarish vision of poverty, conflict, and despair in post-Communist Europe's most isolated nation. As Gino is systematically ...

Punctuated by Herzog's idiosyncratic commentary, this extraordinary documentary focuses on the courage, empathy, and altruism of a woman deprived of two senses, and peeks into a shuttered world very few of us will ever ...

"Landscape" is one of master Polish director Wajda’s ("Man of Iron", "Danton") lesser-known films, but it deserves to stand amongst his recognized classics. From the Vivaldi-scored, wordless opening in which hundreds ...

This ravishing, utterly dreamlike road fable by Greek master Angelopoulos features some of the most remarkable visual set pieces you will ever see: a wedding party half-buried in blinding white snow, a gargantuan hand ...

Touching tale gets full MGM treatment, with sumptuous Oscar-nominated Technicolor and a solid cast, including Donald Crisp and Elsa Lanchester as Joe's parents, and Elizabeth Taylor in her first MGM role. Mc Dowall's ...

The prodigious talents of Alec Guinness are on full display in “Last Holiday”, a film which gives the acting giant room for quick-witted verbal comedy as well as deep, wordless pathos. This divine British entry from the ...

Elusive yet emotionally satisfying, this ingenious little film about disaffected youths by hip Thai director Ratanaruang mixes moody, dark-comic set pieces - such as Kenji's constantly interrupted suicide attempts--with ...

Scandalous in 1972 and still unsettling today, Bernardo Bertolucci's bizarre, fascinating psychodrama depicts sex not as a union of two human beings, but as a reflection of their alienation from each other. While the ...