Don’t assume this short, sweet film is for kids only: the seemingly simple tale of a wooden toy making its way out to sea is in fact a striking allegory for perseverance, freedom, and adventure that most any thinking ...

This slick and stylish gangster romance from the Japanese New Wave immediately draws you into its dark, nihilistic orbit with crisp, seductive black-and-white cinematography. Director Shinoda (Double Suicide) also ...

This dark, phantasmagoric fairy tale by the Mexican director of "Devil's Backbone" weds the Brothers Grimm and Gabriel Garcia Marquez with a heady dose of political intrigue, all seen through the eyes of a child whose ...

Tawdry, decadent, and unflinching in its portrait of the moral depravity of the Weimar republic, G.W. Pabst's bewitching "Box" might not be so well remembered today if it weren't for the dark charm of Brooks, one of the ...

Breathlessly exciting film is one of the best manhunt pictures ever made, with the plague twist adding an extra jolt of tension. Kazan's peerless on-location shooting never obscures the terrific acting from the four ...

Thanks to sure-handed direction from film-makers Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab, this incredibly moving and inspiring true story unfolds without unnecessary embellishment, allowing us to witness a worthy project from its ...

Bogdanovich's masterpiece of hilarity, the comic flip-side to his brilliant "The Last Picture Show", made two years prior. .This time around, thanks to Alvin Sargent's Oscar-nominated screenplay, continual laughter ...

Anime is not just for tweens and kid folk, as this darkly sophisticated and imaginatively twisted dream noir from Japan's Satoshi Kon is quick to prove. Exploring such themes as urban alienation and dream logic with an ...

Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's intensely disturbing true-crime tale "Paradise Lost" examines the confounding details of the infamous kiddie murders at Robin Hood Hills. The children-killed-by-children ...

One of the only films to examine the phenomenon of suicide terror through the eyes of its perpetrators, Abu-Assad's intelligent, nail-biting drama generated heated controversy when it debuted in 2005. While the film ...

British actor Rupert Everett narrates this sad, shocking documentary about "Paragraph 175," the draconian stipulation in Germany's penal code that criminalized same-sex or "unnatural" love, stripped its victims of their ...

Updating the haunted-house genre on a micro budget, first-time filmmaker Oren Peli creates an atmosphere of dread so thick and disturbing you’ll want to reach for your favorite blankie. And that’s before the demonic ...

You’ve got to love a movie that packs in world-class actors as varied as Gerard Depardieu, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Buscemi, Gena Rowlands, and Bob Hoskins, and gives them each a little character to work their magic on ...

A brilliant and compelling example of documentary film as historical witness, Waletsky's "Partisans" explains how Vilna, "the Jerusalem of Lithuania," became a hotbed of anti-Nazi resistance, primarily owing to the ...

Oscar-nominated director Spike Lee directs this invigorating filmed performance of the autobiographical, Tony-winning Broadway musical written by musician/performer Stew, who narrates his alter ego Youth’s eventful ...

For his final film, the late, celebrated director John Frankenheimer revisits a tumultuous time in American social and political history, focusing this compelling, well-acted historical drama on the Shakespearean ...

For many Americans, this film is a first, harsh look at life amongst the poor of India. Ray's unsparing camera not only exposes the desperation such a tenuous existence creates, but also includes scenes of uplifting ...

Few films expose the insanity of war more starkly than “Paths”, as we contrast the behavior of cosseted armchair generals with the horrific plight of common infantry soldiers- pawns in an obscene political game, to be ...

Don't miss this pure, understated masterpiece from the magic pen of Rod Serling. This story of brutal corporate politics feels every bit as relevant today as it did in 1956. Though the DVD transfer itself is not of the ...

In a role turned down by Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, and Robert Mitchum, actor George C. Scott delivers a towering rendition of the profane, colorful general, by turns making us admire, revile, and pity this man, who ...