Charming family feature directed by John Roberts benefits from a sly, funny script that helps the movie avoid a case of the cutes. Top-notch casting also helps, with Marin and Rowlands both stand-outs. Also credit ...

Sensitive and humane, but never saccharine, Debrauwer's witty, touching portrait of four sisters avoids all the clichés one expects in depictions of mental disability. Groen (star of "Antonia's Line") is a marvel ...

One of Rohmer's most enjoyable meditations on love and its discontents, "Pauline" is abetted by the presence of Langlet, an endearing and assured young actress. Rohmer takes his time observing his five characters and ...

Released the same year as "Psycho" and offering many parallels, it's mystifying that Hitchcock's film was a hit, Powell's a fiasco. There is a claustrophobic immediacy to "Tom" that "Psycho" lacks- the film's in color ...

August's Oscar-winning coming-of-age drama portrays the grim realities of late-19th-century peasant life by following the tightly knit relationship between father and son with honesty and heart-wrenching verisimilitude. ...

Shot in 1975, this incredible film brings us into the timeless world of the nomadic Babadi clan, who, along with 500,000 of their Persian brethren, make an annual trek to the greener pastures awaiting on the other side ...

Co-directed by Siodmak and Ulmer, who would both go on to acclaimed careers as film noir directors in Hollywood, and scripted by a young Billy Wilder, this bright, cheery silent film, which feels very much like a ...

This trademark role, along with "Grand Illusion", contributes to French actor Gabin's legacy what "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca" did for Bogart. Duvivier's dark film is one our ...

With a backwards-through-time structure similar to "Memento," Lee's astonishing "Candy" is a heartbreaking drama of personal disfigurement that episodically mirrors South Korea's turbulent modern history. Each stage in ...

Satrapi wowed audiences at Cannes and earned an Oscar nod for her heartbreaking, semi-autobiographical tale about coming of age in revolutionary Iran. Based on her own best-selling graphic novel, and voiced by a top ...

One of the director's more surreal, experimental works, "Persona" is an intriguing study of mental illness, role reversal, and the somewhat hazy boundary separating one individual identity from another. In the poetic ...

Jane Austen’s tale of true love stifled by social convention and emotional inhibition is given stirring new life via director Roger Michell. The unsung Amanda Root is truly superb here; her Anne Elliott reveals ...

Brown’s vibrant tribute to singer-banjoist Seeger is steeped in the social ferment of the sixties, providing an intimate glimpse of the man, then and now, whose consciousness-raising efforts got him branded a communist ...

This new, live-action version of the classic isn’t just a tired re-tread, but instead that increasingly rare phenomenon: a movie that balances wondrous special effects with an intelligent, faithful rendering of a ...

An evergreen animated fantasy based on J.M. Barrie's beloved children's book, Disney's "Peter Pan" features dazzling hand-drawn visuals, excellent voice acting, and a winning score epitomized by the song "You Can Fly!" ...

Set in San Francisco at the height of the Summer of Love, Richard Lester's stylish, offbeat melodrama pays homage to the swinging sixties in more ways than one. Through jarring jump cuts, flashbacks and "flash ...

The first mainstream film to deal squarely with the issue of AIDS, Demme's groundbreaking "Philadelphia" is a profoundly moving drama that digs into the ethics of how society views gay men. Strong performances by Best ...

Dupont's scandalous, expressionistically photographed melodrama has a lot to recommend it, including fluid, innovative camerawork, Alfred Junge's exquisite sets, and a Jazz Age effervescence-not to mention a plot ...

Idiosyncratic director Sam Fuller's most successful film is prime noir with priceless tough guy patter emanating from the scummy Skip. Also featuring a sultry femme fatale turn from Peters. On-location shooting in ...

Loosely based on Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment," this spare, understated character study by French auteur Bresson boasts a unique filmmaking style, with minimal dialogue, precise editing, and severely restrained ...