Ang Lee's first Engish-language film, "Sense" is a vivid period drama, intelligent and involving, and benefitting from Austen's skewering of English social mores, gossip and materialism. Young Winslet is striking in a ...

Originally a TV movie aired in two parts, this Emmy-winning film should be required viewing for kids age 12 and up. Poitier is perfectly cast as Marshall, who in 1950 was lead attorney for the struggling, undermanned ...

What in lesser hands could have been a mucky soap-fest becomes instead a subtle, sensitive, intelligent film, thanks to director Mann's deft handling of Rattigan's Oscar-nominated script. A first-rate group of players ...

“Seraphine” is a brilliant, moving, and incredibly absorbing biopic about a little-known “modern primitive” painter whose emergence from toil and obscurity is tainted by war and hints of mental disturbance. Moreau is ...

Hawks's timely patriotic biopic of this virtually forgotten hero provided Cooper with another seminal role (he won the Oscar, beating out Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane", among others), and helped to prepare our nation ...

This incredible film reinforces a simple fact: nothing is so potent as the truth. Under Lumet's expert direction, we see the long-established, shady practices playing out in one of the country's largest police ...

Crackling with suspense and an almost unbearably persistent tension, Fincher’s “Seven” plunges us into the murky underside of a nightmarish, rainy, unnamed city, where two detectives at opposite ends of their respective ...

A wildly chaotic farce by Europe's pioneering female director, Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated "Beauties" begins with a montage of war footage sarcastically narrated by an unseen observer. Then we meet Giannini's macho ...

Featuring a slew of fabulous dancers, including a young Russ Tamblyn (later Riff in "West Side Story"), the movie's an adrenaline rush of vibrant hues and non-stop motion. Though the songs by Gene De Paul and Johnny ...

Comic genius Buster Keaton directed this hilarious feature, which includes one of the all-time-great chase scenes from movies of the silent era: you’ll laugh yourself silly watching Keaton try to evade a crush of ...

Two years after "The Manchurian Candidate," director Frankenheimer scored again with this gripping political thriller. Beyond serving as a showcase for two frequently paired stars - Lancaster as a power-mad general, ...

Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Kurosawa's brutal, invigorating martial classic concerns the all-important code of honor among feudal Japan's warrior caste. Both Shimura and Kurosawa regular ...

This winning psychosexual puzzler captures the oppressive feeling of marital ennui with piercing accuracy. Leads Kiberlain and Lindon (who married the year the film was made) bring nuance and believability to this ...

Director Soderbergh famously wrote this screenplay in just 8 days and made the film for under two million dollars. It went on the win numerous prizes, including the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and make $25 million, thereby ...

Glazer's witty, excoriating debut thriller is more a tense portrait of psychological warfare than a straight-up heist film, though he delivers that aspect with stylish flair, too. The battle of wills, of course, centers ...

Hitchcock shows us how close to home treachery may be found in "Shadow", a subtle yet riveting psychological thriller about a small-town serial killer. The director himself considered this one of his finest ...

Fact proves stranger than fiction, as a highbrow English intellectual falls for a straight-talking New Yorker. However, with both Hopkins and Winger, we have two skilled players who bring off this challenging premise. ...

Hailed as a masterpiece of Soviet cinema upon its release in 1964, “Ancestors” was actually suppressed by the Russians for its aesthetic decadence and failure to adhere to the official program of “social realism.” ...

This charming early effort by the acclaimed Merchant-Ivory team, penned by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, is a gorgeous elegy to the waning of British influence in India, represented here by the growth of the Bollywood film ...

Seventh Astaire-Rogers outing finds the formula still fresh, aided by a tip-top Gershwin score (including "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"), and the return of series veterans ...