Based on a novel by George Bernanos, "Mouchette" is a sad, deceptively simple tale of a peasant girl whose misfortunes multiply and eventually lead her to an especially grim fate. As always, Bresson's visual austerity ...

A box-office smash in 1952, Huston's engrossing biopic about the discordant life and loves of famed 19th-century painter Toulouse-Lautrec is drenched in colors taken from the artist's own palette. Shot mostly from the ...

Based on a true story about a journalist who trailed armed volunteer patrols into China's Kekexili region and whose articles brought public attention to their plight, Lu's film is an adventurous survival tale about one ...

The realization of a lifelong dream for director Bob Rafelson ("Five Easy Pieces"), the majestic and visually breathtaking "Mountains" is strong on both adventure and human drama, as Burton and Speke bond on their ...

Through interviews with colleagues and contemporaries like Ben Bradlee, Sandra Day O’Connor, Walter Cronkite, John McCain, and many others, Anderson portrays a man who remained steadfast in his support for libertarian ...

This quintessential Frank Capra charmer is one of Cooper's most appealing comic forays, as his plain-talking, homespun personification of rural America outfoxes all those smug and greedy city slickers. Arthur is also ...

Frank Capra's potent morality tale remains one of actor Stewart's finest moments. (Indeed, when he won the Oscar the following year for "The Philadelphia Story", Stewart considered the award delayed compensation for ...

Landis's fascinating and outrageously funny "Mr. Warmth" pays tribute to a comedian who's made a career out of offending people. What comes across here, though, is just how well respected Rickles is by his peers. ...

Distinguished by superb acting from Garson, Pidgeon, and Best Supporting Actress Wright, Wyler's glossy, multiple-Oscar-winning homage to the nobility and fortitude of average Britons still feels like a robust, if ...

Bizarre, hypnotic, and darkly dreamlike, this enigmatic mystery from "Blue Velvet" director Lynch cloaks the City of Dreams in a lush, noirish atmosphere, wringing every last drop of weirdness from its tricky ...

Here, in another Lumet winner (the director and Connery actually made five films together), an unrecognizable Finney transforms himself into Agatha Christie's renowned Belgian sleuth. Beyond his astonishing portrayal, ...

Edward Dmytryk's trim, crackling detective tale has enough twists and turns to befuddle most any snoop, but that's the whole fun of it. Powell's gritty, bravura turn as the original Marlowe (Bogie would follow him two ...

Made in the wake of his masterful "Last Year at Marienbad", Resnais's cinematic puzzle concerns memory, regret, self-identity, and the psychological effects of war. In a complicated but wholly fascinating plotline, no ...

Criticized in 1971 for daring to deal with the theme of incest, Malle's "Murmur" is actually a sparkling French comedy notable for its wit, sensitivity, and energetic jazz soundtrack. Writer-director Malle approaches ...

This stunning, lavish military epic is reportedly the most expensive Korean film ever shot, and the production values on this gripping adventure tale make you believe it. Beyond its breathtaking visual scope, the film ...

First-time filmmaker Morgan Dews did full justice to the gold mine of material he found in his grandmother’s house by letting it speak entirely for itself. He assembles his film from the recordings themselves, never ...

MGM's adaptation of the famous book by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall is given top shelf treatment here, with the sneering Laughton the definitive Bligh, and the studio's biggest star, Gable, playing Christian ...

An engrossing and unexpectedly moving film, about a son's search for insight into the enigmatic, remote man who fathered him, using the elder Kahn's enduring professional legacy as a starting point. Ultimately a ...

Originally made for the BBC, and scripted by half-Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi, Frears's endearing, intelligent "Laundrette" is a dramatic and often humorous study of bigotry, sexuality, and social mobility in ...

Astounding documentary captures this unusually temperamental pairing of two big talents, who both needed, and couldn't stand, each other. We see this from Herzog's side (Kinski had died several years before), but the ...