Based on the real-life assassination of peace activist Gregoris Lambrakis in 1963, Costa-Gavras’s extraordinary thriller benefits from a tense, claustrophobic atmosphere and note-perfect performances. Sweeping us from ...

Cassavetes's evocative, unsettling portrait sheds as much light on the maverick early days of cable programming as it does on the passionate, deeply troubled Harvey, a man fondly recalled by directors like Robert ...

Kitano’s wry twist on the beloved samurai character (inaugurated in the sixties by Shintaro Katsu) is edgy and full of attitude, especially as Zatoichi dispatches his enemies in a bloody torrent of precision swipes. Not ...

This hilarious faux documentary tells the life story of a "human chameleon," complete with highbrow narration and interviews with intellectuals like Susan Sontag and Saul Bellow. One of Allen's great comic ...

If you think murder, perversion and obsession are a Western specialty, have a look at Yoshitaro Nomura's "Zero Focus." This Japanese puzzler, adapted from a bestselling thriller, has a young wife departing on a sordid ...

How many existential adventure thrillers have you seen? Set in Greenland? Moland's suspenseful picture is unusual in many ways, but its psychological twists and survivalist theme take on a harrowing aspect in the dark ...

In this brooding police procedural, the director of "Seven" revisits a real-life case that Bay Area investigators puzzled over for years. Adapted from two books written by Graysmith, Fincher's film centers around the ...

Based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, the multiple Oscar-winning "Zorba" is all about Quinn's indelible, galvanic performance. A bon vivant who exhorts Basil to "loosen your belt and go find trouble", Zorba is a ...

Endfield's breathless depiction of a rag-tag English force battling an implacable enemy remains one of our very best war films. Baker (who co-produced) was never better, and got his mystified Zulu extras to cooperate ...