Spotlight: Biopics
A notoriously difficult genre to do well, biopics nevertheless hold an enduring appeal. In addition to capturing a period of years, sometimes decades, in a scant few hours, they also extend the promise of real insight, and the possibility of knowing someone we otherwise would not. This week we offer some of our favorites.
La Vie en Rose
(La Môme)
The extraordinary story of Edith Piaf, a singer and icon
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United Kingdom, Czech Republic • 2007
- Director Olivier Dahan
- Cast Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Depardieu
- Genre Drama, Music
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Napoleon
(Napoléon)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1927
- Director Abel Gance
- Cast Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond van Daële, Alexandre Koubitzky, Antonin Artaud, Abel Gance
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Persepolis
The downfall of the Iranian Shah is just the start of Marjane Satrapi's struggle for freedom and belonging.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2007
- Director Marjane Satrapi
- Cast Chiara Mastroianni, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes Benites, François Jerosme
- Genre Animation, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV
Gandhi
His triumph changed the world forever.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, India, United States • 1982
- Director Richard Attenborough
- Cast Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Rohini Hattangadi
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, DIRECTV, AMC on Demand
Lawrence of Arabia
A Mighty Motion Picture Of Action And Adventure!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1962
- Director David Lean
- Cast Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer
- Genre Adventure, Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV, AMC on Demand
The Favourite
Two cousins compete viciously for the favor of their Queen.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States • 2019
- Director Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss
- Genre Drama, History, Comedy
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
Jacquot de Nantes
The origins of artist Jacques Demy as shown through the lens of the inimitable Agnès Varda.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1991
- Director Agnès Varda
- Cast Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix, Daniel Dublet, Clément Delaroche
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Amazon Video
The Motorcycle Diaries
(Diarios de motocicleta)
Before he changed the world, the world changed him.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Argentina, United States, Chile • 2004
- Director Walter Salles
- Cast Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mercedes Morán, Mía Maestro, Jean Pierre Noher
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, DIRECTV
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(Le scaphandre et le papillon)
The true story of a man who suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body except for his left eye.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, United States • 2007
- Director Julian Schnabel
- Cast Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Little Girl
(Petite fille)
A documentary portrait of eight year-old Sasha, currently questioning her gender identity and dealing with (oftentimes negative) societal reactions.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Denmark • 2020
- Director Sébastien Lifshitz
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV
The Last Emperor
The last Emperor of China is subjugated after Japanese invasion.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Italy, China • 1987
- Director Bernardo Bertolucci
- Cast John Lone, Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen, Vivian Wu, Dennis Dun, Ruocheng Ying
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
The true story of an Irishman born with cerebral palsy who learns to use his left foot to paint and write.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Ireland, United Kingdom • 1989
- Director Jim Sheridan
- Cast Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, , Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, AMC on Demand, Pluto TV
Spotlight: First Features, Part II
In Part II of our First Features Spotlight, we focus on films released this millennium, from directors like Andrey Zvyagintsev, who has built a substantial body of work since his 2003 debut with The Return, to Panah Panahi, son of Jafar Panahi (whose first film was included in First Features, Part I), who made his debut with Hit the Road just last year, in 2022.
The Babadook
A recently widowed mother battles "The Babadook,” a dark character from a children's book who is lurking in the house.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Australia, Canada • 2014
- Director Jennifer Kent
- Cast Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West, Benjamin Winspear
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Hulu, Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Player
La Ciénaga
The self-pitying lives of a bored bourgeois family set during the summer in a small provincial town in Argentina.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Argentina, France, Spain • 2001
- Director Lucrecia Martel
- Cast Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián, Leonora Balcarce, Silvia Baylé, Sofia Bertolotto
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Hit the Road
(جاده خاکی)
A family bonds on a road trip through northwestern Iran.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 2022
- Director Panah Panahi
- Cast Hassan Madjooni, Pantea Panahiha, Rayan Sarlak, Amin Simiar, Masoud Tosifyan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Showtime, Hoopla, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, , Paramount+ with Showtime, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Kanopy
Aftersun
A woman reminisces on a holiday she took with her now-absent father over 20 years ago.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 2022
- Director Charlotte Wells
- Cast Paul Mescal, Francesca Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham, Ayse Parlak, Sophia Lamanova
- Genre Drama
- Available on Showtime, fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Showtime Roku Premium Channel, , Paramount+ with Showtime, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Lebanon
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Israel, France, Germany • 2009
- Director Samuel Maoz
- Cast Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov, Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Zohar Strauss
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Tubi TV, YouTube, Apple TV
The Way He Looks
(Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho)
Not every love happens at first sight.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 2014
- Director Daniel Ribeiro
- Cast Ghilherme Lobo, Fábio Audi, Tess Amorim, Lúcia Romano, Eucir de Souza, Selma Egrei
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
12:08 East of Bucharest
(A fost sau n-a fost?)
Three men try to answer a question which, for sixteen years, has not had an answer: "Was it or wasn't it a revolution in their town?"
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Romania • 2006
- Director Corneliu Porumboiu
- Cast Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, Mirela Cioabă, Luminița Gheorghiu, Cristina Ciofu
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Kanopy
District 9
You are not welcome here.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- South Africa, United States, New Zealand • 2009
- Director Neill Blomkamp
- Cast Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike, Elizabeth Mkandawie, John Sumner
- Genre Science Fiction
- Available on Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Cineverse, AMC on Demand
Son of Saul
(Saul fia)
Humanity isn't something you can take away.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hungary • 2015
- Director László Nemes
- Cast Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Sándor Zsótér
- Genre Drama, Thriller, War
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, YouTube, Apple TV
Mustang
In a small Turkish village, five sisters struggle against the restrictions of their conservative family.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey, France, Germany • 2015
- Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Cast Güneş Nezihe Şensoy, Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu, Elit İşcan, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Ilayda Akdoğan, Nihal Koldaş
- Genre Drama
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Kino Now, Kanopy, Tubi TV, Apple TV, MUBI, Cineverse
I Killed My Mother
(J'ai tué ma mère)
Teenage Hubert's antagonistic relationship with his mother may drive them both past the point of no return.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2009
- Director Xavier Dolan
- Cast Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément, Patricia Tulasne, Niels Schneider
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Dekkoo, Metrograph, Kino Now, Kanopy
The Return
(Возвращение)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2003
- Director Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina, Ivan Dobronravov, Lazar Dubovik
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Ilo Ilo
A newly-hired housemaid must face the greatest of challenges: deal with a petulant young boy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Singapore, Japan, Taiwan • 2013
- Director Anthony Chen
- Cast Yann Yann Yeo, Tian Wen Chen, Angeli Bayani, Koh Jia Ler, Jo Kukathas, Peter Wee
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, FlixFling, Kanopy
Tyrannosaur
As Joseph's life spirals, a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a charity shop worker.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2011
- Director Paddy Considine
- Cast Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Ned Dennehy, Samuel Bottomley, Paul Popplewell
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Kanopy
In Bruges
Shoot first. Sightsee later.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 2008
- Director Martin McDonagh
- Cast Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Thekla Reuten, Jordan Prentice
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Crime
- Available on Starz Apple TV Channel, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, Spectrum On Demand, AMC on Demand
Hunger
The true story of Bobby Sands, a courageous IRA political prisoner who led hunger strikes in the Maze prison in 1981.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Ireland, United Kingdom • 2008
- Director Steve McQueen
- Cast Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham, Helena Bereen, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on IndieFlix, AMC+ Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Player
Osama
In Afghanistan, a teenaged girl dresses as a boy so she can work to support her mother and grandmother.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Afghanistan, Ireland, Japan • 2003
- Director Siddiq Barmak
- Cast Marina Golbahari, Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar, Mohammad Nadir Khwaja, Khwaja Nader
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, Hoopla, fuboTV, MGM Plus Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Vudu, Amazon Video, The Roku Channel
Spotlight: First Features
A first film is a singular moment in a director’s career — sometimes taking the tentative first step down a long path, sometimes announcing the arrival of a fully-formed vision and sensibility. The disparate films collected here represent the debut features of some of the great directors of the last 100 years.
Strike
(Стачка)
Set in 1903, the film depicts a factory on the verge of unrest, which is then plunged into a strike after the suicide of one of the workers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Soviet Union • 1925
- Director Sergei Eisenstein
- Cast Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, I. Ivanov
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, FlixFling, Amazon Video, Pantaflix, Kino Now, Kanopy, Public Domain Movies
La Pointe-Courte
A penetrating drama about a marriage on the brink of disintegration.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1955
- Director Agnès Varda
- Cast Silvia Monfort, Philippe Noiret, Marcel Jouet, Albert Lubrano, Anna Banegas, André Lubrano
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, DocAlliance Films, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Salaam Bombay!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, India, France • 1988
- Director Mira Nair
- Cast Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
(Hiroshima mon amour)
The story of a young French actress and her affair with a Japanese man while on assignment in Hiroshima.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Japan • 1959
- Director Alain Resnais
- Cast Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
- Genre Drama, History, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Pather Panchali
(পথের পাঁচালী)
Together, Apu and his sister, Durga, make do with what they have and enjoy the simple joys of childhood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- India • 1955
- Director Satyajit Ray
- Cast Subir Banerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Karuna Banerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Chunibala Devi, Runki Banerjee
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Player
Amores Perros
(Amores perros)
Love. Betrayal. Death.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico • 2000
- Director Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Cast Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Bauche, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrero, Emilio Echevarría, Jorge Salinas
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Freevee
Sanshiro Sugata
(姿三四郎)
Sanshiro, a stubborn young man, travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. But upon his arrival he discovers a new form of self-defence: Judo.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1943
- Director Akira Kurosawa
- Cast Denjirō Ōkōchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Takashi Shimura, Ranko Hanai
- Genre News
- Available on Criterion Channel, Plex, Plex Player
The Golden Age
(L'Âge d'Or)
A surrealist masterpiece.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1930
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst, Josep Llorens Artigas, Lionel Salem
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on FlixFling, IndieFlix, Amazon Video, Kino Now, Kanopy
Black Girl
(La Noire de...)
Senegalese woman goes to work for a family in France, only to be blindsided by her new employers' racism and brutality.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Senegal, France • 1966
- Director Ousmane Sembène
- Cast Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene, Toto Bissainthe, Sophie Leclerc
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
The White Balloon
(بادکنک سفید)
Seven-year-old Razieh and her brother set out for the pet shop, after Razieh sets her heart on a goldfish in the shop window.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Iran • 1995
- Director Jafar Panahi
- Cast Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Anna Borkowska, Mohammad Shahani
- Genre Drama, Family
- Available on Criterion Channel
Ivan's Childhood
(Иваново детство)
Based on a short story by Vladimir Bogomolov, the film tells the story of an orphan whose family is killed by the invading German forces during World War I,
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Soviet Union • 1962
- Director Andrei Tarkovsky
- Cast Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Nikolay Grinko, Yevgeni Zharikov, Valentina Malyavina, Irma Raush
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
The 400 Blows
(Les Quatre Cents Coups)
The story of a misunderstood adolescent boy growing up in Paris.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1959
- Director François Truffaut
- Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant, Patrick Auffay, Robert Beauvais
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Spotlight: Anti War Films for Armistice Day
Armistice Day, which marks the beginning of the end of WWI, known at the time as the war to end all wars, occurs this year in the midst of devastating conflict. In recognition, we present anti-war films from around the world, about conflicts past and present, from a variety of perspectives.
Quo Vadis, Aida?
A UN translator returns to Bosnia to help her family at the height of the 1995 War with Serbia.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania • 2021
- Director Jasmila Žbanić
- Cast Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrović, Johan Heldenbergh, Raymond Thiry
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Apple TV, Hulu
Klondike
(Клондайк)
A drama following a Ukrainian couple living near the Ukraine-Russia border during the breakout of war in 2014.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Ukraine, Turkey • 2022
- Director Maryna Er Gorbach
- Cast Oksana Cherkashyna, Sergey Shadrin, Oleg Scherbina, Oleg Shevchuk, Artur Aramyan
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Five Broken Cameras
Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Palestine, Israel, France • 2011
- Director Guy Davidi, Emad Burnat
- Cast Emad Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Soraya Burnat
- Genre Documentary, War
- Available on Chai Flicks, Kino Now, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Player
Waltz with Bashir
(Vals Im Bashir)
When a young soldier has trouble accessing memories of a massacre, conversations with others help piece his memories together.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Israel, France, Germany • 2008
- Director Ari Folman
- Cast Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Dror Harazi, Ronny Dayag
- Genre Animation, Documentary, Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, DIRECTV
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Im Westen nichts Neues)
A German film adaptation of the epic 1929 anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom • 2022
- Director Edward Berger
- Cast Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Edin Hasanović, Devid Striesow, Daniel Brühl
- Genre Action, Drama, War
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
(Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage)
The true story of a young woman who did what few in Nazi Germany dared even think!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2005
- Director Marc Rothemund
- Cast Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf, André Hennicke, Florian Stetter
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Hoopla, OVID, Chai Flicks, Metrograph, Kino Now
Grave of the Fireflies
(火垂るの墓)
Can these two siblings beat the odds?
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1988
- Director Isao Takahata
- Cast Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi
- Genre Animation, Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu
Grand Illusion
(La Grande Illusion)
During WWI, a group of French prisoners of war grapple with their class differences as they plot their escape.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1937
- Director Jean Renoir
- Cast Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Georges Péclet
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Come and See
(Иди и смотри)
The survival of a young boy in Byelorussia amidst the brutal chaos of WWII is a contest between despair and hope.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Soviet Union • 1985
- Director Elem Klimov
- Cast Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas, Jüri Lumiste, Viktors Lorencs
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
(人間の條件 第1部純愛篇/第2部激怒篇)
A Japanese pacifist and socialist struggles to accommodate the demands of his country during wartime.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Masaki Kobayashi
- Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima, Sō Yamamura, Akira Ishihama
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel
For Sama
Director Waad Al-Kateab captures the bombing of Aleppo as she and her husband lived it.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Syria, United States • 2019
- Director Edward Watts
- Cast Sama Al-Khateab, Hamza Al-Khateab, Waad al-Kateab
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, YouTube, Apple TV
Paradise Now
Two Palestinian men attempt to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Palestine, France, Germany • 2005
- Director Hany Abu-Assad
- Cast Ali Suliman, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass, Ashraf Barhom, Mohammad Bustami
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, DIRECTV
Spotlight: There's Something Wrong with This House!
Enter if you dare: spooky staircases, dark hallways, and creaking floorboards lie ahead! To celebrate Halloween, this week we present stories of haunted houses, where characters are menaced by ghostly terrors, nightmares-turned-real, and the malevolent architecture itself.
My House Walk-Through
(ぼくのうち)
This is not a horror video. This video was created simply by filming inside my house.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2016
- Director PiroPito
- Cast Nana
- Genre Horror
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Ghostwatch
The BBC airs a special “live” investigation into the most haunted house in Britain. It quickly spirals out of control.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1992
- Director Lesley Manning
- Cast Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Craig Charles, Mike Smith, Gillian Bevan, Brid Brennan
- Genre Horror, TV Movie
- Available on Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Changeling
His vacation home is haunted by a vengeful spirit. To save his own life, he'll need to solve the ghost's death.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 1980
- Director Peter Medak
- Cast George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos, Barry Morse, Madeleine Sherwood
- Genre Horror
- Available on Screambox Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kino Now, Alamo on Demand, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Cineverse, Midnight Pulp, Plex, Plex Player
House
(ハウス)
A group of Japanese schoolgirls discover there is more to their vacation house than meets the eye.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1977
- Director Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
- Cast Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Ai Matsubara, Mieko Satoh
- Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
The Haunting
You may not believe in ghosts but you cannot deny terror.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1963
- Director Robert Wise
- Cast Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton, Rosalie Crutchley
- Genre Horror
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV
The House
Three Visionary Tales. One Unforgettable Place.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 2022
- Director Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels
- Cast
- Genre Animation
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads
Under the Shadow
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor says the missile was cursed.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Jordan, Qatar • 2016
- Director Babak Anvari
- Cast Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Hamid Djavadan, Bijan Daneshmand
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
- Available on Amazon Video, Netflix basic with Ads, Hoopla, Vudu, Netflix, Apple TV
The Wolf House
(La casa lobo)
Once upon a time, there was a country within a country from which nobody could escape.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Chile, Germany • 2018
- Director Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña
- Cast Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause, Karina Hyland, Carlos Cociña, Natalia Geisse
- Genre Animation, Drama, Horror
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, Kanopy, Plex, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Apple TV, Plex Player
His House
This unique film fuses haunted-house horror with the modern-day refugee crisis.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2020
- Director Remi Weekes
- Cast Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Matt Smith, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba, Javier Botet, Emily Taaffe
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Netflix basic with Ads, Netflix
A Tale of Two Sisters
(장화, 홍련)
Strange things began to happen after Su-mi returns from a mental institution to live with her father and stepmother.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea • 2003
- Director Kim Jee-woon
- Cast Im Soo-jung, Yum Jung-ah, Moon Geun-young, Kim Kap-soo, Park Mi-Hyeon, Lee Seung-Bi
- Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Available on Kanopy
The Shining
A masterpiece of modern horror.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1980
- Director Stanley Kubrick
- Cast Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone
- Genre Horror, Thriller
- Available on Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, , Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Parasite
(기생충)
A poor family lies and schemes their way into the employ of a wealthy household — successfully, but with great consequences.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea • 2019
- Director Bong Joon-ho
- Cast Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Chang Hyae-jin
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Thriller
- Available on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Spectrum On Demand, Alamo on Demand, YouTube, FlixFling, Apple TV, Max, Max Amazon Channel
The Exterminating Angel
(El ángel exterminador)
A high society party devolves into chaos when the guests are mysteriously unable to leave the room.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico • 1962
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, José Baviera, Augusto Benedico, Luis Beristáin, Antonio Bravo
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Spotlight: Spaghetti Westerns
October is Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month, a good opportunity to recognize the Italian incarnation of that quintessentially American genre, the Western. Borrowing the conventions of the genre, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s and 70s employ them differently and to different ends, creating something new.
A Fistful of Dollars
(Per un pugno di dollari)
A gunfighter with no name drifts into a small town and plays both sides as two corrupt families fight each other.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Spain, West Germany • 1964
- Director Sergio Leone
- Cast Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, Joseph Egger
- Genre Western
- Available on Cinemax Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
The Great Silence
(Il grande silenzio)
His voice was the silence of death!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1968
- Director Sergio Corbucci
- Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGee, Mario Brega
- Genre Action, Western
- Available on Hoopla, Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Django
Bloodshed abounds as a drifter and a runaway take on two vicious armies on the US-Mexico border post-Civil War.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Spain • 1966
- Director Sergio Corbucci
- Cast Franco Nero, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak, Ángel Álvarez, Eduardo Fajardo, Gino Pernice
- Genre Action, Western
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, IndieFlix, ARROW, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Alamo on Demand, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Darkmatter TV, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Midnight Pulp, Plex, Plex Player
Compañeros
(Vamos a matar, compañeros)
Honor among thieves? We'll see about that...
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Spain, West Germany • 1970
- Director Sergio Corbucci
- Cast Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance, Fernando Rey, Iris Berben, José Bódalo
- Genre Action, Comedy, Western
- Available on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Plex, Plex Player
Once Upon a Time in the West
(C'era una volta il West)
There were three men in her life. One to take her... one to love her... and one to kill her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, United States • 1968
- Director Sergio Leone
- Cast Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti
- Genre Western
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, fuboTV, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV, AMC on Demand
Django, Prepare a Coffin
(Preparati la bara!)
Wanderer. Gunslinger. Executioner.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1968
- Director Ferdinando Baldi
- Cast Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, Barbara Simon, Pinuccio Ardia, Guido Lollobrigida
- Genre Action, Western
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Apple TV
They Call Me Trinity
(Lo chiamavano Trinità...)
Trinity and Bambino send the bad guys packing with humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1970
- Director Enzo Barboni
- Cast Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias, Dan Sturkie, Gisela Hahn, Elena Pedemonte
- Genre Action, Comedy, Western
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Plex, Plex Player
Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
(La vendetta è un piatto che si serve freddo)
After witnessing the brutal murder of his family by Native Americans as a child, Jeremiah Bridger becomes a merciless assassin.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1971
- Director Pasquale Squitieri
- Cast Leonard Mann, Ivan Rassimov, Klaus Kinski, Elizabeth Eversfield, Steffen Zacharias, Enzo Fiermonte
- Genre Western
- Available on Amazon Video
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
A silent gunslinger, a renegade Mexican bandit, and an evil hitman hunt for 200,000 dollars in Confederate gold.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Spain, West Germany • 1966
- Director Sergio Leone
- Cast Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, Luigi Pistilli, Rada Rassimov
- Genre Western
- Available on Cinemax Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, Spectrum On Demand
For a Few Dollars More
(Per qualche dollaro in più)
Two bounty hunters pursue "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Spain, West Germany • 1965
- Director Sergio Leone
- Cast Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté, Mara Krupp, Luigi Pistilli, Klaus Kinski
- Genre Western
- Available on Cinemax Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox
¡Mátalo!
A gang of cattle thieves rescue a criminal from the gallows and, with his help, rob a stagecoach loaded with gold.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Spain • 1970
- Director Cesare Canevari
- Cast Corrado Pani, Lou Castel, Claudia Gravy, Luis Dávila, Miguel del Castillo, Ana María Noé
- Genre Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
- Available on ARROW, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
(Se sei vivo spara)
Terror from the depths of hell!
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Spain • 1967
- Director Giulio Questi
- Cast Tomas Milian, Marilù Tolo, Piero Lulli, Milo Quesada, Francisco Sanz, Miguel Serrano
- Genre Action, Thriller, Western
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Night Flight Plus, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Alamo on Demand, Tubi TV, VUDU Free, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Player,
Keoma
Keoma means freedom!
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1976
- Director Enzo G. Castellari
- Cast Franco Nero, William Berger, Olga Karlatos, Orso Maria Guerrini, Gabriella Giacobbe, Antonio Marsina
- Genre Action, Western
- Available on Microsoft Store, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, ARROW, VUDU Free, Plex, Tubi TV, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Apple TV, MUBI Amazon Channel, Plex Player, MUBI
Spotlight: Catherine Deneuve
Happy birthday Catherine Deneuve! With more than 100 credits to her name, the grande dame of French cinema has been nominated for the César for Best Actress 14 times, and won twice, and has worked with many of the major European directors of the 20th century.
Repulsion
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia—the pathological fear of interaction with men.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1965
- Director Roman Polanski
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark, Renée Houston
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, DIRECTV, Crackle, Redbox, Plex, Plex Player
8 Women
(8 femmes)
Living in a house full of women can be murder.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 2002
- Director François Ozon
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Ludivine Sagnier
- Genre Comedy, Thriller, Music, Crime, Mystery
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dancer in the Dark
A Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, uses her love of musicals to escape her life's troubles.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Denmark, Germany, Netherlands • 2000
- Director Lars Von Trier
- Cast Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
A Christmas Tale
(Un conte de Noël)
The dilemma. The reunion
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2008
- Director Arnaud Desplechin
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Anne Consigny, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Émile Berling, Melvil Poupaud
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Pluto TV
The Young Girls of Rochefort
(Les demoiselles de Rochefort)
They're singing and dancing in the streets.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1967
- Director Jacques Demy
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Michel Piccoli
- Genre Music, Romance, Drama, Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video
Mississippi Mermaid
(La sirène du Mississipi)
A tobacco farmer arranges for a mail-order bride and gets more than he bargained for.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1969
- Director François Truffaut
- Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière, Marcel Berbert
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Tubi TV
The Truth
(La Vérité)
A French film superstar's decision to publish her memoirs causes old tensions, feelings, and conflicts with her daughter to resurface.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Japan, Switzerland • 2019
- Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Clémentine Grenier, Manon Clavel, Alain Libolt
- Genre Drama
- Available on DIRECTV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Vudu, AMC+ Amazon Channel, YouTube, Apple TV
Indochine
As the country changes around her, the prosperous owner of a rubber plantation in French Indochina tries to maintain control…
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1992
- Director Régis Wargnier
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Pérez, Linh Đan Phạm, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Alain Fromager
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on fuboTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, DIRECTV
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
(Les parapluies de Cherbourg)
A film for all the young lovers of the world.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, West Germany • 1964
- Director Jacques Demy
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Mireille Perrey, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Trophy Wife
(Potiche)
A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his injury.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2010
- Director François Ozon
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Jérémie Renier, Judith Godrèche
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, OVID, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, Xumo Play, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Player
Belle de Jour
(Belle de jour)
Luis Bunuel's erotic masterpiece.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1967
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Tristana
A young woman must choose between safety and freedom.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Spain, Italy, France • 1970
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos, Antonio Casas, Jesús Fernández
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kino Now, Tubi TV, Kanopy
The Last Metro
(Le Dernier Métro)
A story of love and conflict in Nazi-occupied Paris.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1980
- Director François Truffaut
- Cast Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Jean-Louis Richard
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Spotlight: New Polish Cinema
The New Polish Cinema arose out of a newfound freedom and independence from Stalinist censorship in the years after the Polish October of 1956. This freedom led to the exploration of formerly taboo subjects such as politics and sexuality, as well as formal experimentation with narrative and cinema.
The Shout
An enigmatic traveler invades the lives of a young couple, claiming he has learned a shout that can kill.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1978
- Director Jerzy Skolimowski
- Cast Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Criterion Channel, Tubi TV, Freevee, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
Art of Loving
(Sztuka Kochania)
Before her wedding, Anna seeks the advice of a sexologist to help her figure out if she is making the right choice.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 1989
- Director Jacek Bromski
- Cast Piotr Machalica, Joanna Trzepiecińska, Anna Romantowska, Wiktor Zborowski, Jerzy Bończak, Ewa Ziętek
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Cultpix
Farewells
(Pożegnania)
Class differences frustrate Pawel and Lidka's undying love, but will their love survive when Pawel is sent to Auschwitz?
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 1958
- Director Wojciech Has
- Cast Maria Wachowiak, Tadeusz Janczar, Gustaw Holoubek, Stanisław Jaworski, Stanisław Milski, Zdzisław Mrożewski
- Genre Drama
- Available on Klassiki
Eroica
A drunk becomes an unwitting hero of the Warsaw uprising and another man attempts to escape a prison camp.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 1958
- Director Andrzej Munk
- Cast Edward Dziewoński, Barbara Połomska, Leon Niemczyk, Kazimierz Opaliński, Ignacy Machowski, Zofia Czerwińska
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Klassiki
Ashes and Diamonds
(Popiół i diament)
A resistance fighter in WWII Poland questions his commitment to the cause.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 1958
- Director Andrzej Wajda
- Cast Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyżewska, Wacław Zastrzeżynski, Adam Pawlikowski, Bogumił Kobiela, Jan Ciecierski
- Genre Drama, Romance, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Kanopy
The Big Animal
(Duże zwierzę)
A man adopts a pet camel despite the hostile neighbors in his small town.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 2000
- Director Jerzy Stuhr
- Cast Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Dymna, Dominika Bednarczyk, Błażej Wójcik, Andrzej Franczyk, Feliks Szajnert
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Kanopy
Illumination
(Iluminacja)
A decade in the life of a physics student whose faith in reason is shaken by love and tragedy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 1973
- Director Krzysztof Zanussi
- Cast Stanislaw Latallo, Małgorzata Pritulak, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Jan Skotnicki, Edward Żebrowski, Wlodzimierz Zonn
- Genre Drama
- Available on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Amazon Video
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
(Docteur Jekyll et les femmes)
When people start turning up dead at Dr. Jekyll's engagement party, inquisitive minds seek the identity of the killer.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, West Germany • 1981
- Director Walerian Borowczyk
- Cast Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Gérard Zalcberg, Patrick Magee, Howard Vernon, Clément Harari
- Genre Horror
- Available on ARROW, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Amazon Video
Blind Chance
(Przypadek)
Three different stories show how the simple act of either catching or missing a train profoundly changes one man's life.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 1987
- Director Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Cast Bogusław Linda, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Bogusława Pawelec, Marzena Trybała, Jacek Borkowski
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
Europa Europa
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, France, Poland • 1990
- Director Agnieszka Holland
- Cast Marco Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, René Hofschneider, Piotr Kozlowski, André Wilms
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Knife in the Water
(Nóż w wodzie)
A married couple invite a hitchhiker on their boating trip, creating a tense dynamic that leads to a cataclysmic outcome.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Poland • 1962
- Director Roman Polanski
- Cast Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Roman Polanski, Anna Ciepielewska
- Genre Drama, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon Video, Kanopy
Possession
Helen wants a divorce, but as her behavior grows more alarming, a sinister force is found to be operating on her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, West Germany • 1981
- Director Andrzej Żuławski
- Cast Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering
- Genre Horror
- Available on Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Metrograph
Spotlight: Directors: Werner Herzog
A maverick director of fiery narratives and boldly stylized documentaries, Werner Herzog is a seemingly unstoppable force whose filmmaking career began when he stole a camera from school in 1961, came into its own in the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s and '80s, and has been going strong ever since.
Signs of Life
(Lebenszeichen)
Three German soldiers in WWII are assigned to a quiet coastal community on a small Greek island that tests their sanity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany • 1968
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, Wolfgang Stumpf, Henry van Lyck
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Hoopla, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
Nosferatu the Vampyre
(Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht)
A real estate agent seeks to buy property from Count Dracula, whose true interests lie in the agent's wife.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany, France • 1979
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, Walter Ladengast, Martje Grohmann
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, fuboTV, The Film Detective, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox, Crackle, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Popcornflix, Pluto TV, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Freevee, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
(Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)
After being chained in a cellar for the first 17 years of life, Kaspar is freed and abandoned, left to wander.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany • 1974
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge, Kidlat Tahimik
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
During the Vietnam War, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and escaped against the odds.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United Kingdom, France • 1997
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Dieter Dengler, Werner Herzog, Eugene Deatrick
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandor, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Freevee, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
La Soufrière
(La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe)
A volcano soon to erupt causes most of the island to evacuate, except for a few who will stay and face death.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany • 1977
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Edward Lachman, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
Fitzcarraldo
A developer attempts to build an opera house in the Amazon rainforest, entailing a series of increasingly ambitious efforts.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany, Peru • 1982
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Paul Hittscher, Huerequeque Enrique Bohórquez
- Genre Adventure, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Popcornflix, VUDU Free, Peacock, Peacock Premium, Freevee, Cineverse, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player,
Land of Silence and Darkness
(Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany • 1971
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Fini Straubinger, Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, M. Baaske, Resi Mittermeier
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Freevee, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
(Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)
A breathtaking journey into the heart of darkness.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany, Mexico • 1972
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera
- Genre Adventure, Drama, History
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, History Vault, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Popcornflix, Pluto TV, VUDU Free, Freevee, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
Heart of Glass
(Herz aus Glas)
With the death of the foreman who holds the secret of a town's legendary glass-blowing works, the town slides into depression.
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- West Germany • 1976
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba, Volker Prechtel, Brunhilde Klöckner
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player
Into the Inferno
What we worship can destroy us.
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- United Kingdom, Germany, Canada • 2016
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Sri Sumarti
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Netflix basic with Ads, Netflix
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Werner Herzog is given exclusive access to the Chauvet Caves in Southern France where he films the oldest pictorial creations of humankind in history.
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- Canada, United States, France • 2010
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste
- Genre Documentary, Family
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, DIRECTV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Pluto TV
Stroszek
After being released from prison, Bruno joins a sex worker and an elderly eccentric in moving from Germany to Wisconsin.
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- West Germany • 1977
- Director Werner Herzog
- Cast Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg, Burkhard Driest, Clayton Szalpinski
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Popcornflix, Kanopy, Shout! Factory TV, Plex, Plex Player