U.S. Release Date: 2019-07-12
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Lulu Wang
Cast: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Shuzhen Zhou, Han Chen, Hong Lu, Yongbo Jian
Wang has crafted something that is both appealing and emotionally resonant.
U.S. Release Date: 1990-09-21
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J.E. Freeman, Albert Finney, Steve Buscemi
An excellent hybrid gangster/neo-noir film that delivers with both barrels.
U.S. Release Date: 1973-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walson, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould
One of the most popular, widely-loved films to win Best Picture in the last half-century and an example of grand entertainment.
U.S. Release Date: 2019-07-01
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: Animated
Director: Yoshifumi Kondo
Cast: Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Keiju Kobayashi, Maiko Kayama, Yoshimi Nakajima
An affecting and endearing collaboration between Miyazaki and Kondo, it weds a coming-of-age story with a flight of fancy to good effect.
U.S. Release Date: 1971-10-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frederic De Pasquale, Bill Hickman, Eddie Egan, Sonny Grosso
Its approach and style contrast markedly with the artificiality and lack of ingenuity that has infected the genre over the years.
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger, Hans Lanser-Ludolff
The film’s imaginative approach offers an opportunity to explore the early roots of styles that were to become mainstream in Hollywood in the years and decades to follow.
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann
Critical to a wider understanding of Bergman as a person and a filmmaker and represents one of his most dissected and discussed contributions to ‘60s cinema.
U.S. Release Date: 2019-03-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Gideon Adlon, Connie Britton, Josh Stewart, Thomas Smittle
An unconventional tale of redemption that earns its ending by not falling prey to every cliché of the genre or giving in to the temptation to become too sentimental.
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Drama
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Shin’ichiro Mikami, Nobuo Nakamura, Eijiro Tono, Ryuji Kita
Almost hypnotic in its unhurried and unvarnished study of one middle-aged Japanese man and the way his perspective of life changes, the movie is deserving of the universal praise it has received.
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast: Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, Brahim Haggiag
In the universality of its message and the lucidity with which it is presented, "The Battle of Algiers" shows its true power.