Literature

Antigone

Sophocles' immortal tragedy ANTIGONE receives a definitive cinematic interpretation in this 1961 fil...

View Details

Broken Blossoms

The heartbreaking story of a waterfront waif (Lillian Gish) from the Limehouse district of London wh...

View Details

Butley

Alan Bates turns his Tony-winning role into one of his greatest film performances as a lecturer who ...

View Details

A Delicate Balance

An invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore...

View Details

Fantomas

Louis Feuillade's 5 1/2-hour epic follows Fantômas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disg...

View Details

Hedda Gabler

Set in an anonymous corner of suburbia, this contemporary adaptation of Ibsen’s play is a shat...

View Details

Hermia & Helena

A young theater director travels from Buenos Aires to New York for an artist residency to work on a ...

View Details

In Celebration

Taught adaptation of David Storey's emotionally-charged family drama.

View Details

Lorna Doone

Tourneur's adaption of Richard Blackmore's perennially loved romance stars John Bowers as a yeoman f...

View Details

Loving Highsmith

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, t...

View Details

Ashik Kerib (remastered)

From Sergei Paradjanov, one of the most acclaimed and experimental directors of the Soviet cinema, c...

View Details

Faust (Restored Version)

Newly restored. Inspired by the German legend and by Goethe's classic tale, Murnau's Faust tells the...

View Details

Revealing Mr. Maugham

A new documentary by Michael House tells the story of Somerset Maugham, the novelist, spy, playwrigh...

View Details

Rhinoceros

The film version of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play tells of a French city where the citizens begin ...

View Details

Sherlock Holmes

One of Barrymore's most prestigious early roles, this rarely seen film also presents screen debuts o...

View Details

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

The first documentary about Maya Angelou celebrates her life and reveals new insight into the l...

View Details

T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

Oscar® nominee Ralph Fiennes’s exquisite performance of Nobel Prize winner T. S. Eliot's p...

View Details

Ten Little Indians (1974)

One of the most diabolical mysteries ever concocted comes to vivid life in this all-star version of ...

View Details

Sally Of The Sawdust

W. C. Fields stars as a lovable con man who becomes the unlikely guardian of an orphaned circus waif...

View Details

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov’s THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family to...

View Details

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton...

View Details

Lost in the Stars

Lost in the Stars transforms Alan Paton's world-famous novel of racial oppression, Cry the Beloved C...

View Details

The Iceman Cometh

Considered the definitive film version of one of Eugene O'Neill's greatest plays, this simple tale o...

View Details

Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (19...

View Details

The Homecoming

A professor returns home after a long absence to introduce his wife to his father and two brothers, ...

View Details

The Golem

Recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, an ancient Hebrew legend provides the substance f...

View Details

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

One of the greatests spectacles of the silent era, Hunchback made Lon Chaney a top star.

View Details

The Maids

Two maids, in a sinister bond of roleplaying, take turns acting out an abusive employer-servant rela...

View Details

Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov's classic play about the lives of three sisters living in a remote Russian village is ...

View Details

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

In this dazzling adaptation of Erich Kästner’s classic of Weimar literature, a young ad-m...

View Details

Tough Being Loved by Jerks

Because he had published the twelve Danish cartoons that had triggered the wrath of Muslims worldwid...

View Details

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote...

View Details

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novelization of the harsh realities of slavery was a catalyst for the...

View Details

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One

In Portugal- one European country in crisis- a film director proposes to build fictional stories fro...

View Details

Theater of War

Filmmaker John Walter artfully captures Meryl Streep groping for - and then seizing the character ...

View Details

Ward No. 6

A bold contemporary adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s legendary short story, WARD NO. 6 chronicle...

View Details

Way Down East

Griffith billed this film as a "simple tale of plain people." This modest remark does little to con...

View Details

Winter in the Blood

This Native American tale encases its audiences in intrigue and adventure while peeling back the lay...

View Details

The Super 8 Years

The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained he...

View Details

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET opens with a who's-who...

View Details

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is an examination of racism in America through the lens of James Baldwin’s...

View Details
next page