Federico Fellini's towering masterpiece follows burned-out celebrity director Marcello Mastroianni through a series of bizarre encounters and wild daydreams, the first of which finds him ascending into...
Director Sergei Eisenstein's epic "Alexander Nevsky" features some of the most beautiful imagery ever put on film, a majestic music score by Prokifiev and a dazzling, climactic battle on a frozen lake....
This remarkable Academy Award-nominated film by renowned filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) tells a compelling story of love and desire during World War II. Middle-aged, lonely farmer Leon...
This avant-garde masterpiece from renowned Ukranian director Alexander Dovzhenko employs the most complex and elliptical montage style of any Soviet masters in this treatment of events from the...
The mutiny by a battleship's crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians reflect the spirit of the times that would lead to the Russian Revolution. Based on the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution,...
Daring for its time (or any time), Bed and Sofa is the story of a love triangle between a woman and two men living together in a one-room basement apartment in 1927 Moscow. When Liuda becomes pregnant...
At once an invaluable photographic record of life in Weimar Berlin and a timeless demostration of the cinema's ability to enthrall on a purely visceral level, "Berlin, Symphony of a Great City" (1927,...
In this classic love triangle, a tormented cabaret singer must choose between her love for her incarcerated husband and the attentions of a charming and well-to-do doctor. Featuring the incomparable...
A brutally intense yakuza film from pulp master Kinji Fukasaku, Blackmail Is My Life follows the exploits of a ring of small-time punk extortionists who go up against Japan's corrupt...
From cult Japanese action director Yasuharu Hasebe (Black Tight Killers) comes a stylishly colorful yakuza tale set against the backdrop of Tokyo's gangster underworld. A once-powerful yakuza...
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