In a quest to find a new land route to Asia, Christopher Columbus discovers the New World. However, his vision of for a peaceful new world doesn’t content with that of Spain’s vi...
Ayoka Chenzira’s overlooked classic, newly restored and ripe for rediscovery, is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn who live, love, and wrestle with what it ...
NEW RESTORATION! Inspired by an actual event during WWII, Josef von Sternberg's Anatahan, tells the story of a dozen Japanese sailors who are stranded on the remote island of Anatahan ...
A French criminal on the run, heads to Canada where he joins a gang of criminals who are plotting a complicated robbery. Their foolproof plan blows up in their faces when they end up kidnapping a crim...
Franco Rosso's incendiary Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. for "being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension" (Vivien Goldman, Time Ou...
In the years just preceding Waterloo, best friends Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley graduate from Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Girls. The wealthy Amelia invites the penniless Becky into the b...
A mild-mannered man (Hugh Grant) attempts to rekindle the sexual fire in his marriage while on a cruise, but he develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic’s wife.
Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film (1981), The Boat is Full is a tense and heartbreaking drama that captures the plight of refugees during WWII.
Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth, Phoebe Cates, and Eric Stoltz star in this left-field Gen-X romantic dramedy that harkens back to the anti-establishment cinema of the previous generation…fittingly, Ea...
The biography of the iconic French sculptor Camille Claudel in a tale of love, betrayal and female empowerment, starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu.
Director Jean-Luc Godard, whose advocacy of Maoism bordered on intoxication, infuriated many traditionalist critics with this swiftly paced satire. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group ...
Set in the lead up to WWI, Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning Colonel Redl charts the rise of Alfred Redl to head of counter-intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
Rip Torn gives one of the great screen performances as a psychiatrist secretly filming his own mental breakdown in Milton Moses Ginsberg's classic exploration of dark eroticism and self-referential ci...
1980's Confidence was nominated for the Academy Award and
Szabó won Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Director.
In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as h...
Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's Italy starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed man trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – an...
Bernardo Bertolucci,
Italy,
1970
Blu-ray, DCP, DVD
The Confrontation
Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion.
Set in 1947...
A great caravan of covered wagons, filled with hearty pioneers and their families and possessions, are waiting for the Spring “jump off” at Westport Landing, now Kansas City. The time is 1...
Bela Lugosi stars as a scientist who commands a mutant bat to avenge himself upon his enemies (using a specially formulated after-shave lotion as the targeting device). Even as he takes diabolical ple...
The murder of a Hamburg barmaid seems an open-and-shut case until a recently demobilized Nazi soldier, reassigned to the police force, suspects it’s the work of a serial killer.
Fred Schepisi's (Empire Falls, Six Degrees of Seperation, Roxanne) celebrated first feature is a lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in...
Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos to the forefront of c...
After witnessing a small plane crash, a frightened Jenny (Natalie Wood) seeks comfort in the home of a small-town doctor (Dean Jagger, Rawhide). Like a whirlwind of truth, Jenny speaks her mind, quest...
It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra, still burning with hatred towards his murderer, the tyrant Aegisztosz, attempts to rouse an apathetic population agains...
Upon arriving in Bangkok to join her diplomat husband, Emmanuelle meets Bee and Mario and embarks on a voyage of sexual discovery. As she pursues the stunning Bee, Mario initiates her into sexual refi...
Emmanuelle returns to her husband Jean in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs and introduces the young Anna-Maria to the pleasures and subtleties of carnal love.
THE ESCAPEES is among Rollin's most personal films, and has been remastered in HD from the original 35mm negative. Jean Rollin's THE ESCAPEES revisits the director's fascination with pairs of women wh...
Stanley Kubrick's first feature is an existential drama that has the feeling of a waking dream rather than a conventional war film. Following a complicated history of cuts and versioning, audienc...
A man, Ivan, returns to Manila, seemingly aimless. At the whim of his wanderings and his encounters, the writer strolls through the fascinating megalopolis in search of his past and the meaning o...
Pierre Rissient,
1982
Blu-ray, DCP, DVD
Framed
From the makers of the highly successful Walking Tall comes the ultimate story of revenge. Joe Don Baker (Charley Varrick) plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal ...
A young woman (Lil Dagover) confronts the personification of Death (Bernhard Goetzke), in an effort to save the life of her fiance (Walter Janssen). Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to...
As Emmanuelle and her husband Jean continue their amoral lifestyle under the sun of the Seychelles, the arrival of a film director disturbs their peaceful existence. When she falls in love with the ha...
After decades in prison, stagecoach robber Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) emerges in 1901 a free man without a place in 20th century society…until he sees The Great Train Robbery and is inspir...
Repo Man director Alex Cox went south of the border to film this dramatic tale of a rookie member of Mexico’s national highway patrol, who struggles to keep on the straight and narrow in a depar...
Academy Award nominated HIMALAYA tells the story of a generational struggle for the leadership of a tiny mountain village. A visually striking and spiritually captivating portrait of life in one of th...
Remembered as one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950s, Ida Lupino's THE HITCH-HIKER remains the only classic film noir directed by a woman. Inspired by the true-life murder spree of B...
A recently widowed minister's zeal for attending to his parishioners leads him to neglect the needs of his own family, until emotions boil over one Christmas.
Director Mikhail Kalatozov’s delirious masterpiece uses four stunning vignettes to paint a picture of pre-revolutionary Cuba in newly restored 4K with an original soundtrack.
Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) returns to New York after 14 years in prison. Noll Turner (Kirk Douglas), Frankie's former partner in bootlegging, is now a wealthy nightclub manager, and Frankie inte...
While stationed in France during World War II, a married American fighter pilot (John Carroll) commits bigamy and marries a local French girl (Vera Ralston). After the end of the war, he disappears, r...
Based on Liam O’Flaherty’s popular Irish novel (which John Ford famously adapted in 1935), this gripping thriller is set among a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland o...
Jay, a failed musician, finds himself involved with a woman who comes to his house once a week for violent, graphic sex. When he follows her home to find out more about her, he gets involved with her ...
Cult icon Serge Gainsbourg wrote, directed, and scored this tale of doomed love between a lonely truck stop waitress (Jane Birkin) and a hunky garbage truck driver (Joe Dallesandro), whose boyfriend (...
Too often segregated within an academic and cultural niche, Yiddish cinema is in fact a varied and vibrant genre ripe for reappraisal. Whether shot in the fields of Poland or makeshift studios in Manh...
"Incandescent" portrayals by two Israeli actresses illuminate the plight of women within Orthodox Judaism today. Using superb cinematography, ethnic music, and authentic Jerusalem locations, Israel's ...
May 1948, some days before the creation of the state of Israel. Upon arrival in Palestine, a boat of concentration camp survivors is confronted by hostile British soldiers. The hopeful emigrants have ...
Acclaimed filmmaker Amos Gitai's semi-autobiographical account of the 1973 Yom Kippur war from the point of view of a young soldier. Kippur is not a traditional "blood, guts and glory" war film. There...
L'MMORTELLE is a cinematic arabesque that teases the eye with visual delights yet sadistically confounds expectations. A Frenchman (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) traveling in Istanbul becomes entranced by ...
After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Young-ae) is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her own daughter. While in prison sh...
An apocalyptic roar of a movie, this is Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. It is both deeply personal and grimly historical, a...
Sex becomes sport as Valmont and Juliette manipulate each other into having extra-marital affairs. Juliette points Valmont towards the 16-year-old Cécile, since she has eyes on Cécile&rs...
A smuggler is hired to sneak an imprisoned American out of a communist-controlled territory. The dangerous job becomes even more challenging when he meets the prisoner's sultry wife.
Decades after her death, Kathleen Collins has finally been rediscovered as a groundbreaking writer, playwright and independent filmmaker. Losing Ground is her second film, the story of a Black profess...
Taken for granted by her Catholic Italian family, innocent Macy’s salesgirl Angie Rossini (Natalie Wood) seeks solace in the arms of a charming and footloose jazz musician, Rocky Papasano (Steve...
As a new student at an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with the compassionate teacher Fräulein von Bernburg, and her feelings are requited. Experiencing her first love, lonely Ma...
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about as...
A nightclub singer (Vera Ralston, I, Jane Doe) becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings and the mob shortly after witnessing her husband’s supposed death and the murder of a couple of narcotics...
THE MAN WITHOUT A WORLD is credited to Soviet director Yevgeny Antinov...who is nothing but a persona created by contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin, the true artist behind this fiendish and fabulous...
Tessie McGuire (Gloria Swanson) is a down-on-her-luck salesgirl who climbs the social ladder by pretending to be a Russian countess. Tessie is a working class gal whose boyfriend Jimmy (Tom Moore) sta...
Newly Mastered in HD from a 4K scan! Marjorie Morningstar (Natalie Wood, Love with a Proper Stranger) is eighteen and very beautiful, an innocent young heart eager to explore the excitement of a caree...
Kino Lorber is proud to bring to North American theaters this touring series featuring restorations of six films by Miklós Jancsó, "the greatest Hungarian film director of all time" (B&e...
The 1981 Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film) Mephisto concerns a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps th...
An aspiring writer, while struggling to compose a eulogy after the sudden death of her mother, comes to discover that her own rebelliousness is as much a response to the male gaze as her mother's conf...
Carol Williams is a beautiful young dancer whose body, and promising career, is suddenly crippled by polio. Carol’s dance partner and fiancé, Guy Richards, wants to see her through her il...
Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra (L'Avventura) and newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, Nostalghia is a mystical and mysterious collision of E...
In Ida Lupino's directorial debut Not Wanted, young and naive "unwed mother" Sally Forrest's life spirals out of control after her musician beau (Leo Penn) ditches her for an out-of-town gig, despite ...
Fredric March is an unscrupulous newspaperman eager to exploit the story of a young woman's death by radium poisoning. Carole Lombard knows she's not really dying but can't pass up a free trip to...
In 1798 the USS Constitution is launched as part of an effort to fight piracy in the Mediterranean. A farm boy (Charles Farrell) wants to join the battle and boards the merchant ship Esther which emba...
The first and only narrative feature by Oscar®-nominated American documentarian James Blue holds the dual distinctions of being the only French film to have been shot in Algeria during the Algeria...
The Optimists tells the story of a street performer named Sam, who with a unique outlook on life befriends two children and teaches them to look at life from a new perspective. The novelty of having a...
Jacques Rivette's Out 1 has been practically impossible to see for more than forty years. Both the complete 8-part series, Out 1: noli me tangere (1971), and the shorter theatrical version, Out 1: Spe...
This entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the result of a collaboration of a pair of pioneering Black artists: writer Ishmael Reed and filmmaker Bill Gunn, who wrote and ...
In his first starring role, Sir Ian McKellen gives a sensational performance as D.H. Lawrence, working alongside Hollywood legend Ava Gardner and director Christopher Miles. PRIEST OF LOVE provides a ...
A haunting, powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war. Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, The Red and The White details the murderous entanglements between Russia's Red soldie...
Produced and directed by the great Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo, Red River) and starring James Caan (Rollerball), Red Line 7000 was filmed against the backdrop of the world’s most famous speedways, a...
Set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s. When a group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner, they are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals and the ...
A sly, sophisticated love story that is a showcase for its two Oscar-winning stars: Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson.With a sparklingly witty screenplay from Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard (Shakesp...
Miklós Jancsó’s most renowned work depicts a prison camp in the aftermath of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. After the Hapsburg monarchy succeeds in suppressing Lajos Kossuth's nati...
Set against a background of riots, anti-racist demos, and police hostility, this unforgettable film portraits the UK at a moment when subcultural shock troops met those of a rising right wing in the s...
Tarkovsky's haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made as he was dying of cancer, THE SACRIFICE is Tarkovsky's personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy st...
Originally released as Hollow Triumph, this top-notch film noir suspense thriller gave actor Paul Henreid (Casablanca) a chance to trade in his romantic image for not one, but two sinister performance...
An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Films Festival, THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) ...
Jo¨elle Coeur (Rollin's THE DEMONIACS) and Gilda Arancio star as a pair of lovers enjoying a blissful cross-country hike. But the carefree erotic film turns suddenly dark when the women are set up...
Derek Jarman's feature film debut is a historical drama which lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics, audaciously spoken in La...
The long-lost 1960 3-D and Cinemascope feature September Storm is back, fully restored by the 3-D Film Archive! New DCP now available!
This drama of treasure hunters exploring the Mediterr...
COMING SOON IN A NEW 2K RESTORATION! Nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples a...
A young Black poet (Saul Williams) is imprisoned for a petty marijuana charge, where he meets a writing teacher (Sonja Sohn) who inspires him to use his creative expression to fight for his freedom in...
Gloria Swanson plays Jenny Hagen, a diner waitress who fantasizes about a life on stage. Her heart belongs to Orme Wilson (Lawrence Gray), an expert pancake flipper, who only has eyes for the women in...
Film noir about a trio of armored-car robbers who make their getaway by forcing a young hot-rodder to be their driver. The vicious criminals take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering...
NEW 2K RESTORATION! Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, Swept Away is Lina Wertmuller's most famous and controversial film about sex, love and politics. On an elegant yacht ...
Unable to afford proper care for his dying sister, Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun - Lady Vengeance) is urged by his girlfriend (Bae Doo-na - The Host) urges Ryu to kidnap his boss's daughter. Ryu agrees, but unfor...
In a village outside Dakar, the gods – or the stars, or destiny, have spoken: Satché must die by the end of the day. Until nightfall, the film follows him making his goodbyes t...
Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold tells the real-life story of Lalu (Rosalind Chao), a young Chinese woman whose desperately poor parents sell her into slavery. ...
After the disappearance of her two children, nightclub hostess Eileen Maloney (Suzy Amis, The Ballad of Little Jo) is confronted in her home by an aggressive police lieutenant (Fred Ward, Henry and Ju...
Now available in a newly-restored 2K DCP version! Former trapeze artist “Boss” Huller leaves his wife and child to go to Berlin with the younger, seductive Berta-Marie. They become the lea...
Christine (Sandy McLeod) takes a job selling tickets at a porno theater near Times Square. Christine develops an obsession that begins to consume her life. Few films deal honestly with a female sexual...
In Nazi occupied France, two sisters navigate very different courses. Juliette (Annie Girardot) is surrounded by the spoils of war, being the mistress of an SS colonel. Justine (Catherine Deneuve), wh...
Based on the acclaimed first novel by Richard Price (The Night Of), Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers follows the exploits of the eponymous Italian-American gang in the Bronx in 1963, just before th...
When Camille meets Petra, a wry and flamboyant performer in a modern Felliniesque circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Camille pursues this sensual, dream-like woman, throwing her whole conservat...
The Wind of Ayahuasca was the first film to offer an authentic and honest depiction of an ayahuasca healing ceremony and the first Peruvian feature by a woman director. It was rest...
In the mid-1930s a group of Croatian anarchists led by the grim revolutionary ascetic Marko Lazar (played by the film’s French producer Jacques Charrier) escape a bungled ambush in Yugoslavia cr...
Trevor Stevenson (Ralph Meeker), a well-known painter and highly decorated WWII hero, and his new bride Stella (Janice Rule) travel to Acapulco for their honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dea...
Vera Janova (Florence Vidor) is on her way to star in a Russian vaudeville revue when a falling girder nearly kills her. A construction worker saves her life, but before she wakes up the conniving Eug...
Gloria Swanson is all flounce and swagger as Zaza, a street gamine turned music hall star, strutting her stuff, tossing off quips and taunts with her irrepressible backside, which is sometimes adorned...
Co-starring with Jean Gabin, Baker plays a talented Cinderella who takes the place of the lead on opening night of a musical review. With five great musical numbers including "Haiti".