Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski | 104 mins | 2022
High school teacher Rachel (Virginie Efira) falls in love with Ali, and then with his 4-year-old, Leila— strengthening her desire to have a child of her own. But at 40, she knows that biology is working against her, and that cultivating a relationsh...

Directed by Jack Bernhard | 75 mins | 1948
For greed and sheer, amoral cunning, Claire Cummings, the icy blonde in question, gives "Double Indemnity"’s Phyllis Dietrichson a run for her money. This fleet, hard-hearted B picture opens on Claire canoodling with her lover at her very own wedding and...

Directed by Sho Miyake | 60 mins | 2018
Catching sight of his shadow, the filmmaker holds his phone aloft and waves at himself. The final video diary assembled by Miyake tends towards a more explicitly embodied stance than previously—an intimation of the “I” behind the camera.

Directed by Sho Miyake | 50 mins | 2016
Revealing a practice matured, the third installment in Miyake’s video diary series feels a little more playful, more exploratory, in its camera movements.

Directed by Sho Miyake | 67 mins | 2015
A cat nestles in a busted traffic cone, a pizza cutter divides a glistening pie, a pigeon outside the Centre Pompidou approaches the camera inquisitively: Miyake’s second video diary arranges micro-scenes into a sensory cascade.

Directed by Sho Miyake | 66 mins | 2014
The first of Miyake’s video diaries opens, fittingly enough, in a cinema. But this 2014 diary suggests a filmmaker more often in transit than at rest, offering glimpses of numerous train and plane trips, as well as the people and creatures observed along th...

Directed by Sho Miyake | 76 mins | 2012
Like his 2025 Locarno Golden Leopard-winner, "Two Seasons, Two Strangers", Miyake’s melancholic feature debut—whose admirers include, notably, Ryusuke Hamaguchi—pairs untrammelled snowy landscapes with a kind of restless disaffection. In the director’s nati...

Directed by Steve Sekely | 82 mins | 1948
John Müller is a man wanted on both sides of the law, and he knows it. Learning by chance of his uncanny resemblance to one Dr. Bartok, Müller decides that his best refuge lies in stealing this other man’s identity. "Hollow Triumph" stars and was produced...

Directed by Phil Karlson | 99 mins | 1952
One of Tarantino’s primary sources of inspiration for "Reservoir Dogs" (1998), this no-nonsense 1952 noir—less brooding and more brutal than those of the ’40s—skillfully flips the heist movie on its head. Heading up the film’s memorably rough-hewn rogue’s...

Directed by Seymour Friedman | 80 mins | 1952
George Raft, who rose to fame playing underworld characters in the gangster flicks of the 1930s—and allegedly maintained some underworld connections of his own—begrudgingly proves that he can still pack a punch in this brutal, blue-collar 1952 noir. R...

Directed by Russell Rouse | 87 mins | 1955
A distant relative of "The Godfather", this pitiless drama unfolds the heady last days of a powerful New York crime family. Richard Conte, who would later appear in the Coppola film, here plays hitman Nick Magellan, who’s brought into the fold of “The Sy...

Directed by Sho Miyake | 113 mins | 2012
With a perceptiveness beyond his years, Miyake moved from the adolescent unquiet of his feature debut, "Good for Nothing" (2010), to the unquiet of looming middle-age in his follow up. Soon to be divorced and almost 40, Haji (Jun Murakami), an actor, takes...

Directed by Fritz Lang | 102 mins | 1945
Fritz Lang’s heart-wrenching story of a guy with a painting habit (Edward G. Robinson), who has a square day job and a terrible mistake: loving a bad girl, a blonde schemer with a despicable boyfriend in tow. A seamy, gut-twisting noir, and one of the mos...

Directed by Lewis Allen | 77 mins | 1954
Frank Sinatra shocked audiences of the day by following his Oscar-winning performance in "From Here to Eternity" (1953) with a masterful villainous turn: In this claustrophobic crime drama, Ol’ Blue Eyes plays John Baron, a psychologically damaged former s...

Directed by Ida Lupino | 80 mins | 1953
For her second film of 1953, following "The Hitch-Hiker", director Ida Lupino outdid herself, also tackling one of the lead roles. She plays Phyllis, one of two women who, each unbeknownst to the other, is married to Harry Graham—a cozy arrangement undone w...

Directed by Ida Lupino | 71 mins | 1953
There is no femme fatale in this muscular thriller, but there was nevertheless a dame pulling the strings: "The Hitch-Hiker" is Lupino’s fifth film as director, and the first American noir made by a woman to be given a mainstream release. Roy and Gilbert’s ...

Directed by Delmer Daves | 100 mins | 1947
A haunted house movie lauded for its strange and singular charms, this proto-Lynchian mystery conjures a feeling of horror within a quaint rural setting. Edward G. Robinson stars as Pete Morgan, an aging farmer who lives with his sister, Ellen, and their...

Directed by Shō Miyake | 67 mins | 2019
A gentle but spirited work in a neorealist vein, "Wild Tour" begins as a portrait of an experimental workshop run by the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media through which participants collect and analyze the DNA of local plant samples. From there, director ...