New Releases
Is there anything better than that feeling of gaining access to something unique and secret? How much do you love introducing your friends to movies they've never seen? Our curators work hard at expanding our film library so you can do that more often! Say hello to our latest additions.
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The Translator
Yusuf is a 13-year-old refugee boy who lives in a Turkish border town with his grandparents. He spends his days in a complete alienation. The only things that make Yusuf excited are the tumbling pigeons and the existence of a 15-year-old girl, Amina, who absolutely doesn't have an idea of him....Watch Movie
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Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style who would launch an enduring worldwide phenomenon. In JAMEL SHABAZZ STREET PHOTOGRAPHER Charlie Ahearn pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop...Watch Movie
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Our Man in Tehran
OUR MAN IN TEHRAN is an in- depth, intimate exploration of the true story behind Ben Affleck's Oscar®-winning film Argo. In this gripping new documentary, the story of the "Canadian Caper" is told by the man who knows it best: Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran,...Watch Movie
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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
As our country continues to embroil itself in foreign wars and once again pins its hopes on a new leader's promise for change, the feature length documentary, PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE is a timely tribute to an unlikely American hero. Phil Ochs, a folk singing legend,...Watch Movie
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Beloved Sisters
BELOVED SISTERS depicts the unconventional romance between two devoted aristocratic sisters and a rebellious poet who took the European literary world by storm in the late eighteenth century. As the German Enlightenment flourishes in Weimar, vibrant Caroline von Beulwitz finds herself in an...Watch Movie
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Ballet Boys
BILLY ELLIOT meets FIRST POSITION in BALLET BOYS, a documentary that follows, over four years, the struggles, set-backs and accomplishments of three friends and hopeful future dance stars: Lukas, Syvert, and Torgeir. The boys sacrifice a normal high school experience (including parties and...Watch Movie
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White Lies
Paraiti is the healer and midwife of her rural, tribal people - she believes in life. But new laws in force are prohibiting unlicensed healers, making the practice of much Maori medicine illegal. She gets approached by Maraea, the servant of a wealthy woman, Rebecca, who seeks her knowledge and...Watch Movie
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Worry Me in the Daytime
An intimate portrait of an Australian musician on a mission to carve his place in blues history, 10,000 miles from its birthplace in Mississippi. By day, Chris Russell maintains a full-time job manufacturing flag poles for golf courses. By night, he pursues a hectic writing,...Watch Movie
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You Are Whole
Norman Pugg arrives in a sleepy British seaside town with a mission: spreading the word of The Children of the Mountain of the Star. However, it seems that the local residents may have bigger problems than battling their spiritual confusions, as Norman discovers a number of his prospective...Watch Movie
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Dog Days
Stephen and Isaac are brothers. As kids, their parents bought a farmhouse and renovated it. As teenagers, they couldn't care less - stuck inside playing video games on a hot summer day. Eventually they get bored enough to start to explore the farm and end up finding the family dog has gone missing.Watch Movie
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La voz de los silenciados
Bricolagista's debut feature film, LA VOZ DE LOS SILENCIADOS takes us inside the mind and heartbreak of Olga, a deaf teenager brought from Latin America to New York City, under the false promise of attending a "Christian Sign Language School." Upon arrival she enters a world...Watch Movie
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Leidi
Leidi lives with her mom and her baby. Her boyfriend, Alexis, hasn't shown up in days. That sunny morning, after she bathed her baby, Leidi was sent by her mother to buy plantains. She meets a guy that tells her he has seen Alexis with another girl. She forgets about bringing home the plantains...Watch Movie
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Metropolis
Incorporating more than twenty-five minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score, the film’s dazzling visual design and special effects...Watch Movie
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Cops
One of Buster Keaton's greatest and most famous comedies, COPS is universally enjoyed for the inventive comedy and amazing chase sequences. However, its darker aspects (Keaton's use of an anarchists bomb risked painful reminders of the horse and wagon, similar to the one Buster drives, that...Watch Movie
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Death of a Salesman
During the post-war boom period of the late '40s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of...Watch Movie
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Starlet
STARLET explores the unlikely friendship between twenty-one year old aspiring actress Jane and elderly widow Sadie after their worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates and taking care of her chihuahua Starlet while...Watch Movie
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The Rape of Europa
THE RAPE OF EUROPA is an epic journey through seven countries, into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. For twelve long years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art on a scale unprecedented in...Watch Movie
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Hotel Dallas
Playfully mixing fiction and documentary, HOTEL DALLAS is a surreal parable of communism, capitalism, and the power of art. It premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival, in the Panorama program. In the 80s, "Dallas" is the most popular TV show in communist Romania. Presented as a...Watch Movie
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The Bear
Set in 19th-century British Columbia, THE BEAR follows the story of a young cub and an adult grizzly as they join forces to survive the perils inherent in their mountain habitat. With each passing obstacle, the two bears further develop a friendship that can only make them stronger – but will it...Watch Movie
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Hello I Must Be Going
Selected as the opening night film for Sundance 2012, HELLO I MUST BE GOING features acclaimed actress Melanie Lynskey in her breakout role as Amy, a recent divorcée who seeks refuge in the suburban Connecticut home of her parents. Demoralized and uncertain of her future, Amy...Watch Movie
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Fireside Reminiscences
Evoking the storyline of a well-known song of the era, "After the Ball" (in which a man explains why he is single and has no children), FIRESIDE REMINISCENCES details one night when a man and his sweetheart were at a ball and he found her in the arms of another man. He...Watch Movie
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Kino-Pravda XXI (excerpt)
This animated Soviet brevity, excised from the twenty-first episode of Dziga Vertov's Kino-Pravda series, dwells on the anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. This particular sequence highlights a handful of developments in the U.S.S.R. at the time that the film...Watch Movie
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He Who Eats Children
In Suriname, in a small jungle village, blindfolded girls and boys play a kind of hide-and-seek – the one with the monster who catches and eats children. According to local legend, the monster is the village’s only white person, a Dutch man who repairs outboard motors....Watch Movie
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Samba Ladies
SAMBA LADIES presents women as the driving force that propels the samba and contributes to making it the greatest and most representative Brazilian Popular rhythm. It honors anonymous as well as well known ladies that have marked their names on this cultural pantheon, a major Brazilian cultural...Watch Movie
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The Pirogue
In Moussa Toure's powerful epic fiction film, a group of thirty men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his...Watch Movie
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Orange Trill
Technology sees our corporeal existence as burdensome, resulting in the body's dissolution and disconnect from the very ground beneath our feet. Hand-processed sixteen millimeter film and the electronic flicker of an old CT computer monitor create degrees of purity, traversed by the dancer's...Watch Movie
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His Wife's Diary
HIS WIFE'S DIARY reveals a new and unexpected aspect of the private life of Ivan Bunin, the famous writer and Nobel prize laureate. The action takes place in France, Sweden and Germany between the 1930s and 1950s. While living in the South of France as an émigré totally...Watch Movie
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23 Kilometres
On the Damascus Road in Lebanon's beautiful Bekaa Valley, an aging man with late-stage Parkinson's takes one last journey. In his last known interview before he lost his ability to speak, Barkev Kevorkian spoke of his theories on cosmology. Though a machinist by trade in his troubled native...Watch Movie
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Shut Up and Play the Hits
On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band...Watch Movie
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Enfant Terrible
Marcus and Isaac are two lowly employees at the Van Doos Gallery of Modern Art. The morning following a new exhibit's wild opening party, Isaac gets to work cleaning up the mess. It's only when Marcus clocks in for the day that the two piece it all together: Isaac threw out a piece of art....Watch Movie
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Proud Citizen
After winning second place in a playwriting contest Bulgarian Krasimira Stanimirova travels to the rolling hills of Kentucky for the premiere of her auto-biographical, Communist-era play Black Coat. Expecting southern hospitality, Krasi instead finds herself isolated and lonely as she explores...Watch Movie
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Mother of George
Adenike and Ayodele are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the joyous celebration of the their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a child - a problem that devastates their family and defies cultural expectations, leading Adenike to...Watch Movie
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Apollo Six
A glimpse of earth at a turbulent time from the window of an unmanned spacecraft. This mission launched in 1968 the day Martin Luther King was assassinated and immediately experienced bad vibrations causing it to fall into a strange orbit. Its command service module survived and landed 43 miles...Watch Movie
