Directed by Henrik Galeen • Drama • 1928 • 131 minutes

From pioneering director/writer Henrik Galeen (writer of NOSFERATU and WAXWORKS) comes ALRAUNE. Brigitte Helm (METROPOLIS) is the unholy offspring of a genetics experiment conducted by her scientist "father" Paul Wegener (THE GOLEM) in this ...

Directed by Henrik Galeen • Drama • 1926 • 128 minutes

Ultra-rare German silent horror film from pioneering director/writer Henrik Galeen (who wrote NOSFERATU and WAXWORKS). In THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE, Conrad Veidt (THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI) stars as a hellraising student who sells his soul to ...

Directed by Daisuke Miyazaki • Drama • With Sumire Ashina • 2019 • 89 minutes

Ai (a super Tomona Hirota) haunts the streets of Osaka dressed as a mascot. After going home with a stranger, she wakes up to find footage of their intimate encounter uploaded to a porn site. As all systems of recourse...

Directed by Grigori Kromanov • Drama • 1979 • 84 minutes

Estonian director Grigori Kromanov's dazzling, paranoid mixture of locked-room mystery, 1970s Euro giallo, classic noir whodunit, and (unbelievably) alien sci-fi ala THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, based on a novel by famed Soviet authors Arkad...

Directed by Shahram Mokri • Drama • With Babak Karimi, Hasti Mohammai • 2025 • 139 minutes

The latest film from Iranian master Shahram Mokri (FISH & CAT, CARELESS CRIME) is another mysterious M.C. Escher-like thriller about reality and illusion, doubles and doppelgängers and uncanny synchronicit...

The idyllic, beach-side life of a retired Triad boss, his daughter Lap (Joey Wong) and her boyfriend Rick (Kenny Bee), shatters when a mob favor turns into a bloody shootout. Trading her freedom for her father’s, Lap becomes mistress to Godfather Shen, while Rick goes into exile. Years later, as ...

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi • Drama • With Bengal, Masako Motai • 1989 • 135 minutes

Shunzo (Bengal) and his wife Michi (Masako Motai) run a beloved greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo. When Lee, a struggling exchange student from China, visits the shop but is unable to afford the produce, a...

Directed by Yoko Yamanaka • Drama • With Yuumi Kawaii, Daichi Kaneko • 2024 • 137 minutes

21-year-old Kana (rising star Yuumi Kawai) works a disaffected job at a beauty salon, where she bristles against the beauty expectations placed on women her age. Her erratic mood and default to self-destruc...

Directed by Otakar Vávra • Drama • With Karel Höger, Florence Marly • 1948 • 101 minutes

Czech director Otakar Vávra's astonishing KRAKATIT is a literal fever dream of a movie that mixes 1940s Film Noir, paranoid thriller and speculative atomic-bomb Sci-Fi in the story of a chemist named Prokop ...

Directed by Lav Diaz • Drama • With Yul Servo, Joel Torre, Gloria Diaz • 2001 • 301 minutes

Investigating the murder of the young Hanzel (Yul Servo) shot dead one winter night, detective Juan Mijares (Joel Torres) plumbs the depths of the Filipino gangs of Jersey city who trade in crystal meth. ...

Island of Marajó, Amazon rainforest. Marcielle (Tielle), 13, lives by the riverbanks with her father, mother, and three siblings. Prompted by her mother's words, she idolizes her older sister who supposedly escaped her reality by "finding a good man" on the barges that ply the region. As Tielle m...

Directed by Graham Foy • Drama • With Jackson Sluiter, Marcel T. Jiménez • 2022 • 117 minutes

A perfect summer day ends in tragedy, weaving a cosmic connection between three suburban teenagers. Best friends Colton and Kyle float the river, trade dreams, and spray-paint in the local ravine. Like ...

In western Montana, recently divorced Lue lives with his mother and keeps to a steady, quiet routine: his maintenance job, working his family stand at the farmers market, fly fishing on the river, and midnight outings for karaoke at the local bar. He lives with his widowed mother, Song, whose eff...

Directed by Gottfried Kolditz • Drama • With Piotr Pawlowski, Evgeniy Zharikov • 1970 • 86 minutes

A delirious early 1970s space opera produced by the East German state-run studio DEFA and directed by Gottfried Kolditz, SIGNALS: A SPACE ADVENTURE (1970) was DEFA's attempt to outdo Kubrick's 2001...

Directed by Biswajeet Bora • Drama • With Dipali Pegu, Hiranya Pegu • 2021 • 77 minutes

BOOMBA RIDE is a scathing comic satire of corruption in India's rural education system - and one 8-year old boy who knows how to rig the game for himself. Inspired by a true story, the film was shot in the st...

Set in Serbia during the 1996 protests against Slobodan Milošević’s regime, 'Lost Country' is a deeply personal coming-of-age drama by Vladimir Perišić, inspired by his own experiences. Fifteen-year-old Stefan (Jovan Ginić, winner of the Rising Star Award at Cannes Critics’ Week) faces a profound...

The highs and lows of a restless youth collide headlong into the concrete realities of adulthood when Leonardo, a teenager from Palermo leaves home for the first time. His studies land him in Siena, by way of London, where he clashes with his instructor, the curriculum, and most chaotically, with...

At MyCompanion, the cultured and confident Matthias is available - for a reasonable fee - to fill any social role you desire, from 'the perfect son' to the 'enlightened boyfriend', or even 'pilot dad' to impress your classmates at Bring Your Parent to School Day. But while Matthias is at the top ...