A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a team of hundreds of technicians using more than a thousand cameras, Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious widescreen images, using cutting-edge telephoto lenses and exquisite slow motion to create lyrical, idiosyncratic poetry from the athletic drama surging all...

Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, the story follows the eponymous Italian migrant, whose tempestuous affairs with two women, the faithful Marie and the flirtatious Josefa, unleash a wave of tragedy.

This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard's ship has finally come in as long as he can stay one step ahead of...

Byron Haskin's genre-defining sci-fi classic, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by H. G. Wells, is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.

Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough is a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo realm where they must select a single cherished moment from their life.

The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.

Director Jacques Rivette, in close collaboration with stars Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier, rewrote the rules of cinema in the spirit of pure play and the result is one of the most inventive and utterly enchanting films of the French New Wave.

Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.

Director Jacques Rivette, in close collaboration with stars Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier, rewrote the rules of cinema in the spirit of pure play and the result is one of the most inventive and utterly enchanting films of the French New Wave.

The most savagely subversive film by Luchino Visconti portrays Nazism's total corruption of the soul through the decaying opulence of one family's downfall that comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation.