NOW, VOYAGER (1942)
byA frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
CRITERION COLLECTION
MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012)
byA pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
POLYESTER (1981)
byA suburban housewife’s world falls apart when she finds out her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being a local foot-fetishist…
SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963)
byA reporter gets himself committed to a mental hospital so he can solve a murder and win a Pulitzer Prize.
DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
byOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smoulders and builds until it explodes into violence.
KLUTE (1971)
byA struggling actress trying to escape her life as a call girl finds herself embroiled in a private investigator’s search for one of her former clients.
KISS ME DEADLY (1955)
byA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious “great whatsit”.
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001)
byA transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the US with her band as she tells her life story, which involves how her former lover/band-mate stole her songs.
FOR ALL MANKIND (1989)
byAn in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.
UGETSU (1953)
byA tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the 16th-century.
TOKYO DRIFTER (1966)
byAfter his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.
THE UNINVITED (1944)
byA composer and his sister discover that the only reason they’re able to afford a beautiful Gothic seacoast mansion is down to the house’s unsavoury past.