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A Real Pain (2024)

USA

Directed by Jesse Eisenberg

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Keiran Culkin

Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

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Touki Bouki (1973)

Senegal

Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety

Starring: Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

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Grey Gardens (1975)

USA

Directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Muffie Meyer, and Ellen Hovde

Starring: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale

Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

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The Red Balloon (1956)

France

Directed by Albert Lamorisse

Starring: Pascal Lamorisse

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere.

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Daisies (1966)

Czechoslovakia

Directed by Vera Chytilova

Starring: Jitka Cerhova, Ivana Karbanova

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

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Julius Caesar (1953)

USA

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring: Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud

The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.

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The Defiant Ones (1958)

USA

Directed by Stanley Kramer

Starring: Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry Black man—escape while chained to each other.

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Pride & Prejudice (2005)

United Kingdom

Directed by Joe Wright

Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfayden

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family’s future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

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Brief Encounter (1945)

United Kingdom

Directed by David Lean

Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

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The Teachers' Lounge (2023)

Germany

Directed by Ilker Catak

Starring: Leonie Benesch, Eva Lobau

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

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The Watermelon Woman (1996)

USA

Directed by Cheryl Dunye

Starring: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson

A young Black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s Black actress who played ‘mammy’ archetypes.

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Polyester (1981)

USA

Directed by John Waters

Starring: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart – until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.

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Perfect Days (2023)

Japan/Germany

Directed by Wim Wenders

Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

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Giant (1956)

USA

Directed by George Stevens

Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict’s disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

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Cabaret (1972)

Germany/USA

Directed by Bob Fosse

Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

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Moonstruck (1987)

USA

Directed by Norman Jewison

Starring: Cher, Nicolas Cage

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn’t love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she’s not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

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Sherlock Jr. (1924)

USA

Directed by Buster Keaton

Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocketwatch.