World Cinema

One of the greatest films of all time, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has influenced the work of directors from George Lucas to Steven Spielberg, a...

YojimboLike Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo was Kurosawa’s tribute to the widescreen action Westerns of John Ford and was itself remade as a Western ...

Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro’s (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water) directorial debut offers a unique take on the classic vampire story and wen...

Set in 1980s British colonial Hong Kong, a troubled refugee enters the infamous Kowloon Walled City, a dangerous enclave ripe with crime and corrup...

Prabha, Anu and Parvaty are employees at a hospital in Mumbai. They grapple daily with the opportunities and hardships of existence in the city. Ba...

Witness the melancholy of resistance in Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies, newly restored and available on 4K UHD. An innocent young man, János (L...

A lushly filmed exploration of the relationship between flesh and spirit from Polish provocateur Walerian Borowczyk, director of Blanche, The Beast...

From acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced), CROSSING is a moving and tender tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that ...

From director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) comes the must-see thriller about a vicious street punk turned sexy, sophisticated and lethally danger...

A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese governme...

Joe D'Amato's "PAPAYA, LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS" is a quintessential example of the maverick Director's exploitative filmmaking, combining his...

The editor of a sports magazine grooms fashion model Reiko to become a pro golfer, while retaining exclusive rights to her likeness. Reiko's popula...

Tsai Ming-Liang, director of the exquisite Goodbye, Dragon Inn, has emerged as one of the most profound voices in world cinema. Through a magnifice...

A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents, Touch follows one man's emotional journey to find his first love who disa...

Akira Kurosawa's astonishing film is considered to be one of the great adaptations of Shakespeare's Macbeth. A truly remarkable film, Throne of Blo...

Covering the later years of Chantal Akerman's career, this 5-disc set completes the two-volume Akerman collection. Born in Brussels in 1950 to pare...

Turning the camera away from iconic Paris to the concrete banlieue, Mathieu Kassovitz's second feature as a director changed the cultural landscape...

In 1989, legendary Japanese studio Toei launched their V-Cinema line of direct-to-video genre features. V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal pre...

Akira Kurosawa's astonishing film is considered to be one of the great adaptations of Shakespeare's Macbeth. A truly remarkable film, Throne of Blo...

Hideo Gosha (Samurai Wolf 1 & 2, Violent Streets) breathes new life into the yakuza genre in this epic tale of mob rivalry based on a serialized ac...

By the time he made Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other directo...

The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Tw...

In the shell-shocked, rubble-strewn wasteland of postwar Tokyo during the Allied Occupation, a group of prostitutes band to together to form a make...

Jakoman and Tetsu is an early action masterpiece from Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Battle Royale), adapted from a script wri...

A series of eerie vignettes depict images of sorcery and evil on screen, from representations of occultism and religious hypocrisy to a chilling wi...

Living at home with his mother, bachelor house painter Themroc (Michel Piccoli, Belle de Jour) leads a dull life. One day, after an unearned run-in...

Returning home with her travelling theatre troupe, actress Camille (Jeanne Balibar, Les Misérables) finds the affections of her director lover Ugo ...

A brutal story of an unlikely duo who will stop at nothing to find what they are looking for, Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s award-winning film Steppenwolf i...

At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, during a stormy night a samurai prepares to fight against an opposing clan member, when a flash of lighting ...

Pietro Germi (The Facts of Murder) directs and stars in this deeply affecting drama about a train driver. Living modestly with his wife Sara (Luisa...

Three more gems from the Golden Age of NoirIn Not Guilty, a sadistic yet brilliant doctor (Michel Simon, The Train) spins a web of lies and causes ...

In the free-for-all chaos after World War II, black marketeer Ueda (Hiroki Matsukata, Cops vs Thugs) is robbed of a stash of morphine. He takes his...

In the fishing village of Aci Trezza, Sicily, the Valastro family dream of a better life. Living modestly thanks to merciless wholesalers, eldest s...

An affectionate homage to the heyday of Japan's tokusatsu superhero TV shows, directed by Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins) and written by Kan...

Born in Brussels in 1950 and the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Chantal Akerman directed more than 40 films (short, medium, and feature-length) i...

Joëlle Coeur (The Demoniacs) and Gilda Arancio (Tender and Perverse Emanuelle) star in Girls Without Shame (Jeunes filles impudiques), Jean Rollin'...