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- DirectorKaren ArthurStarsJoan HotchkisGeorge McDanielSean AllanA rich woman deteriorates mentally.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsJudith WoodDorothy HallCharles 'Buddy' RogersTwo sisters, May, older, naive, and June, younger and worldly, arrive in New York straight from the country and settle down in a boarding house. Their search for jobs leads them to find beaus and romantic trouble.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsRosalind RussellJohn BolesBillie BurkeA domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerRoy Del RuthStarsMaureen O'HaraLouis HaywardLucille BallAfter a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsMerle OberonBrian AherneCarl EsmondNicole Larsen is detested by her countrymen because they suspect she is collaborating with the occupying Germans. In reality she is working for the Norwegian underground, risking her life passing secrets to the resistance fighters.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsSylvia SidneyFredric MarchAdrianne AllenA drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeStarsRony ClantonCarl LeeYolanda RodríguezA look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.
- DirectorJoyce WielandStarsJoyce WielandPierre TrudeauReason over Passion is one of Joyce Wieland's most renowned experimental films - a cross-country travelogue, political satire, modernist experiment - which embodies many of the themes recurrent in her rich, diverse and extensive oeuvre.
- DirectorValie ExportStarsAdelheid ArndtRüdiger VoglerHagnot ElischkaJudith is a maverick reporter who is also seeking a satisfying relationship with various men. She finds corruption and power-games everywhere.
- DirectorValie ExportStarsValie Export"Hyperbulie" is a performance work that pushes the body to its physical extremes. The performance elements are first established: a framework of wires are connected to electric batteries. Valie Export appears, completely naked, and makes contact with live electricity as she negotiates the wire construction.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsTilda SwintonBilly ZaneQuentin CrispAfter Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.
- DirectorSally PotterStarsJulie ChristieColette LaffontHilary WestlakeAn avant-garde exploration of a woman's life.
- DirectorBarbara Hammer
- DirectorBarbara HammerBarbara KlutinisStarsBarbara HammerBarbara KlutinisAn experimental work in which two women take turns filming each other as they swim through the pools of William Randalph Hearst's estate of San Simeon.
- DirectorLizzie BordenStarsLouise SmithEllen McElduffAmanda GoodwinA lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
- DirectorMira NairStarsShafiq SyedAnjaanAmrit PatelYoung Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.
- DirectorTatiana HuezoStarsGuillermo VillegasMayra BatallaEileen YañezLife in a town at war seen through the eyes of three young girls on the path to adolescence.
- DirectorNatalia AlmadaIvan BoccaraJem CohenIn June 2009, Tamaas, an international non-profit arts organization, invited eight poets and filmmakers coming from France, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, and the United States, to Tangier, Morocco. These four poet-filmmaker pairs collaborated using Super 8 film and writing original text to create these experimental "film-poems." Working under tight time constraints-they had just four days to film, four days for sound, and four days for editing, the artists took inspiration from the city of Tangier-its history, architecture, people, politics, as well as from each other, to produce these short film-poems.
- DirectorNatalia AlmadaThe glimpse into the life of Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsPatrick SwayzeKeanu ReevesGary BuseyAn F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsRalph FiennesAngela BassettJuliette LewisA former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowMonty MontgomeryStarsWillem DafoeJ. Don FergusonRobert GordonTrouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
- DirectorAmy HeckerlingStarsSean PennJennifer Jason LeighJudge ReinholdA group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll.
- DirectorSlava TsukermanStarsAnne CarlislePaula E. SheppardSusan DoukasA small, heroin-seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug-addicted fashion model, and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters' brains.