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Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul) — Available Friday, June 27, 2025
Directed by Antonio Giménez Rico • Documentary • 1983 • 98 minutes • Altered Innocence LLC

One of the best trans films you’ve likely never heard of, Antonio Giménez-Rico’s landmark 1983 documentary Dressed in Blue (Vestida de Azul) explores the lives and loves of a group of six transgender women living in Madrid in the years following Spain’s transition to democracy. But more than that, it’s a loving portrait of a culture finally emerging from the shadows after being hidden for far too …

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution — Available Friday, June 27, 2025
Directed by Yony Leyser • Documentary • With Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch • 2017 • 80 minutes • Altered Innocence LLC

Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution, dives into the world of the cultural punk movement known as Queercore. In response to society’s disdain and rejection of queerness, the LGBTQIA+ punks of the 1980s formed an explosive, furious, vibrant army of kings, queens, rockstars and artists to perform in underground venues. Leyser’s documentary paints a powerful and profound picture of how the queer community …

Tanna — Available Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Directed by Bentley Dean, Martin Butler • Drama • With Marie Wawa, Mungau Dain • 2015 • 104 minutes • Monument Releasing / Visit Films

In one of the world's last tribal societies, a young girl breaks off an arranged marriage to run away with her lover, setting off a war that threatens the tribe's future. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, marking Australia’s first-ever nomination in the category.

This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth — Available Thursday, July 3, 2025
Directed by Yung Chang • Documentary • With Robert Fisk • 2019 • 109 minutes • KimStim

For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world. Yung Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions. The process of translating raw experience into …

My Motherland — Available Friday, July 4, 2025
Directed by Benoît Cohen • Drama • With Fanny Ardant, Nawid Elham, Pierre Deladonchamps • 2025 • 91 minutes • Distrib Films

Celebrated actress Fanny Ardant stars as “France”, a well-to-do widow living alone in her Parisian apartment. When she hears on the radio that an NGO is pairing homeless refugees with those who have an available room, France decides to help. Through this, she meets a young Afghan refugee named Reza and, despite warnings from her friends and son, she welcomes him into her home and life. Inspired by …

Red Soil — Available Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Directed by Farid Bentoumi • Drama • With Zita Harnst, Sami Bouajila • 2023 • 86 minutes • Dekanalog

After a fatal accident in her job at the local hospital, a nurse takes charge of the infirmary of the chemical factory where her father has worked for nearly 30 years. As she starts scheduling routine check-ups, she is struck by odd gaps in the records and a general skepticism from the workers. Her suspicions build when a reporter raises concerns about undisclosed toxic waste dumps.

Alcestis — Available Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2021 • 22 minutes • Lewis Klahr

An interpretive adaptation of the Greek myth and the Euripides play that uses a melange of comic book characters as its cast. Klahr's most explicitly narrative collage film. From the series The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness.

Monogram — Available Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2019 • 9 minutes • Lewis Klahr

Poetic Screenplay by Tom Gunning based on the 1944 William Castle feature "When Strangers Marry"

Thin Rain — Available Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Directed by Lewis Klahr • Documentary • 2023 • 15 minutes • Lewis Klahr

An amnesiac film noir that draws on 1940s and 1950s magazine imagery to create a city symphony for its lost, flâneur protagonist to wander through.

The Three Friends of the Cold Season — Available Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2024 • 15 minutes • Lewis Klahr

A three-act adventure epic that genre hops from swashbucklers to westerns to melodrama. Each act occurs in a different century and is set to a different iconic song from master American song book collagist Dick Connette.

RECENTLY ADDED: Titles added in the last two weeks

— Added Thursday, June 26, 2025
Directed by Ivan Sen • Drama • With Daniel Connors, Michael Connors, Christopher Edwards • 2011 • 101 minutes • Monument Releasing / Visit Films

In a remote Aboriginal community, 10 year old Daniel yearns to be a gangster, like the male role models in his life. Skipping school, getting into fights and running drugs for Linden, who leads the main gang in town.

— Added Thursday, June 26, 2025
Directed by Ivan Sen • Drama • With Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt, Jenna Lee Connors • 2011 • 90 minutes • Monument Releasing / Visit Films

Lena is a fair-skinned teenage girl with a dark skinned mother in an isolated Australian town. She rejects the Indigenous family that surrounds her, and longs for the love of her Irish father. Vaughn is a dark-skinned teenage boy who lives in an isolated prison camp. Incarceration has made him old before his time and has separated him from the love of his family. These two hardened young souls escape … More

— Added Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Directed by Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, and Karlyn Michelson • Drama • With Patrick Daniels, Irving Gregory, Debbie Troche • 2013 • 80 minutes • Dekanalog

A unique and riveting theatrical experience, CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO (CVR) is a performance documentary derived entirely from the “Black Box” transcripts of six major real-life airline emergencies. When you board an airplane, who are those people in uniform to whom you entrust your life? What do they really do when things go horribly wrong? Derived entirely from the Cockpit Voice Recorder transcripts … More

— Added Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Directed by Max Miller • Documentary • 2022 • 80 minutes • Giant Pictures

A compilation of educational anti-drug and anti-alcohol short films from the 1960s and the 1970s.

— Added Friday, June 20, 2025
Directed by Paul Negoescu • Drama • With Alexandru Papadopol, Radu Romaniuc, Nicoleta Lefter • 2018 • 100 minutes • Dekanalog

A coming-of-middle age romantic comedy. Carefree college professor Petru (Alexandru Papadopol) is a 42-year-old man-child, in an open relationship with Irina (Nicoleta Lefter)....until she gets pregnant. Petru must now change his ways and grow up. A charmingly funny exploration of middle-aged male arrested development.

— Added Thursday, June 19, 2025
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku • Drama • With Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama • 1971 • 93 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Returning from a ten-year prison sentence, former gang leader Gunji (Koji Tsuruta, Big Time Gambling Boss) finds that his turf has been taken over by his former enemy, now a large crime syndicate with a legal corporate front. Looking for new opportunities, he gathers his old crew and heads for the island of Okinawa.

— Added Thursday, June 19, 2025
Directed by Alex van Warmerdam • Drama • With Jan Bijvoet • 2013 • 113 minutes • Giant Pictures

A dark suburban fable exploring the nature of evil in unexpected places, BORGMAN follows an enigmatic vagrant who enters the lives of an upper-class family and quickly unravels their carefully curated lifestyle. Charming & mysterious, Camiel Borgman seems almost otherworldly, and it isn't long before he has the wife, children and nanny under his spell in a calculated bid to take over their home life.More

— Added Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Directed by Bennett Miller • Documentary • With Timothy "Speed" Levitch • 1998 • 76 minutes • Oscilloscope Laboratories

Sailing the streets of Manhattan atop a double-decker bus, Timothy "Speed" Levitch waxes philosophical as the city's most eccentric tour guide. Speed's bombastic and psychedelic poetry is captured in the documentary THE CRUISE, the groundbreaking debut feature film from two-time Academy Award-nominated director Bennett Miller (CAPOTE, MONEYBALL, FOXCATCHER). Remastered for its 25th anniversary, THE … More

— Added Friday, June 13, 2025
Directed by Alice Winocour • Drama • With Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin • 2023 • 105 minutes • Music Box

After an idyllic date night full of red wine and a late-night motorcycle ride home, Mia (Virginie Efira) stops at a Parisian bistro to take shelter from a downpour. Her reprieve is shattered when a gunman opens fire. Three months later, with a frustratingly hazy memory of the attack, Mia finds herself numbed and unable to resume her life. Her friends and partner seek something from her that she can … More

— Added Friday, June 13, 2025
Directed by Valérie Donzelli • Drama • With Virginie Efira, Melvil Poupaud • 2024 • 105 minutes • Music Box

When Blanche (Virginie Efira) meets the charismatic Gregoire (Melvil Poupaud) at a party her twin sister Rose drags her to, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Rose has serious reservations about Gregoire, but against her better judgment, they decide to marry and move in together. Blanche and Gregoire soon relocate far from Blanche’s … More