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The Bohemian — Available Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Directed by Petr Václav • Drama • With Vojtech Dyk, Elena Radonicich • 2024 • 142 minutes • Music Box

In 18th century Italy, aspiring opera composer Josef Mysliveček dreams of becoming a musician. His ambitions lead him to embark on a journey, exploring the world of opera to fulfill his destiny. Against all odds, he makes his mark in sophisticated Venice society as “Il Boemo,” his talent and charm winning over socialites, impresarios, and performers – in addition to the many women captivated by his …

Lost Illusions — Available Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Directed by Xavier Giannoli • Drama • With Benjamin Voisin, Cécile De France, Vincent Lacoste • 2022 • 150 minutes • Music Box

Lucien de Rubempré (Benjamin Voisin) is an ambitious and unknown aspiring poet in 19th century France. He leaves his provincial town, arriving in Paris on the arm of his admirer, Louise de Bargeton (Cécile de France). Outmatched in elite circles, Lucien’s naive etiquette prompts Louise to retreat back to her husband, leaving the young poet to forge a new path. Lucien makes a new friend in another …

The Illusion of Abundance — Available Thursday, May 1, 2025
Directed by Erika Gonzalez RamirezMatthieu Lietaert • Documentary • 2022 • 58 minutes • First Hand Films

Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Bertha and Maxima are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas governments and corporations, trapped in a global race towards unlimited growth, need to get the cheapest raw materials, these three women tell us a story of tireless courage: how to keep fighting to protect nature when your life is at risk? When police repression, corporate …

300 Trillion – The Debt Trap — Available Thursday, May 1, 2025
Directed by Rudolph Herzog • Documentary • 2022 • 80 minutes • First Hand Films

The worldwide mountain of debt is more than 300% of the world's annual economic output. Since the pandemic, debt expansion is out of control. Will the system collapse under its weight? The film explores the significance of our debt situation, looking at true stories behind the situation, from a debtors' prison in Mississippi to the world's most notoriously indebted country. 300 Trillion – The Debt …

Tattooed Life — Available Friday, May 2, 2025
Directed by Seijun Suzuki • Drama • With Hideki Takahashi, Masako Izumi • 1965 • 87 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Fighting Elegy), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. His younger brother Kenji (Kotobuki Hananomoto, This Transient Life), an aspiring artist with no connections to crime, comes to his aid and kills Tetsuo's assailant. Fearing repercussions from the yakuza they flee to Manchuria where they risk coming under suspicion of rival gangs.

Adonis — Available Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Directed by Jérémie Battaglia • Documentary • 2024 • 52 minutes • Andana Films

Though it was once limited to elite athletes, the use of anabolic steroids has reached endemic proportions among young male bodybuilding and strength training enthusiasts. Daring to tackle the taboos surrounding the concept of male beauty, Adonis delivers a thorough field investigation, to bring viewers into the heart of this muscle-building machine and reflect on the physical, psychological, and …

Uncanny Me — Available Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Directed by Katharina Pethke • Documentary • 2022 • 46 minutes • EPF Media

Lale is a hard-working photo model. Now she’s discovered a way to get more freedom. She can get her body scanned to create a digital clone that can also become a model, in the virtual world. Before leaping into the abyss, she decides to find out more about the implications. The tension between reality and illusion keeps returning at various levels throughout this explorative merging of documentary …

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared — Available Thursday, May 8, 2025
Directed by Felix Herngren • Drama • With Robert Gustafsson • 2015 • 114 minutes • Music Box

Powered by the antics of a mischievous centenarian on the run, comic fable The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared abounds with irreverent charm. After a long and colorful life working in munitions and getting entangled in the Spanish Civil War, the Manhattan Project, and other definitive events of the 20th century, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. Determined …

A Crack in the Mountain — Available Friday, May 9, 2025
Directed by Alastair Evans • Documentary • 2022 • 99 minutes • Bullfrog Films

Deep in the jungle of Central Vietnam, lies a magnificent underground kingdom. Hang Son Ðoòng which translates as “mountain river cave”, is located in the Phong Nha-Ke Bàng National Park in Quang Bình Province. It is the largest cave passage in the world and a place of spectacular beauty; the national park is also a UNESCO world heritage site. In 2014, Son Doong’s future was thrown into doubt when …

“And when I die let me be buried in a Hemlock coffin, so I’ll go through hell snapping.” — Available Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Directed by Sarah Ema Friedland • Documentary • 2021 • 8 minutes • Sarah E. Friedland

A Hemlock forest in Western Massachusetts that is dying due to the Woolly Adelgid beetle infestation tells a larger story about climate collapse and the interconnections between the natural and the built environments.

RECENTLY ADDED: Titles added in the last two weeks

— Added Friday, April 25, 2025
Directed by Eiichi Kudo • Drama • With Yusaku Matsuda, Hyoe Enoki, Mari Hemmi • 1981 • 112 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

When his police detective best friend is killed, down-at-heel private eye and part-time blues singer BJ (Yusaku Matsuda, The Game Trilogy) gets the blame. He must start his own investigation to clear his name, but what he uncovers is a tangled web involving crooked cops, drug-dealing gangsters, the city's underground gay and biker scenes, and even his own past. 

— Added Friday, April 25, 2025
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku • Drama • With Kôji Tsuruta, Noboru Andô • 1969 • 97 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Two major yakuza factions from Tokyo and Osaka battle over control of Yokohama, using local gangs as their proxies. Amid this violent struggle, Tsukamoto, the head of one of the local gangs, is released from an eight-year prison sentence. The feud forces him into action, but he learns that those pulling the strings have political connections and that he is up against overwhelming forces. 

— Added Friday, April 25, 2025
Directed by Tai Kato • Drama • With Noboru Andô, Shinobu Chihara, Asao Koike • 1967 • 90 minutes • MVD Entertainment Group

Trying to survive in the ruins of post-war Japan, Kawada (Noboru Ando, By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him) and Tsukada (Asao Koike, Sympathy the Underdog) run afoul of the military police after stealing valuable copper wire. Kawada is arrested and sent to prison, but Tsukada uses their gains to start a yakuza gang. Their paths cross again when they fall in love with the same woman.

— Added Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Directed by Mehran Tamadon • Performance • 2023 • 112 minutes • Andana Films

Taghi, Homa and Mazyar were arrested and interrogated by the Iranian regime. All three testify with their bodies, with their gestures and tell what it means to resist, what it means to break. Is there any hope that the torturer will one day reconnect with his conscience ?

— Added Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Directed by Louis Hanquet • Documentary • 2024 • 70 minutes • Andana Films

In the mountains of France, a shepherd fights to preserve his way of life against the threat of wolves and the challenges of traditional livestock farming. A Shepherd is a poetic documentary that explores the intimate relationship between humans and nature, while celebrating ancient pastoral practices. Through breathtaking images and a moving narrative, the film highlights human resilience and contemporary … More

— Added Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Directed by Ane Helga Lykka • Documentary • 2021 • 57 minutes • First Hand Films

Sigrid has hunted elk for years, but is still not sure if she actually wants to shoot the beautiful animal. She’s hunting with her father, Geir, who is faithfully doing everything he can to facilitate for his daughter’s first kill. Sigrid is moving home after studies in Oslo, hoping to be able to combine life as a professional folk-musician with the life close to nature in her home village.  Halvard … More

— Added Friday, April 18, 2025
Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2024 • 160 minutes • Icarus Films

Shi Wei, a young migrant garment worker, flops back onto a pile of soft fabric bundles on his workshop’s floor, cellphone in hand. “Shit, I’m exhausted,” he says to the boss who’s trying to get him to sew more clothing before the Lunar New Year break. “I’m beat, I tell you.” Work in the garment factories of Zhili, where some 300,000 migrants from rural China sew clothing, is winding down for the season. … More

— Added Thursday, April 17, 2025
Directed by Wang Bing • Documentary • 2024 • 226 minutes • dGenerate Films

YOUTH (HARD TIMES) is the second installment in Chinese director Wang Bing’s monumental series chronicling the lives of migrant garment workers — some as young as 15 — in the Zhili district of Huzhou City. Wang immerses himself in the lives of these workers, as they try to find potential dates, negotiate better piece-work rates with bosses, and sew, sew, sew, everything from padded jackets, to jeans, … More

— Added Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 2020 • 3 minutes • Icarus Films

In July 1971, language poet Bernadette Mayer decided to document an entire month of her life. She called the project Memory. Each day, Mayer exposed a roll of 35 mm slide film and wrote in her journal. The result was 1,100 snapshots and a text that took six hours for her to read aloud. In 2020, filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs visited Mayer’s childhood home in a Queens neighborhood of New York City … More

— Added Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Directed by Lynne Sachs • Documentary • 74 minutes • Cinema Guild

Over a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs' cinematic … More