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In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.

Filmed at night from Tel Aviv rooftops, this investigative documentary examines the civilian casualties of Israel's military operations in Gaza and the systems behind targeted killings of Palestinians.

“The first of director Lloyd Kaufman’s official adaptations of William Shakespeare, TROMEO & JULIET is a wild, punk reimagining of The Bard’s eternal doomed romance, only with non-stop gore, nudity, and giant mutant genitals! Set amongst…

Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending…

Alexander Payne’s CITIZEN RUTH Friday, October 30 – Thursday, November 5

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.

Please note that there are additional showtimes of GENTLE MONSTER that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.  Concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux) has just relocated her family…

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise…

Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending…

Amanda (Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche, The English Patient, The Taste of Things ) and her stepfather Martin (Academy Award nominee Tom Courtenay, Doctor Zhivago, 45 Years ) struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has…

Following the finale of his TV show, filmmaker John Wilson searches for a new creative outlet. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he attempts to apply the same formula to a documentary about concrete.  …

MANHOOD follows Dallas entrepreneur Bill Moore as he attempts to make penis enlargement as commonplace as Botox. Along the way, an OnlyFans star and a father of five put their bodies - and their insecurities - on the line. Blending dark…

In 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu and Ken Masters are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies…

Ken Russell’s infamous adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s book, about the apparent possession of a group of nuns after one (Vanessa Redgrave) accuses a priest (Oliver Reed) of collaborating with the devil, is at long last available in its full…

In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using…

Harry Lehman is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily cancelled credit cards, and Harry struggles to make ends meet…

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise…

Wed, Oct 28: Q&A w/ dir. Michal Marczak, moderated by David Ehrlich after 6:45 show! Thu Oct 29:  Q&A w/ dir. Michal Marczak, moderated by Lana Wilson after 6:45 show! Fri Oct 30: Q&A w/ dir. Michal Marczak, moderated by Murtada Elfadl…

Starring: Tom Rhys Harries, Ruby Sear, Naomi Ackie, Eddie Marsan, Max Minghella Matt Hagen’s meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss’s actions leave him horribly…

The lives of two married couples from different social strata collide in Lee Chang-dong’s brilliantly unfolding narrative about economic precarity, in which a laid-off factory worker and his wife become the camera subjects for a…

Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move.

A group of Russian independent journalists flee the country and navigate life in exile after the invasion of Ukraine, focusing on their dispersed lives and ongoing struggle for truth across different nations. While Part I documented their…

EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE is an intimate portrait of two people bound by love, ambition, and the pursuit of the impossible, from National Geographic Documentary Films and Oscar®-winning filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin…

“Ernie Gehr [makes] cinematic magic, often from the least likely materials. Indeed, Gehr’s most famous film, SERENE VELOCITY (1970), in which the filmmaker transforms an institutional hallway in the basement of a classroom building at the…

In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.

Oscar-nominated director Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War, NYFF56) won Best Director at Cannes for his most potent film yet, following novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika Mann (Sandra Hüller) on a road trip across…

Starring: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, Peter Dinklage An audacious comedic fable about sex, marriage and the absurdities of social convention, Wicker tells the wholly original love story of an ostracized…

From writer-director Bassam Tariq, YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER stars Mahershala Ali as Latif, a devoutly religious hitman who struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey…

Starring: Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, Mia Tharia, Aran Murphy, Steve Buscemi, Natasha Lyonne Based on the bestselling novel from Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro and written and directed by Academy Award-winner Taika Waititi, Klara and the…

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem…

Wildwood is a handcrafted epic fantasy that transports audiences into a secret, dangerously alive world. A girl’s desperate quest to save her baby brother unfolds into a spectacular, high-stakes adventure through a forbidden forest full of…

Harry is an old-school hustler. A classic native New Yorker, he moves through life lubricating palms with cash, relying on his wits and connections. But times are changing for Harry. His daily pickpocket take isn’t green bills and…

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film Ganja & Hess is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity.

In October 1985, Santa Ana, California was shaken by a brazen act of political violence when Palestinian American Alex Odeh, a beloved teacher and community leader, was killed by a tripwire bomb planted in his office. Despite substantial…

From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles.

In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them. Directors’ Note We made this film…

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Sun, Nov 1: Q&A w/Nicholas Pileggi, co-screenwriter of CASINO and its source, the nonfiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas after the 6:00 screening!   Arriving five years after the classic Goodfellas, and initially overshadowed…

Matt Hagen's meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss's actions leave him horribly disfigured. Abandoned by his team and with nothing left, Matt seeks out a cutting edge…

A story of two married couples - a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse - crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires.

Prue and her classmate Curtis are drawn into a magical forest filled with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and formidable adversaries as they embark on a desperate quest to rescue Prue's abducted baby brother from a murder of crows led…

The Severson family move to a suburban neighborhood where their next-door neighbors, the Kringles, celebrate Christmas year-round. But when their son becomes increasingly attached to the unusual family, Mark and Julie begin to suspect that…

“A fledgling film crew, led by the lovable, yet blind, director Larry Benjamin, is hard at work making – or at least trying to make – Benjamin’s latest and most ridiculous movie. But problems with a difficult cast, an inexperienced and…

Eager to further his career, ambitious Tennessee Valley Authority administrator Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) journeys to a small town to oversee the clearing of the valley in preparation for the construction of a new dam. His plans meet…

Please note that there are additional showtimes of GENTLE MONSTER that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here. Concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux) has just relocated her…

Starring: Robert Pattinson, Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Phoebe Bridgers, Matthew Maher, Bokeem Woodbine In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his ally Anguirus's jaw. Matters are further…

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi - popularly known as Los Javis - LA BOLA NEGRA follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish history, bound by pain, desire, and love. Carlos (Milo Quifes)…

In 1972, legendary filmmaker William Greaves gathered an extraordinary group of artists, writers, actors, musicians, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance. After more than 50 years, his son David Greaves has completed his breathtaking…

A charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood.

Following the deaths of Mihai's parents, Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu leave their life behind in Romania and move with their children to a remote village in Norway, hoping to rebuild their lives near Lisbet's family. There, they grow close…

It is the year 2096. Nearly a century has passed since magic was established as practical technology. As siblings Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba enter the winter season of their second year at Magic High School, they find themselves facing new…

Starring: John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price, Tatiana Maslany, Victoria Moroles, Steve Buscemi Harry Lehman (John Turturro) is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New…

This evening features a screening of Eduardo Coutinho’s TWENTY YEARS LATER: A MAN MARKED TO DIE (1984), introduced by the internationally acclaimed and Booker-shortlisted writer Itamar Vieira Junior. The evening also celebrates the English…

Starring: Adi Madden Cabrera, Cherish Rodriguez, McKenna Tuckett, Niki Rahimi, Alexa Paige Join us for an exclusive screening of this hysterical, rebellious punk rock comedy. This SXSW film follows timid dork Edie as she accidentally takes…

The series curator’s dark horse pick for must-see movie in the Screaming Mad George retrospective, the late entry from the direct-to-video years of the long, byzantine Christmas series is shockingly entertaining. The story involves a young…

Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending…

Screening on 35mm! “This was conceived as a sequel of sorts to my family drama WENDIGO, expanding the themes of cultural cannibalism to themes of Manifest Destiny and climate collapse, all of which relate to the Wendigo Mythology of…

The first in the Gaither Homecoming Kids video series, I'm Something Special encourages kids to realize how treasured they are by their family and friends, and most of all, by God who made them and loves them just as they are.

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to…

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

“When the notorious Diaper Mafia take the students of the Tromaville School For The Very Special hostage, only the Toxic Avenger, and his sidekick Lardass, can save them. However, a horrific explosion creates a portal between Tromaville…

Tue, Oct 6: Sneak preview + Q&A with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan after the 6:15 show! Tues, Oct 6: Extended intro with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan at the 8:15 show! Please note that there are…

Starring: Renate Reinsve, Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Ceban, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Thorbjørn Harr The Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, resettle in a village set in a distant fjord where they become close to their neighbors, the…

Matt Hagen's meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss's actions leave him horribly disfigured. Abandoned by his team and with nothing left, Matt seeks out a cutting edge…

The Severson family move to a suburban neighborhood where their next-door neighbors, the Kringles, celebrate Christmas year-round. But when their son becomes increasingly attached to the unusual family, Mark and Julie begin to suspect that…

An adaptation of Joe Abercrombie's best-selling 2025 novel, a dark fantasy epic centering on a special force of monsters enlisted to save Europe from a scourge of flesh-eating elves.

Sun, Oct 25: Sneak preview + Q&A w. dir. David Pablos at 6:45!  ‘Veneno’, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets ‘Muñeco’, a hard-edged driver who keeps…

LA BOLA NEGRA is a bold, passionate triptych spanning nearly a century of Spanish history from the 30s to modern day. The film tells the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain, and inheritance.

Prue and her classmate Curtis are drawn into a magical forest filled with enchanted creatures, loyal allies, and formidable adversaries as they embark on a desperate quest to rescue Prue's abducted baby brother from a murder of crows led…

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an…

New 4K Restoration!  Screening on 35mm Fri, Oct 30 at 7:00 pm and 11:50 pm! An enduring, singular masterpiece of cinema starring Academy Award-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of…

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

Starring: Anne Laure Sellier “Don’t miss Chronovisor all hail Chronovisor” - Jane Schoenbrun (director, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma) While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a…

An eccentric poodle breeder lures a broke college student to her remote ranch with a promise of research funding. But, as he soon learns, there’s a catch.

COCO Film Forum Jr. Sunday, November 1 at 11:00

A charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood.

In 1972, legendary filmmaker William Greaves gathered an extraordinary group of artists, writers, actors, musicians, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance. After more than 50 years, his son David Greaves has completed his breathtaking…

A group of Russian independent journalists flee the country and navigate life in exile after the invasion of Ukraine, focusing on their dispersed lives and ongoing struggle for truth across different nations. While Part I documented their…

Tue, Oct 6: Sneak preview + Q&A with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan after the 6:15 show! Tues, Oct 6: Extended intro with director Cristian Mungiu and co-star Sebastian Stan at the 8:15 show! Please note that there are…

When Klara, an Artificial Friend who wants nothing more than to find the perfect home, meets Josie, each immediately senses a kindred spirit in the other. Josie has a fraught relationship with her mother and they've suffered great loss…

“It took 9 years shopping my modern Frankenstein to Hollywood after the collapse of my remake of THE ORPHANAGE for Guillermo del Toro. I eventually started building the set in a Brooklyn loft before I had full financing and I cast an…

A young farmer Ivan and his lazy father Stepan try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

Starring: Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day Wildwood is a handcrafted epic fantasy that transports audiences into a secret, dangerously alive world. A…

Judy Garland stars in this classic musical that takes place at the turn of the 20th century right before the World’s Fair in St. Louis. With unforgettable numbers like “The Boy Next Door,” “The Trolley Song” and “Have Yourself a Merry…

A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government. Work on the new outpost is complicated when tensions…

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

World premiere! IFC Center is proud to present a new short film by Maira Kalman and Alex Kalman. 4 tiny portraits of Clara Schumann, Cicero, Martha Graham and Franz Kafka through the eyes of laughter.    Artist Statement We are amazed at…

Mon Nov 2: Special encore screening + Q&A with dir. Sophy Romvari, moderated by Paul Dano at 7:00! In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by…

A middle aged man drives through the outskirts of Tehran, searching for someone to carry a private plan. Through a series of encounters, Kiarostami shapes this quietly absorbing film around a question that remains open: what makes life…

To celebrate the publication of the English translation of writer Rim Battal’s autobiographical novel I’ll Look Myself in the Eyes, Anthology presents a special screening of MUSTANG (2015), by Turkish filmmaker Deniz Gamze Ergüven, a film…

Be one of the first to see a new movie at our Top Secret Cinema Screening! The film is top secret until showtime, so grab your tickets and get ready to be surprised!

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD: THE FIRST CORAL REEFERS is a feature documentary that journeys back to the 1970s and early 1980s to tell the story of Jimmy Buffett’s original Coral Reefer Band. Set against the creative backdrop of Key West, the film…

Another secret monthly mixtape of short films from around the globe

Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into horrible flashbacks of turmoil from memories of her youth.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise…

The original Re-Animator adapted Frankenstein-by-way-of-Lovecraft into a bloodsoaked med school nightmare. And like any great sequel, Bride of Re-Animator goes bigger, zanier, and gorier, with moments that represent the zenith of practical…

Sex. Drugs. Nakedness. Rude language... And proud of it!

A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins…

The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family.

Following the deaths of Mihai's parents, Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu leave their life behind in Romania and move with their children to a remote village in Norway, hoping to rebuild their lives near Lisbet's family. There, they grow close…

“An apt time for the budget to shrink further, I tell the story of a town divided by racism and a corrupt patriarch to update the werewolf movie. In 2001, NYTimes film critic Dave Kehr described my work ‘as if Cassavetes had been working…

Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move before heading to prison

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her…

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between…

Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move before heading to prison

Issac Mizrahi in UNZIPPED Friday, September 25 – Thursday, October 1

A Soviet dam project means that many old Ukrainian villages will end up under water. There are conflicts between the dam engineers and villagers who don't want to move.

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET Part of NYC IN TRANSIT

Based on the novel of the same name by Oleksandr Dovzhenko. About the childhood of the famous Ukrainian film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, who was born on the ancient lands of Chernihiv, along the banks the Desna. The film consists of two…

Kurt Russell is Jack Burton, an independent trucker piloting the Pork Chop Express through the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown. When a new friend’s fiancée is kidnapped, the pair find themselves thrust into the middle of a…

And you thought your job was hell?

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities…

Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be…

Wed, Nov 4: Q&A w/ dirs and film subjects Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak, producer Sonja Henrici, mod. by Azmat Khan (Director, Columbia Journalism School Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism) fter 6:30 show! Fri, Nov 6: Q&A…

Please note that there are additional showtimes of TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here. Wed, Nov 4: Opening night Q&A w/ dir. Larry Fessenden…

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town…

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.

Kind-hearted Mija (Yun Jung-hee) is tasked with raising her troubled teenage grandson, Jong-wook, while her daughter works in far-off Busan. In denial that her abilities as a caregiver are threatened by the early stages of Alzheimer's…

[BRENNENDE LANGEWEILE] “In the late 1970s, Wolfgang Büld first made a name for himself with his documentary PUNK IN LONDON. The follow-up to this authentic document of youth culture was the ZDF production BORED TEENAGERS, part of the “Das…

Angelika Members Exclusive Mystery Screening - First Wednesday of Every Month! Join us for a special members-only Mystery Screening - a surprise film chosen just for our members! Book your tickets online (non-refundable online booking fees…

You've never seen a Dracula movie like this one

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

This program of artist films and videos is presented in conjunction with The Drawing Center’s current exhibition “Form, Shadow, Motion: Selections from the Burger Collection, Hong Kong”, opening on October 23, 2026 and on view until…

The rise and lasting impact of the Big Boys

Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond (Tommy Noonan), much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei…

The President is dead. Murdered in his sleep by an unknown assassin. British Agent MacDuff is sent in to investigate and soon finds himself confronting an old ally Macbeth - only this time, he's the president... and it's also very personal…

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders - each killing the other’s most-hated person.

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.

The story that won't go away

[RANDALE UND LIEBE – ROCKER, POPPER, TEDS UND PUNKS] “Thomas Schmitt’s film offers unique insights into the alternative subculture of 1980s Cologne. Depending on the concert, the Blue-Shell attracted rockers, punks, and Teddy Boys, while…

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

A struggling actress begins to believe she is being stalked by a serial killer.

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins…

The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the…

CIA agents face a trust-testing mission from Santiago to Easter Island during 1973 in Chile

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and…

CIA agents face a trust-testing mission from Santiago to Easter Island during 1973 in Chile

During a rainy day, and while their mother is out, Conrad and Sally, and their pet fish, are visited by the mischievous Cat in the Hat. Fun soon turns to mayhem, and the siblings must figure out how to rid themselves of the maniacal Cat.

War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life. Just as humanity managed to cling to a…

A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.

Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes

Michael Braun NO FUTURE – KEIN BOCK AUF ILLUSIONEN 1981, 44 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In German with English subtitles. “In 1981, film and television producer Michael Braun made this film (which for a long time circulated only on atrociously…

This screening – presented on the occasion of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop’s exhibition “Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco” – pairs two films that explore the links between Morocco and New York: Shalom Gorewitz’s MELEHI…

Despite Diana's insecure nature, she and her husband Julian agree with the idea to sexually experiment with another couple. They put out an ad on the net to which the well experienced Alex and Timo react. We follow Diana and Julian as they…

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away. Screening to open with a selection of works by Henry Purcell arranged for recorder quartet, performed…

Thu, Nov 5: Sneak preview + Q&A with dir. J.M. Harper and subject of the documentary and author of the book Soul Patrol Ed Emanuel at 7:30! Fri Nov 6: Q&A with dir. J.M. Harper and subject of the documentary and author of the book Soul…

Helke Misselwitz BULKY TRASH / SPERRMÜLL 1990, 72 min, 35mm-to-DCP. In German with English subtitles. Filmed in the early summer of 1989, this documentary portrays a band of four young musicians who call themselves “Sperrmüll” (“Bulky…

The great American porn film!

Two young female serial killers take refuge in an abandoned warehouse to plot their next move. As one struggles with her role as the de facto leader, the other strives to prove her devotion as a follower. Q&A with Tee Park and Alsea Diana…

From world leaders to pop culture icons, and international supermodels, Richard Avedon’s influence helped create the blueprint for our image-driven world. His photographs didn’t just reflect culture, they shaped it.   AVEDON traces the…

The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.

Scrappy, defiant, and done being treated like a burden, Judy Heumann turns her outrage into a revolution. In 1977, she and more than 100 disability rights protestors send a very loud message: The system is broken - not us.

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and…

Screening on 35mm Sun Nov 8 and Tues Nov 10 at 6:45! It’s 2002, and best friends Minnie and Callie are heading into their senior year of high school, with Minnie long living in the protective shadow of the charismatic and admired Callie…

Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée…

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.

After a shocking accident befalls a teenage girl in Berlin, her mother, younger sister, and boyfriend drift into a state of suspended grief in Sandra Wollner’s atmospheric, constantly surprising new film, winner of the Cannes Un Certain…

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is…

In the early 1930s, painter Leonora Carrington, a rebel against social expectations, joins the surrealist movement and its iconic figures like André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris. A whirlwind love affair with artist Max Ernst confronts…

Self-directed combination of concert footage from 1966 onward, backstage footage and art film-like sequences.

Wolfgang Büld GIRLS BITE BACK aka WOMEN IN ROCK 1980, 45 min, 16mm-to-DCP. In English and German with English subtitles. “Canvassing a selection of female musicians squarely at the forefront of the post-punk tide, director Wolfgang Büld…

In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night -- and possibly her life.

Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.

THE THEATER OF THE MATTERS & TAUFIC PRESENT: JEAN-CLAUDE ROUSSEAU’S ‘THE PASTORAL CONCERT’ + ‘LAST STOP FOR THE CIRCULAR TICKET’ This book launch event celebrates the release of Jean-Claude Rousseau’s unclassifiable, long-unavailable film…

Amidst the chaos of a mysterious war, two victims of an attack take refuge at a cottage in the English countryside, where an enigmatic caretaker insists they cannot leave.

Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn't stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction. Post-screening…

Ariane and Gerhard Christ, a wealthy Munich couple, plan for the weekend on separate trips, lying to the other about their trysts. However, their itineraries are complicated when they both arrive at the family's country home with their…

An essential text for anyone with a love for the avant-garde. The explosive soundscapes of industrial music titans Einstürzende Neubauten first shook Berlin – then the whole world – to its core in the 1980s. In LIEBESLIEDER, co-directors…

After getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover, who he attempted to kidnap 3 years ago.

Amidst the chaos of a mysterious war, two victims of an attack take refuge at a cottage in the English countryside, where an enigmatic caretaker insists they cannot leave.

Experience the cult phenomenon on the big screen! THE ROOM, which inspired James Franco's award-winning adaptation THE DISASTER ARTIST, follows Johnny – a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée…

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman

A play by Clifford Odetsdirected by Sam Yates Following a sold-out London run, Josh O’Connor (The Crown; Challengers) leads the cast in thissearing revival of Clifford Odets’ American classic. 1930s New York, at the height of the…

Hell holds no surprises for them

A teen working at a country club uncovers violence beneath the club's facade

During a rainy day, and while their mother is out, Conrad and Sally, and their pet fish, are visited by the mischievous Cat in the Hat. Fun soon turns to mayhem, and the siblings must figure out how to rid themselves of the maniacal Cat.

A piano composer's family moves into a new house; when his pregnant wife collapses from working to support the family, he hires a housemaid to help with housework.

A new restoration of a tragicomic classic of New Black Cinema

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. Their vacant gazes reflect each other as they exchange awkward words and wade into the rain-drenched ocean. In winter, Li, a screenwriter, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a…

This entirely African American-conceived and produced ensemble drama is the result of a collaboration of a pair of pioneering Black artists: writer Ishmael Reed and filmmaker Bill Gunn, who wrote and directed the underground classic Ganja…

A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers, intellectuals, young and old are implored to reflect on their life choices, the sacrifices…

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

“Bernd Sahling’s documentary follows the young punk Michael as he struggles to reconcile his identity and the reality of living in East Germany. He eventually applies for an exit permit and leaves for the West not long before the Fall of…

Keiko surprises everyone when she overcomes adversity to win her first two boxing fights. But when an unexpected incident threatens the closure of her gym, she is pushed further than she thought possible.

NEW YORK PREMIERE! FILMMAKERS IN PERSON! “Following two unconventional documentaries – SPACE DOGS (2019) and DREAMING DOGS (2024) – focused on the lives of stray canines, filmmaking duo Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter return with the…

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

“In 1988, the East German state film studio DEFA produced the first – and only – documentary report on the country’s rock and punk scene. whisper & SHOUT sold over a million tickets upon release, largely to young people eager to see their…

An outrageous assemblage of the most stereotyped science fiction movies, Marvel comics, Frankie Avalon / Annette Funicello outings and rock 'n' roll of every vintage. The madcap musical mayhem begins when rain-soaked Brad and Janet take…

After a severe depression and a suicide attempt, Gabriel returns home. His wife, Elen, hoping to bring some peace and tranquility into the household, places a salt crystal lamp. Rather than soothing the spirits of those around it, however…

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

A classic from the pinnacle of the Golden Age of Action that never quite gets its due

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General' - with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar - and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to…

Once upon a time in South Central L.A... It ain't no fairy tale

The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry.

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a…

Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.

Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a…

Juliet Bashore THE BATTLE OF TUNTENHAUS, PART 1 1991, 24 min, DCP. In German with English subtitles. THE BATTLE OF TUNTENHAUS, PART 2 1992, 19 min, DCP. In German with English subtitles. “The Wall has fallen. Berlin has reunified. But…

When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a…

This program compiles 18 short films shot on Super-8mm by West German experimental film makers between 1978 and 1984, and featuring music by Malaria, Reflections, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frieder Butzmann, Die Tödliche Doris, and others…

A loose biography of surfer and documentarist George Greenough, one of the most famous and unique members of the surfing subculture.

TRIPOLAR THE MOVIE is a biting satire disguised as a stoner comedy set in the heart of Brooklyn. Rife with John Waters-style humor, the story follows a washed-up 50-something mother and her daughter's 20-something friends who are willing…

Up until his untimely death earlier this year, filmmaker Peter Sempel had a long and close association with Anthology Film Archives and Jonas Mekas (about whom he made four separate feature-length film portraits over the years). In…

Abandoned by his mother, Kenji scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs, including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this, he cares for the sister of an incarcerated friend and a young illegal immigrant…

In Earth's future, a global crop blight and second Dust Bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand (Michael Caine), a brilliant NASA physicist, is working on plans to save mankind by transporting Earth's population…

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now…

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

After her divisive debut feature, Anne, an up-and-coming filmmaker, sets out to make her sophomore film, In Memory of Anne Heche. However things quickly take a turn for the worse as scenes go awry, actors drop out, and Anne’s prickly…

He turned the American dream... into a nightmare!

Tues Nov 10: Special screening + conversation with dir. Nathaniel Kahn & Michael Pärt at 6:30! Special screening marking the 125th anniversary of Louis Kahn’s birth and USA 250. MY ARCHITECT: A SON’S JOURNEY is Nathaniel Kahn’s acclaimed…

Jerry Tartaglia HAMLET IN THE RENTED WORLD (A FRAGMENT) 1970-73, 27 min, 16mm-to-DCP. © Jack Smith Archive. Courtesy of the Archive and Gladstone. A portrait of Jack Smith fashioned from the debris of an unfinished project: “You might say…

Is the red-headed woman different from other women?

A punk tour de force through an actor’s sex dreams as she grapples with her character’s eroticism. The screenwriter plays everyone, including a dog, and wears gender and nudity as a costume - a whole new meaning to “go f**k yourself.”…

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

Two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world of the Russian mafia, family bonds begin to fray with life-altering consequences.

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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…

In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

New York Premiere. Japan Society is honored to present the New York Premiere of the highly-anticipated new film Sukiyaki from director Takahisa Zeze. This screening is just weeks after Sukiyaki was shown as Opening Night at this year’s…

Wesley Barry THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS 1962, 84 min, 16mm “The Now Future arrived in late 1964, when David Bourdon began his lengthy Village Voice review of Andy Warhol’s ‘Flower Paintings’ with a lengthy account of Wesley Barry’s…

A sergeant, returned from Vietnam to accompany a comrade’s body for burial, is crossing America by train. Haunted by hallucinations of terror, the soldier becomes involved with various passengers, actual and imagined. Post-screening Q&A…

When a young girl attempts to shoplift an old blind box figure from a collectibles store, the shopkeeper’s seductive wife takes an interest in her.

Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable deliver career-best performances in Arthur Miller's THE MISFITS about a recently divorced, one-time stripper (Monroe) who falls for a down-on-his-luck cowboy (Gable) struggling to maintain his romantically…

If he were any cooler, he'd still be frozen, baby!

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

Psychedelic realms where voyeuristic psychic vampirism and cropped images of consumerist dissociation create a haunting alternate reality.

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.

In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense crime thriller, set in 1986 New York, a naïve engineer, Irwin (Miles Teller) accepts a seemingly lucrative business proposition from his brother, Gary (Adam Driver), a former cop. But when Irwin…

An elderly miser embarks on a supernatural journey after visits from the ghost of his former business partner and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come force him to confront his past and fight for a second chance at…

BITTER CHRISTMAS tells two alternating stories, one starring Elsa, an advertising director, in 2004, during a long weekend in December. The second takes place in 2026 and stars Raúl, a screenwriter and director who is writing a script that…

A crew of social media-savvy bank robbers broadcasts their daring heists, unaware that their growing viral fame has put them in the crosshairs of a veteran FBI agent and a brilliant software engineer. Despite the unlikely duo closing in…

A horror film that will stiffen you with laughter!

While not as long-standing as the romance with trains, cinema has a love affair with taxis. A cab ride is often more than just a means of getting from one place to another. The taxi is a cinematic apparatus in motion, a confessional, an…

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Lucio Castro DRUNKEN NOODLES 2025, 83 min, DCP. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. When Adnan (Laith Khalifeh) arrives in New York to work at a Lower East Side gallery for the summer, he’s newly single and ready to mingle. He…

Join The Deuce for a delectable feast that celebrates the Fall... of Man!!

An elderly miser embarks on a supernatural journey after visits from the ghost of his former business partner and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come force him to confront his past and fight for a second chance at…

The incomparable Pedro Almodóvar explores the artist’s tenuous relationship with fiction and reality in this film about an actress writing a script inspired by the lives of those around her - which is itself the invention of an…

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into…

Director of a care facility for the elderly, Marie-Lou strives to introduce an innovative care philosophy based on listening and respecting residents’ dignity, despite resistance from part of her staff. Her encounter with Mari, a Japanese…

With Jeanne Balibar, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Peirani, Aurore Clement, and Grégoire Colin. Amalric’s seventh feature-length film as a director is both a heartfelt tribute to the legendary chanteuse Barbara (1930-97), and a vehicle for…

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and…

Three young friends wander through Madrid over 24 hours, tangled in rivalry and fragile masculinity. Obsessed with an older woman who teases and rejects them, they face encounters that push them to the edge - a raw portrait of youth lost…

While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.

With Vicky Krieps, Arieh Worthalter, Anne-Sophie Bowen-Chatet, and Sacha Ardilly. “Propelled by a fierce, tour-de-force performance by Vicky Krieps, who is fast becoming one of the most sought-after actors on the international scene, HOLD…

Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend's wedding she reconnects with Vincent, an old friend, and Sam, an…

A crew of social media-savvy bank robbers broadcasts their daring heists, unaware that their growing viral fame has put them in the crosshairs of a veteran FBI agent and a brilliant software engineer. Despite the unlikely duo closing in…

Written by visionary black filmmaker Bill Gunn and the first film of Oscar-winning director Hal Ashby, The Landlord is both a coming-of-age tale and a social satire. When wealthy, white Elger Winthrop Enders buys a tenement brownstone in…