
Once Upon a Time in America
(1984)Two childhood friends from New York become wealthy and powerful gangsters during the 1920's.

Seven Samurai
(1954)Japanese villagers hire a team of traveling samurai to defend them against a bandit attack.

La Haine
(1995)Twenty-four crucial hours in the lives of three ethnically diverse young men, representatives of a generation relegated to the public housing projects on the outskirts of Paris. There is a riot on the housing estate after a police beating leaves a young Arab nearly dead.

Modern Times
(1936)It is man vs machine in Charlie Chaplin’s beloved classic and his final film featuring his famous tramp character.

In the Mood for Love
(2000)Friends turn into lovers and affairs abound when two couples move into a new apartment building around the same time in the 1960s.

Bicycle Thieves
(1948)Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Infernal Affairs
(2002)A cop manages to infiltrate a gang, while a trusted gang member becomes a mole in the police department.

Lost in Translation
(2003)Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband (Giovanni Ribisi).

Ran
(1985)In Akira Kurosawa’s dazzling samurai epic (loosely based on King Lear), chaos erupts as Lord Hidetora divides his empire among his three warring sons.

Rashomon
(1950)In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.

Stalker
(1979)A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to a mysterious room where dreams come true.

The Great Beauty
(2013)A journalist's 65th birthday and a shock from the past cause him to examine his status as a fixture of Rome's literary and social circles.

Chungking Express
(1994)Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful, ethereal waitress.

Come and See
(1985)Elem Klimov’s final work remains the most horrifying anti-war film ever made.

Lost Highway
(1997)Fred Madison, a musician, starts receiving mysterious VHS tapes of him and his wife in their home and is tortured by the idea that his wife is having an affair. After being suddenly convicted of her murder, he inexplicably disappears and is replaced by a young mechanic leading a different life.

Paris, Texas
(1984)A drifter wanders out of the Texas desert to reconnect with the young son he abandoned and find his missing wife.

Persona
(1966)An actress recovering from a breakdown exercises a strange hold over her nurse.

The 400 Blows
(1959)François Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" features the first appearance of the legendary character Antoine Doinel, albeit in a more serious drama than in later comedic outings. Antoine's unhappy home life leads him into petty crime and juvenile detention.

The King of Comedy
(1982)The King of Comedy is a funny depiction of the dangers of celebrity fandom.

The Last Emperor
(1987)Discover the story of Pu Yi, the three-year-old boy who became emperor of China in 1908. Living in the spectacular Forbidden City, Pu Yi grows up in sumptuous surroundings amid reverent treatment. Later deposed, the last emperor becomes a western-style playboy and then Japan's puppet emperor of Manchuria.