Alice in the Cities (1974)

The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife…

When Davis Green’s alluring young cousin Alexis appears on his doorstep one night, he discovers that a side of his family has been kept secret from him. Against his father’s…

Harassed by classmates who won’t accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as “Powder” struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious…

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when ordinary people were called…

The story is about Harold, an isolated figure in an overwhelming world of totalitarian bureaucracy. Harold tries to find the elusive Joseph Kilian, an old acquaintance, in Prague. When Harold…

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down’s syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls…

After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don’t yet know…

An aimless young man and his sign-painter friend draw a crowd when they climb to the top of a high-rise billboard.

Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist…

An affluent family in the south begins to unravel when the husband struggles to hold on to his sanity as he reaches the final stages of the biggest business deal…

At the end of the Civil War, Belle Gatlin Barlowe, a widowed mother of three, faces uncertainty as she attempts to defend her family’s land by any means necessary. When…