A tale of love, betrayal, and intrigue set in France's royal court in the 18th century. The Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont engage in a perilous game of seduction and manipulation, leaving a trail of broken hearts in their wake. But when true feelings emerge, their steam...
the legendary German director behindBuena Vista Social Club;Paris, Texas; andWings of Desire.Perfect Daysis a quaint and poignant film about a man (Kōji Yakusho) who cleans public toilets in Tokyo for a living
She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend, even though she isn't that crazy about him. So she's stunned when her parents decide she's gay and send her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation. While there, ...
Mati Diop’s 67-minute documentary isn’t about the theft but rather the return in late 2021 of 26 Dahomean treasures to Benin from the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris. We’re told before the movie starts that their “captivity” in France is finally coming to an end. That feels a lit...
The movie is loaded with illicit trysts but the sexiest thing in Unfaithful is Lane's flushed face as she rides Metro-North home, the memories of a sweaty afternoon playing in her head. Why is it so groundbreaking?Director Lyne made his reputation with Fatal Attraction, so it's nice to ...
Goldman was the kind of hyper-principled intellectual radical that France specializes in—and as absorbingly portrayed by Arieh Worthalter, he glowers and gesticulates and speechifies from the dock. No, he insists, he did not kill two women in a pharmacy robbery in Paris, as he’s been ...
"More than any great movie I can remember, Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers captures the eerie, disorienting and utterly sacred experience of encountering a lost loved one in your dreams." —Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Now playing in theaters -get showtimes and tickets ...
John Waters’ 1972 film “Pink Flamingos” was banned in Australia due to “close-up real depictions of actual fellatio….which unambiguously contravene R classification guidelines.” The scene in question features drag queen Divine, who performs real oral sex on the actor playing her son in th...
Directed by Amy Heckerling, this 90s film is a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Emma, cleverly transposed into a high school setting in Beverly Hills. The story revolves around Cher Horowitz, a fashionable, witty, and wealthy teenager with a penchant for playing matchmaker. Cher, ...
Why These Movies Are Worth Going Back to the 2000's: A hilarious take on meeting one's future in-laws for the first time, Meet the Parents stars Ben Stiller as he stumbles through awkward scenarios with Robert De Niro playing his intimidating father-in-law-to-be. Despite its comedic pre...