Dominik Graf reinvents popular genre cinema for our times, thrillingly embedding his stories in the political and social tapestry of Germany. This gripping police saga had a troubled production, but in a restored director’s cut its brave vision of crime, corruption and violence is genuinely epic.

On the birthday of the great Sterling Hayden, see a side you’ve never seen of the actor best known for Asphalt Jungle and his work with Stanley Kubrick. In extended conversations, a bearded, boozing Hayden spins captivating yarns of his extraordinary life: sailing, war, Hollywood, and naming names.

Sterling Hayden was a great actor and many other things: A ship’s captain, a WW2 OSS agent, a heartthrob, and a friendly witness at the HUAC hearings. This unique biopic takes a brilliantly analytical approach to this multi-faceted person, looking back at Straub-Huillet and forward to I’m Not There.

We are proud to present a new restoration of Dariush Mehrjui’s classic of pre-revolution Iran. This extraordinary combination of realism and mysticism was banned at the time for its unflattering picture of the country, but was quickly taken for a masterpiece abroad and later welcomed back at home.

A hidden gem from Philippe Garrel’s haunting filmography, this pocket melodrama meditates on loss, filmmaking, and the obstacles of an unstable relationship. Borrowing biographical details from the French auteur’s own love story with the singer Nico, L’enfant secret is a work of intimate poetry.