From the Collection

The one that started the epic franchise, presented in stunning 4K. Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning. | Country: United States | Language: English

Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life. Come to laugh, come to cry, come to care, come to terms. | Country: United States | Language: English

Akira Kurosawa’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear set in sixteenth-century Japan. An elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons; however, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him. | Country: Japan, France | Language: Japanese

There are no clean getaways. A loner by nature, The Driver finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. The hyper-stylized arthouse action film received a 15 minute standing ovation at Cannes, where Refn was awarded Best Director. | Country: United States | Language: English, Spanish

Everyone wants to be found. Two lost souls visiting Tokyo – the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial – find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America. Winner of Best Original Screenplay for Sofia Coppola at the 76th Academy Awards. | Country: United States | Language: English, Japanese, German, French

Micheaux’s earliest surviving feature, and the earliest surviving feature of any African American director. Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children. | Country: United States | Language: English

You can't get rid of the Babadook. In Jennifer Kent's singular feature directorial debut, a single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home. World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2014. | Country: Australia, Canada | Language: English

The challenges faced by a young African-American man who, after being wrongly accused of a crime, must navigate a hostile society and strive for justice. Directed by the first African American full feature-length director, Oscar Micheaux. | Country: United States | Language: English

Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems. When teen Sarah is forced to babysit Toby, her baby stepbrother, she summons Jareth the Goblin King to take him away. When he is actually kidnapped, Sarah is given just thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue him. | Country: United Kingdom, United States | Language: English

Live. Die. Repeat. In director Doug Liman's unrelenting sci-fi thriller, a soldier fighting aliens relives the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies. | Country: United States, Canada, India | Language: English

The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out. Columbus late-night legend, Fritz The Nite Owl hosts cult classic Beetlejuice (1988). The film will screen, breaking every 20 minutes or so for Fritz’s on screen host segments providing trivia about the making of the film and other fun anecdotes. | Country: United States | Language: English

An experiment in form, The Downtown Revue was Micheaux's first "talkie." Bear witness to a series of cabaret acts—from the Heywood Choir singing "Watermelon Time" to a comedy vaudeville duo riffing on a haunted house. | Country: United States | Language: English

After a woman discovers her no-good beau is two-timing her, she sets her sights on Harlem to make it big as the lead of a show but becomes a diva just as the producer is trying to bring the show to Broadway. | Country: United States | Language: English

A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin. | Country: United States | Language: English

An epic of epic epicness. In a magically realistic version of Toronto, a young man must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes one by one in order to win her heart. | Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan | Language: English

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. | Country: United States | Language: English

A Story of the Ku Klux Klan. Directed by the first African American full feature-length director, Oscar Micheaux. | Country: United States | Language: English

A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that. A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother—a lawyer—don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage. | Country: United States | Language: English

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder. | Country: United States | Language: English

A young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler. | Country: United States | Language: English

An idealistic young Harvard graduate attempts to establish a school in a rural location, but encounters opposition from both the black and white communities. The restoration of Oscar Micheaux's Birthright (1938) was derived from the only known surviving 35mm print. | Country: United States | Language: English

Fear takes flight. A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician. | Country: United States | Language: English, Russian

Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. | Country: United States | Language: English

A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt. | Country: United States | Language: English

Micheaux’s final surviving film. Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight. | Country: United States | Language: English

2022 Cannes Film Festival - Winner of Special Silver Ribbon. 2021 Cannes Film Festival - The Golden Eye Nominee. A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry. | Country: Italy | Language: English, Italian

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. It's a deadly game of "tag" and Cary Grant is "it"! Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase. | Country: United States | Language: English

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober... and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own! | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. WANTED by the police in all the luxury-spots of Europe!... A catch for any woman! | Country: United States | Language: English, French

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. | Country: United States | Language: English

Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A deranged socialite accosts a tennis star with his theory that if two strangers trade murders, they can disguise their motives and avoid suspicion. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A musician is wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company, and his family is gravely affected. | Country: United States | Language: English, Italian, Spanish

There's no body in the family plot. Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. Just an ordinary necktie used with a deadly new twist. | Country: United Kingdom | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. Let Alfred Hitchcock engulf you in a whirlpool of terror and tension! | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. If you knew what he knew what would you do? Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect. | Country: United States | Language: English, French, Italian, German

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. A little knowledge can be a deadly thing! | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. In his arms she felt safety...in his absence, haunting dread! | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. | Country: United States | Language: English

Presented as part of the 2024 edition of Hitchcocktober. It's time for a visit to the notorious Bates Motel. | Country: United States | Language: English

Pioneers of African American Cinema 2024: Travel train car by train car through the sins of the Jazz Age. Directed by James and Eloyce Gist.