Crimes of the Heart (1986)
https://youtu.be/KkA27bsLt1A In this tearjerker based on a successful stage drama, an untimely death haunts a trio of sisters, yet their love proves stronger than any familial tragedy. Meg (Jessica Lange),…
Come and See (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHaSQU-4wss The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya (Aleksey Kravchenko) into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There…
Strangers in a Promised Land (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpb-BEUal7g The story of 100 years of history of Armenians in Fresno, California. From the beginnings of immigration to the area, through racial discrimination and ethnic adversity, and finally to…
Kaddish (1984)
https://vimeo.com/540878966 Yossi Klein’s life was shaped by an event he never experienced. His father, Zoltan, a Hungarian Jew, survived the Holocaust in part by hiding in a hole in the…
Barefoot Gen (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olFmklCCccE Barefoot Gen (はだしのゲン, Hadashi no Gen) is a 1983 Japanese adult animated war drama film loosely based on the Japanese manga series of the same name by Keiji Nakazawa. Directed by Mori Masaki and starring Issei Miyazaki, Masaki Kōda and Tatsuya Jo, it…
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGjs5HJ09UY Original title: La maman et la putain, 3h 30m, 1973 In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont),…
Soylent Green (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jGOKYHxaQ A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
https://youtu.be/vrxXlYuv3Qs This classic Italian drama, based on the book of the same name by Giorgio Bassani, focuses on the intellectual Finzi-Contini family, Jewish aristocrats who live on an idyllic estate.…
Dita Saxova (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTutP577aPg The 1960s film Dita Saxova takes place in a boarding school for orphaned Jewish girls a few years after WWII. As Dita explores relationships with men, she listens to advice of…
Diamonds of the Night (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c7bOSyEup4 Diamonds of the Night is a 1964 Czech film about two boys on the run from a train taking them to a concentration camp, based loosely on Arnošt Lustig's…