Genre: Drama

Alice in the Cities
Directed by Wim Wenders
Alice in the Cities is technically Wenders’ fourth film, but he often refers to it as his first, because it …

All About Eve
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Bette Davis picked up a justified “late-career” Academy Award nomination (her eighth) for her role as Margo Channing, a famous …

All Night Long
Directed by Basil Dearden
All Night Long takes the tragic sweep of Othello and narrows it into a brilliant drawing room thriller set in …

All Quiet on the Western Front
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Adapting Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel of the atrocities of war for Universal, Lewis Milestone produced one of the studio’s …

All the Women
Directed by Mariano Barroso
“Spanish machismo is picked apart with surgical precision in Barroso’s engrossing All the Women, Winner of the Goya (Spanish Academy Award) …

Almayer’s Folly
Directed by Chantal Akerman
With Almayer’s Folly, Akerman tackles the terrible legacy of the European colonial project in Southeast Asia head-on through an adaptation …

Alois Nebel
Directed by Tomáš Luňák
Based on the graphic novel trilogy by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír Svejdík, this superbly atmospheric rotoscope animation employs noirish black-and-white …

Amateur
Directed by Hal Hartley
Hartley’s neo-noir is a languid, at times claustrophobic work in which an amnesiac with a checkered past (Martin Donovan), the …

American Dreams in China
Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan
In 1985, in the midst of China’s economic reform period, three college students in Beijing—an overzealous country boy who refuses …

American Hot Wax
Directed by Floyd Mutrux
“You get the idea that rock ‘n’ roll was born and all but killed off over one weekend in New …

American Madness
Directed by Frank Capra
Producer Harry Cohn made Columbia Pictures one of the key studios of the early 1930s, perhaps the greatest purveyor of …

An Act of Defiance
Directed by Jean van de Velde
In this riveting historical drama, 10 political activists, including Nelson Mandela and his inner circle of Black and Jewish supporters, …