What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and h...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep...

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

Priests who call sex education the devil's invention rage against the progressive doctor whose bigot...

When a much-publicized ice-skating scandal strips them of their gold medals, two world-class athlete...

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strang...

Tough contract killers and secret organizations operating worldwide in a murderous battle for a reli...

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a ...

Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is st...

Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to ...

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and f...