The Great Dictator (1940)

The Great Dictator (1940)

[8] There's something incredibly poetic about Charlie Chaplin, who built a career over the 1920s and 1930s as a silent screen star, finally opening his mouth in his first sound film, 1940's The Great Dictator. The decision wasn't an arbitrary one. Chaplin…
Eyes Without a Face (1960)

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

[8] A surgeon kidnaps young women and removes their faces in hopes of successfully transplanting one on his horribly disfigured daughter in Eyes Without a Face. Released the same season as Hitchcock's Psycho and years before Romero's Night of the Living Dead,…
Color Out of Space (2019)

Color Out of Space (2019)

[8] Cult director Richard Stanley (Hardware) delivers a dread-inducing adaptation H.P. Lovecraft's Color Out of Space. Nicolas Cage and Joely Richardson play a couple who have moved their teenage children (Madeleine Arthur and Brendan Meyer) out of the big city and into…
Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

[8] Don Cheadle stars as Paul Rusesabagina in the true story of a Rwandan man who saved over a thousand lives by harboring refugees in his hotel during the Hutu slaughtering of the Tutsi in 1994. Hotel Rwanda takes about ten or…
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

[8] David Mamet adapts his stage play and James Foley directs an all-star cast in Glengarry Glen Ross, a fascinating multi-character study of the toll capitalism takes on the human soul. Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, and Alan Arkin play real…
Ladies of Leisure (1930)

Ladies of Leisure (1930)

[8] Behold the glory of Barbara Stanwyck. One of classic Hollywood's sassiest broads makes a big splash in this early talkie that's leagues ahead of other early 30s flicks in terms of story, craftsmanship, and performance. Babs plays a "party girl" (we…
In a Glass Cage (1986)

In a Glass Cage (1986)

[8] In this Spanish film from writer/director Agustín Villaronga, a Nazi child killer is put in an iron lung after a botched suicide attempt. His wife hires a young male nurse to take care of him, but the young man becomes increasingly…
The Invisible Man (2020)

The Invisible Man (2020)

[8] With this reinvention of Universal's classic monster movie, writer/director Leigh Whannell (Saw, Dead Silence) delivers a superbly crafted thriller anchored by a compelling performance from Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale). Moss plays a battered woman who escapes her all-controlling boyfriend only…
1917 (2019)

1917 (2019)

[8] Writer/director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns bring us back to the trenches of World War I with the harrowing journey of two British officers tasked with traversing enemy territory to deliver a message that will save 1,600…
Little Women (2019)

Little Women (2019)

[8] If someone is going to pick up Louisa May Alcott's much-loved literary classic, dust it off, and serve up a retelling, let it be the Oscar-nominated writer/director of Lady Bird. Greta Gerwig is respectably faithful to the material, but bold in…