Second Features

Orson Welles’ follow up to Citizen Kane was this masterful account of an aristocratic Indianapolis family's decline, deploying dazzlingly expressive mise-en-scène to evoke the look and feel of a vanished era.

A group of Nazis unleash a demonic force in occupied Romania in Michael Mann's dark, ravishing triumph, boasting hallucinatory visuals and an otherworldly Tangerine Dream score.

The secret romance between two young drifters (Brooke Adams and Richard Gere) takes a tragic turn in Terrence Malick’s golden-toned, period-set pastoral, one of the most visually innovative movies ever made.

An apocalyptic comedy of paranoia, porn stars, and parallel dimensions plays out against a World War III-ravaged Los Angeles in which a sinister Orwellian government reigns while Venice Beach parties on.

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Dennis Hopper’s notorious follow-up to Easy Rider is this $1 million avant-garde freakout, an unhinged product of the counterculture bankrolled by a major Hollywood studio, shot on location in Peru.

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Laurence Fishburne leads an estimable ensemble in Spike Lee’s audacious follow-up to She’s Gotta Have It, a deft mix of comedy and commentary that touches on colorism, class, and African-American identity.

Hayao Miyazaki’s first great success is an early masterwork and a stunning vision of a post-apocalyptic world populated by enormous mutant insects that make the planet virtually uninhabitable for humans.

John Hurt earned an Oscar nomination for his extraordinary portrayal of the real-life Joseph Merrick—a tortured soul with a host of congenital deformities—in David Lynch’s visually stunning first studio film.

Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with sly humor and keen insight, Mira Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and radical celebration of love’s power to break down barriers.

John Cassavetes’ fascinating follow-up to Shadows was this gritty, Paramount-produced drama about a jazz pianist (Bobby Darin) tormented by his desire to make it big and his reluctance to sell out.

One of Sembène’s most coruscatingly funny and indignant films, this adaptation of the director’s novella is a bitterly ironic depiction of a society scarred by colonialism and plagued by corruption and greed.

Sparks fly between Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur in John Singleton's free-flowing road movie romance, a sensitive, hopeful depiction of Black struggle, joy, and creativity, featuring a scene-stealing Regina King.

The second chapter of Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, is a heartbreaking portrait of adolescence set against the backdrop of modernization in midcentury India.

Following her splashy breakthrough The Lure, Agnieszka Smoczyńska returned with this thrilling psychological drama about an amnesiac whose freewheeling life is disrupted by the discovery of her real identity.

An aging, affluent woman returns to her Senegalese village with a diabolical proposition for the townspeople who banished her: kill the long-ago love who impregnated and abandoned her, and receive a fortune.

In Jean-Luc Godard’s controversial espionage drama, his follow-up to the landmark Nouvelle Vague classic Breathless, Michel Subor is Bruno, an apolitical Frenchman who has deserted his post in the Algerian War.