In Roger Vadim's directorial debut, his then-wife, Brigitte Bardot, plays Juliette, a sumptuous orphan beauty who sparks an incendiary and erotically charged love triangle between herself and three men who desire her. Spending her days barefoot and barely working in the town tabac, Juliette loves to listen to the jukebox at the local bar and saunter past the men in town; all the while, she has eyes only for local thug Antoine.

One of 12 jurors holds out in the case of a boy from the slums who is accused of killing his father. Directed by Sidney Lumet.

Two Palm Springs, Calif., roommates from Texas meet a retired stuntman's pregnant artist wife. Directed by Robert Altman.

A rancher in need of cash is paid to put an outlaw on the train to Yuma prison. Directed by Delmer Daves.

A rancher in need of cash is paid to put an outlaw on the train to Yuma prison. Directed by Delmer Daves.

Fueled by money made from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community.

A Michigan lawyer and his colleague defend an Army officer for an alleged revenge killing. Directed by Otto Preminger.

A Michigan lawyer and his colleague defend an Army officer for an alleged revenge killing. Directed by Otto Preminger.

After the death in 2004 of American theater actor and monologist Spalding Gray, director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) pieced together a narrative of Gray's life to create the documentary And Everything Is Going Fine. Brilliantly and sensitively assembled entirely from footage of Gray, taken from interviews and one-man shows from throughout his career, it is a rich, full portrait - an autobiography of sorts - of a figure who was never less than candid but retained an air of mystery. In essence, this hilarious, moving, and revealing film has become Gray's final monologue.

Only two actors, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Defoe, inhabit the space of this supernatural thriller directed by Lars Von Trier. The stars play a couple who attempt to grieve for their dead child by living in seclusion in the middle of a forest.

In this drama written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Eva, the meek, seemingly complacent wife of a parson, invites her mother, Charlotte, a world famous pianist, to come for a visit, hoping for a reconciliation after a long period of estrangement and virtually no interaction.

A thrill-seeking teen-age girl joins a garbageman on a South Dakota killing spree.

A thrill-seeking teen-age girl joins a garbageman on a South Dakota killing spree.

This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin (Ugetsu's Kinuyo Tanaka), a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. Filmed almost entirely on cunningly designed studio sets, in brilliant color and widescreen, THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA is a stylish and vividly formal work from Japan's cinematic golden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita (Twenty-four Eyes).

This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin (Ugetsu's Kinuyo Tanaka), a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable new wife. Filmed almost entirely on cunningly designed studio sets, in brilliant color and widescreen, THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA is a stylish and vividly formal work from Japan's cinematic golden age, directed by the dynamic Keisuke Kinoshita (Twenty-four Eyes).

Two guys and a girl act out the armed robbery of the girl's aunt in Paris. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

Two guys and a girl act out the armed robbery of the girl's aunt in Paris. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

Re-creates the 1954-62 Algerian fight for independence from the French. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

This groundbreaking anthology showcases the vast potential of technology, with most of the eighteen videos containing alternate visual angles and multiple audio tracks.

A secret day job as a prostitute allows a French surgeon's bored wife to live out her fantasies.