Independent Cinema

Little in this film is predictable, and the knockout performances sing with hope and unexpected wonder.

Underneath the clean, white American brand of America's first private zoo lurked an association with Hitler’s criminal crony Hermann Göring.

In Bradley Cooper's third outing as director, Will Arnett and Laura Dern portray a couple whose separation leads to an unpredictable midlife catharsis.

Jim Jarmusch constructs three scenarios about family, all different, but all revealing isolation between adult children and their parents.

Ben Stiller's documentary chronicles his parents as iconic humorists and an integral part of American TV culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 'A Private Life' Jodie Foster is an American psychoanalyst in Paris whose world upends with the unexpected death of a patient. Was it murder?

'Anemone' is a family drama about lives upended by political and personal violence. The characters receive a second chance at reconciliation through one brother's love for the other.

In 'Late Fame' a former poet (Willem Dafoe) is lured with flattery into a salon of wannabe poets, whose authenticity is suspect.

An art thief heists unremarkable works, only to have cops mistakenly arrest him for protesting the Viet Nam War.

Director Christian Petzold explores questions about spiritual consciousness, broken humanity, inner dislocation and the slow road to recovery after trauma.