- Crash: An unforgettable crash course in unmasking the racial and class divisions in American society that make every stranger into a potential enemy.
- Arlington Road: A gripping political thriller about the dangers of domestic terrorism and the paranoia of those who see danger everywhere.
- The Assassination of Richard Nixon: A spectacular performance by Sean Penn as a powerless and alienated young man whose rage becomes a reality when his dreams are dashed one by one.
- Bedazzled: A slapstick morality play about the dire consequences of selling one's soul to the Devil and trying to find happiness in wealth, fame, power, or intellectual prowess.
- The Blair Witch Project: Adds a few fresh twists to a genre that has too long relied only on special effects gimmickry.
- Bowling for Columbine: A kick-out-the-jams, no-holds-barred examination of America's obsession with guns that concludes it's all about fear.
- Bus 174:A compelling documentary that dares to tell the truth about the tragic and dangerous consequences of one young man's poverty, exposure to violence, and brutal treatment while in prison.
- Conspiracy of Silence: A thoughtful drama about challenges faced by reform-minded Catholics who want to see priests given the option of marrying.
- Do the Right Thing: A cautionary tale set in the ghetto about the racial hatred that still remains an open wound on the soulscape of America.
- Downfall: Charts the last 10 days in the life of Adolf Hitler, starring Bruno Ganz in a tour de force performance that delineates the darkest dimensions of a bunker mentality.
- Election: A full-fledged critique of the moral emptiness of the archetypal ugly American-those driven go-getters who hurt other people.
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose: A gripping supernatural thriller about the continuing clash in our society between the forces of reason and science and the forces of faith and religion.
- The Exorcist: An expanded DVD version of the classic tale about demonic possession and exorcism.
- The Fast Runner: An Inuit masterpiece that will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of shadow, love, communal discord, and justice unfolds.
- The Fog of War: A morally thought-provoking documentary in which Robert McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, discusses the lessons of World War II, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War.
- Gladiator: A spectacular action drama that brings us face to face with our blood lust and other powerful emotions that draw out the best and the worst in us.
- Hiroshima No Pika & Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima: An extraordinary and unforgettable documentary about two Japanese artists who have captured in their artistic murals the death and destruction of humankind's inhumanity in the twentieth century.
- The Holy Girl: Explores the difficulties adolescent girls and older men have in dealing with the most powerful energy source in the world: their own sexuality.
- House of Sand and Fog: An engrossing drama about the downward mobility of a recovering alcoholic and the upward mobility of a yearning Iranian immigrant.
- It All Starts Today: An engaging and soulful masterpiece about a French kindergarten teacher who learns that when you love your work, the only way to get out of trouble is to go deeper.
- Kontroll: A well-done Hungarian black comedy set in Budapest's underground subway system.
- Lilya 4-Ever: A compelling and disturbing film about an abandoned Russian teenager who finds herself an unwilling victim in the global sex trade.
- The Magdalene Sisters: An unflinching and compelling drama about the unjust incarceration of young women in Ireland by the Catholic Church for their so-called sexual indiscretions.
- Minority Report: An audacious and imaginative sci-fi thriller that enables us to witness the dangerous consequences of our present fear-based way of living where we are willing to sacrifice our freedoms for the pipe dream of safety and security.
- Mr. Death: A bizarre documentary about the worship of technique and the dangers of self-delusion.
- Mysterious Skin: Reveals the pain and suffering wrought by sex offenders who prey upon children.
- Nobody Knows: Tells the harrowing story of four children in Tokyo who are abandoned by their mother and forced to fend for themselves over a six-month period.
- Primary Colors: In this brilliant and incisive drama, the filmmakers reveal the shadow sides of American politics.
- Secuestro Express: A grim and powerful depiction of the long day's journey into night experienced by a couple kidnapped by a trio of angry young men from the ghetto in Caracas, Venezuela.
- The Talented Mr. Ripley: Comes across as a rigorous moral study of envy.
- Testament: Powerful depiction of the psychological terror that grips a California community after New York and other cities in the East are destroyed by nuclear bombs.
- Traffic: A hard-hitting work of social conscience that uses three interweaving stories to show how mood altering drugs have invaded every aspect of American life.
- Turtles Can Fly: A mesmerizing Iranian film set in Iraq in 2003 that deals with the fallout from both dictators and liberators on the twisted and torn lives of children living in refugee camps.
- The Upside of Anger: An engrossing and well-acted psychodrama about the toxic side-effects of anger, a most potent and volatile emotion.
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