Barbara Loden directed one film in her life, The actress also wrote and starred in this 1970 movie about a woman adrift in a gritty industrial American landscape.

A father and daughter form a band in hipster Brooklyn (where else?).

A poignant film bolstered by Jay Duplass’s and Edie Falco’s powerful performances.

Set in a certain sphere of New York romantic comedies and starring Zosia Mamet.

A film that questions monogamy, accompanied by iconic shots of the Manhattan skyline and set in gentrified Brooklyn.

A highly kaleidoscopic twist in a well-worn genre of filmmaking.

A unique, fictionalized view of the racial unrest leading up to the devastating L.A. riots

Two movies take on the concept of privilege from the outsider’s point of view in very different ways and epochs.

Julie Dash’s layered, poetic, and timeless film garnered lavish praise when it came out in 1991. It has now been rereleased on its 25th anniversary,