Film-Forward

Most of the standard hallmarks of music documentaries go out the window here.

A historical drama blessed with two formidable performers, Sandra Hüller and Susanne Wolff.

Opposites attract wildly in this funny, poignant, and occasionally bewildering film.

A throwback to the long-revered era of exaggerated 1980s horror.

This transporting film has a reach beyond classical orchestra lovers.

The raw and distressing film depicts how the desire to die found in religion becomes a brutal and sinister way of getting relief.

An uneven period drama about the Tudor monarch’s final spouse that plays fast and loose with the historical record.

A rousing and absorbing look back at a phenomenon that quickly crested and just as quickly disappeared.

An odd, offbeat little gem wrapped up in an 18th-century vampire tale.