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  Watch This The Friends Of Eddie Coyle gives a late-career Robert Mitchum an extra set of knuckles

  Peter Yates’ adaptation of George V. Higgins’ novel shows the weariness and age behind Mitchum’s tough-guy screen persona.

  February 22, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This A corporate whistleblower’s daily life lends dimension to the fact-based Silkwood

  Mike Nichols’ film is the rare movie about a whistleblower that acknowledges one doesn’t constantly have the whistle in one’s mouth.

  February 21, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Donnie Brasco features Al Pacino as a Willy Loman-esque sad sack 

  Mike Newell’s 1997 film casts an unblinking, unsentimental eye on the more depressing side of organized crime. 

  February 20, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Al Pacino’s integrity costs him in the undercover-cop classic Serpico 

  In the early ’70s, even the undercover-cop movies were artful, character-driven slices of life. 

  February 19, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The Informant! turns a tale of corporate whistle-blowing into zany comedy 

  Steven Soderbergh’s self-consciously minor film bites down hard on the tongue in its cheek. 

  February 18, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Death Becomes Her casts Bruce Willis as the helpless rope in a tug-of-war

  The star of Die Hard and The Last Boy Scout took an opportunity to play a weak, henpecked husband in a movie that consciously plays on his tough-guy image.

  February 15, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Mortal Thoughts gives an abuser’s murder the Rashomon treatment

  Director Alan Rudolph tried his hand at studio filmmaking with this unusual thriller about domestic conflict turned deadly.

  February 14, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The notorious flop Hudson Hawk goes places no other studio action vehicle would dare

  The screenwriters of Die Hard and Heathers collaborate on a Bruce Willis action-comedy that somehow melds their sensibilities. 

  February 13, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Color Of Night takes the erotic thriller far beyond the point of absurdity

  A team of very talented filmmakers got together for this bizarre, hysterical camp classic.

  February 12, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This What Just Happened turns a producer’s real-life experiences into comedy

  Producer Art Linson collaborated with director Barry Levinson on this insightful film, based on his own trials behind the scenes.

  February 11, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This 1936’s My Man Godfrey is a Depression-era fantasy needling the rich

  Gregory La Cava’s heavily Oscar-nominated hit is a screwball classic, but also tied to its specific era.

  February 8, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The classic cross-dressing farce Tootsie tackles gender roles on-screen and off

  Dustin Hoffman lampoons his own reputation as a “difficult” actor in Sydney Pollack’s great comedy about sexism.

  February 7, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Matt Damon’s signature performance is the chameleon at the center of The Talented Mr. Ripley

  Anthony Minghella’s luxuriant adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel extends some sympathy for a sociopath.

  February 6, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Catch Me If You Can emphasizes the “confidence” part of “con game”

  The briskly entertaining story of check-forger Frank Abagnale shows the fun of being a fraud.

  February 5, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Alec Baldwin excels as a robber who robs robbers in the crime comedy Miami Blues

  As a reverse Robin Hood, Alec Baldwin darkens this Day-Glo comedy with oily charisma.

  February 4, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This In Larry Cohen’s horror/satire The Stuff, consumers are wild about a product that’s consuming them

  An addictive whipped goo takes the nation by storm in this half-realized horror/satire on ’80s consumerism.

  February 1, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The wacky murder-musical The Happiness Of The Katakuris redefines Takashi Miike

  Weird animation, Sound Of Music wholesomeness, and singing zombies: This bizarro cult hit has it all.

  January 31, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The macabre Beetlejuice is a reminder of the dazzling Tim Burton of old

  The director has been mired in Tim Burton-y projects lately, but this early black comedy is a burst of mischievous energy.

  January 30, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This How The Return Of The Living Dead thumbs its nose at traditional zombie lore

  This sequel dismisses the original Romero film as a fictionalized cover-up of a government conspiracy.

  January 29, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This An obscure H.P. Lovecraft story gets twisted into a hilarious gore comedy in Re-Animator

  A young Stuart Gordon does his own reanimating with his inventive adaptation of a lesser H.P. Lovecraft story.

  January 28, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Neil Jordan’s The Company Of Wolves gives “Little Red Riding Hood” a lush, alluring storybook grandeur

  Told through dreams within dreams, Neil Jordan’s coming-of-age fairytale holds a hypnotic beauty.

  January 25, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Reese Witherspoon is a badass Little Red Riding Hood in the sordid, sleazy Freeway

  Where the Big Bad Wolf meets the drive-in.

  January 24, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This With Into The West, a Harry Potter director honed his skill with magic

  Irish folklore becomes a modern-day fable in this stellar family film about a horse named for a legend.

  January 23, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Bluebeard filters folktale through one of filmmaking’s most provocative sensibilities

  The director of Fat Girl and The Last Mistress finds her own way through the 17th-century French folktale.

  January 22, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The Red Shoes skips the fairy tale’s severed feet and meditates on love instead

  Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger converted a grim Hans Christian Andersen story into a gorgeous, fevered spectacle.

  January 21, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights relocates the auteur’s lyrical vision to the United States

  The director of Chungking Express and In The Mood For Love won few fans for his underrated wisp of romantic yearning.

  January 18, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Watch This Amadeus director Milos Forman started small, with the counterculture comedy Taking Off

  Tina Turner sings and Vincent Schiavelli gets a room full of squares high in the Czech director’s English-language debut.

  January 17, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Fritz Lang’s Fury sympathizes with a persecuted innocent

  Fritz Lang’s first American film answers the Nazi encroachment with a stirring drama about a decent man falsely condemned.

  January 16, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This With Model Shop, French director Jacques Demy brought his swooning sensibility to hippie-era L.A.

  The director of The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg captures the L.A. counterculture from a tourist’s point of view.

  January 15, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The darkly comic Barfly slips every cliché of inebriation

  Making his first film in America, director Barbet Schroeder commissioned Charles Bukowski for a black comedy of ill manners.

  January 14, 2013 | 10:00am -