John Cassavetes wrote and directed this intense family drama about a desperate and lonely housewife, married to a municipal construction worker. As her behavior becomes increasingly volatile, her husband has her committed to an institution and must await her fraught return with their three children. 

François Truffaut created one of film’s greatest love triangles in his french new wave romantic drama. In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim. Both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine, but it’s Jules who wins her hand. After the war, Jim discovers not only that his feelings for Catherine are unchanged, but also that they’re reciprocated.

Director Sergio Leone tells the story of three greedy gunslingers scheming to find fortune amidst the violent chaos of the American Civil War. One of the great masters of the genre, Leone amplified the popularity of Spaghetti Westerns with this — the final installment of The Dollars Trilogy.

In Fritz Lang’s classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. His heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, he flees in a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.