Barbet Schroeder

Evil comes in many forms. In Myanmar, it manifests in the casual racism and Islamophobia of influential, charismatic Burmese Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu. Through interviews with journalists and community leaders who protest against Wirathu's views, activist footage of Rohingya persecutions, and through powerful storytelling, director Barbet Schroeder slowly builds his case. Perhaps most damning of all are the interviews with the man himself; couching...

In 1974 a film crew followed Idi Amin Dada, dictator of Uganda, interviewing him and filming him as he worked. Provides a candid portrait of a notorious figure.

In this psychological thriller, New Yorker Allie Jones advertises for a roommate and chooses mousy Hedra Carlson. Hedra takes over Allie's spare bedroom, her clothes, her boyfriend and her identity.

In 1965, young producer Barbet Schroeder supplied a 16mm camera, along with color film stock, to six friends, asking them to each make a short film about a Parisian neighborhood. The resulting films were shot quickly, with low budgets, improvised takes and live sound. Fresh and original, and featuring contributions by luminaries including Nestor Almendros, Albert Maysles and Jackie Reynal, these six vignettes offer captivating and varied glimpses...

The clues in a Jane Doe murder case points one way, yet detective Cassie Mayweather thinks another way. There's something too perfect about the way the forensic evidence leads to an obvious perpetrator - something that ties to Cassie's secret past.

"Whiling away a summer in Paris, director Jacques Rivette, working in close collaboration with his stars and coconspirators Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier, set out to rewrite the rules of cinema in the spirit of pure play--moviemaking as an anything-goes romp through the labyrinths of imagination. The result is one of the most exuberantly inventive and utterly enchanting films of the French New Wave, in which Julie (Labourier), a daydreaming...

A perfect murder: A wealthy Wall Street speculator discovers that his wife has a lover, then creates a plan to make him murder his wife. Murder in the first: A luckless prisoner and an idealistic rookie attorney take on the dehumanizing treatment of inmates at Alcatraz. Murder by numbers: An unconventional detective engages in an intellectual contest against two gifted high school students who execute a "perfect" murder.

Dr. Carolyn Reiser's family practice is interrupted when she's called to the emergency room to help with a local teenage girl who's been bludgeoned to death. That night she and her husband, Ben, are shocked when the local sheriff comes by to see if their son, Jacob is home. Jacob was the victim's boyfriend and is suspected in her murder. When Jacob does not return home for days, Carolyn and Ben suspect the worst. Finally, he returns home and confesses...