Veteran animator Takayuki Hirao's new film isa rollicking, exuberant ode to the power of the movies, and the joys and heartbreak of the creative process, as a new director and his team devote their lives to the pursuit of a “masterpiece.” Pompo is a talented and gutsy producer in “Nyallywood,” the movie-making capital of the world. Although she’s known for B-movies, one day Pompo tells her movie-loving but apprehensive assistant Gene that he will direct her next script. But when the production heads towards chaos, can Gene rise to Pompo’s challenge, and succeed as a first-time director?

Did the world really need a 32nd Godzilla movie? Turns out.. definitely yes. Director Hideaki Anno made Honda’s vision from 1954 explode on screen with amazing special effects, a fun and fast-moving plot, and a whole lot of destruction. 

This fun twist on the classic buddy comedy starts with Chisato and Mahilo — two high school girls who happen to both be highly skilled assassins — becoming roommates. The relationship between the pair quickly turns sour. However, when they find themselves targeted by the yakuza, the girls quickly realise that they will have to find a way to work together.

A soft-spoken but strong willed animator gets her big break, but must compete with a legendary animator returning to the business for a Saturday primetime spot in this new live action comedy/drama about Japan's anime industry. When the young animator challenges her hero-turned-rival on stage at an anime convention, the two production teams each set out to outdo one another, because there can only be one number-one!

This fantastic new Japanese crime thriller follows Masaya a university students who receives letters from a serial killer he knew from childhood. Convicted of nine murders, the imprisoned killer insists he only committed eight. Can Masaya solve the mystery of the last murder, or is he just a pawn in a serial killers' sick and twisted game? 

This haunting, erotic, and unforgettable psychological drama is a strange take on the Sisyphus myth. When  an entomologist misses the last bus home from exploring a series of sand dunes, he is taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture alongside a young widow and forced dig the sand that they sell to nearby cities for construction.

Director Atsuko Ishizuka follows up her critically acclaimed series A Place Further Than the Universe with her first original feature film about a group of teen misfits Roma, Toto, and Drop call themselves the “Don Glees.” One day, when the trio gets blamed for a nearby forest fire, they set off into the woods to prove their innocence. As disaster strikes their expedition, tensions flare between the friends as they realize that growing up has taken them on wildly different paths in life

Kaiju in space! Two young boys sneak aboard a spaceship and find themselves whisked away to the mysterious planet Terra. There, they encounter Gamera's old foe Gyaos and two female aliens with a taste for human brains. Gamera must save the children and battle the new monster Guiron, whose entire body is a deadly living weapon.

We are wrapping up two weeks of monster-movie fun the best way we know how — a Destroy All Monsters Brew & View!

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this Kafkaesque nightmare.

There NEVER was a woman like Gilda!

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

Considered one of the greatest films of all time, this neo-noir stars Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury. During the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. When they return home after the war, their commander he uncovers a terrible plot.

Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.

It's time for another weekend with cult classic The Room! We give you the cues and the props, you get to shout and have a good time! Don't worry, we'll give you a quick run down before it begins!

Join us for a double feature of documentaries and support Bike Pittsburgh! 100% of proceeds will be donated back to Bike Pittsburgh. 

Halina Reijn's fresh horror comedy delivers big on both the laughs and the scares. At an isolated mansion, a whodunnit game goes horribly wrong for a group of 20-somethings when real bodies start turning up — setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events

An Airbnb mix-up turns into a chilling nightmare for a young woman traveling alone for a job interview. This Sam Raimi-esque horror film is deeply suspenseful and provides some great jump scares while contemplating larger issues like toxic masculinity and intergenerational distain.

Move over Chucky. M3GAN is the next generation of terrifying toy. Allison Williams stars in this witty and weird romp of a horror comedy as a brilliant roboticist who develops a life-like doll for her newly orphaned niece. When she becomes overprotective of her new friend, the results are terrifying. 

Kyle Edward Ball’s polarizing new horror film is an experimental exploration of some of our most primal fears. When two children wake up in the middle of the night, they find their father is missing and all the windows and doors in the home have vanished. 

The Foo Fighters do horror! Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album. Once in the house, Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band.

Thirteen years after Yang Jian (known to some as Erlang Shen) imprisoned his sister beneath a mountain, the once powerful god now scrapes by as a penniless bounty hunter.

In his radical debut feature, Ousmane Sembène reveals the agony of the postcolonial experience through the story of a Senegalese migrant abused by her French employers. Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a governess to a family in southern France where she suffers from discrimination and marginalization.

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

Céline Sciamma's slow burning love story is a rich period piece about a female painter On an isolated island in Brittany who is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. Stunning cinematography and a heartbreaking plot make it one of the best modern pieces of queer cinema. 

The Sight and Sound Poll of 2022 shocked the film world when it named Chantal Akerman's feminist art film the number one film of all time. A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.

ATTN: Pittsburgh movie makers, comedians, and film lovers! It's time to register for the 2022 Sweded Film Festival for Creative Re-Creations! Zero-budget, amateur, homemade, zany, creative, weird, HILARIOUS remakes of your favorite films return to Row House Cinema this June.