Director: Charles Laughton Run Time: 93 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 1955

Starring: Evelyn Varden, James Gleason, Lillian Gish, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters

Based on a true story out of nearby Clarksburg, West Virginia, this Robert Mitchum noir is a nightmarish fairytale thriller about a serial killing preacher in the deep south. Mitchum keeps you on the edge of your seat as he hunts two young children who know the location of a stash of money hidden by their real father.  

Director: Billy Wilder Run Time: 121 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 1959

Starring: Billy Gray, George E. Stone, George Raft, Jack Lemmon, Joan Shawlee, Joe E. Brown, Marilyn Monroe, Nehemiah Persoff, Pat O'Brien, Tony Curtis

Billy Wilder’s classic starring Marilyn Monroe, is one of the most beloved romantic comedies of all time. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play musicians who dress as women to join an all-girl band in attempts to hide out from the mob — but things get complicated and comedy ensues.

Run Time: 96 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Release Year: 1954 Language: Japanese with English Subtitles

Before Godzilla fought Kong or Mothra in 4K, he rose out of the sea and changed sci-fi films forever as an allegory for the follies of a nuclear world. We’re showing the very first film in the iconic franchise. See Ishirô Honda’s original smash hit classic that brought to life the unstoppable dinosaur-like creature hell-bent on destroying Tokyo.

Director: Sidney Lumet Run Time: 125 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: R Release Year: 1975

Starring: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, John Cazale

Sidney Lumet directed this Al Pacino classic saga in which a bank heist goes wrong and devolves into a hostage situation with a media circus as the robber’s motives are slowly revealed. Based on a real would-be Brooklyn robbery.

Director: René Laloux Run Time: 72 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: PG Release Year: 1973 Language: French

Starring: Gérard Hernandez, Jean Valmont, Jeanine Forney, Jennifer Drake, Sylvie Lenoir

This thoughtful, beautiful 1970s French sci-fi film was unlike any other animated film before it. It’s a surreal and immersive experience with an amazing score and a plot that can still make you question your place on this planet and your very humanity.

Director: Hal Ashby Run Time: 91 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: PG Release Year: 1971

Starring: Bud Cort, Charles Tyner, Cyril Cusack, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles

What do a young, pessimistic teen and a free-spirited 80-year-old woman have in common? Not much, but that doesn’t matter in this quirky film about the deep and enduring friendship between Harold and Maude — the all time greatest BFFs of ’70s cinema.

Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer Run Time: 95 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: PG Release Year: 1976

Starring: Brooks Hyers, Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Jack Helmuth, Norman Vincent Peale

Revisit the infamous Long Island summer home of Big Edie and Little Edie — the Park Avenue debutantes turned eccentric recluses. Follow filmmakers into the surreal world of Jackie Onassis’ cousin and aunt in one of the most famous documentaries of all time.

Director: Gary Ross Run Time: 124 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1998

Starring: Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Reese Witherspoon, Tobey Maguire, William H. Macy

Surprised to see this one on our list of 90s gems? We think it’s a classic! Reese Witherspoon and Tobey Maguire play two ’90s teens who find themselves embedded in a 1950s sitcom where they add color and scandal to the monochrome world with their modern sensibilities.

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz Run Time: 98 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: R Release Year: 1995 Language: French

Starring: Abdel Ahmed Ghili, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Souleymane Dicko, Vincent Cassel

Leave the glamour of the City of Lights behind, and enter the seedy underworld of a poor suburban neighborhood of Paris. This black and white film follows three young men for 24 hours after a violent riot erupts in their community.

Director: Gil Junger Run Time: 97 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: PG-13 Release Year: 1999

Starring: David Krumholtz, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles, Larisa Oleynik

The surliest teens in a very 1990s Seattle high school find love in the style of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in this Heath Ledger and Julia Styles classic. The clothes, the music, the drama, and the cast make this maybe the quintessential teen romcom.

Director: Danny Boyle Run Time: 94 min. Format: Audio Amplification Available Rating: R Release Year: 1996

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kelly Macdonald, Robert Carlyle

Choose life. Easily one of the best films of the 1990s, this black comedy follows heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) as he stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends

Run Time: 180 min.

September 25, we will to throw a big ol’ red carpet gala to celebrate making it through a long pandemic and the joy of experiencing cinema in a crowd. It’s going to be SO MUCH FUN and we hope you’ll join us.