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Running on empty: with an unbelievable cast and a healthy dose of paranoid politics, it’s a shame that this 1984 action flick isn’t better known

Home sweet home: In Satyajit Ray’s domestic drama, the intimacies of family are political, and love is a kind of solidarity

Too close to the sun: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s final film is a dazzling three-hour epic bristling with political and affective gestures

Living rough: the veneer of vérité realism in this new-to-streaming collection of short docs gives way to something far more unplaceable

Look again: In his latest film, Bill Morrison constructs a meditation on mortality, Soviet history, the search for lost things, and the persistence of accordions

Cloak and dagger: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s engrossing World War II tale embeds an exposé of Japan’s bio-weapons program in the drama of a couple’s dueling loyalties

Daily grind: Affonso Uchôa’s debut feature searches for meaning in the seemingly mundane conversations and chores of three working-class Brazilian women

Drift away: Jessica Beshir’s documentary is a hypnotic montage of the people, nature, and Sufi parables that surround the khat trade in Harar, Ethiopia