Repertory

Directed by first-time filmmaker Robert Redford — more than years deep into his acting career at the time — ORDINARY PEOPLE stars Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore in this intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy. Superb performances and masterful direction complement the award-winning screenplay, based upon the novel by Judith Guest.

The Maclean brothers, Paul (Brad Pitt, in a pivotal early role) and Norman (Craig Sheffer), live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister (Tom Skerritt), the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. Robert Redford directs Norman McClean’s semi-autobiographical novel in the bucolic splendor of Montana.

Inspired by true events, James Foley (GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS) directs Sean Penn and Christopher Walken as a father-son-duo caught in a violent crime ring. Filmed just outside Nashville, the film blends Southern noir with Brat Pack-era sincerity, featuring Mary Stuart Masterson and Kiefer Sutherland.

Set against the political backdrops of the lead-up to World War II and later McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple (Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford) come together only to find that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs. Directed by Sydney Pollock (see also JEREMIAH JOHNSON).

Soured by civilisation, Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) sets out in the mid-1800's to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. Shot on location in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains — the home of Redford’s Sundance Film Festival — and directed by Sydney Pollock (see also THE WAY WE WERE).

Directed by Peter Weir and written by Nashville native Tom Schulman, DEAD POETS SOCIETY stars Robin Williams as a teacher who inspires students to defy conformity. Featuring Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard, the story draws from Schulman’s experience at Montgomery Bell Academy, shaping the film’s Nashville themes and setting.

A desperate mother takes her daughter to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of a mysterious illness. When the pair are separated after a violent car crash, the mother must investigate the strange, liminal purgatory of the town and uncover its terrifying secrets and find her daughter in this adaptation of the hit survival horror video game.

A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder –– one adulterous wife for one despised father. Soon it becomes apparent the conversation was more than idle chatter…

Insurance salesman Walter Neff becomes embroiled in a murderous scheme to defraud his own company when he falls for a woman looking to get rich off her husband’s demise in Billy Wilder’s seminal, fatalist film noir masterpiece.

Two wacky plumbers undertake a daring quest to save a princess in “Dinohattan” from a diabolical lizard king in this tremendously strange and infinitely divisive adaptation of the beloved video game.

For the Torrance family, the winter caretaker job at a secluded hotel is a chance to get themselves back on track, and work through past issues and traumas — but they'll encounter so much more in its ancient twisting halls. Welcome to the Overlook Hotel — the intersection of the minds of Stanley Kubrick and Stephen King.

Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait of both a renowned dressmaker (Daniel Day-Lewis) on a creative journey, and the woman (Vicky Krieps) who keeps his world running in this twisted romance.

When a film producer friend of his teenage son devises a plan to hold a fake audition for a new girlfriend, long-time widower Aoyama falls for the silent beauty of Asam, a former ballerina with a dark past. Their courtship veers from quiet romance to…. Well, let’s not spoil one of the great turn-on-a-dime plot twists.

When a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a sinister plot in comedian-turned-Oscar-nominated-filmmaker Jordan Peele’s smash-hit horror masterpiece.

Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted tale of a windswept ancestral beach estate and its current inhabitants.

After being murdered in cold blood during a robbery attempt, the spirit of slain banker Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) seeks the help of a psychic medium (Whoopi Goldberg) to reconnect with the love of his life (Demi Moore) fearing that her safety may too be in danger.

A young woman learning to survive on the margins of a society that cannot abide her monstrous nature befriends a similarly afflicted drifter. As the two roam the country finding themselves and falling for each other in the process, the dark desire urging them on threatens to tear them apart.

Dan Gallager (Michael Douglas) has the picture perfect life – a loving wife, a great job, and a beautiful home. But when he strikes up an affair with Alex (Glenn Close), can he withstand the consequences of a one night stand?

Erika, a piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother in a claustrophobically codepen­dent relation­ship becomes entangled with an infatuated student to devastatingly dark ends in Michael Haneke’s formalist masterwork of masochistic female perversity.

When teenager Mike is hired at a public bathhouse in London’s East End, he becomes enamored with the pretty older woman tasked with showing him the ropes. Drawn into increasingly tortured, lustful fantasies involving the beguiling redhead, Mike’s obsession slowly spirals out of control. With music from krautrock legends Can and Cat Stevens.

Martin Scorsese’s Paul Schrader-penned tale of an unstable New York cabbie driven to violence by loneliness and desperation celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Eric Binford spends all of his free time watching old films. When his bullies push him too far, Eric dons the outfits of his big-screen idols to kill off his tormentors in outrageous recreations of his favorite movie scenes in this meta sendup of cinephilia run amok.

This Belcourt 100 seminar reveals a century of filmmaking shaped by Black Nashvillians, examining the actors, directors, writers, exhibitors and theaters that fostered Black cinema culture during and after Jim Crow segregation — and traces how Nashville’s Black creatives used the moving image to reflect lived experience and shape cultural identity, positioning Music City as an overlooked center of African American cinema. Includes a screening of STORMY WEATHER immediately following at 8:00pm.

Ossie Davis’s 1970 action-comedy follows Harlem detectives Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson as they unravel a con involving stolen charity funds and a crooked Back-to-Africa scheme. Featuring Redd Foxx and Nashville-born actress Helen Martin, the film blends satire and social critique, marking a turning point in Black independent cinema.