Films

Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård lead this moving drama about a burgeoning stage actress and her estranged father, a once-renowned director who’s reappeared to both revive his career and repair his family’s broken bond. The novelistic drama marks another high watermark collaboration between actress Renate Reinsve and filmmaker Joachim Trier (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD).

Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (NOMADLAND) helms this lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley).

Winner of multiple prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s sly, genre-bending political thriller stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a technology expert on the lam and seeking refuge in the Brazilian city of Recife in 1977 — and is a thrilling and pleasurable neo-noir steeped in the filmmaker’s love for and knowledge of cinema.

An annual Belcourt tradition. Jimmy Stewart stars as George Bailey, a good man who’s spent a lifetime giving up on his dreams in order to keep life in his small town humming. When a guardian angel named Clarence finds a despondent George poised to jump off a bridge, he shows George what life would’ve been like had he never been born.

Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Set amid the underground world of 1950s table tennis, MARTY SUPREME evokes the vibe and intensity of director Josh Safdie’s earlier film UNCUT GEMS and features a career-making performance from Timothée Chalamet.

Work-In-Progress Screening — 2025 marks 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry. But what about Opryland USA, the show park that saved the Opry? The park was the centerpiece of life in Nashville during its 25 years of operation, drawing 2.5 million visitors a year to Middle Tennessee. It’s past time to definitively answer the question “WHY was Opryland closed and replaced with a shopping mall?”

Robert Redford as blue-eyed, laid back train robber Sundance and Paul Newman as his equally charming partner-in-crime, Butch, star in this soulful, romantic look at the infamous Hole in the Wall gang.

Man-soo had it all — a loving family, the forest home of his youth, and a 25-year career at Solar Paper, where he’s suddenly given the axe. Park Chan-wook’s brilliantly incisive, darkly comic satire finds this newly unemployed man who, desperate to land a coveted job, hatches a ruthless plan to dispatch the competition.

The iconic duo of Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star as the iconic duo of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in Alan J. Pakula’s iconic 1976 ripped-from-the-headlines award-winning film. Based on Woodward and Bernstein’s 1974 account of their Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post investigation that resulted in the resignation of Richard Nixon.

Marking its 50th anniversary, HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS captures the rise of Outlaw Country through intimate portraits of Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle and others. Filmed in Texas and Nashville, it traces the genre’s raw, rebellious roots within the city’s evolving history in American roots music culture.

In a beautifully understated performance, Redford Redford plays a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing for Olympic gold with an underdog American team in Europe, and Gene Hackman provides tough support as the coach who tries to temper the upstart’s narcissistic drive for glory. Astonishing Alpine location photography and breathtakingly fast and furious imagery bring the viewer directly into the mind of the competitor.

A perceptive study in familial dynamics and a carefully constructed triptych, Jim Jarmusch’s latest film concerns a group of adults coming to terms with their lost or aging parents, its subtle and quiet style carefully constructed to allow small details to accumulate — almost like flowers being carefully placed in three delicate arrangements. Its stellar cast includes Adam Driver, Charlotte Rampling, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett and Indya Moore, among others. (Best Film winner at the Venice Film Festival)

Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of maniacs debase themselves for our amusement in this debut entry in the masculinity-skewering Jackass Cinematic Universe.

Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman sneak into an R-rated movie and it warps their fragile little minds. Soon their indignant parents declare war on Canada and our young heroes are America's last hope to stop Armageddon.

In this timeless tale of contemporary politics, Robert Redford plays Bill McKay, an idealistic California attorney running for office. Captivating the electorate's attention, his long-shot candidacy attracts the attention of the party machine, and McKay must decide whether he can effect a greater change as a part of the government — or retain his integrity and lose.

Tracing a century of filmmaking in and about Music City, this seminar explores how Nashville became both a subject and a site for American cinema. From Southern stories to music-driven productions, it also highlights Belcourt's enduring role in shaping — and showcasing — the city’s evolving film culture. Includes a screening of RANCHO DELUXE (35mm) immediately following at 8:00pm.

What begins as an intimate portrait of Russian independent journalists facing persecution by Putin’s regime takes a drastic turn when Russia starts a full-scale war in Ukraine and they are all forced into exile. The film offers a front row seat to how authoritarianism works and the lives of those who resist, which becomes all the more globally relevant every day.

The team behind last year’s THE BRUTALIST, co-writers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, return with another ambitious swing for the fences, this time with Fastvold in the director’s chair. With stunning celluloid cinematography and an astounding score and soundscape, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE plumbs the life and times of Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried), the founder of the Shaker movement and one of pre-Revolutionary America’s most seminal religious figures. Screening in 35mm.

Capturing a star-studded tribute to the legendary songwriter filmed in October 2022 at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, YOU GOT GOLD brings together acclaimed artists, friends and family to share behind-the-scenes stories and perform classic songs, honoring John Prine's enduring legacy.

On the strength of their 1969 collaboration BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, Robert Redford and co-star Paul Newman teamed up once again with director George Roy Hill for this ‘30s-set caper about two professional grifters’ plot to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw).

John Archibald Dortmunder (Robert Redford), a notorious fresh-out-of-jail cat burglar, is approached by Dr. Amusa (Moses Gunn) with a scheme to steal a gem from a museum that was itself stolen from his African country during colonial times — and he wants the gem returned to its rightful place. Dortmunder quickly assembles a team of the best, most experienced cat burglars he knows. An elaborate plan is hatched, but the perfect heist threatens to run off the rails.

In a dystopian near-future Japan, law and order is enforced by a brutal paramilitary police unit. When their extreme methods spark public outcry, the government moves to dismantle the unit. A philosophical blend of film noir, political allegory and existential mystery, this visually striking black comedy meditates on justice, memory and the cost of loyalty. It also serves as a foray into live-action filmmaking for animation master Mamoru Oshii (ANGEL’S EGG, GHOST IN THE SHELL).

In a sci-fi-coded world where people have lost the desire to dream, rogue “fantasmers” stoke their imaginations and the film’s ever-morphing protagonist (Jackson Yee) veers through a series of genres, from Méliès-inflected silent fantasy to wartime thriller to con-artist buddy picture to millennial vampire romance — the latter depicted in one of Bi Gan’s customary, and ever astonishing, single takes. A monumental love letter to a century of cinema.

Cartoon antics and film noir archetypes collide through a dazzling combination of live action and animation in this comedy classic starring the great Bob Hoskins.

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).

When he dons an ancient Nordic mask, the otherwise mild-mannered bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss moves at warp speed, knows your every desire, satisfies your every whim and dances like Fred Astaire, Gumby and Baryshnikov combined. He's s-s-s-smokin'!

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).

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.

Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.

Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in this scintillating, slyly comic psychological thriller from director Rebecca Zlotowski, in which a suspicious death yields a series of twists that lead back to old grievances — and maybe even to past lives.

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.

Oscar-nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania blends actual recordings and scripted performances to tell the devastating true story of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl trapped in a car under Israeli military fire, and the first responders who tried to save her.

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.

Based on the memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, the directorial debut of Kristen Stewart is a raw and unflinching portrait of survival, sexuality and self-invention. Told as a fluid memory wash, the story transforms her trauma into art. It is not only a chronicle of a woman becoming a writer, but a visceral journey through the wreckage and resilience of a life lived against the grain.

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.