1988 | Rated PG | 97 min | Romantic Comedy | DCP

Celebrating Classic Movie Day

A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.

Directors: Joan Micklin Silver

Writers: Susan Sandler

Stars: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk

2024 | Rated R | 119 min | Drama | DCP

New Releases

When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.

Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel

Writers: Scott McGehee, David Siegel

Stars: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Carla Gugino

1928 | Rated G | 72 min | Family, Slapstick | DCP

BFC Monthly Programming: Silent Classics Screening

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Writer: Charlie Chaplin

Stars: Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Ernest Garcia

1976 | Rated PG | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | DCP

BFC Presents: French Essentials Film Festival

Sponsored by Armand Pohan and Nancy Rieger

In German-occupied Paris, an immoral art dealer, Robert Klein, leads a life of luxury, until a copy of a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the police, linking him with a mysterious doppelgänger. Will Mr. Klein clear his name?

Director: Joseph Losey

Writers: Franco Solinas, Fernando Morandi, Costa-Gavras

Stars: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Berge

2024 | Rated R | 119 min | Drama | DCP

New Releases

When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.

Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel

Writers: Scott McGehee, David Siegel

Stars: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Carla Gugino

2017 | Rated PG | 105 min | Animation, Adventure | DCP

BFC Monthly Programming: Sensory Friendly Screening

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.

Directors: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina

Writers: Lee Unkrich, Jason Katz, Matthew Aldrich

Stars: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt

2001 | Rated R | 147 min | Psychological Drama | DCP

BFC Monthly Programming: Cult Classics

Celebrating David Lynch

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Director: David Lynch

Writer: David Lynch

Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux

1986 | Rated PG | 120 min | Drama | DCP

BFC Presents: French Essentials Film Festival

Sponsored by Armand Pohan and Nancy Rieger

A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

Director: Claude Berri

Writers: Marcel Pagnol, Claude Berri, Gerard Brach

Stars: Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil

2025 |Rated PG-13 | 99 min | Quirky Comedy | DCP

New Releases

An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite musicians to perform at his home.

Director: James Griffiths

Writers: Tom Basden, Tim Key

Stars: Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan, Tim Key

2001 | Rated PG | 124 min | Coming-of-Age, Animation | DCP

Studio Ghibli Series

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Writer: Hayao Miyazaki

Stars: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino

1949 | Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Comedy | DCP

Japanese Essentials Film Festival

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Writers: Kazuo Hirotsu, Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu

Stars: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka

2025 |Rated PG-13 | 99 min | Quirky Comedy | DCP

New Releases

An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite musicians to perform at his home.

Director: James Griffiths

Writers: Tom Basden, Tim Key

Stars: Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan, Tim Key

1998 | Rated R | 169 min | Epic, Period Drama | DCP

Celebrating Memorial Day

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Robert Rodat

Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore

1986 | Rated PG | 113 min | Drama | DCP

BFC Presents: French Essentials Film Festival

Sponsored by Armand Pohan and Nancy Rieger

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

Director: Claude Berri

Writers: Marcel Pagnol, Claude Berri, Gerard Brach

Stars: Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Beart, Daniel Auteuil

2025 |Rated PG-13 | 99 min | Quirky Comedy | DCP

New Releases

An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite musicians to perform at his home.

Director: James Griffiths

Writers: Tom Basden, Tim Key

Stars: Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan, Tim Key

2023 | Not Rated | 92 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | DCP

New Releases

Bernadette expected to finally get the position she deserved when she arrived to the Elysée Palace because she had always worked behind her husband's back to elect him president. She took revenge by becoming a major media figure.

Director: Lea Domenach

Writers: Clemence Dargent, Lea Domenach

Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydes, Michel Vuillermoz

2023 | Not Rated | 92 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | DCP

New Releases

Bernadette expected to finally get the position she deserved when she arrived to the Elysée Palace because she had always worked behind her husband's back to elect him president. She took revenge by becoming a major media figure.

Director: Lea Domenach

Writers: Clemence Dargent, Lea Domenach

Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydes, Michel Vuillermoz

2023 | Not Rated | 92 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama | DCP

New Releases

Bernadette expected to finally get the position she deserved when she arrived to the Elysée Palace because she had always worked behind her husband's back to elect him president. She took revenge by becoming a major media figure.

Director: Lea Domenach

Writers: Clemence Dargent, Lea Domenach

Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydes, Michel Vuillermoz

2023 | Rated PG-13 | 124 min | Fantasy Epic, Animation | DCP

Studio Ghibli Series

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy ventures into a dreamlike world shared by the living and the dead in search of his missing stepmother.

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Writer: Hayao Miyazaki

Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Ko Shibasaki

1953 | Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy | DCP

Japanese Essentials Film Festival

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Writers: Hisakazu Tsuji, Akinari Ueda, Matsutaro Kawaguchi

Stars: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka

2005 | Rated PG | 129 min | Period Drama, Romance | DCP

Celebrating Jane Austen

When Elizabeth Bennet meets the handsome Mr. Darcy, she believes he is the last man she could ever marry, but as their lives become intertwined, she finds herself captivated by the man she has sworn to hate forever.

Director: Joe Wright

Writers: Deborah Moggach, Jane Austen, Emma Thompson

Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn

1987 | Rated G | 103 min | Period Drama | DCP

Scandinavian Film Festival

Sponsored by Armand Pohan and Nancy Rieger

During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.

Director: Gabriel Axel

Writers: Karen Blixen, Gabriel Axel

Stars: Stephane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel

2024 | Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary | DCP

Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by Longtime Fort Lee Residents and Found BFC Board Members Edwin and Doris Cohen

Featuring Q&A with Director Oren Rudavsky

Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, we seek to understand the man behind the searing memoir Night. Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) - his passions, his conflicts and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the Holocaust. With unique access to archives, interviews and employing hand painted animation, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor, writer, teacher and public figure.

Director: Oren Rudavsky

Writer: Oren Rudavsky

Stars: Elie Wiesel

2024 | Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy | DCP

Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by Longtime Fort Lee Residents and Found BFC Board Members Edwin and Doris Cohen

Kyra Sedgwick and Cliff "Method Man" Smith lead a hilarious ensemble cast in the award-winning comedy that won the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. When David and his fiancé Meg gather for his family's traditional Shabbat dinner on New York's Upper West Side, things spiral when an accidental death (or...murder?) derails the evening. With Meg’s devoutly Catholic parents due any moment to meet David’s very Jewish family, Shabbat becomes a comedy of biblical proportions.

Director: Daniel Robbins

Writers: Daniel Robbins, Zack Weiner

Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Jon Bass, Milana Vayntrub, David Paymer, Meghan Leathers

1977 | Rated PG | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Adventure | DCP

Celebrating Drive-In Movie Day

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.

Director: Hal Needham

Writers: Hal Needham, Robert L. Levy, James Lee Barrett

Stars: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed

1923 | Not Rated | 74 min | Farce, Slapstick | DCP

BFC Monthly Programming: Silent Classics Screening

A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.

Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor

Writers: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan

Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred David, Bill Strother

1990 | Rated R | 78 min | Documentary | DCP

Celebrating Pride Month

A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.

Director: Jennie Livingston

Stars: Brooke Xtravaganza, Andre Christian, Dorian Corey

1932 | Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance | Digital

Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by Longtime Fort Lee Residents and Found BFC Board Members Edwin and Doris Cohen

Uncle Moses, one of the finest examples of Yiddish cinema, was filmed in Fort Lee. Uncle Moses, an immigrant from a Polish shtetl, becomes the harsh owner of a New York clothing factory. The drama revolves around a romantic triangle, and a labor activist trying to organize a union in Moses’ factory. Film critic Georgia Brown wrote "Here is a chance to see one of the century's greatest actors (Maurice Schwartz) in a melodrama focusing on work and tenement life in the Lower East Side.”

Director: Sidney Goldin, Aubrey Scotto

Writers: Maurice Schwartz, Sholom Asch

Stars: Maurice Schwartz, Judith Abarbanel, Mark Schweid

1980 | Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary | DCP

Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by Longtime Fort Lee Residents and Found BFC Board Members Edwin and Doris Cohen

Featuring Q&A with Director Susan Wittenberg

Recently rediscovered and restored, Brighton Beach is a priceless and beautifully filmed portrait of the Brooklyn neighborhood that includes Coney Island and came to be known as “Little Odessa” for its Russian-Jewish immigrant population. Capturing the diversity and charm of a neighborhood that has resisted gentrification, Brighton Beach is a precious time capsule that combines wonderful archival footage and new photography to observe the quirks of this unique slice of New York City.

Directors: Carol Stein, Susan Wittenberg

Writers: Carol Stein, Susan Wittenberg

Stars: The Barry Sisters

2024 | Not Rated | 112 min | Biopic, Drama, Musical | DCP

Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by Longtime Fort Lee Residents and Found BFC Board Members Edwin and Doris Cohen

Featuring video interview with screenwriter Brigit Grant

Brian Epstein is recognized today as the man who signed The Beatles, and in doing so, created the blueprint for music artist management. From his formative years to wild, unprecedented global success and the ensuing chaos as he managed and promoted some of the biggest acts in the world, Midas Man brings to life the inspiring untold story of one of the world’s most significant outsiders.

Director: Joe Stephenson

Writer: Brigit Grant

Stars: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Emily Watson, Eddie Izzard

2024 | Not Rated | 107 min | Drama | DCP

Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by Longtime Fort Lee Residents and Found BFC Board Members Edwin and Doris Cohen

Featuring video interview with writer/director Tom Nesher

Israel’s Oscar selection, and winner of Israel’s Best Film and Best Director awards, Come Closer is an electrifying debut by Tom Nesher, daughter of acclaimed director Avi Nesher. Deeply personal, the film was made as a response to the tragic death of Tom’s younger brother, Ari. Lead actress Lia Elalouf is exhilarating and heartbreaking as she goes through a wild emotional journey that includes an intense and transformative relationship with a secret girlfriend from Ari’s past. 

Director: Tom Nesher

Writer: Tom Nesher

Stars: Lia Elalouf, Darya Rosenn

2024 | Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary | DCP

Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by Longtime Fort Lee Residents and Found BFC Board Members Edwin and Doris Cohen

Featuring Q&A with writer/director Ilana Trachtman

When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community living near the amusement park joined the Black students in picketing, the first interracial civil rights protest in US history was born, eventually leading to the creation of the Freedom Riders. With rare footage and immersive storytelling, four living protesters bring this story to life, revealing the power of heeding the impulse to activism.

Director: Ilana Trachtman

Writer: Ilana Trachtman

Stars: Voices of Mandy Patinkin, Jeffrey Wright

1983 | Rated PG | 133 min | Musical, Romance | DCP

Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by Longtime Fort Lee Residents and Found BFC Board Members Edwin and Doris Cohen

Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious school, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

Director: Barbra Streisand

Writers: Barbra Streisand, Jack Rosenthal

Stars: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving

1953 | Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Romance | DCP

Celebrating Luis Bunuel

A husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.

Director: Luis Bunuel

Writers: Luis Bunuel, Luis Alcoriza, Mercedes Pinto

Stars: Arturo de Cordova, Delia Garces, Aurora Walker

2003 | Rated G | 100 min | Animation, Adventure | DCP

BFC Monthly Programming: Sensory Friendly Screening

After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.

Directors: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich

Writers: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds

Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould