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06/20/2025

THE STORY OF A SUMMER LOVER, a coming-of-middle-age romantic comedy, is now roaming on OVID - the fourth film by Romanian filmmaker Paul Negoescu to join the platform!

“An unfussy, unpretentious crowd-pleaser.” —Variety

Now Streaming courtesy Dekanalog

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06/19/2025

“Standing at the crossroads of the yakuza genre as it began to incorporate ripped-from-the-headlines stories, SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG has lost none of its raw, kinetic power.” —Derek Smith, Slant Magazine

“This may be a yakuza film, but it plays more like noir, not least thanks to Takeo Yamash*ta’s hard jazz score, the flashbacks told in stylized photomontages, and the brooding fatalism that pervades everything.” —Anton Bitel, Little White Lies

Kinji Fukasaku's SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG 4K Restoration on OVID courtesy MVD Entertainment Group

06/19/2025

BORGMAN

“Bracingly creepy and off-kilter.” —David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

"Dogtooth meets Michael Haneke... never ceases to surprise." —Jessica Kiang, IndieWire

“Tensions flare, eeriness escalates, and body counts rise...” —Mekado Murphy, The New York Times

A vagrant torments an upper-class family in this creepy thriller directed by Alex van Warmerdam on OVID

06/18/2025

Some pre-Juneteenth Eve viewing!

We highly recommend GIL SCOTT-HERON: BLACK WAX by Robert Mugge, centering the indelible bluesologist and his 10-piece Midnight Band. The first film to use Steadicam from first frame to last, between musical performances Mr. Scott-Heron leads the camera on a unique tour of Washington, DC, confronting the ghosts of America's past (life-sized wax figures of John Wayne, Uncle Sam, Neil Armstrong, Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, four US Presidents, and black leaders from W.E.B. Du Bois to Martin Luther King).

Lovingly restored and streaming on OVID courtesy MVD Entertainment Group

06/17/2025

Critic’s Pick! “A whirlwind tour both of New York and of Mr. Levitch’s feverish mind… As much as Mr. Levitch’s voice grates, you can’t help but admire the zest for life of this heroically independent but impossibly self-centered crank.” —Stephen Holden, The New York Times

THE CRUISE starring Timothy “Speed” Levitch is on OVID courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories

This groundbreaking debut feature film from two-time Academy Award-nominated director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) is a love letter to NYC and an archive of beautifully distorted information about the city.

06/16/2025

Maybe this hits too close to the bone this week, but in any case...

WORLD WAR III, Houman Seyedi's award-winning dark thriller from Iran, is streaming on OVID courtesy MVD Entertainment Group

“Sharply conceived and agonizingly performed.” —IONCINEMA.com

"Daring work like this deserves to be seen by the widest audience possible." —Variety

Directed by Houman Seyedi • Drama • With Mohsen Tanabandeh, Mahsa Hejazi • 2022 • 107 minutes Winner of the Orizzonti Awards for Best Film and Actor at the Venice Film Festival 2022, director Houman Seyedi's mysterious thriller/drama focuses on an anonymous day laborer (Mohsen Tanabandeh) wh...

06/16/2025

IndieWire on Valérie Donzelli’s JUST THE TWO OF US:
“Nails the subtle nuances that make these marriages so hard to escape.” Best New Movies to Stream on OVID IndieWire

+ Special mentions:
REVOIR PARIS (streaming NOW)
THE CRUISE (tomorrow!)
BORGMAN (Thursday!)

From Netflix to Prime Video, and Shudder to the Criterion Channel, here are the best movies coming to each streaming platform this month.

06/16/2025

Thanks KPFK Film Club!

OVID.TV THIS WEEK, 6/13/25

This week: a "Deliciously Cryptic Quantum Thriller," Virginie Efira, Janie Geiser, and more! Get more info at: https://www.ovid.tv/

THE UNIVERSAL THEORY, Directed by Timm Kröger. The year of 1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain. A quantum mechanical thriller in black and white.

REVOIR PARIS, Directed by Alice Winocour. After a gunman opens fire on a Parisian bistro, a woman caught in the crossfire with a hazy memory of the attack finds herself repeatedly returning to the bistro where the shooting happened. In the process, she forms bonds with fellow survivors. Also recommended: AUGUSTINE, loosely based on 19th-century French neurologist Charcot (played by the always good Vincent Lindon), and his star teenage patient (played by Soko), and their er, shall we say, problematic dynamic...

JUST THE TWO OF US, Directed by Valérie Donzelli. When Blanche meets the charismatic Gregoire at a party her sister brings her to, she believes she has found the one, until she finds herself caught in the grip of a possessive and dangerous man, desperate to escape. Adapted from Éric Reinhardt’s prize-winning novel L’amour et les forêts by Valérie Donzelli and Audrey Diwan.

JANIE GEISER x 8 SHORTS: THE FOURTH WATCH & other select shorts by Janie Geiser. OVID presents eight experimental shorts by Janie Geiser, including The Fourth Watch, Film Comment’s Top Ten Avant-Garde Films of the Decade (2000-2010)
THE RED BOOK--Janie Geiser's The Red Book was shown in New Directors at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and is archived at the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

FILM OF THE WEEK, A Friday 13th Special...THE STRANGLER, Directed by Paul Vecchiali. The Strangler centers on Émile, a handsome young man targeting women he inuits to be too depressed to go on living.

PRIDE MONTH: Bask in OVID's vast collection of LGBTQ+ films, including P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE about the history of NYC's drag community. Plus, QUEEN OF LAPA, a portrait of cabaret performer, activist, and proud s*x professional Luana Muniz - one of Brazil's most famous transgender personalities; Q***R GENIUS starring Barbara Hammer, DYNASTY HANDBAG (Jibz Cameron), BLACK QUANTUM FUTURISM, MOOR MOTHER & EILEEN MYLES; and indie classics such as Lizzie Borden's BORN IN FLAMES + SO MUCH MORE.

Get the early scoop on the June lineup, here: https://metafilm.ovid.tv/

06/13/2025

JUST THE TWO OF US directed by Valérie Donzelli starring Virginie Efira & Melvil Poupaud is a "nervy, finely acted domestic thriller." —Variety

When Blanche meets the charismatic Gregoire at a party her sister brings her to, she believes she has found the one, until she finds herself caught in the grip of a possessive and dangerous man, desperate to escape.

“A solid and often uncomfortably tense domestic drama.” —Screen Daily

Now Streaming on OVID courtesy

06/13/2025

REVOIR PARIS by Alice Winocour starring Virginie Efira & Benoît Magimel is a "taut existential mystery" () and “a stunning examination of grief and recovery that will haunt you long after it is over.” ()

After a gunman opens fire on a Parisian bistro, a woman caught in the crossfire with a hazy memory of the attack finds herself repeatedly returning to the bistro where the shooting happened. In the process, she forms bonds with fellow survivors.

** Winner, César Award for Best Actress, 2023
** Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2022

Now Streaming on OVID courtesy

06/11/2025

“A deliciously cryptic quantum thriller.” —BFI

“Call it blanc noir. Or hi-fi sci-fi... For sure, it’s a dreamy pastiche of the era’s moody, existential movies. Co-writer and director Timm Kröger effortlessly evokes the chilly unease of Antonioni, Welles, and Tarkovsky while channeling plenty of Hitchcock vibes.” —Los Angeles Times

** World Premiere, Golden Lion at the 80th Venice International Film Festival

THE UNIVERSAL THEORY starring Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler on OVID courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories

06/11/2025

“This wonderfully slippery Hitchcockian sci-fi is an elegant puzzle box full of ingenious ideas.” —Time Out New York

Timm Kröger's THE UNIVERSAL THEORY is now streaming/entangling on OVID 💫

* World Premiere, Golden Lion at the 80th Venice International Film Festival

THE UNIVERSAL THEORY starring Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler on OVID courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories