Sarsgaard plays Yale psychology professor Stanley Milgram in Michael Almereyda’s inventive drama about his life and legendary experiments that shocked the world.
Michael Shannon plays a father devoted to protecting his son, a child with inexplicable powers, from all who want those powers. Jeff Nichols directs this superhero noir thriller.
This short-lived series from creator Sam Shaw dramatizes the development of the atomic bomb through the stories of fictionalized characters working at Los Alamos.
Kinji Fukasaku, the madman of Japanese yakuza cinema, directs this gleefully gruesome splatter satire of teenage nihilism, adult paranoia, and social sadism.
Director Ruben Östlund uses dark humor to explore parental expectations and obligations after a crisis reveals a failure of nerve, and delivers a comedy with a dramatic foundation that leaves audiences with issues to chew over.
The most glamorous movie star of her day was also a pioneering scientist who never received credit for her history-changing invention until the end of her long, complicated life.
