Blood for Dracula is a modern, daring, and outrageous version that breathes new life into an age-old tale, starring the inimitable Udo Kier, whose Count comes upon the three beautiful daughters of an aristocratic landowner (Vittorio De Sica), only to be interfered with by the estate caretaker (Joe Dallesandro).

In one of Carlos Diegues’s most popular films, a motley crew of traveling performers entertains a wide range of audiences across Brazil’s northwestern Amazonian landscape. Accordionist Ciço (Fábio Júnior) and his wife Dasdô (Zaira Zambelli) join the rollicking caravan, leading to a string of adventures.

Sergio Corbucci’s delirious action-packed remake of his own film The Mercenary pairs spaghetti western stalwarts Franco Nero and Tomas Milian as an odd couple caught in the middle of the Mexican Revolution.

James Coburn is an IRA dynamite expert on the lam who teams up with a Mexican bandit (Rod Steiger); together they become accidental revolutionaries. Sergio Leone pulls out all the stops for this epic western-cum-war-picture, which features one of Ennio Morricone’s finest scores, spectacularly explosive set pieces, and healthy doses of the director’s idiosyncratic humor.

Made in response to an actual incident that occurred in Brazil in 1924 when a group of soldiers shot and killed a sacred ox, Ruy Guerra’s Berlinale Silver Bear-winner is one of the most important works of Brazilian cinema.

Roberto Santos’s Cinema Novo western follows the mythical “hero’s journey” of Augusto Matraga (Leonardo Villar), a violent farmer who is betrayed by his wife and nearly killed. After he is rescued by a pair of farmers, Matraga devotes his life to contrition until the opportunity for revenge arrives.

Among the very finest films in the storied career of the great American independent filmmaker John Sayles, Lone Star is an intricately staged, spellbinding neo-western set in a finely shaded world of psychologically complex characters, and one of cinema’s most searing portraits of border town politics.

While on a weekend camping trip on a remote beach, an unhappy suburban couple show little respect for the environment and encounter the bizarre but karmic vengeance of the Australian bush in Colin Eggleston’s brutal, unsettling, and nail-bitingly intense environmental horror film.

In Walter Hill’s backwoods horror masterpiece, the specter of the Vietnam War looms over a squad of National Guards when their weekend exercise in a Louisiana swamp turns into a violent survival game with a group of Cajuns.

Shot throughout the American West, this sad-toned sci-fi love story tells the story of an alien (Jeff Bridges) who takes the form of the deceased husband of a young Wisconsinite (Karen Allen), whom he forces to take him to Arizona. All the while, government agents chase them. Starman is alternately a warm romance and a melancholic ghost story with the breezy pacing of a road movie.

In 1964, Eduardo Coutinho was at work on a film about João Pedro Teixeira, who was murdered by the police as a result of his efforts to organize farm workers in northeast Brazil. Shooting was promptly halted as a result of the military coup that same year, but two decades later the director resumed production, resulting in a prismatically reflexive, genre-defying essay on political commitment and life under dictatorship.

Robin Hardy’s brilliant folk horror classic follows a devoutly Christian policeman, Howie (Edward Woodward), who travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate a lead on a missing girl. This is a 4K restoration of the most complete version of The Wicker Man.