'N Sync: Bigger Than Live

In this large-format film, Lance, Justin, Chris, JC, and Joey perform songs from No Strings Attached at four different locations. more...

N.Y.H. C.

The title stands for “New York hardcore,” and this video documentary by Frank Pavich offers a comprehensive look at the city's underground music scene, from its origins in punk to the present. more...

• by Fred Camper

N-Secure (R)

David M. Matthews directed this thriller about a successful man who becomes involved in murder. more...

• Tags: Drama

Nacho Libre

Jared and Jerusha Hess, the Mormon couple who cowrote Napoleon Dynamite, take their oddball comedy down to Oaxaca for this tale of a cook at a Catholic orphanage (Jack Black) who decides to raise money for the kids by moonlighting as a masked wrestler. more...

• by J.R. Jones

Die Nacht

Hans Jurgen Syberberg's six-hour trance film takes place during the last night of World War II, as a woman (Edith Clever) sitting in the ruined courtyard of the Danish embassy in Berlin and surrounded by artifacts of the German culture that has just come to its end recites a series of excerpts taken from the classics of German romanticism. more...

• by Dave Kehr

Nada

Claude Chabrol's 1973 thriller about a group of political kidnappers in Paris seems to record his disenchantment with the French left during this period as well as his cynical disapproval of the government. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Nadhiya Kollapetta Ratri

A Bollywood crime thriller by K. Madhu. more...

Nadine

A mild, romantic comedy-thriller, set in Austin, Texas, in 1954. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Nadja

Dracula's daughter—and more specifically, Lambert Hillyer's Dracula's Daughter (1936)—comes to Manhattan's East Village in a quirky, lyrical independent feature by writer-director Michael Almereyda. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Nadya's Village

Dudichi, a Belarusian village near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, is the focus of this documentary (1997, 118 min.) more...

Nagisa Oshima: The Man Who Left His Soul on Film

Virtually a crash course on the most important and talented living Japanese filmmaker after Kurosawa and on related aspects of contemporary Japanese politics and culture. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Recommended

Naked

Brilliant, problematic, and hyperbolic, Mike Leigh's postapocalyptic look at post-Thatcher England may look like allegory, but only because the picaresque story line, this time involving lone individuals rather than families, seems to sprawl more randomly than usual (which, incidentally, makes the customary clash of acting styles all the more glaring). more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Naked Among Wolves

Frank Beyer's 1963 East German film, written by Buchenwald survivor Bruno Apitz, effectively presents the camp's brutal conditions. more...

• by Fred Camper

Naked Boys Singing!

This video version of the stage revue clearly lacked much of a production budget, but then again, costumes aren't exactly an issue. more...

• by Andrea Gronvall

Naked Childhood

A volatile realist who's often been compared to John Cassavetes, Maurice Pialat started out as a painter and a documentary filmmaker, though in contrast to most realist works (as well as most paintings) his movies are too intimate to date very much. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum