What’s New on Kino Film Collection in July 2025
April Olrich and Helen Mirren in Hussy
Streaming on July 3
The American Nurse
Carolyn Jones, US, 2013
This heart-warming film follows the paths of five nurses in various practice specialties and explores some of the biggest issues facing America through their work. It is an examination of real people that will change how we think about nurses and how we wrestle with the challenges of healing America. An important contribution to our ongoing conversation about what it means to care.
Streaming on July 10
Deadly Circuit
Claude Miller, France, 1983
Isabelle Adjani is the ultimate femme fatale, luring wealthy men to their deaths in this Euro-noir thriller. A solitary detective, “The Eye,” is convinced she is his long-lost daughter and shadows her across Europe, helping her elude the police as she changes identities during her murder spree. But when she falls in love with a blind artist, The Eye’s obsession grows even more extreme—and deadly.
Vice and Virtue
Roger Vadim, France, 1963
Set in Nazi-occupied France, “Vice and Virtue” is a stylized retelling of the Marquis de Sade's “Justine”. Two sisters navigate very different paths as they struggle to survive under a morally corrupt regime. Juliette enjoys the spoils of war as the mistress of an SS colonel, while Justine (Catherine Deneuve), whose husband is seized, is taken to a chateau to be groomed as a concubine.
Streaming on July 17
As I Open My Eyes
Leyla Bouzid, Tunisia, France, Belgium, 2015
“As I Open My Eyes” depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional expectations of her family with her creative life as the singer in a politically charged rock band. Director Leyla Bouzid's musical feature debut offers a nuanced portrait of the individual implications of the incipient Arab Spring.
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer
Jeff Zimbalist, US, 2024
Explore the rollercoaster life of America’s most controversial and bestselling author of the 20th Century, Norman Mailer. Prophet, hedonist, violent criminal, literary outlaw, and social provocateur, Mailer’s ideas cut to the core of human nature, are more relevant than ever today, and point to a prescription for waking ourselves up, free of society’s expectations, and coming alive as a people.
Streaming on July 24
The Anonymous People
Greg Williams, US, 2013
Millions of Americans live in long-term recovery from addiction, yet social stigma and anonymity keep their voices hidden. Advocates—leaders, volunteers, executives, and celebrities—are laying it all on the line to save others like them. This passionate new public recovery movement is changing the conversation to help transform public opinion and shift policy toward lasting recovery solutions.
The Bridge
Eric Steel, US, 2005
“The Bridge” is a visual and visceral journey into one of life's gravest taboos. Director Eric Steel and his crew spent an entire year focusing on San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge, documenting nearly two dozen suicides and a great many unrealized attempts. Incredibly frank, and often heart-wrenching, it offers glimpses into the darkest and most impenetrable corners of the human mind.
Streaming on July 31
Hussy
Matthew Chapman, UK, 1980
Helen Mirren stars as a high-price call girl operating out of a posh London nightclub in this tense and provocative plunge into organized crime of Thatcher-era England. When she becomes romantically involved with a handsome American she is tempted to escape her occupation but a diabolical ex-boyfriend pulls her into a drug-dealing underworld away from her hopes of redemption.