IU Cinema

Rudy Ruettiger wants to play football at the University of Notre Dame, but has neither the money for tuition nor the grades to qualify for a scholarship. Trying desperately to get out of the steel mill after his best friend dies on the job, Rudy gains admission to Notre Dame and begins to fight... Learn more

The Greenest Building addresses an issue that has become more pressing within historic preservation as time goes on by posing questions on the best course of action for lowering carbon emissions in the built environment. In an era when up to 30% of the existing building stock is being demolished... Learn more

A Question of Color weaves together interviews with Black Americans of every complexion to explore colorism in the 1980s and early 1990s. Director Kathe Sandler also narrates the film, providing historical context, personal anecdotes, and sharing critical perspectives about colorism. The... Learn more

One of the greatest cult films of all time, Reefer Madness theatrically dramatizes the sensational dangers of the most frightful assassin of our youth, Public Enemy No. 1: marijuana! Originally produced as Tell Your Children, the film serves as a riotous cautionary tale when one decides to tangle... Learn more

Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989. [95 min; documentary; English] A Q&A with Christine Choy will follow the screening. This event is co-sponsored... Learn more

Oscar nominee Christine Choy has produced and directed over 70 works, in various forms, all of which are imbued with her electrifying energy and activist spirit. Most well-known for her Academy-nominated film Who Killed Vincent Chin?, her work has received numerous awards and Choy has been the... Learn more

Explore the circumstances of the murder of Vincent Chin, a Detroit resident who was the victim of a hate crime in a climate of anti-Japanese sentiment among auto workers who witnessed their factories being shut down, and the lengths his family and community will go for justice. Restored by The... Learn more

The Fifth Annual Montage Film Festival is IU's annual celebration of student-produced films. Submitted films are viewed and judged by IU alumni and awarded in several categories, including Best in Show, Best Cinematography, and Best Acting or Performance. Montage is a collaboration between IU... Learn more

With unrelenting dread and an already distinct visual style, Steven Spielberg’s grueling feature debut kicked off the 1970s reminding all mild-mannered motorists the open road isn’t always a safe haven. When meek salesman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) hits the desert highway for a sales call, he’s... Learn more

"My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own." An official selection of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Is There Anybody Out There? documents filmmaker Ella Glendining's personal search to track down other individuals with the same rare disability. The film also... Learn more

Bill Preston and Ted Logan are two cool dudes, but to their teacher they are high school no-hopers. They fantasize about forming a band called Wyld Stallyns—one day they'll pull themselves together and learn to play guitar. But unless Ted achieves the seemingly impossible and passes a history... Learn more

Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, and Anthony Hopkins star in director Francis Ford Coppola's visually stunning, passionately seductive version of the classic Dracula legend. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance,... Learn more

When sadistic thugs attack John Wick (Keanu Reeves)—a brilliantly lethal, but retired, ex-assassin—he hunts them down with the skill, ruthlessness, and precision that made him an underworld legend. Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, John Leguizamo, Willem Dafoe, and Bridget Moynahan co-star in this... Learn more

Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze star in this nonstop action thriller about an FBI agent, Johnny Utah, lured by the rush when he goes undercover to unmask a band of thrill-seeking surfers who rob banks to fund their addiction to pulling off the most daring score, surviving the greatest danger, and... Learn more

Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper star in this pulse-pounding thriller filled with breathtaking stunts and unexpected romance. Jack Traven (Reeves) is an L.A. cop sent to diffuse a bomb planted on a bus by a vengeful extortionist (Hopper). Not only that, but Jack and a passenger... Learn more

An English-language reimagining of the 2000 South Korean film Il Mare, Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves reunite to star in The Lake House, a romantic tale of two people who find a love strong enough to span the years separating the couple. As lonely Dr. Kate Forster (Bullock) exchanges letters... Learn more