(Werner Herzog, West Germany 1987, 111 min., 35mm)

In his final performance for director Herzog, Klaus Kinski plays a fiery Brazilian bandit in the late 19th century who’s recruited by a sugar-plantation owner to sail to West Africa and reopen the slave trade. Driven to an inspired madness soon after arriving, he trains a vast army of female warriors to rebel against their ruthless king. Filled with visual poetry and a stunning conclusion, the unjustly neglected Cobra Verde was not screened in US theaters until this year!