Pittsburgh Filmmakers brings back films you might’ve missed

Discover this year’s indie movies or watch “Apocalypse Now Redux” with bigger action than… Discover this year’s indie movies or watch “Apocalypse Now Redux” with bigger action than you’ve seen before.

Or do both: Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents this month’s selection of films showing at the Melwood Screening Room, The Harris Theater, and the Regent Square Theater, a palate that places thought-provoking pieces alongside classic adventure films.

The Harris Theater’s “Seven Favorites You May Have Missed” series offers critically acclaimed and thoughtful films such as “King Corn.”

The documentary, running from tonight until Thursday, covers two college buddies’ journey from planting one acre of corn in Iowa, harvesting it, and discovering all the unexpected ways corn is used in American society. A better known 2007 film is Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution,” starting Jan. 21, about a Japanese occupation-era student’s entry into espionage by becoming a mistress for the new government’s most dangerous man.

Also showing this weekend is the idealist college graduate tragedy, “Into the Wild,” and starting Jan. 25 is the religion investigation documentary “For the Bible Tells Me So.”

Regent Square offers little-known movies of quality from the past few years. “Kings,” a Gaelic-language film running Friday through Jan. 24, covers 30 years between a group of Irish friends who travel to London in the ’70s and are reunited for a wake when one of their number dies.

Also featured is “El Violin,” the tale of an elderly guerrilla who smuggles ammunition in his violin, which starts Jan. 25.

The Melwood Screening Room offers an activist film about the destruction of the environment in the Andes mountains due to mining titled, “Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder and Mining” on Saturday.

An art-house tale of a mailman chased by gangsters for bootlegging his favorite opera singer’s material, “Diva” starts Jan. 25.

If you prefer action to art-house, you can catch “Apocalypse Now Redux” on Thursday.

Viewers will be pleased to know that not only does the film deliver on good storytelling, it also remains a pillar of film canon, providing artistic elements, as well as action.

Filmmakers offers the artistic and adventurous, sometimes in the context of a single film. You can’t lose this month.