Criterion Collection (Firm)
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her gentle new husband, a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother, whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction.
2) Local hero
Series
Criterion collection volume 994
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
Series
Criterion collection volume 855
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When a woman's lover leaves her, she discovers that the police are looking for her because of his criminal activities. After talking to a female lawyer, she discovers that her lawyer is her old lover's new girlfriend
When an actress attempts suicide after her married lover rejects her, a chaotic series of events intervenes.
4) Repulsion
Series
Criterion collection volume 483
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.
5) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
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A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naïve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
Series
Criterion collection volume 840
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
An undertaker marries an executioner's daughter and reluctantly takes over her father's job so the family can keep their government allotted apartment.
7) Topsy-turvy
Series
Criterion collection volume 558
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Dramatization about the creation of The Mikado, exploring the tensions produced by the differences of temperment and style between Gilbert and Sullivan.
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
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Description
Classic Chaplin (the Little Tramp) prospects for gold, gets involved with a dance hall girl, and deals with a burly competitor during the Yukon gold rush.
Series
Criterion collection volume 810
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele who has a history of violent behavior becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police providing them...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Master of social discomfort Ruben �Ostlund trains his unsparing lens on the world of wealth, beauty, and privilege in this audacious, Palme d'Or, winning satire of our status-obsessed culture. A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down. Pushing each provocative set piece...