Criterion Collection (Firm)
1) Stalker
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Russian
Description
Inside a mysterious realm called the zone there is The Room, a place that will grant you your innermost desire. Stalker, a man that knows how to pass the deadly secrets of The Zone, escorts a group of people to the Room.
2) City lights
Series
Criterion collection volume 680
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
None
Description
The most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace, in both physical comedy and dramatic poignancy, with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive...
Series
Criterion collection volume 753
Language
English
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A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, it recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Adams, a drifter who was charged with the murder of a Dallas police officer and sent to death row, despite overwhelming evidence that he did not commit the crime.
Series
Criterion collection volume 786
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The legendary documentarian finds Dylan in London during his 1965 tour, which would be his last as an acoustic artist and marked a turning point in his career. In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century₂s greatest artists thrust into the spotlight, Dylan is surrounded by teen fans; gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists; and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
Français
Description
France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse's first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative...
6) House: hausu
Series
Criterion collection volume 539
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
日本語
Description
Rather than spend the summer with her father and his girlfriend, Oshare decides to bring her friends to her aunt's country home, but do not realize that her aunt is actually dead and the house is haunted.
7) Slacker
Series
Criterion collection volume 247
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants.
8) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
Series
Criterion collection volume 707
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Italiano
Description
A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 643
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.
11) Notorious
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he has loved her all along.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
13) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the demands of career and love.
14) Inland empire
Series
Criterion collection volume 1175
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Strange, what love does." The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble...David Lynch's first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless series of unfathomably interconnected rabbit holes as it...
15) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
16) Cronos =
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2010.
Language
Español
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Description
Kindly antiques dealer Jesus Gris happens upon an ancient golden device, and soon finds himself possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious, crude American named Angel.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
18) Rashomon
Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
日本語
Description
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema, and a commanding new star.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1127
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twenty-something Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism,...
Series
Language
English
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Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.