Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series
Criterion collection volume 197
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Français
Description
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, the film contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
Series
Criterion collection volume 820
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine-like leaders.
Series
Criterion collection volume 253
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As a suburban housewife suffers an emotional breakdown, her family struggles to help her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1963, c2008
Language
日本語
Description
A shoe company magnate must decide whether to save his company or his chauffeur's kidnapped son.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means...
7) The graduate
Series
Criterion collection volume 800
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he₂s dating.
Series
Criterion collection volume 593
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
cc2012
Language
Français
Description
The porcelain perfection of Catherine Deneuve hides a cracked interior in the actress's most iconic role: Severine, a chilly Paris housewife by night, a bordello prostitute by day.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1037
Language
English
Description
Byron Haskin's genre-defining sci-fi classic, an Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel by H. G. Wells, is both an influential triumph of visual imagination and a still-disquieting document of the wonder and terror of the atomic age.
Series
Criterion collection volume 557
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the first feature documentaries to address gay life in America, it's a work of advocacy itself, bringing Milk's message of hope and equality to a wider audience." -- Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Italiano
Description
In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief
13) 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.
14) Harold and Maude
Series
Criterion collection volume 608
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by...
15) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought ... Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene"--Container.
16) Kiss me deadly
Series
Criterion collection volume 568
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mike Hammer, a private detective in Los Angeles, gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs, and after almost being killed himself, Mike tries to solve the murder.
17) Rushmore
Series
Criterion collection volume 65
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Max Fischer, a tenth-grader at Rushmore Academy, is involved in too many extra-curricular activities, and, as he tries to avoid getting expelled because of his grades, Max befriends a first-grade teacher, whom he falls in love with, and a melancholy, self-made millinaire.
18) Lost highway
Series
Criterion collection volume 1152
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"We've met before, haven't we?" A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch's seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker's most potent cinematic dreamscapes. The film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.
"......
19) 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.
20) Eraserhead
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.