Janus Films
1) Pickpocket =
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Michel, an insignificant man who drifts into crime, is arrested and imprisoned. Upon release, he abandons an attempt at reform when a master pickpocket teaches him his art.
Series
Criterion collection volume 746
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.
Series
Criterion collection volume 778
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
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 761
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Czech
Description
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored, and spilling over with surreal fancies.
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
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
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Polish
Description
On the last day of World War II, Maciek, a young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader. The Soviet leader has arrived in town to establish a new government. A mistake leads Maciek to a beautiful barmaid who shows him what his life could be like. Although killing has been easy for Maciek in the past, Szczuka was a fellow soldier, and Maciek must decide whether to follow the orders to kill him.
10) Modern times
Series
Criterion collection volume 543
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job. Primarily a silent film with music and sound effects, but occasional voices emanate from radios and television screens.
11) Kapò
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010, c1959
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of a Jewish girl sent to a concentration camp during World War II and her struggle to survive by stealing another's identity.
12) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.