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1) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Dickens' tale of a young orphan on the streets of London.
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end.
2) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
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Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
4) 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 647
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them
6) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 151
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Description
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack cocaine addict.
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning...
7) Charade
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Description
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 260
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Français
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Description
A mad scientist tries to restore his daughter's face by grafting skin from young women he murders.
Series
Criterion collection volume 317
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Film version of the opera uses a combination of dramatization and stage performances to tell the story of a poet who dreams up three women who each break his heart.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
The story of a widower and his daughter who through devotion to him is getting past a marriageable age. The father pretends to marry a young wife so his daughter will feel less obligated to stay with him. She marries and he prepares to live the remainder of his life alone.
Series
Criterion collection volume 462
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew who feels compelled to leave the country in order to survive the German occupation during WWII. His wife Marion is an actress and a member of the Resistance who goes on to direct the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive by rehearsing a new play. She hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. The troupe believes that the show must go on no matter the circumstances. But Lucas never left the country,...
12) Wings of desire
Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An angel falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist and is willing to give up his immortal life to be with her.
13) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
14) Days of heaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the farmer to die,...
15) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dramatizes the final days of Bobby Sands, a twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member who went on a hunger strike at Maze Prison to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners.
16) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A young ballerina is torn between love and success.
17) Stagecoach
Series
Criterion collection volume 516
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A group of passengers with nothing in common is stuck inside a coach that is being attacked by bandits and Indians.
Series
Criterion collection volume 216
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes a weekend at a marquis's countryside château, where the rich and their servants gather, and which exposes some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances in the early days of World War II.
Series
Criterion collection volume 17
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
In Nazi-occupied Italy, four local magistrates kidnap eighteen teenagers and subject them to torture and sexual degradation.
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
After moving into neighboring apartments, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen discover that their spouses are having an affair.
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