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Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
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Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
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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.
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Criterion collection volume 647
Language
English
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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
4) Charade
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 334
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1973 Harlan County, Kentucky coal miners' strike against the operators of the Brookside mine and the Duke Power Company, which resulted from the company's refusal to honor the national contract of the United Mine Workers of America when the miners joined the union.
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Criterion collection volume 398
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
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The close relationship of a brother and sister destroys their family.
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Pu Yi is the last of the Emperor of China who from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City was the object of worship by half a billion people. From his abdication, to his decline and dissolute lifestyle. His life was exploitated by the invading Japanese and his term as the emperor of Japan's Manchuguo. He was eventually released back to public life in 1959 and died as gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking.
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Criterion collection volume 459
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
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A group of high-society friends find themselves unable to leave their host's mansion after a lavish dinner party.
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, and Elisha Cook Jr., The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. With its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense...
Series
Criterion collection volume 557
Language
English
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"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.
11) The gold rush
Series
Criterion collection volume 615
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
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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.
12) Jour de fête =
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Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
Français
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In this enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village.
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Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Set at the turn of the twentieth century, follows the aftermath of the disappearance of three students and a young teacher from an all-girls school while on a school picnic.
14) Scanners
Series
Criterion collection volume 712
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other 'scanners' have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious...
15) Tati shorts =
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
Français
Description
The charming short films directed by Jacques Tati.
Series
Criterion collection volume 751 & 752
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Errol Morris changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the US, and his career began with two remarkable tales of American eccentricity: The first uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry; the second travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, a laconic policeman, engaged in individualistic,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 750
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Former soldier Lucky Gagin comes to a small New Mexico town on a mission to find the man who killed his best friend.
18) Desert hearts
Series
Criterion collection volume 902
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1950s, a repressed English professor goes to Reno for a quick divorce and while waiting for her papers to finalize, has a passionate affair with a young woman.
19) Personal shopper
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young woman living in Paris working as a personal shopper and moonlighting as a medium believes her twin brother who died is trying to connect with her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 867
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A famous political commentator and a crass sports reporter at the same newspaper can't stand each other, until they fall in love.
A sports writer and an international columnist, opposites in nearly everything, fall deeply in love despite constant quarrels.
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