Criterion Collection (Firm)
61) 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.
62) 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.
63) Belle de jour
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.
64) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader that consumes everyone in its path.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress María José, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist and run. The resulting tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain and surveys the corrept ethics of a society seduced by decadence.
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.
67) Local hero
Series
Criterion collection volume 994
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Swedish
Description
An orchestra violinist's dreams of becoming a celebrated soloist and fears of his own mediocrity get in the way of his marriage. To Joy is a heartbreaking tale of one man's inability to overcome the demons standing in the way of his happiness.
69) The last wave
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
70) 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 643
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
73) Come and see
Series
Criterion collection volume 1035
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Russian
Description
Follows a Belarusian teenage boy who joins the Soviet partisans after the Nazi invasion, and finds horror and destruction in their wake.
74) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Central American Indian
Description
Looks at the life of an early-1970s, middle-class family in Mexico City through the eyes of their indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running.
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 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
Criterion collection volume 855
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When a woman's lover leaves her, she discovers that the police are looking for her because of his criminal activities. After talking to a female lawyer, she discovers that her lawyer is her old lover's new girlfriend
When an actress attempts suicide after her married lover rejects her, a chaotic series of events intervenes.
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.
79) Ace in the hole
Series
Criterion collection volume 396
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a man is trapped alive in a mine collapse, an amoral, down-on-his-luck reporter takes over and prolongs the rescue effort in order to make a name for himself.
80) King of the hill
Series
Criterion collection volume 698
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
King of the hill: Set in St. Louis during the Depression, it follows the daily struggles of a resourceful and imaginative adolescent who, after his tubercular mother is sent to a sanatorium, must survive on his own in a run-down hotel during his salesman father₂s long business trips.
Underneath: A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his ex-wife...