Stanley Kubrick
1) The shining
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a couple takes a job as hotel caretakers for the winter, their young son's psychic powers bring out the evil in the old hotel.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
3) Barry Lyndon
Series
Criterion collection volume 897
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of an eighteenth-century Irish rogue whose opportunism takes him from the farm to the battlefield and ultimately into high society as the husband of a widowed aristocrat.
4) The shining
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
7) Lolita
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed...
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
2001: a space odyssey: A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
Barry Lyndon: The rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.
Eyes wide shut: A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage...
9) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of a gladiator who leads slaves in a rebellion against the power of Rome.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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...
12) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
13) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Pub. Date
1957.
Language
English
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
14) Eyes wide shut
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery.
15) Barry Lyndon
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.
16) The shining
Pub. Date
©1980
Language
English
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Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.