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21) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
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Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naïve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
22) 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.
23) 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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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
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Czech
Description
In 1942, Tono and his wife are struggling because of his antipathy towards the fascist regime. His brother-in-law, the local fuehrer, chooses Tono to oversee a button shop owned by a sweet, harmless Jewish widow, Mrs. Lautman. When the Jews are ordered deported, the well-meaning Tono decides to shield her from the Nazis.
26) 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.
27) Tootsie
Series
Criterion collection volume 738
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
29) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 151
Language
English
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Description
It's a high-stakes, high-risk world of the drug trade. A Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in a deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in an upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his drug-addicted teenage...
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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Description
Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Français
Description
A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.
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
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Italiano
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
34) 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.
36) The leopard
Series
Criterion collection volume 235
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the years of Italy's Risorgimento, when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian version with optional subtitles, the English-language version, and special features. (This title has been repackaged.)
Recounting the years of Italy's Risorgimento-when the aristocracy lost its grip and the middle classes rose and formed a democratic Italy. Contains the original Italian...
38) Slacker
Series
Criterion collection volume 247
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants.
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Internationally renown oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew - Team Zissou - set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, always elusive, possibly non-existant Jaguar Shark that supposedly killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. On this journey, Steve's crew are joined by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son, a beautiful journalist who has been assigned to write a profile...
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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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.
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