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Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Language
English
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President, his aides and the Pentagon struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Internationally reknown 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...
5) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Français
Description
Pascal is a young French boy who discovers a stray balloon on the streets of Paris that seems to have a mind of its own and begins to follow Pascal everywhere. The two become inseparable, yet the world's harsh realities finally interfere. A touching allegory of the magic powers of love and friendship.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1218
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
8) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1106
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
10) Breaker Morant
Series
Criterion collection volume 773
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. Based on a play and true story.
11) Okja
Series
Criterion collection volume 1133
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Korean
Description
Mija is a South Korean girl growing up on an Edenic mountainside with her grandfather and best friend: Okja, a giant, empathetic "super pig" created as part of a secret GMO experiment. When Okja is abruptly torn away from her, Mija embarks on a perilous rescue mission that places her at the center of a sinister corporate conspiracy. While Bong's trademark virtuosic set-pieces dazzle, Okja's beating heart is the connection between a girl and her super...
12) Rushmore
Series
Criterion collection volume 65
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When two offbeat friends fall in love with the same woman, each takes drastic measures to win her heart.
13) The great beauty
Series
Criterion Collection volume 702
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Italiano
Description
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding supporting cast and influential jazz score by Duke Ellington,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Français
Description
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
17) The Bridge
Series
Criterion collection volume 763
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Deutsch
Description
The first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation's first postwar film to be widely shown internationally, even securing an Oscar nomination. Set near the end of the war, it follows a group of teenage boys in a small town as they contend with everyday matters like school, girls, and parents, before enlisting as soldiers and being forced to defend their home turf in a confused, terrifying battle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 646
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
Français
Description
Twelve-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on.
Series
Criterion collection volume 330
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2006, 1987
Language
English
Description
Based on the director's life, this film chronicles Malle's experiences during the German occupation of France in World War II.
20) The vanishing
Series
Criterion collection volume 133
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Nederlands
Description
A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a diabolically clinical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller.
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