The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1990 | 104 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | May 28, 2013
Family life with Andy, a professional chef who buys a decrepit hamburger van, his wife Wendy, a part-time waitress, and their daughters Nicola, sex and Marx-obsessed and a secret bullimic, and Natalie, an apprentice plumber who...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1936 | 97 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jun 18, 2013
Beginning before World War II and travelling to 2036 AD, this journey predicts a host of modernities before following a rocketship to the moon. Massey is a future leader determined to restore law and order. Based on the story by...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1985 | 550 min | Not rated | Region A (B, C untested) | Jun 25, 2013
SHOAH is a magical film about the most barbaric act of the 20th century. Previous commentaries on the Holocaust, with its ravished skeletons and corpses, have left us shaken, but now for the first time, we experience it in our...
'Yojimbo' - Thanks to perhaps the most indelible character in Akira Kurosawa’s oeuvre, Yojimbo surpassed even
Seven Samurai in popularity when it was released.
'Sanjuro' - Made one year later, Sanjuro matches...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1935 | 86 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jun 26, 2012
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed -- with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1991 | 115 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Apr 09, 2013
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2008 | 166 min | Rated PG-13 | Region A (locked) | May 05, 2009
"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us,...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2001 | 110 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Aug 14, 2012
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children—Chas, Margot, and Richie—and then they separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of...
This absorbing tale of exploration and survival concerns four members of a geological expedition who are stranded in the bleak and unforgiving Siberian wilderness while on a mission to find diamonds.
In 19th century Denmark, two adult sisters live in an isolated village with their father, who is the honored pastor of a small Protestant church that is almost a sect unto itself. Although they each are presented with a real...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1998 | 170 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Sep 28, 2010
As US soldiers land on the island of Guadalcanal, hoping to capture it from the Japanese, the job of venturing into the jungle falls to the 'C for Charlie' company and the troops are faced by both the enemy and struggles within...
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses sparks an intimate bond between them.
