The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1948 | 133 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jul 20, 2010
Michael Powell directs Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a famous ballerina who must choose
between art and love filmed in glorious Technicolor Jack Cardiff cinematography.
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...
'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...
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 | 1971 | 102 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Jan 08, 2013
The Driver and The Mechanic are two car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy throughout the southwestern U.S. looking for other cars to race. They are totally dedicated to The Car and converse with each other only when necessary. At a gas...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1963 | 113 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Sep 21, 2010
A trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American woman through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them. The only person she can trust is a suave, mysterious stranger.
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...
In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine....
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,...
This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films were named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1940 | 125 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | May 24, 2011
Chaplin plays two characters in his first full talkie. Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of Tomania, and a
Jewish barber. The barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his
country. The film...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1980 | 217 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Nov 20, 2012
A Harvard graduate relocates to Wyoming as a federal marshal; there, he learns of a government-sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area’s European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the bloody...
In 1930s rural American South, psychopathic preacher Harry Powell is arrested for a minor offence. His cell mate, Ben Harper, facing the death penalty, confides that he has hidden $10,000 from a bank robbery. When Powell is...
A petty criminal, wanted for the murder of a police officer, returns to Paris where he meets an American girl who hawks
newspapers. They become lovers, but eventually the police pressure her into betraying him and revealing his...
In a huge, old-fashioned luxury hotel a stranger tries to persuade a married woman to run away with him, but it seems she hardly remembers the affair they may have had (or not?) last year at Marienbad...
Jesús Gris is an antique dealer who, with his granddaughter Aurora, discovers a mysterious scarab-like object at the base of an old statue. The statue's previous owner was a 16th century alchemist who sought eternal life and the...
Three brothers from the US who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other - to become brothers again like they used to be. Their...