The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune, was one of Japan’s most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery. Based on a...
French Resistance activist Andre Devigny is imprisoned by the Nazis, and devotes his waking hours to planning an elaborate escape. Then, on the same day, he is condemned to death, and given a new cellmate. Should he kill him, or...
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.
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.
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Criterion | 1952 | 89 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Sep 04, 2012
A retired bureaucrat struggles to live on his meager pension in Rome, about to be kicked out of his apartment for back rent, and his only companion his small dog.
Ex-con Johnny Clay has a plan, a $2 million plan to knock-off a race track. The plan is perfect; Johnny and his crew go in, they get out with the money, and no one gets hurt. Nothing can go wrong, Johnny has covered all the...
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...
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...
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...
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Criterion | 1971 | 92 min | Rated PG | Region A (locked) | Jun 12, 2012
Harold is a death-obsessed teenager who hangs around in cemeteries and drives a hearse. When he attends a funeral and meets his polar opposite Maude, a life-loving 79-year-old, a strange love affair ensues. However, the offbeat...
François Truffaut’s first feature, The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s life-long cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), The 400 Blows...
This is where it all started. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece Stagecoach revolutionized the
western, elevating it from B movie to the A-list. The quintessential tale of a group of strangers thrown together
into...
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Criterion | 1967 | 101 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Jan 17, 2012
Forty-two years after it was first released, Luis Buñuel's story of an affluent and frigid housewife who acts out her masochistic sexual fantasies by taking a part- time job at a Paris brothel spending her afternoons exploring...
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Criterion | 1963-1983 | 2 Movies | 130 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Feb 07, 2012
One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue: La Jetée and Sans Soleil couldn’t seem more different—but they’re the twin pillars of an unparalleled and...
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Criterion | 1984 | 145 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Jan 26, 2010
Paris, Texas follows the efforts of the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis to reconnect
with his young son, living with his brother in Los Angeles, and his missing wife.
The film follows a band of resistance fighters in German-controlled France. As the war continues, the grip of the occupying force tightens, and friendships, loyalty and trust give way to suspicion, secrecy and loss.
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....
