Sidney Falco is a New York press agent caught up in a complex relationship with the powerful newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker. Falco needs to get his showbiz clients placed in the newspapers, and hangs around Hunsecker hoping...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2008 | 96 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Feb 16, 2010
In Northern Ireland’s Maze prison in 1981, twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands
went on a hunger strike to protest the British government’s refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates
as...
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...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1957 | 87 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Oct 26, 2010
Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax: take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up...
In Sicily during the 1800s, as the aristocracy found itself being suffocated by a newly democratic fervor, Prince Don Fabrizio Salina tries to hold on to the past, but it appears that his glory days are waning. This is perfectly...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1980 | 180 min | Rated PG | Region A (locked) | Aug 18, 2009
When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1964 | 110 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jan 11, 2011
An entertaining interpretation of the classic Defoe story, using an astronaut and his monkey, US astronaut Commander “Kit” Draper must fight for survival when his spaceship crash-lands on the barren waste of Mars, with a pet...
An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2009 | 108 min | Unrated | Region A (locked) | Nov 09, 2010
A couple is grieving the death of their young son. The mother is initially admitted to hospital following the incident, but her husband - a therapist - insists on taking her to their remote forest cabin, 'Eden', and looking after...
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic...
Widely hailed by critics as 2009’s best film, Summer Hours is the great contemporary French filmmaker Olivier
Assayas’s most personal film to date. Three siblings, played by Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, and Jérémie...
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 wife of the headmaster of a school for boys tires of his violent treatment of her, along with his philandering, and teams up with his mistress to kill him. When the body goes missing, the two mismatched women must uncover...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1987 | 133 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Jan 25, 2011
A satiric look at the inner workings of the Washington news bureau of a major TV network and the romantic triangle between the feisty young female producer, the vain male news anchor, and the good-hearted male reporter.
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1979 | 117 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Aug 28, 2012
London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Only when he's together with his friends, a 'Mod' clique, cruises London on his...
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...
