The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1983 | 124 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Sep 28, 2010
Celliers, a high-ranking British officer, is interned by the Japanese as a POW. The camp commander becomes obsessed with the mysterious blond major. Meanwhile, lieutenant colonel Mr. Lawrence tries to bridge the emotional and...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2001 | 114 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Oct 20, 2009
Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and
chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-
middle-class Indian family’s only daughter,...
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...
A shipwrecked sailor finds himself trapped on a remote island in the South Seas. While there, he discovers the island is home to a mad doctor who performs strange genetic experiments.
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1965 | 105 min | Unrated | Region A (locked) | Jul 28, 2009
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this
controversial, chilling tale of psychosis, starring Catherine Deneuve as Carol, a fragile, frigid
young beauty cracking up over the course...
At the turn of the century, suffering Italian factory workers, with the help of a poverty-stricken professor, form a labor union to fight for better conditions.
This set includes all of Vigo’s titles: À propos de Nice, an absurdist, rhythmic slice of life from the bustling coastal city of the title; Taris, an inventive short portrait of a swimming champion; Zéro de...
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...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1986 | 107 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Jul 17, 2012
A pair of petty thiefs/losers end up in a jail cell with an Italian tourist. In a strange twist of luck, the three manage to escape and wander the backwoods in search of what to do next.
Called "the greatest rock film ever made," this landmark documentary follows the Rolling
Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When 300,000 members of the Love Generation
collided with a few dozen Hell's Angels at San...
An autobiographical account of the filmmaker's childhood friendship, at a Catholic boarding school in 1944, with a Jewish boy the headmaster is trying to save by hiding him under a false name.
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1955 | 114 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Feb 16, 2010
Lola Montès is a visually ravishing, newly restored, narratively daring dramatization of the life of the notorious courtesan and
showgirl presented in the form of a circus attraction recounting her scandalous past in...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1931 | 110 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | May 11, 2010
A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled offscreen tells us that a young girl will be killed. “Who Is the
Murderer?” pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert, closes in on little Elsie Beckmann. In his...
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami ('Taste of Cherry', 'Ten') has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This...
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...
Written and directed by Jean Cocteau, this allegorical film retells the legend of Orpheus in a contemporary setting. Orphee is a successful Parisian poet, whom--despite popular acclaim--feels isolated and uninspired. When his...
In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances as Jack, a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He...
