The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1947 | 103 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jul 20, 2010
Anglo-Catholic nuns on an isolated missionary assignment in the Himalayas face an assortment of worldly challenges including sexual temptations and other intriguing ups and downs. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden.
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...
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called "Videodrome." As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1963 | 101 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jan 18, 2011
Johnny Barrett is a young, ambitious reporter who feigns insanity in order to be committed to an asylum where three patients witnessed a brutal murder. Intending simply to uncover the murderer, Johnny soon finds that his own...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2008 | 122 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Feb 16, 2010
In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works as an assistant in a brothel, where he falls
for
Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a
rural cop
and...
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive
trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their
explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire,...
Made up of six short episodes with six main characters--all revolving around the four-sided
criminality between the port of Naples, Scampia, Castelvolturno and Terzigno, and based on the
best selling book by Roberto Saviano,...
Working outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage made nearly four hundred films. Challenging all taboos in his
exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” Brakhage turned his camera on explicit lovemaking,...
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...
In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noël Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations. With the wartime military drama sensation In Which We Serve,...
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from...
Recently released convict Muraki meets the beautiful Saeko at a gambling house. Soon, they are lovers on the lam, navigating the menacing underworld of Tokyo, where danger lurks around every corner.
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1998 | 113 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Jul 24, 2012
During the early 1980s as the Disco era comes to an end, a pair of recent Hampshire College grads move to Manhattan and are befriended by a group of Harvard grads.
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story
of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual
tour de force, a formally...
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...
Swedish master Jan Troell ('The Emigrants', 'The New Land') returns triumphantly with 'Everlasting Moments', a vivid, heartrending story of a woman liberated through art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Though poor and...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2007 | 154 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jul 27, 2010
When patriarch Slimane acts on his wish to open a port-side restaurant specializing in his ex-wife’s fish couscous, the extended clan’s passions and problems explode.
