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.
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 | 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...
Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. Homage to late choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009), a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance. Bausch was the artistic head of Tanztheater Wuppertal, a German...
Biswambhar Roy is a zamindar (landlord) and the last of his kind. With the title, he has none of the perquisites, inheriting diminishing lands that are being eroded by the neighbouring river. But he must maintain the lifestyle of...
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,...
Named by the British Film Institute as one of the ten best British films of the century, Ken Loach’s Kes, is cinema’s quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy (an astonishingly naturalistic David Bradley)...
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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...
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...
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.
Vivre sa vie was a turning point for Jean-Luc Godard and remains one of his most dynamic films, combining
brilliant visual design with a tragic character study. The lovely Anna Karina, Godard’s greatest muse, plays Nana,
a...
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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 story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1989 | 110 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Jun 15, 2010
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in Memphis, the city of dreams. Mystery Train is a triptych of stories that pay playful tribute to the home of Stax...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1984 | 90 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Mar 29, 2011
The life story of the visionary and charismatic political activist Harvey Milk. Milk was the first openly gay candidate ever elected to political office in California, but after only serving eleven months as city supervisor of...
