Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living
under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffaut’s gripping, humanist
character study. Against all odds—a Jewish...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1999 | 160 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Mar 29, 2011
In 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, Gilbert and Sullivan's latest work, "Princess Ida," receives lukewarm press. Sullivan rejects Gilbert's next idea as "topsy-turvy" and unbelievable, and although...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2008 | 2 Movies | 270 min | Rated R | Region A (locked) | Jan 19, 2010
On November 26, 1956, Fidel Castro sails to Cuba with eighty rebels. One of those rebels is
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio del Toro), an Argentine doctor who shares a common goal
with Fidel Castro - to overthrow the corrupt...
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...
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.
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...
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Criterion | 1963 | 90 min | Not rated | Region A (B, C untested) | Jul 16, 2013
After their plane crashes on an isolated island, a group of grade-school boys revert to savagery despite the attempts of a few to prevent it. (A film adaptation of William Golding's novel.)
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 2011 | 109 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Oct 16, 2012
Nik is a carefree Albanian teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1930 | 73 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jun 28, 2011
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) represents an astonishing confluence of talent—an early collaboration by a group of German filmmakers who would all go on to become major Hollywood players, including eventual noir masters...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1932 | 71 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Oct 25, 2011
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 | 1967-1986 | 3 Movies | 146 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Sep 22, 2009
This director-approved special edition Criterion Collection contains four performance films by
legendary documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker from the unforgettable 1967 Monterey Pop
Festival. Titles included are 'Monterey...
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...
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,...
The Criterion Collection
Criterion | 1996 | 94 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Aug 14, 2012
15-year-old Igor and his father Roger run a hostel for illegal immigrants. Peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium, their lives are ruled by scams, lies and swindling. But when an African worker dies on...
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 | 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 | 1964 | 90 min | Not rated | Region A (locked) | Jan 18, 2011
Kelly is a feminist who takes on the causes of abused women and disabled children. Originally a prostitute, she flees from the city to a small town where she reforms and becomes a pediatric nurse after she looks in the mirror and...
