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Series
Criterion collection volume 1188
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Chinese immigrant, who is a widow, faces the New Year with apprehension after it was foretold that it would be the year she would die. All of the things she wants to do before she dies come into focus, including seeing her daughter married and visiting China one last time to pay her respects.
2) Tokyo story
Series
Criterion collection volume 217
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Description
A self-centered couple is inconvenienced by a parental visit. When the mother falls ill, her children hasten to be with her.
3) The graduate
Series
Criterion collection volume 800
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
Series
Criterion collection volume 696
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.
6) La piscine
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.
Series
Criterion collection volume 802
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
The film follows a young literature student who befriends the members of a loose-knit group of twenty-somethings in Paris, united by the apparent suicide of an acquaintance. Suspicious of the death, she investigates to see if conspiracy was involved.
9) Godzilla
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
日本語
Description
It's also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama made in Japan at a time when the country was still reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire populations fears, became a beloved international icon of destruction, spawning more than twenty sequels and spinoffs. Here, we present the original, 1954 Japanese version, along with Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the 1956 American...
10) Heaven can wait
Series
Criterion collection volume 291
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Newly deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve arrives at the outer offices of Hades where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of Hell. Though the Devil doubts he will qualify, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime wooing and pursuing women.
11) Dressed to kill
Series
Criterion collection volume 770
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 778
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
13) The naked prey
Series
Criterion collection volume 415
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When a safari hunting ivory offends an African tribe, they are captured and tortured. One man is released without weapons or clothing, to be hunted in a life or death race. Includes essay booklet; interviews; and more.
14) Man bites dog
Series
Criterion collection volume 165
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
"A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter"--Internet Movie Database.
15) Il sorpasso
Series
Criterion collection volume 707
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Italiano
Description
A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to rural Southern Italy.
16) The in-laws
Series
Criterion collection volume 823
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered dentist becomes involved with his daughter's father-in-law's bizarre life with the CIA, which may or may not even be true.
17) Yi Yi
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
中文(繁體)
Appears on list
Description
Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-aged father, NJ's tenuous flirtation with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang's attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Swedish
Description
After a young girl is raped and murdered, her father plots revenge on those responsible.
19) The rose
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
20) Le petit soldat
Series
Criterion collection volume 1010
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement. Anna Karina (in her first collaboration with Godard, whose camera is visibly besotted with her) is beguiling as the mysterious woman with whom Forestier becomes infatuated.
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