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1) Toni
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©[1934]
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true story and set in a community of immigrants living, working, and loving on the margins of French society, the story follows the eponymous Italian migrant, whose tempestuous affairs with two women, the faithful Marie and the flirtatious Josefa, unleash a wave of tragedy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 505
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1937, 2009
Language
English
Description
In this 'enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap' [-- Container], an elderly couple must move in with their adult children when they lose their home.
Series
Criterion collection volume 832
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1939]
Language
日本語
Description
This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of legendary kabuki actor Kikunosuke, who is striving to achieve stardom by mastering female roles, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection, and she soon gives up everything for her beloved's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 78
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1940
Language
English
Description
Egbert Souse accidentally foils a bank robbery and is hired as a bank guard.
5) Red River
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Language
English
Description
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
7) Early summer
Series
Criterion collection volume 240
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
日本語
Description
The Mamiya family is seeking a husband for their daughter, Noriko, but she has ideas of her own.
9) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1960
Language
English
Description
Spartacus is the bold gladiator slave who leads a massive slave revolt against Imperial Rome in this epic true account of man's eternal struggle for freedom.
10) Amarcord
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Italiano
Description
Memories of episodes about love, sex, politics, family life and growing up in a small Italian town in the 1930's.
Series
Criterion collection volume 6
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Tells the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him. Contains such visual displays as tears that become real diamonds and walls that grow arms to light Beauty's path through the castle of the Beast.
Series
Criterion collection volume 26
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Mobster Harold Shand is the all-powerful boss of the London underworld. But on the day he is about to close the ultimate deal with the American crime family, Shand's empire suddenly begins to explode around him.
14) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end. Includes original theatrical trailer.
15) The 400 blows
Series
Criterion collection volume 5
Publisher
Jenus films/Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Français
Description
The partially autobiographical story of a young boy who turns to crime when left to his own devices in an indifferent adult world.
16) The 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
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Description
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela.
17) Black Orpheus
Series
Criterion collection volume 48
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley₂s classic children₂s novel by Carroll Ballard (Fly Away Home), in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse, is a cinematic tour de force. After surviving a shipwreck together, a young boy and a horse develop a bond, and begin training to race once they are rescued.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp. An aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French commoner comrades in a daring escape attempt.
20) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
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