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Series
Criterion collection volume 796, 797
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
A monumental mid-nineteenth century epic that charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Includes bonus disc with special features.
Series
Criterion collection volume 281
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Considered Truffaut's greatest film, this is a story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman.
23) State of siege
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Costa-Gavras puts the United States' involvement in South American politics under the microscope in this arresting thriller. An urban guerilla group, outraged at the counterinsurgency and torture training clandestinely organized by the CIA in their country (unnamed in the film), abducts a U.S. official to bargain for the release of political prisoners; soon the kidnapping becomes a media sensation, leading to violence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 722
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
A rambunctious dark comedy. An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a B-movie porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodovar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world₂s most beloved and provocative auteurs.
25) La strada
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Italiano
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brutal circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
26) Cría cuervos
Series
Criterion collection volume 403
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Eight-year-old Ana lives in Madrid with her two sisters. They are mourning the death of their mother, whom Ana conjures as a ghost. The film evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows of fascism.
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文(繁體)
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Description
After moving into neighboring apartments, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen discover that their spouses are having an affair.
28) Marriage story
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
29) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
30) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife's memory haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1218
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
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Description
A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
32) Fish Tank
Series
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Mia, an unruly teen, meets her mother's sexy new boyfriend, she can't ignore his flirtatious advances and submits to her indecent desires, in this scandalous drama.
33) The vanishing
Series
Criterion collection volume 133
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Nederlands
Description
A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a diabolically clinical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller.
34) The awful truth
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. Try as they each might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help but meddle in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman, and a mortified Lucy begins to realize that she may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following her lead.
35) Come and see
Series
Criterion collection volume 1035
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Belarusian
Description
As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
36) Phoenix
Series
Criterion collection volume 809
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in a rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about post-World War II Jewish identity. After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret perfromer, her face disfigured and reconstructed, returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out the gentile husband who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. Without recognizing her, he enlists her to play his wife in a bizarre hall-of-shattered-mirrors story that's as richly metaphorical as it...
37) Election
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Perky, overachieving Tracy Flick gets on the nerves of history teacher Jim McAllister to begin with, but after she launches her campaign for high-school president and his personal life starts to fall apart, things spiral out of control.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Appears on list
Description
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation. A suggestible working-class innocent lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery. It is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in...
39) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
"In his carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nino Rota's classic, nostalgia-tinged score."--Container.
40) Tampopo
Series
Criterion collection volume 868
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
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Description
"The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe"--Container.
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