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1) 12 Angry Men
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life is in their hands...death is on their minds. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast in this powerful, classic film. Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best...
2) Barry Lyndon
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A gentlemanly rogue travels the battlefields and parlors of 18th century Europe, determined to make for himself the life of a nobleman through seduction, gambling, and dueling in this methodical film showing the rhythm and life of the period.
3) Notorious
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman is enlisted by an American agent to spy on a ring of Nazis in post war Rio.
Series
Criterion collection volume 723
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Appears on list
Description
A pair of horny Mexico City teenagers from different classes who, after their girlfriend's jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman they meet at a wedding. When she agrees to accompany them on a trip to a faraway beach, the three forms an increasingly intense and sensual alliance that ultimately strips them both physically and emotionally bare.
Series
Criterion collection volume 708
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
日本語
Description
Over a period of two days, a young prostitute and a widower develop an unexpected connection.
Series
Criterion collection volume 14, 15, 16
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Language
日本語
Description
Collects three samauri films by Hiroshi Inagaki, including "Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto," "Samauri II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple," and "Samurai III: DUel at Ganryu Island," which fictionalize the life of Musashi Miyamoto, a swordsman in seventeenth-century Japan.
7) Drive my car
Series
Criterion collection volume 1136
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Description
Follows a middle-aged Japanese director staging Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya while struggling with grief over the premature death of his wife.
9) 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...
10) 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.
11) 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...
12) 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.
13) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
14) Life of Brian
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
16) Brief encounter
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
17) 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.
18) Moonrise kingdom
Series
Criterion collection volume 776
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, two twelve-year-olds fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Series
Criterion collection volume 293
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Italiano
Description
"In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of The People's Saint: humility, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis' time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery"--Container.
20) Tampopo
Series
Criterion collection volume 868
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Appears on list
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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