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Wages of Fear (Remastered/1952) Criterion Collection
Made two years before his slightly better known DIABOLIQUE, Henri-Georges Clouzot's nail-biter of a suspense film is the story of four broke and desperate men stranded in Latin America. Eager for a way out of their respective situations, they accept an American oil company's impossibly dangerous offer ... more info >>
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Last Temptation Of Christ (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
This striking vision from the mind of director Martin Scorsese offers an allegorical interpretation of the last days of Jesus Christ, based on the book by Nikos Kazantzakis. Based strictly on Kazantzakis's book, the film has a very different focus than past portraits of the "Messiah." This ... more info >>
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Seventh Seal (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow), a knight, returns from a 10-year crusade with his squire, Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand), to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. When the black-cloaked figure of Death (Bengt Ekerot) appears to claim them, Block, whose war experiences have left him cynical about the existence ... more info >>
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Les Enfants Terribles (1950) Criterion Collection
Cinema giants Jean-Pierre Melville (THE WAGES OF FEAR) and Jean Cocteau (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) collaborated to create LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES, a stunning portrait of surreal perversion and narcissism based on Cocteau's novel of the same name. When teenage Paul, the fragile protagonist, is mysteriously ... more info >>
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Rules of the Game Criterion Collection
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's masterpiece THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a weekend ... more info >>
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Shop On Main Street Criterion Collection
In World War II Slovakia, an easygoing carpenter, Tono (Jozef Króner) is pressured to move up in the world by his ostentatious wife and fascist brother-in-law. He takes the job of "Aryan comptroller" in a button shop owned by an aging Jewess, Rosalie (Ida Kaminska) who barely seems aware that ... more info >>
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Children Of Paradise (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
Filmed during the German occupation, this French milestone centers around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. Voted the "Best French Film in History" by the French Film Academy in 1990. Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Screenplay. more info >>
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Night Porter Criterion Collection
Liliana Cavani's controversial film featured a breakout performance by theAmerican actress Charlotte Rampling in this Italian tour de force. Thirteen years after World War II, while working as a night porter in a Vienna hotel occupied by ex-Nazis, a former SS concentration camp officer, played by Dirk ... more info >>
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Au Revoir Les Enfants (Criterion/1987) Criterion Collection
This autobiographical recounting of Malle's most tragic memory begins in 1944 at an all-boy Catholic school. A young boy befriends a new student whom the others feel is different. When he discovers the new student is a Jew, he tells no one and remains a true friend. Tragedy strikes when a school employee ... more info >>
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Long Good Friday Criterion Collection
John Mackenzie's rabidly engaging, complex gangster film concerns the demise of a dominant English racketeer, Harold (Bob Hoskins), who is about to change his image and go straight. While negotiating a deal with an American organized crime organization to develop the barren Docklands section of London ... more info >>
Carl Theodor Dreyer Collection Criterion Collection
DAY OF WRATH: Dreyer's horrifying masterpiece based on Hans Wiers Jenssen's play which, in turn, was based on actual records of witch trials during the 1600s. An old woman curses the local clergyman and his family as she is burned at the stake in this sobering and ghastly study of religious fanaticism ... more info >>
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4 X Agnes Varda (1956) Criterion Collection
... crafting one of the movement's most indelible films, CLEO FROM 5 TO 7. Characterized by a remarkable synthesis of documentary and fiction, this collection presents the director's greatest work: LE BONHEUR, a romantic fable of love and loss; CLEO FROM 5 TO 7, an intimate and fluid portrait of two hours ... more info >>
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A Nos Amours (1983) Criterion Collection
A lovely young girl engages in a series of casual sexual affairs in an attempt to gain the love and attention she lacked as a child at home. Recipient of the 1983 French "Cesar" for Best Film. more info >>
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Scarlet Empress Criterion Collection
When the innocent Princess Sophia of Prussia marries the grandson of Peter the Great she is forced to change her name, and her religion. She descends into a world of sexual decadence as Katherine emerging as one of the most powerful rulers in Russian history. Intensely erotic, the film was very controversial ... more info >>
Mafioso (1962) Criterion Collection
Alberto Lattuada's 1962 film was one of the first Italian films to deal head-on with the Mafia, albeit in the form of an incredibly smart black comedy. Nino (Alberto Sordi) is just an ordinary, unassuming auto-factory worker. That is, until he takes his wife (Norma Bengell) and two daughters to visit ... more info >>
Story of a Prostitute (1965) Criterion Collection
This 1965 Japanese feature was startling for its use of a female point of view. Set during WWII, it is the story of Harumi, one of a group of "comfort women" who spend time with soldiers during their leaves from battle. A commanding officer falls for Harumi and becomes the property of this ... more info >>
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Kicking & Screaming (1995) Criterion Collection
A witty, New York-set talk-fest about a group of twentysomethings who, with college degrees and no prospects, lean on each other and a friendly local bartender in their quest for the meaning of life. more info >>
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Walkabout (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
Nicolas Roeg's solo directorial debut is a haunting, unconventional narrative film that presents a bleak vision of civilized life as arid and unrewarding. Abandoned in the Australian outback, two young white children (Jenny Agutter and Roeg's son Lucien) stumble upon an adolescent Aborigine (David Gulpilil ... more info >>
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A Nous La Liberte Criterion Collection
Two prisoners attempt an escape, but only one makes it. He becomes a successful business man and when his friend finally gets out of jail he hires his old escape partner. Many madcap adventures happen everywhere they go. Academy Award Nominations: Best Interior Decoration. more info >>
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Breathless (1959) Criterion Collection
Godard's first feature has been widely hailed as one of the most influential motion pictures ever made. On the run after killing a cop, a small-time crook (Belmondo) hides out in Paris with an American girl (Seberg). After she betrays him, he chooses to face his fate with an absurd stoicism modelled ... more info >>
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Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1953) Criterion Collection
Gabin, the quintessential tough-guy, and Moreau, resplendent as always, pair up for this heist film, one of the best of the French gangster films of the 1950s. In it, Gabin is an aging thief who has already pulled off what he thinks was his last big job, scoring enough gold to last him through his twilight ... more info >>
Eisenstein: The Sound Years (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
These two spectacular, grandiose battle epics from great director Sergei Eisenstein--who pioneered the Soviet montage style of the silent era--are prototypes for many of the classic war epics that preceded them. Produced under the totalitarian Stalin regime, Eisenstein's work managed to turn Soviet propaganda ... more info >>
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Yojimbo/Sanjuro (1962) Criterion Collection
This double feature presents two of Akira Kurosawa's samurai masterpieces: the comedic YOJIMBO (1961) and its sequel SANJURO (1962). See individual titles for plot synopses. more info >>
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Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages (Special Edition) Criterion Collection
An terrifying assault on the eyes, Benjamin Christensen's 1922 documentary is a landmark film of witchery, possession, and sadism. Originally released under the Swedish title HAXAN, this eerie, unusual film experience uses seven chapters to illustrate a history of myths and beliefs regarding the occult ... more info >>
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Army of Shadows (1969) Criterion Collection
Well-known for his influential crime films (LE SAMOURAI, LE CERCLE ROUGE), director Jean-Pierre Melville explores the lives of French Resistance fighters in his moody World War II masterpiece, ARMY OF SHADOWS. Restrained and controlled, the film follows Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) and other members ... more info >>
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