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Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Language
English
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Description
Socially conscious screwball comedy contrasts the wisdom of the poor to the frivolousness of the affluent. A mysterious butler survives his tenure with a mad, millionaire household while teaching them all valuable lessons.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Language
English
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Description
This wildly adventurous road movie of the 90's is about two young hustlers who discover friendship and adventure on the twisting, turning road of life. Mike is a narcoleptic street hustler haunted by his idyllic memories of childhood and obsessed with finding his estranged mother. Scott is a runaway rich kid who's on a personal crusade to find the meaning of life, biding his time until he inherits his father's estate. Together they're lost in a bizarre...
3) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Language
日本語
Description
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
4) RoboCop
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Language
English
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Description
When a good cop gets blown away by some ruthless criminals, innovative scientists and doctors are able to piece him back together as an unstoppable crime-fighting cyborg called "Robocop." Impervious to bullets and bombs, and equipped with high-tech weaponry, Robocop quickly makes a name for himself by cleaning up the crime-ridden streets of violence-ravaged Detroit. But despite his new, hardened exterior, Robocop is tormented by scraps of memory of...
5) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Language
English
Description
Sold into slavery as a young boy and sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius...
6) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Hepburn stars as a lonely secretary who travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 61
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
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 44
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Description
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.
Series
Criterion collection volume 611
Language
English
Description
A struggling street puppeteer takes a job as a filing clerk and discovers a secret door that allows him to enter into the mind and body of actor John Malkovich. For fifteen minutes he experiences being John Malkovich before being dropped out of the sky alongside the New Jersey Turnpike. After sharing this experience with an office colleague and his wife the three hatch a plan to offer this experience to others and charge a fee.
11) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
Series
Criterion collection volume 92
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A scientist performing renegade research on thought materialization unwittingly creates creatures of pure atomic energy that hunger for human nervous systems. These brain-like creatures begin attacking people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains.
13) Kwaidan
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
日本語
Description
Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi,...
14) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naive snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart."--Container.
15) Notorious
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Language
English
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Description
"With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood's most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding...
16) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 150
Language
English
Description
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning politician with a wayward daughter, a rich suburban homemaker who sees her comfortable life hijacked by two earnest DEA agents, and a conscientious and honorable Mexican police...
Series
Criterion collection volume 136
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature - or so she thinks. That is until the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes becomes the new chief of staff at the Green Manors Mental Asylum. The bookish and detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled identities and feverish psychoanalysis, where the greatest risk is to fall in love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.
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