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2) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
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...
3) Modern times
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his boss demands more speed and efficiency, Chaplin goes crazy from his repetitious assembly line job.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1132
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Norwegian
Description
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
Series
Criterion collection volume 893
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
6) Seconds
Series
Criterion collection volume 667
Language
English
Description
A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
7) Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 1014
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Central American Indian
Description
Looks at the life of an early-1970s, middle-class family in Mexico City through the eyes of their indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running.
Series
Criterion collection volume 711
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Follows the misadventures of the Beatles as they travel from Liverpool to London to perform on a television broadcast.
Series
Criterion collection volume 612
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A British author on a book tour in Tuscany and a French art-gallery owner get to know each other over the course of an afternoon.
10) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A surrealistic view of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme and everyone is monitored by a secret government agency.
11) The uninvited
Series
Criterion collection volume 677
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a London man and his sister purchase a surprisingly affordable house on the English coast, they discover that the house is haunted.
12) Life is sweet
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
13) Army of shadows
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
A civil engineer who is one of the French Resistance's chiefs is given away by a traitor and interned in a camp. He manages to escape and join his network at Marseilles, where he has the traitor executed.
Series
Criterion collection volume 583
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After resigning his post on the eve of battle, a young British officer receives feathers from his comrades accusing him of cowardice and must fight to regain his honor.
15) Hobson's choice
Series
Criterion collection volume 461
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An owner of a Victorian-era boot shop finds himself in a battle of wills with his headstrong daughter, who wants to make her own professional and personal decisions in her life. Bonus features include commentary, documentary, essay, interviews, and more.
Series
Criterion collection volume 775
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey.
Series
Criterion collection volume 586
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A sailor finds himself trapped on a remote South Pacific island where a mad doctor conducts gruesome experiments in evolution.
19) Downhill racer
Series
Criterion collection volume 494
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A talented but self-involved downhill skier claims victory at the expense of emotional and family attachments.
Series
Criterion collection volume 555
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A New York City public relations agent, dependent on the good publicity his clients get from an influential newspaper columnist, grudgingly agrees to help him destroy the romance between a musician and the columnist's overprotected sister.