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2) Armageddon
Series
Criterion collection volume 40
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Language
English
Description
Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results....
3) M
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city and the contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
�1998
Language
English
Description
In 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls prepare for a Valentine's Day picnic at Hanging Rock. They depart for their outing, and four of them disappear and are never found.
Series
Criterion collection volume 13
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer.
7) Peeping Tom
Series
Criterion collection volume 58
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999, �1960
Language
English
Description
A study of a voyeuristic maniac who kills women while filming them with his 16mm camera.
9) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists; Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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.
12) Burden of dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 287
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Goes behind the scenes in the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects
Series
Criterion collection volume 300
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou and his crew--Team Zissou--set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure.
14) Pierrot le fou
Series
Criterion collection volume 421
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
Français
Description
Offbeat, influential road story about a man and woman on the lam in southern France.
15) Hobson's Choice
Series
Criterion collection volume 461
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008], c2008
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 141
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012].
Language
Français
Description
"Poetic realism reached sublime heights with Children of Paradise, widely considered one of the greatest French films of all time. This nimble depiction of nineteenth-century Paris's theatrical demimonde, filmed during World War II, follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault), in a longing-suffused performance for...
17) Dressed to kill
Series
Criterion collection volume 770
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"At once tongue in cheek and scary as hell, Dressed to Kill revolves around the grisly murder of a woman in Manhattan and how her psychiatrist, her brainiac teenage son, and the prostitute who witnessed the crime try to piece together what happened while the killer remains at large"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 742
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple who are on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair's money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner.
19) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young woman believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. Upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife, Rebecca, haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
20) Cold war
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Polish
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
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