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21) The third man
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
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.
22) The river
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
In post-World War II India, three adolescent girls develop competing crushes on a young American veteran who lost a leg in combat. As their romances and rivalries deepen, the background of the Indian society, culture and environment influences all their personlities in subtle and symbolic ways.
23) Double indemnity
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Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
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Language
English
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Description
Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously evil as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? When slick salesman Walter Neff walks into the swank home of dissatisfied housewife Phyllis Dietrichson, he intends to sell her insurance, but he winds up becoming entangled with her in a far more sinister way. It is one of the most wickedly perverse stories ever told...
24) Something wild
Series
Criterion collection volume 563
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves.
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Travelers on a trans-European train are put up in a hotel for the night due to bad weather. Shortly after the journey begins in the morning, people begin to disappear. Bonus features include commentary; documentary; essays; and more.
26) Bigger than life
Series
Criterion collection volume 507
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A friendly suburban teacher becomes addicted to cortisone, turning the normally gentle husband and father into a psychotic despot.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A veteran spy about to retire undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends to defect and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
28) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the high school careers of two young, African-American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.
29) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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...
30) Cria cuervos
Series
Criterion collection volume 403
Publisher
The 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 her mother, whom Ana conjures as a ghost. Evokes both the complex feelings of childhood and the struggles of a nation emerging from the shadows of Fascism.
31) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
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.
33) Cronos
Series
Criterion collection volume 551
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
Español
Description
In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable...
34) Red River
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A cattle baron and his adopted son head the first drive over the Chisolm Trail when they cannot find a local market for their herd.
35) Thieves' highway
Series
Criterion collection volume 273
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Ex-G.I. Nick Garcos is a tyro trucker bent on satisfaction from the man responsible for crippling his father, a ruthless market operator by the name of Mike Figlia. But when Figlia gets wise to his plan, Nick finds himself in a web of treachery and heartbreak."--Container.
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Series
Criterion collection volume 920
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
When school hunk Trip Fontain convinces the beautiful but sheltered Lisbon sisters to go to the prom, the romantic fantasies of a group of neighborhood boys threaten to come true--until all are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever.
Series
Criterion collection volume 475
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
World-weary and living hand to mouth, small-time gunrunner Eddie 'Fingers' Coyle woks on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he's forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free.
39) Eraserhead
Series
Criterion collection volume 725
Publisher
Criterion Collection Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in a noise-filled industrial town, follows a strange man with a vertical head of hair living with his girlfriend and their fetus-like, mutant baby.
40) Ikiru: To live
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
日本語
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.