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Series
Criterion collection volume 221
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2004
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 quietly fulfilled.
Series
Criterion collection volume 453
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Two intertwined romantic tales take place inside the Chungking high-rise shopping center in downtown Hong Kong.
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
5) Kagemusha
Series
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
In 16th century feudal Japan, a thief is saved from execution to train as a double for one of the warlords, Shingen. Three warlords, Shingen,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Takes viewers on a World War II era journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps, as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent.
Series
Criterion collection volume 64
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
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.
8) Notorious
Series
Criterion collection volume 137
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he has loved her all along.
Series
Criterion collection volume 436
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Macedonian
Description
Told in three parts, a mysterious incident in the Macedonian mountains blows out of proportion, eventually threatening a full-blown civil war. A silent young monk offers protection to an ethnic Albanian girl who is suspected of murder. A London photojournalist who is pregnant, needs to deal with her estranged husband and desires a permanence with her lover. Her lover is a prize-winning Macedonian photographer, just back from Bosnia, who finds himself...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1178
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
12) Insomnia
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Norwegian
Description
Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engstrom travels to Northern Norway to solve a brutal murder. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engstrom quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind.
13) The 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999], c1935
Language
English
Description
Follows the excapades of Richard Hanney, who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In this controversial movie, Jesus, as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones.
Series
Criterion collection volume 380
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.
Series
Criterion collection volume 487
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Middle-aged widower Sir William Hamilton marries Emma Hart, a beautiful dance hall girl, and introduces her to society leading to her scandalous affair with English Navy officer, Horatio Nelson.
17) Wings of desire
Series
Criterion collection volume 490
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A romantic fantasy about an angel who wishes he were mortal and is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance to fall in love. Set in modern day Berlin, the film follows angel Damiel's path from heavenly flight to earthly delight in a manner that's comical, touching and entertaining.
Series
Criterion collection volume 292
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005, c1948
Language
English
Description
A jealous world-famous symphony conductor entertains elaborate thoughts of vengeance over his wife's supposed infidelities, set to three separate orchestral works.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.
20) High and low
Series
Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
[1998], p1963
Language
日本語
Description
A wealthy manufacturer is ruined by a kidnapper who demands a huge ransom for what turns out to be the man's chauffeur's son.
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