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A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy … including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding...
Series
Criterion collection volume 190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1957, c2003
Language
日本語
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Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, set in feudal Japan. Tells the story of a Samurai lord who kills his master and usurps his power in fulfillment of a witch's prophecy.
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Criterion collection volume 452
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English
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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...
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Criterion collection volume 438
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
Français
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An orphan comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village, and becomes a part of the comical foibles and heartbreaks of a small French-Canadian town.
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Criterion collection volume 198
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
Deutsch
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Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
6) Alphaville
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Publisher
Home Vision
Pub. Date
c1998
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Français
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Special agent Lemmy Caution is sent across space to the city of Alphaville where he must neutralize the scientist who runs the supercomputer which has erased all words of emotion from the dictionary.
8) High and low
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Criterion collection volume 24
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998, c1963
Language
日本語
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A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma.
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Criterion collection volume 33
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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A documentary about the communal life of the Eskimos and their struggle for existence. Special features includes excerpts from the 1958 TV documentary: Flaherty and film : Mrs. Frances Flaherty remembers Nanook of the North (8 min.); still gallery of Flaherty's photographs of life in the Arctic.
10) Oliver Twist
Series
Criterion collection volume 32
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end.
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Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
The Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls gather for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Three of the girls decide to climb the rock, then one of the teachers sets out after them--and none of them return...
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Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998], c1954
Language
日本語
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Musashi is a brash and ambitious peasant who desires frame and power as a swordsman. His dreams of glory in war sour when his army is routed and he becomes hunted by the authorities. With the help of a severe monk, he develops from a hot-tempered into a thoughtful swordsman.
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Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
日本語
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This sweeping saga of the legendary seventeenth-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (powerfully portrayed by Toshiro Mifune) plays out against the turmoil of a devastating civil war. The Trilogy (whose first part won an Academy Award) follows Musashi's odyssey from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. In the second and most violent installment, Duel at Ichijoji Temple, Musashi beats a samurai armed with a chain-and sickle and is later set upon by eighty...
15) Summertime
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
16) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood.
17) Autumn sonata
Series
Criterion collection volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Swedish
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An international concert pianist visits her grown daughter after a seven-year absence. Aching with the memory of her mother's neglect, the introverted daughter explodes into a rage and the reunion turns into a shattering confrontation.
18) Election
Series
Criterion collection volume 904
Language
English
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Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High’s student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) decides to derail Tracy’s obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Actress at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **Film Independent...
19) The graduate
Series
Criterion collection volume 800
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Français
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In this classic tale of adventure, duty and honor conflict in a German prisoner-of-war camp when an aristocratic French officer becomes friends with the German commandant, a fellow aristocrat, while simultaneously cooperating with his French comrades, who are commoners, in a daring escape.
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