Genre: The Criterion Collection
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
Adélaïde, Belle, Félicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur until their ...
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in ...
The Shop on Main Street
The Shop on Main Street
Fascist Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take ...
You Can Count on Me
You Can Count on Me
Adult siblings Sammy Prescott and Terry Prescott have had a special bond with each other since ...
Tunes of Glory
Tunes of Glory
Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. ...
Rebecca
Rebecca
A shy lady's companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim ...
Detour
Detour
In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. ...
Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel
After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in ...
High and Low
High and Low
A wealthy businessman is told his son has been kidnapped and he will have to pay ...
The Cameraman
The Cameraman
After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype ...
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
During a flight to Mars in the spaceship Mars Gravity Probe 1, Commander Christopher 'Kit' Draper ...
The Bad Sleep Well
The Bad Sleep Well
It is a high-profile wedding: the daughter of Mr Iwabuchi, a wealthy businessman, is marrying Mr ...
Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter
At a café on a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) meets Dr. Alec Harvey ...
Shadows
Shadows
Benny's a hipster, moving in and out of Manhattan's beat scene, aimless, maybe close to trouble. ...
8½
8½
Guido is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get ...
A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember
A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star Line's (later part of Cunard) ...
Rashomon
Rashomon
A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell ...
Head
Head
Running in from seemingly nowhere, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith & Peter Tork - better ...
Odd Man Out
Odd Man Out
The leader of an Irish separatist group's, been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her ...
Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent
Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European ...
Pandora’s Box
Pandora’s Box
Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the ...
Victims of Sin
Victims of Sin
In México City, a Cuban dancer from "Cabaret Changó" rescues a baby from a garbage can ...
A Face in the Crowd
A Face in the Crowd
"A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from ...
That Hamilton Woman
That Hamilton Woman
Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. ...
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby
Mild mannered zoology professor Dr. David Huxley is excited by the news that an intercostal clavicle ...
M
M
There have been a rash of child abductions and murders in Berlin. The murderer lures the ...
Mr. Arkadin
Mr. Arkadin
From the lips of a dying man at a dimly-lit Italian dock, Guy Van Stratten, the ...
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
A high-ranking police inspector murders his mistress and - in a sardonic test to prove that ...
Yojimbo
Yojimbo
Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the ...
Modern Times
Modern Times
Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. ...
My Night at Maud’s
My Night at Maud’s
Thirty-four year old engineer Jean-Louis has just started a new job in Clermont. He leads a ...
Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus
In the heady atmosphere of Rio's carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Eurydice, a ...
La Pointe Courte
La Pointe Courte
There are two parts to this film: sequences of life in the fishing village of La ...
I Am Cuba
I Am Cuba
This study of Cuba--partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko--captures the island just before it made ...
The Grand Illusion
The Grand Illusion
At the height of World War I, the German ace aviator, Captain von Rauffenstein, shoots down ...
Ikiru
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. ...
The Story of a Three Day Pass
The Story of a Three Day Pass
A tale of innocence abroad, with racial overtones. Turner is a Black American, stationed at an ...
In Which We Serve
In Which We Serve
This is the story of a British Naval ship, H.M.S. Torrin, from its construction to its ...
Fantastic Planet
Fantastic Planet
Slaves and masters dominate the narrative of the faraway world of Ygam. Set around the lifespan ...
City Lights
City Lights
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. ...
Red Beard
Red Beard
It's the early nineteenth century, and young Dr. Noboru Yasumoto has been summoned for a reason ...
To Be or Not to Be
To Be or Not to Be
Joseph and Maria Tura operate and star in their own theater company in Warsaw. Maria has ...
Throne of Blood
Throne of Blood
After securing a major victory on the battlefield, Taketoti Washizu and one of his commanders, Yoshiaki ...
Sweet Smell of Success
Sweet Smell of Success
J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York, is determined to prevent his sister ...
Ace in the Hole
Ace in the Hole
Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job ...
Le cercle rouge
Le cercle rouge
On the eve of his release after five years imprisoned, the thief Corey is contacted by ...
Adalen 31
Adalen 31
During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. ...
Black Girl
Black Girl
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at ...
Ashes and Diamonds
Ashes and Diamonds
Maciek, a young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill Szczuka, a Communist district leader, on the ...
Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis
On the spur of the moment, twenty-eight year old Manhattan self-made multi-billionaire Eric Packer decides he ...
Love in the Afternoon
Love in the Afternoon
A private investigator reveals to his client that his wife is having an affair with a ...
Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky
It is the 13th century, and Russia is overrun by foreign invaders. A Russian knyaz', or ...
Something Wild
Something Wild
Mary Ann Robinson, a young woman living in The Bronx, New York, with her neurotic, overbearing ...
Belle de Jour
Belle de Jour
Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but ...
Following
Following
An older man listens to Bill's story about being a callow writer who likes to follow ...
Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki
Mory, a cowherd who rides a motorcycle mounted with a cow's skull, and Anta, a university ...
Ugetsu
Ugetsu
In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the ...
The Gold Rush
The Gold Rush
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly ...
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Believing that she has been jilted by her artist fiance' Jean when he fails to meet ...
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Jeanne Dielman, a lonely young widow, lives with her son Sylvain following an immutable order: while ...
Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things
A fool and his money. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes (Stephen Campbell Moore) is part of ...
The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator
20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the ...
The Milky Way
The Milky Way
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the ...