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1) Deep impact
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Deep Impact' is the story of the world's reaction to a death sentence. As a comet approaches the earth which might not be destroyed or diverted before it reaches earth, each individual struggles in the face of extinction to find what most matters to him or her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Language
English
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Series
Criterion collection volume 970
Language
English
Description
A hobo becomes an overnight celebrity. But, as usual, more fame leads to more power, and more power leads to more corruption. Will he be exposed as the fraud that he is?
Series
Criterion collection volume 1001
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice. Soon the entire clan, strong-willed mom, taciturn dad, and jaded sister with pretentious boyfriend in tow, has squeezed into a station wagon and headed into Manhattan to find out the truth, kicking off a one-crazy-day odyssey full of unexpected detours and life-changing revelations.
Series
Criterion collection volume 700
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. Based on the beloved, best selling book by Roald Dahl.
7) Barcelona
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pair of preppy yet constitutionally mismatched American cousins, a salesman and a navy officer, argue about romance and politics while working in the beautiful Spanish city of the film's title. Set during the eighties, it explores topics both heady (American exceptionalism, Cold War foreign policy) and hilarious (the ins and outs of international dating, the proper shaving method) while remaining a constantly witty delight, featuring a sharp young...
8) Boyhood
Series
Criterion collection volume 839
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film was shot over the course of twelve years in the director's native Texas and charts the physical and emotional changes experienced by a child named Mason, his divorced parents, and his older sister. Alighting not on milestones but on the small, in-between moments that make up our lives, Linklater fashions a flawlessly acted, often funny portrait that flows effortlessly from one year to the next.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In a criminal underworld that revolves around power, money, and danger, protecting family can lead to dark and desperate measures. When the pressures of building a better life become too much, Gigi is pulled back into a role she tried to escape, and gets caught up in the thrill of the ride. But when a shadowy figure threatens her daughter's life, Gigi must choose whether to surrender or fight.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Howard is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland. His daughter, Grace, hires Annie, a lovely older woman to help around the house. Initially resistant to this support, Howard is soon charmed by Annie's gentle care, and the two fall in love. This new romance illuminates the hurt within Howard's relationship with Grace, tearing at Howard and Annie's seaside love story.
11) 45 years
Series
Criterion collection volume 861
Language
English
Description
"In this exquisitely calibrated film, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay perform a subtly off-kilter pas de deux as Kate and Geoff, an English couple who, on the eve of an anniversary celebration, find their long marriage shaken by the arrival of a letter to Geoff that unceremoniously collapses his past into their shared present. Director Andrew Haigh carries the tradition of British realist cinema to artful new heights in 45 Years, weaving the...
12) The North water
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. When Sumner and his crewmates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.
Series
Criterion collection volume 913
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No filmmaker captures the grandeur and energy of New York like Martin Scorsese. With this sumptuous romance, he meticulously adapted the work of another great New York artist, Edith Wharton, bringing to life her tragic novel set in the cloistered world of Gilded Age Manhattan. The Age of Innocence tells the story of Newland Archer(Daniel Day-Lewis), whoses engagement to an innocent socialite (Winona Ryder) binds him to the codes and rituals of his...
14) Fremont
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world through a cookie in this offbeat vision of the universal longing for home.
15) Love affair
Series
Criterion collection volume 1114
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Two people meet and fall in love aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and upon arriving to New York they separate but agree to meet each other six months later at the top of the Empire State Building.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jason Silva traces the innovations that made the world modern. ORIGINS celebrates the story of how man became modern, in a time-travel adventure delving deep into history to find the pivotal 'origin' moments that fueled our evolutionary ascension. World-class future thinker Jason Silva guides us through the exploration of these key developments, such as fire, medicine, war, money and communication, that fundamentally and irrevocably shaped our modern...
17) 'Night mother
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An epileptic with a failed marriage and a delinquent son decides to take control the only way she can, by taking her own life. Bancroft, the widowed mother with whom she lives, is oblivious to her daughter's depression until she becomes frightfully aware of her plans.
18) Jaws
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A police officer, fisherman and marine scientist team up in order to stop a menacing great white shark.
19) Dead man
Series
Criterion collection volume 919
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
20) Teen Wolf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A teenager wants to be more than just a nice, average guy, and he gets his wish when he turns into a werewolf.
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