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Criterion Collection -- Up to 30% Off1-50 | 51-100 | 101-150 | 151-200 | 201-250 | 251+
The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. These are films and discs you'll cherish.  List: Our Price: $22.46   Releases: 2000-07-11 Synopsis: This Roger Vadim production was released in the US as ...And God Created Woman. Vadim's then-wife Brigitte Bardot plays the central character, a curvaceous... more>>>  List: Our Price: $57.56 Releases: 2006-03-28 Synopsis: Through Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; and Au Revoir les Enfants, Louis Malle creates a portrait of youth on the brink, one that is rebellious, heartbreaking, funny, and brave. These intreview... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2004-04-20 Synopsis: Robert Altman's Three Women takes a surreal, improvisational and rather eerie look at the lives of three women in a western desert town. The plot centers around the youngest of the women, Pinky (<a hr... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 1999-11-02 Synopsis: This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements that became hallmarks of his later wo... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2006-05-09 Synopsis: For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Léaud</... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2001-12-04 Synopsis: Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most pe... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2002-08-20 Synopsis: À Nous la Liberté is an early talkie from French filmmaker René Clair. Louis (Raymond Cordy) and Emile (Henri Marchand</... more>>>  List: Our Price: $69.97 Releases: 2003-04-29 Synopsis: For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pierre Léaud</... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2003-06-24 Synopsis: Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), but also scripted the film, designed the sets, and (uncredited) functioned as producer. Brigitte Mir... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2001-06-19 Synopsis: One of director Douglas Sirk's best and most successful romantic soapers of the 1950s, All That Heaven Allows is predicated on a May-December romance. The difference here is that the woma... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 1998-10-20 Synopsis: In Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard fuses a hardboiled detective story with science fiction. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), a hero <a href='/character?pid=97... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.97 Releases: 2006-09-05 Synopsis: Federico Fellini's warmly nostalgic memory piece examines daily life in the Italian village of Rimini during the reign of Mussolini, and won the 1974 Academy Award as Best Foreign Film. The film's gre... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 1999-09-07 Synopsis: This evocative look at a 1914 ocean voyage to scatter the ashes of a world-famous opera singer (Janet Suzman) is by turns charming, funny, and bizarre. Among the ship's passengers are aristocrats, pol... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 1999-02-02 Synopsis: Widely recognized as a masterpiece, Andrei Tarkovsky's 205-minute medieval epic, based on the life of the Russian monk and icon painter, was not seen as the director intended it until its re-release o... more>>>  List: Our Price: $57.56 Releases: 2005-04-26 Synopsis: A Generation is the first of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda's "underground trilogy"-and also Wajda's first-ever feature film. Originally titled Pokolenie, the film dissects the impact that World War ... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2005-09-20 Synopsis: New Zealand poet Janet Frame is the subject of Jane Campion's biographical drama, which presents a poetically evocative look at the authoress' turbulent life. The film begins with a look at Frame's ch... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.99 Releases: 1999-04-20 Synopsis: Michael Bay directed this $150 million science fiction action thriller about an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, sending fireballs down on Manhattan, prompting a plan to split the asteroid i... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2005-06-14 Synopsis: A profound masterpiece from one of the most revered filmmakers in the history of cinema, director Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar follows the donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner,... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2006-03-28 Synopsis: Gaspard Manesse plays Julien, an 11-year-old Catholic boarding-school resident during the Nazi occupation of France. He is witness to the courage of his instructors, who defy the German's anti-Semitic... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2000-01-11 Synopsis: Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, wo... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2006-01-10 Synopsis: In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2005-09-27 Synopsis: Psychiatrist Alex (Art Garfunkel) becomes sexually obsessed with Milena (Theresa Russell), a woman whom he meets at a party. The pair become involved in an intense and mutually destructi... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2002-04-30 Synopsis: The award-winning Ballad of a Soldier was the first Russian film to score an American success during the Cold War era. It is a relatively simple, uncomplicated story of a callow young Russian conscrip... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2003-01-07 Synopsis: One of pioneering director Jean-Luc Godard's most accessible films is this French spin on Dolores Hitchens' novel Fool's Gold. It tells the tale of three disaffected youths who plan a bur... more>>>  List: Our Price: $34.97 Releases: 2004-10-12 Synopsis: This highly political film about the Algerian struggle for independence from France took "Best Film" honors at the 1966 Venice Film Festival. The bulk of the film is shot in flashback, presented as th... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2006-02-14 Synopsis: Based on a novel by Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine weaves a mesmerizing tale of a tragic triangle. Train engineer Jean Gabin lusts after Simone Simon, th... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2001-06-05 Synopsis: Mario Monicelli's classic crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti Ignoti) features Vittorio Gassman and <a href... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2001-07-10 Synopsis: Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is known to his blue-collar British mates as Billy Liar because of his vivid imagination. This film version of the Keith Waterhouse-<a href='/character?pid=10... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2001-01-30 Synopsis: British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godd... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 1999-06-08 Synopsis: Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) is literally what its title suggests: a retelling of the "Orpheus and Eurydice" legend enacted by black performers. This time the setting is the annual Carnival i... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2000-11-14 Synopsis: In his first starring role, Steve McQueen plays a typical oversexed, car-lovin' highschooler who can't get anyone to believe his story about a huge meteor, which crashes to earth and begins exuding a ... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2002-04-16 Synopsis: Both a tribute to classic American gangster films and the source of inspiration for French New Wave filmmakers, Bob le Flambeur is the first in a series of stylish noirs that Jean-Pierre Mel... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2005-08-23 Synopsis: Boudu (played by Michel Simon, who also produced the film) is a shaggy, foul-smelling tramp who is rescued from drowning by bourgeois Frenchman Charles Granval. Deciding to "reform" Boud... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 1999-02-23 Synopsis: A delirious fever dream of a film, Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill takes the familiar elements of "B"-movie crime drama and transforms them into something outrageously bizarre and unexpec... more>>>  List: Our Price: $44.96 Releases: 2006-09-05 Synopsis: In this nightmarish futuristic satire from director Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce plays Sam Lowrey, a government statistician who chooses to blind himself to the decaying, drone-like world... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2000-06-27 Synopsis: Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. ... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2005-06-28 Synopsis: Michael Redgrave gives his greatest performance as Andrew Crocker-Harris, a boarding-school teacher who realizes that his life may be a failure, in this powerful adaptation of Terence Rattiga... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2005-05-10 Synopsis: Documentarian Les Blank, who filmed Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, trained his cameras on Herzog again, as the eccentric German filmmaker made his epic, Fitzcarraldo, in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. H... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2003-06-10 Synopsis: Avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage has labelled his 1963 film Dog Star Man his "cosmological epic." This virtually indescribable film was released in a prelude and four parts. These wer... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.97 Releases: 2006-07-25 Synopsis: Set not in the 14th century milieu of Geoffrey Chaucer but in wartime Britain, A Canterbury Tale begins with rural justice of the peace Eric Portman adopting a "lock up your daughters" ... more>>>  List: Our Price: $57.56 Releases: 2001-08-21 Synopsis: Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag) is essential viewing for any serious film student, even though it is almost unbearable to watch. The story is set in the 17th century, ... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2000-05-16 Synopsis: A drag race turns to tragedy when one car, with three young women inside, topples over a bridge and into the muddy river below. The authorities drag the river, but the search is fruitless and the girl... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2005-01-18 Synopsis: The Paris demimonde of 1900 is the setting for Casque D'Or. Serge Reggiani, an honest woodworker, falls in love with Simone Signoret, the "moll... more>>>  List: Our Price: $14.99 Releases: 2002-04-02 Synopsis: After a pair of films about hipster slackers, the work of writer-director Kevin Smith matured and gained critical respect with this low budget, independent comedy-drama about love, sex and the fine li... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2006-03-28 Synopsis: A very early Vittorio De Sica effort, The Children Are Watching Us was originally released in Italy as I Bambini Ci Guardano. Director De Sica collaborated with another neorealist pioneer, Ce... more>>>  List: Our Price: $29.96 Releases: 2002-01-22 Synopsis: Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Prévert's screenplay concerns four men in love with ... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2006-10-17 Synopsis: In this psychological thriller, what at first seem to be the wholly insane (and gruesome) self-mutilations of a madman who is also probably a murderer are gradually revealed as the quite logical actio... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2000-05-16 Synopsis: Cleo from 5 to 7 (Cleo de cinq a sept), per its title, concentrates on two hours in the life of a woman. Those hours are desperate ones, in that Cleo, a pop singer, awaits the results of her tests for... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2001-09-18 Synopsis: Czech director Jiri Menzel's Closely Watched Trains (Ostre sledovane vlaky) was the recipient of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1967.... more>>>  List: Our Price: $22.46 Releases: 2005-02-01 Synopsis: A very young Bernardo Bertolucci already shows his talent in this bleak, 94-minute murder mystery, told in an interesting series of flashbacks. A Roman prostitute has been brutally murdered in a park ... more>>> 1-50 | 51-100 | 101-150 | 151-200 | 201-250 | 251+ |
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