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Criterion collection volume 1020
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"Novelist Richard Harland seems to have found the perfect woman in Ellen, a beautiful socialite who initiates a whirlwind romance and steers him into marriage before he can think twice. Yet the glassy surface of Ellen's devotion soon reveals monstrous depths, as Richard comes to realize that his wife is shockingly possessive and may be capable of destroying anyone who comes between them." --container.
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Criterion collection volume 1027
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One of the most exciting adventure tales ever told, this action epic recounts the planning, execution, and aftermath of a daring true-life escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, in which 250 men attempted to tunnel their way to freedom.
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Criterion collection volume 538
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The French General Staff, safely behind the lines, sends orders for what amounts to a suicide mission. To cover up their fatal blunder, three soldiers are arrested and made scapegoats. Captures the spirit of Humphrey Cobb's novel in presenting a harsh attack on the futility of war in general and World War I in particular. A blistering indictment of military politics.
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Criterion collection volume 70
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Jesus, portrayed as both fully human and fully divine, is viewed as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones, ending with his final temptation on the cross.
5) Red Beard
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"In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern." --imdb.com.
6) Hoop dreams
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This documentary follows two inner-city basketball phenoms' lives through high school as they chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.
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Criterion collection volume 36
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In a small, isolated, hot and dusty Central American village, there's only one thing to do: dream of getting out. An opportunity for escape presents itself, but only to those with nerves of steel. An American oil company has offered to pay big money to get two trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over to a well fire. The catch is that the unpaved terrain contains enough bumps and crags to make the unstable material explode, instantly killing the driver....
8) 12 angry men
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Criterion collection volume 591
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A jury of white men is ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. However, one juror forces the others to consider whether the evidence--or the jurors' own prejudices--influences their deliberations. The story plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room.
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Criterion collection volume 29
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Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
10) Red river
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Criterion collection volume 709
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With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
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Criterion collection volume 747
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"[Follow] the exploits of two pansexual young men - the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus - as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess." --container.
12) The graduate
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Criterion collection volume 800
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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 a friend of hers parents', teh indomitable Mrs. Robinson, before turning his attention to her college-age daughter." --container
13) Barry Lyndon
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Criterion collection volume 897
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"Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of his career, Kubrick recreated the decadent surfaces and intricate social codes of the period, evoking the light and texture of eighteenth-century painting with the help of pioneering cinematic techniques and lavish costume...
14) Mudbound
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Criterion collection volume 1205
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"In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart." --container.
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Criterion collection volume 29
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"[A] small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone...vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society." --container.
16) Beau travail
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Criterion collection volume 1042
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"Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Grégoire Colin) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism’s legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic...
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Criterion collection volume 1103
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"Following an ambush in his visit to America, Wong Fei-hung becomes separated from his fellow travelers and suffers memory loss." --imdb.com
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Criterion collection volume 1103
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"Legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung fights against foreign forces' plundering of China. When Aunt Yee arrives back from America, Wong Fei-Hung assumes the role of her protector." --imdb.com
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Criterion collection volume 1103
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"Arriving by train in Guangzhou, 1895, the trio fight off White Lotus followers, who want to kill all foreigners and the cute, European dressed 13th Aunt. It's not kung fu master Dr. Wong's last fight." --imdb.com.
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Criterion collection volume 1103
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"Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant, deceitful opponent." --imdb.com.
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