Stanley Kubrick
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Virtually unseen since its theatrical premiere in 1953, Fear and desire was the ambitious first feature film by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. An existential war film often compared with the director's Paths of glory (1957) and Full metal jacket (1987), Fear and desire follows a squad of soldiers who have crash-landed behind enemy lines and must work their way downriver to rejoin their unit. In the process, they encounter a peasant girl (Virginia...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
MPAA rating: PG.
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
12) Barry Lyndon
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
O'Neal stars as an Irish scoundrel and gentleman who marries a countess and rises to the top of English aristocracy.
13) Paths of glory
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Film based on a true story which occurred in the French Army in 1916. When a regiment fails in its attempt to attack a German position, three men stand trial for cowardice.
14) Room 237
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1980 Stanley Kubrick released his masterpiece of modern horror, The Shining. Over 30 years later we're still struggling to understand its hidden meanings. Rodney Ascher's wry and provocative documentary fuses fact and fiction through interviews with both fanatics and scholars, creating a kaleidoscopic deconstruction of Kubrick's still-controversial classic.
15) The killing
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
After getting out of prison, Johnny Clay masterminds a complex race-track heist, but his scheme is complicated by the intervention of the wife of a teller in on the scheme, the boyfriend of the wife, airport regulations, and a small dog.
16) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
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Description
The epic tale of the bold gladiator slave Spartacus (Douglas), the woman who believed in his cause, and the power-hungry Roman general who challenged his convictions.
17) The killing
Series
Criterion collection volume 575
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of criminals plot the perfect racetrack robbery.
18) Lolita
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Humbert, a divorced British professor, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte, whom he marries in order that he might pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita.
19) Spartacus
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
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Description
"Kubrick tells the tale of Spartacus, the bold gladiator slave and Varinia, the woman who believed in his cause. Challenged by the power-hungry General Crassus, Spartacus is forced to face his convictions and the power of the Imperial Rome at its glorious height." --container.
20) Paths of glory
Series
Criterion collection volume 538
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.