Michael Powell
Series
Criterion collection volume 173
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt,...
2) Peeping Tom
Series
Criterion collection volume 58
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[c1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A study of a voyeuristic maniac who kills women while filming them with his 16mm camera.
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
"Plagued by uncertainties and worldly desires, five Protestant missionary nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, struggle to establish a school in the desolate Himalayas." --container.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of controversial Australian artist Norman Lindsay. Lindsay is a jaded painter who heads Down Under looking for a way to revitalize his creative soul. His self-imposed exile is interrupted by Cora, an uninhibited young woman on her own journey of self-discovery.
Series
Criterion collection volume 317
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A lavish screen adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's phantasmal opera. Included are performances form some of the greatest ballet dancers and opera singers ever to grace the stage or screen.
Series
Criterion collection volume 341
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set during World War II, a 'land girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves in a small town in the English countryside, trying to solve a series of bizarre crimes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 441
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Details the professional and personal travails of a troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert who, while struggling through a relationship with his girlfriend, is hired by the government to advise on a German weapon.
Series
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A young couple decides to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That arrangement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman and a hilarious battle of the sexes unfolds.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Romance flourishes in the bleak and moody Scottish Hebrides. A headstrong young woman travels to these remote isles to marry a rich lord. Stranded by stormy weather, she meets a handsome naval officer who threatens to thwart her carefully laid-out life plans.
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In the darkness of an English morning, a Wellington bomber flies home across the North Sea. In a blinding flash, it crashes into the high tension wires above the base. Forced to bail out, the six crewmen are wandering around occupied Holland. One of the six men is wounded, one is missing. With diehard courage they head toward the North Sea and freedom. After eluding enemy soldiers and quislings, they find themselves trapped inside Nazi headquarters,...
Series
Films of Michael Powell volume disc 1
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, an English pilot survives a jump from his burning plane due to an angel's incompetence. Caught in a nether world between heaven and Earth, and in love with an American radio operator, he must plead his case before a heavenly tribunal.
12) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
13) The silver fleet
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Set during the occupation of Holland during World War II, the owner of a Dutch shipyard pretends to collaborate with the Nazis in order to protect his employees and his family.
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Two weeks after the start of WWII, a powerful German pocket battleship, the Graf Spee, sails the South Atlantic, destroying Allied merchant ships at will. Captained by one of Germany's most brilliant naval officers, the Graf Spee, with her superior speed and artillery, appears and disappears, sinking ship after ship. When the Allies are finally able to pinpoint its location a trap is set, pitting British Intelligence against a wily and powerful military...
15) The red shoes
Series
Criterion collection volume 44
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 173
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt,...
17) 49th parallel
Series
Criterion collection volume 376
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Nazi U-boat crew headed by the ruthless Lieutenant Hirth is stranded in Canada during the thick of World War II, the men evade capture by hiding out in a series of rural communities before trying to cross the border into the still-neutral United States.
18) Contraband
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the early days of World War II, a Danish sea captain and his passenger are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. The plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters in one peculiar set of surroundings after another. Most of the story takes place under blackout conditions, in which the great city becomes a mysterious dark labyrinth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 939
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 939
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.