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61) Nikutai no mon
Series
Criterion collection volume 298
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hotels of post-World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
Polish
Formats
Description
The story of a cocky Polish youth who decides to fight the Nazis after he falls for a pretty resistance leader. As he and his friends help escapees during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the innocence of a generation is lost under the grueling conditions of war.
63) Ran
Series
Criterion collection volume 316
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
Series
Criterion collection volume 299
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate.
Series
Criterion collection volume 268
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
A mysterious drifter pits rival yakuza gangs against each other to avenge the murder of a friend.
Series
Criterion collection volume 736
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 335
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She spends the night wandering the Parisian streets alone....
Series
Criterion collection volume 331
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
The story of a widower and his daughter who through devotion to him is getting past a marriageable age. The father pretends to marry a young wife so his daughter will feel less obligated to stay with him. She marries and he prepares to live the remainder of his life alone.
Series
Criterion collection volume 351
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Only dimly aware of the shadow of World War II somewhere beyond the Castilian plateau, sisters Isabel and Ana must occupy themselves as their preoccupied scientist father and isolated, languishing mother move in their solitary orbits. After attending the screening of James Whale's "Frankenstein" at a makeshift movie theater in town, Ana becomes obsessed with the idea of befriending the imaginary monster. Largely wordless, the film functions as a striking...
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
71) Lacombe, Lucien
Series
Criterion collection volume 329
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Français
Description
The story of a peasant boy in Vichy France, as he chooses between either becoming a Resistance member or a Gestapo recruit while becoming involved with a young Jewish girl.
72) Play time
Series
Criterion collection volume 112
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Modern Paris, a city of glass, steel and the encroaching age of technology. Amidst the babble of tourists, the endearingly clumsy Monsieur Hulot tries to reconcile the old-fashioned ways with the confusing new ways.
Series
Criterion collection volume 319
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
Series
Criterion collection volume 385
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
L'Armee des Ombres is a stark and unvarnished story about Resistance fighters in Vichy France in 1942-43 when the French leadership allowed the Nazis to occupy the country. The members of this army are cold, hungry, desperate men and women, with false names and no addresses, who can be betrayed in an instant by a traitor or an accident. They know they will probably die. A meditation on the nature of resistance and the price of courage, these heroes...
Series
Criterion collection volume 379
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2007.
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
"An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment disguising himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white"--Container.
Series
Criterion collection volume 398
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who has been injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time. The siblings are inseparable, living in the same room, fighting, playing secret games, and rarely leaving the house. Paul's friend, Gerard, often drops by to stay with them. One day Elisabeth brings home Agathe to live with them. She bears a strong resemblance to Dargelos, a schoolboy whom Paul had a...
Series
Criterion collection volume 384
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
Enokizu looks and talks like the man next door, which is what makes him so dangerous. He charms strangers and seduces women with just the right word, robbing them of their secrets first, their fortunes next, and finally their lives.
Series
Criterion collection volume 412
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
A relationship between a turn-of-the-century traveling circus owner and his performer girlfriend suddenly changes, when they pull into the town where the owner's wife and children live, whom he hasn't seen in three years.
79) House of games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.
Series
Criterion collection volume 397
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
An evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth. 12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the World War II eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child.
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