Janus Films
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for peerless visual poetry and dreamlike storytelling.
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
7) Ikiru
Series
Criterion collection volume 221
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
8) Walkabout
Series
The Criterion collection volume 10
Pub. Date
1998
Description
An Australian aborigine on his tribal initiation "walkabout" in the outback rescues an English brother and sister who have been abandoned there.
9) Magic Flute
Series
Criterion collection volume 71
Pub. Date
1975.
Description
An opera by Mozart, in which a handsome young man is enlisted to rescue the Queen of Night's daughter from an evil sorcerer.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
13) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.
Based on an actual case, M is an exploration of the most dreaded type of all deviant personalities. The random killer. A psychopathic murderer of young girls...
Series
Pub. Date
[1998], c1957
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death, with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as a cultural turmoil envelops the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
16) The fallen idol
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.
17) The third man
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.
18) The 39 Steps
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay, who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors. A chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued, as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela
Series
Criterion collection volume 746
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.
Series
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable...