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Series
Criterion collection volume 36
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Français
Description
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves.
Series
Criterion collection volume 319
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
日本語
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 335
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Florence Carala and her lover Julien Tavernier, an ex-paratrooper, want to murder her husband by faking a suicide.
Series
Criterion collection volume 342
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
"A succession of jousts between fragile men and the women who tempt them"--Container.
86) The fallen idol
Series
Criterion collection volume 357
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The relationship between a young boy and his beloved butler turns sour when the boy suspects the butler of murder.
88) Henry V
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
Series
Criterion collection volume 331
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
Banshun: A widowed father feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. Tokyo-ga: Legendary director Wim Wenders's tribute to Yasujiro Ozu.
Series
Criterion collection volume 339
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of a year, from a wedding at the start to a funeral at its end.
Series
Criterion collection volume 408
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Français
Description
A small-time hood kills a police and tries to leave France, but his American girlfriend betrays him to the police leading to a deadly conclusion.
Series
Criterion collection volume 379
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
日本語
Description
An anti-war drama about a wounded Japanese soldier in British custody during the last days of World War II. Sent out into the Burmese jungle to persuade renegade fighters to surrender, the harp-playing soldier undergoes a spiritual change and becomes obsessed with burying war dead.
94) Days of heaven
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A young couple who pretend to be brother and sister move from Chicago to the Texas panhandle to escape poverty. There, they work the ranch of a rich and handsome farmer, who has fallen in love with the woman.
Series
Criterion collection volume 378
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
"Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast off into the unknown, Private Tamura treks across an unfamiliar Philippine landscape, encountering an increasingly debased cross section of Imperial Army soldiers, who eventually give in to the most terrifying craving of all"--Container.
96) La haine: Hate
Series
Criterion collection volume 381
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007, p1995
Language
Français
Description
Three young, unemployed Frenchmen living in the ghettos surrounding Paris get embroiled in a violent conflict with the local police.
97) House of games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Swedish
Description
Smiles of a summer night: A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features.
The seventh seal: 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...
Series
Criterion collection volume 387
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Français
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Travelers on a trans-European train are put up in a hotel for the night due to bad weather. Shortly after the journey begins in the morning, people begin to disappear. Bonus features include commentary; documentary; essays; and more.
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