Movies: Criterion

  • 1954
    The Crucified Lovers

    The Crucified Lovers (1954)

    The Crucified Lovers

    7.81954HD

    When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another....

    The Crucified Lovers
  • 1963
    The Leopard

    The Leopard (1963)

    The Leopard

    7.71963HD

    As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero neph...

    The Leopard
  • 1994
    Three Colors: Red

    Three Colors: Red (1994)

    Three Colors: Red

    7.91994HD

    Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches...

    Three Colors: Red
  • 1965
    Pierrot le Fou

    Pierrot le Fou (1965)

    Pierrot le Fou

    7.41965HD

    Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run....

    Pierrot le Fou
  • 1957
    Sweet Smell of Success

    Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

    Sweet Smell of Success

    7.61957HD

    New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist Steve Dallas. ...

    Sweet Smell of Success
  • 1953
    Ugetsu

    Ugetsu (1953)

    Ugetsu

    7.91953HD

    In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysteriou...

    Ugetsu
  • 2018
    Cold War

    Cold War (2018)

    Cold War

    7.42018HD

    A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other....

    Cold War
  • 2008
    Still Walking

    Still Walking (2008)

    Still Walking

    7.82008HD

    A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear....

    Still Walking
  • 1980
    Kagemusha

    Kagemusha (1980)

    Kagemusha

    7.81980HD

    Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor tak...

    Kagemusha
  • 1962
    Sanjuro

    Sanjuro (1962)

    Sanjuro

    7.91962HD

    Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out thei...

    Sanjuro
  • 1987
    Where Is The Friend's House?

    Where Is The Friend's House? (1987)

    Where Is The Friend's House?

    7.91987HD

    An 8-year-old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school....

    Where Is The Friend's House?
  • 1993
    Three Colors: Blue

    Three Colors: Blue (1993)

    Three Colors: Blue

    7.61993HD

    The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s m...

    Three Colors: Blue
  • 1959
    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)

    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

    8.21959HD

    Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defect...

    The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
  • 1956
    Aparajito

    Aparajito (1956)

    Aparajito

    7.81956HD

    Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, a...

    Aparajito
  • 1955
    Rififi

    Rififi (1955)

    Rififi

    7.81955HD

    Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor ...

    Rififi
  • 1953
    The Wages of Fear

    The Wages of Fear (1953)

    The Wages of Fear

    8.01953HD

    In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey....

    The Wages of Fear
  • 1962
    Cléo from 5 to 7

    Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

    Cléo from 5 to 7

    7.61962HD

    Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid v...

    Cléo from 5 to 7
  • 1946
    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast (1946)

    Beauty and the Beast

    7.51946HD

    The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific ti...

    Beauty and the Beast
  • 1936
    Modern Times

    Modern Times (1936)

    Modern Times

    8.31936HD

    A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.....

    Modern Times
  • 1992
    The Player

    The Player (1992)

    The Player

    7.21992HD

    A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?...

    The Player