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the entire list of pictures featured in the criterion collection thus far

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(cover: Daniel Clowes' illustration for criterion's The Naked Kiss blu-ray)

Dead Ringers (1988) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Dead Ringers
director: David Cronenberg actor: Jeremy Irons / Geneviève Bujold
other title: Inseparabili / Blodbrødre
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Summertime (1955) [Movie] TMDB
Summertime
director: David Lean actor: Katharine Hepburn / Rossano Brazzi
other title: Tempo d'estate / Loucura em Veneza
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
RoboCop (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
RoboCop
8.1 (7 ratings) director: Paul Verhoeven actor: Peter Weller / Nancy Allen
other title: Robocop - O Polícia do Futuro / Robocop
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
High and Low (1963) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
天国と地獄
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tatsuya Nakadai
other title: Anatomia di un rapimento / Himmel og helvede
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.
Alphaville (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
director: Jean-Luc Godard actor: Eddie Constantine / Anna Karina
other title: Agente Lemmy Caution, missione Alphaville / Lemmys mærkelige eventyr
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”
The Long Good Friday (1980) [Movie] TMDB
The Long Good Friday
director: John Mackenzie actor: Bob Hoskins / Helen Mirren
other title: Il giorno del venerdì santo / Farlig Fredag
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) [Movie] TMDB
Flesh for Frankenstein
director: Paul Morrissey actor: Joe Dallesandro / Udo Kier
other title: Il mostro è in tavola... barone Frankenstein / Frankenstein
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre and hilarious combination of death and dismemberment.
Blood for Dracula (1974) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Blood for Dracula
director: Paul Morrissey actor: Udo Kier / Joe Dallesandro
other title: Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!! / Grev Dracula
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Picnic at Hanging Rock
6.8 (5 ratings) director: Peter Weir actor: Rachel Roberts / Vivean Gray
other title: Picnic ad Hanging Rock / Picnic na Montanha Misteriosa
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
M (1931) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
director: Fritz Lang actor: Peter Lorre / Ellen Widmann
other title: M - Il mostro di Düsseldorf / Matou
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Great Expectations (1946) [Movie] TMDB
Great Expectations
director: David Lean actor: John Mills / Valerie Hobson
other title: Grandi speranze / Grandes Esperanças
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Oliver Twist (1948) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Oliver Twist
director: David Lean actor: John Howard Davies / Robert Newton
other title: Le avventure di Oliver Twist / As Aventuras de Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Nanook of the North (1922) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Nanook of the North
director: Robert J. Flaherty actor: Allakariallak / Alice Nevalinga
other title: Nanuk l'eschimese / Nanuk, der Eskimo
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.
Andrei Rublev (1966) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Андрей Рублёв
director: Andrei Tarkovsky actor: Anatoliy Solonitsyn / Ivan Lapikov
other title: Andrej Rublëv / Den yderste dom
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for his art. But after Rublev witnesses a brutal battle and unintentionally becomes involved, he takes a vow of silence and spends time away from his work. As he begins to ease his troubled soul, he takes steps towards becoming a painter once again.
Diabolique (1955) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Les Diaboliques
director: Henri-Georges Clouzot actor: Véra Clouzot / Simone Signoret
other title: I diabolici / Rædslernes hus
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
The Wages of Fear (1953) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Le Salaire de la peur
director: Henri-Georges Clouzot actor: Yves Montand / Charles Vanel
other title: Vite vendute / Frygtens Pris
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.
Time Bandits (1981) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Time Bandits
director: Terry Gilliam actor: Craig Warnock / David Rappaport
other title: I banditi del tempo / Os Ladrões do Tempo
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
Branded to Kill (1967) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
殺しの烙印
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Joe Shishido / Kōji Nanbara
other title: La farfalla sul mirino / La Marque du Tueur
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Tokyo Drifter (1966) [Movie] TMDB
東京流れ者
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Tetsuya Watari / Ryuji Kita
other title: Deriva a Tokyo - Il vagabondo di Tokyo / Tóquio Violenta
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
Armageddon (1998) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Armageddon
6.7 (6 ratings) director: Michael Bay actor: Bruce Willis / Billy Bob Thornton
other title: Armageddon - Giudizio finale / Armageddon - Das jüngste Gericht
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Created date: Sept. 7, 2025