Oskar Werner
Series
Criterion collection volume 281
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special édition.
Language
Français
Description
Considered Truffaut's greatest film, this is a story of friendship between two artists and their mutual love for the same woman.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
Series
Criterion collection volume 693
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Dual-format edition.
Language
Français
Description
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, it charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary Franȯis Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules and Jim into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 452
Language
English
Formats
Description
The acclaimed, best-selling novel by John le Carre, about a Cold War spy on one final dangerous mission in East Germany, is transmuted by director Martin Ritt into a film every bit as precise and ruthless as the book. Richard Burton plays Alec Leamas, whose relationship with a beautiful librarian, puts his assignment in jeopardy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 693
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Dual-format edition, blu-ray.
Language
Français
Description
Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, it charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary Franȯis Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules and Jim into one of cinema's most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Departing Hamburg in high spirits, 937 Jewish Germans have been offered safe haven in Havana, Cuba, in 1939. The passengers are looking forward to their new life. However, the whole voyage is actually a Nazi propaganda scheme and the passengers are never really intended to be allowed ashore once they reach their destination. After weeks of unsuccessful pleas they are forced to return back to Europe. Based on the tragic 1939 voyage of the SS St. Louis....
11) Lola Montès
Series
Criterion collection volume 503
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
The life of a young woman who was a showgirl, had affairs with kings, became a courtesan, and traveled the world trying to fit in. Charts the course of Montès's scandalous past through the invocations of the bombastic ringmaster of the American circus where she has ended up performing.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full frame.
Language
English
Description
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US Army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information.
13) Ship of fools
Pub. Date
[1965]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In 1933, a motley crew of passengers embarks on a fateful, transatlantic sea voyage to Germany. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
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