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1) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Summary
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
2) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Summary
Sold into slavery as a young boy and sentenced to spend the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius...
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Summary
This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills, the villagers decide to hire a band of samurai to protect them. In addition to the primary conflict between the villagers and the bandits, much of the...
4) The blob
Series
Criterion collection volume 91
Summary
Residents of a small Pennsylvania town combat a slimy space invader.
Series
Criterion collection volume 33
Summary
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.
6) Red river
Series
Criterion collection volume 709
Summary
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Summary
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
8) Ikiru
Series
Criterion collection volume 221
Summary
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.
9) Msing
Series
Criterion collection volume 449
Summary
A father helps his daughter-in-law look for his son, an American writer who has disappeared during a South American military coup. Based on a true story.
Series
Criterion collection volume 197
Summary
Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, this piece documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust and contrasts the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage.
12) The war room
Series
Criterion collection volume 602
Summary
The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House and changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, the filmmakers closely followed the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton's crack team of consultants. Fleet-footed and entertaining, this is a vivid document of a political moment whose...
Series
Criterion collection volume 349
Summary
A group of college students afraid of the future remain on campus to await their futures, while trying to answer the question where do we go from here?
Series
Criterion collection volume 146
Summary
Dramatization of love and disloyalty during World War II.
15) Rebecca
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Summary
A young woman who believes she has found her heart's desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter. But upon moving to Manderley, her groom's baroque ancestral mansion, she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well.
Series
Criterion collection volume 647
Summary
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 118
Summary
A Hollywood director wants to abandon comedies and make serious films. In order to feed his creative flame, he travels onto the street disguised as a hobo in order to endure real hardship.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 827
Summary
An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans.
