Criterion Movies

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own...

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its...

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the...

Gu Sheng-zhai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-zhen, a mysterious...

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in...

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to...

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady...

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to...

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...