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Pub. Date
1979
Description
A school trip to a mountain takes a turn for the worse when three girls disappear.
"...mesmerizing and unsettling drama. Highly recommended."--Video Librarian
"We are left with an uncanny respect for the mysteries in life that can never be solved by logic alone."--Spirituality and Health
"A masterpiece of eerie atmosphere."--Lawrence Journal-World
Series
Criterion collection volume 141
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Drama about the theater and the individuals that made the stage their life. Includes the love story of four men for one woman.
6) The Mirror
Pub. Date
c1974
Description
Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.
8) Son of a gun
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
After breaking out of a maximum-security prison, Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, enlists 19-year-old JR to accompany him and his crew on a gold heist that promises to deliver millions. However, as things start to go wrong, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
10) Styx
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering. Carrying...
11) The road home
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
The story of a man's parent's courtship unfolds when he comes home to bury his father.
12) Orpheus: Orphée
Series
Pub. Date
c1949
Description
The second installment of the Orphic Trilogy introduces Orpheus the poet, a man caught between the love of his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess.
13) The hunt
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Lucas is a former school teacher who has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce and the loss of his job. Just as things are starting to go his way, his life is shattered when an untruthful remark throws his small community into a collective state of hysteria. As the lie spreads, Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fight for his life and dignity.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...
Series
Criterion collection volume 374
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
17) Happening
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
In 1963, student Anne has a bright future ahead of her, but her dreams of finishing her studies is shattered when she becomes pregnant. As her final exams approach, Anne decides to take matters into her own hands.
18) Wings of desire
Pub. Date
c2003
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Description
An angel so wishes to become mortal he is willing to fall from the sky if it means a chance of falling in love.