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41) Diabolique
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The mistress and the wife of a sadistic schoolmaster conspire to murder the man, carry it out, and then begin to wonder if they have covered their tracks effectively.
42) Howards End
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 12
Language
Norwegian
Description
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
44) One life
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the true story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from the Germans on the verge of World War II. Half a century later, he is haunted by the memory of those he could not save"--
Series
Criterion collection volume 165
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
A charming, poetry-reciting, philosophizing homidical maniac's actions are recorded by a film crew. Simultaneously repelled and fascinated, the filmmakers find themselves drawn into the hitman's murderous activities.
46) Roise & Frank
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Gaeilge
Description
Róise is still grieving the loss of her husband, Frank, when a mysterious dog shows up at her door. Mildly annoyed by the canine attempting to disrupt her mourning, she attempts to ignore him. But before long, a series of coincidences convince her that somehow this shaggy dog is her husband Frank reincarnated. Soon the dog will win over others in their small town, as well as becoming the unlikely coach to a shy, hurling-loving local boy, before mysteriously...
47) Oldboy
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Korean
Description
After being kidnapped and held a prisoner for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is mysteriously set free with money and new clothes, and searches for his captor.
48) Border cafe
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Persian
Description
When an Iranian widow takes over her husband's truck stop restaurant after his death, she must hide in the kitchen so she doesn't cause a scandal. Now her brother-in-law wants to be with her for the cafe, while a customer just wants to be with her.
49) Des
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The story is about one of the most infamous serial killers in UK history: Dennis Nilsen. Known as the "kindly killer", Nilsen was an unassuming civil servant who became Britain's most prolific serial killer of the time. The chilling true-crime series delves into Nilsen's emotionally elusive psyche after his arrest in 1983.
50) Rams
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two estranged brothers, Colin and Les, are at war raising separate flocks of sheep both descended from the family's bloodline. When Les's prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley but Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be.
51) Black work
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jo Gillespie is a policewoman whose detective husband is killed in the line of duty while working undercover on a case. Her coworkers expect her to stay out of the investigation, but when alarming information about her husband comes to light, Jo loses faith in her police family and sets out to find the killer herself. Along the way she learns of the many dark secrets surrounding her husband, his colleagues, and the criminals they were investigating....
52) Beau travail
Series
Language
Français
Formats
Description
With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of the time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten.
53) Revoir Paris
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Three months after surviving a mass shooting at a Parisian bistro, Mia is determined to reconstruct the sequence of events by bonding with fellow survivors, and piecing together their stories to rediscover her own.
54) Little Bird
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history. Through this epic journey of connection and self-discovery, Bezhig Little Bird begins to find her lost family and put the pieces of her fragmented past back together"--
55) A war: Krigen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Danish
Description
Afghanistan. During a routine mission, soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire. Commander Claus makes a decision to save his men, which has grave consequences for him, and his family back home
56) Barry Lyndon
Series
Criterion collection volume 897
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling version of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O'Neal) whose opportunism takes him from an Irish farm to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War and the parlors of high society. For the most sumptuously crafted film of...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Based on the events of the poisoning of a Russian double-agent and his daughter in 2018 in the city of Salisbury, England, tells the story of the local community and its leaders as they work to decontaminate the city amidst uncertainty and growing public panic.
58) Peeping Tom
Series
Criterion collection volume 58
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A study of a voyeuristic maniac who kills women while filming them with his 16mm camera.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Norwegian
Description
"In Season 2, when a notorious serial killer and his mysterious accomplice escape the police, Detective William Wisting races to stop the killers before more lives are lost. In Season 3, FBI agent Maggie Griffin returns to assist Wisting with the investigation of the brutal murder of an asylum seeker"--Container.
60) Crash
Series
Criterion collection volume 1059
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After nearly dying in a car crash, a man is obsessed with recreating accidents and having sex in cars.
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