Directed by Len Talan • 1987 • United States
Starring Hugh Pollard, Nicola Stapleton, David Warner
This scrumptious screen version of the classic Brothers Grimm story was one of the Cannon Movie Tales, a series of live-action, star-driven musical adaptations of beloved fairy tales produced in th...
Directed by Ronald Neame • 1972 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons
A titanic ensemble cast led by Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine headlines this epically entertaining disaster-movie classic. While making its final voyage from New York to Greece, the soon-to-be-d...
Directed by Kon Ichikawa • 1962 • Japan
Starring Hirro Suzuki, Fujiko Yamamoto, Eiji Funakoshi
You can say that again! The days leading up to a toddler’s second birthday are seen alternately from the adorable youngster’s point of view and from the perspective of his anxious parents as they navig...
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore • 1988 • Italy
Starring Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Marco Leonardi
The ultimate film about movie love, this Oscar-winning international sensation is a heartstring-plucking ode to the magic of the big screen. Returning to the Sicilian village of his boyhood, a ...
Directed by Alfred E. Green • 1950 • United States
Starring Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, Minor Watson
Baseball legend Jackie Robinson stars as himself in this inspiring film biography, which traces his remarkable journey from childhood poverty to success as a college athlete to making history as t...
Criterion Collection Edition #37
In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they plunder trea...
Directed by Ida Lupino • 1966 • United States
Starring Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills
The final film directed by Ida Lupino before she went on to a successful career in television, this effervescent romp stars Hayley Mills as the new girl at an all-girls Catholic boarding school whose high-spiri...
Directed by Fred Wolf • 1971 • United States
Starring Ringo Starr, Paul Frees, Lennie Weinrib
Featuring a story and songs by Harry Nilsson (whose bouncy AM pop soundtrack yielded the hit single “Me and My Arrow”) and narration by Ringo Starr, THE POINT is a slightly Seussian, slightly psychedeli...
Directed by Anthony Asquith • 1952 • United Kingdom
Starring Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, Dame Edith Evans
Oscar Wilde’s comic jewel sparkles in Anthony Asquith’s film adaptation of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Featuring brilliantly polished performances by Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenw...
Directed by Henry Koster • 1953 • United States
Starring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature
The first movie ever filmed in CinemaScope, this visually dazzling biblical spectacle stands as perhaps the ultimate sword-and-sandals epic and a monumental exemplar of studio-era Hollywood filmm...
Directed by Yoichi Sai • 2004 • Japan
Starring Kaoru Kobayashi, Kippei Shiina, Kazu Matsuda
Told with refreshingly unsentimental, documentary-like naturalism, this Japanese drama is an exquisitely touching look at the relationship between humans and animals. Quill is the yellow Labrador Retrieve...
Directed by Robert Young • 1997 • United Kingdom
Starring Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds, Gemma Jones
Samantha Morton and Ciarán Hinds star in this superlative adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel. Morton plays the quietly strong-willed orphan Jane, who is enlisted as a governess at the...
Directed by Bryan Forbes • 1976 • United Kingdom
Starring Gemma Craven, Richard Chamberlain, Margaret Lockwood
A lavish retelling of the Cinderella story, this grand musical adventure offers a fresh twist on the classic fairy tale with charming humor and Academy Award–nominated songs by the lege...
Directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud • 2015 • France, Germany
After traveling the world alongside migrating birds (WINGED MIGRATION) and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays (OCEANS), Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and ...
Directed by Majid Majidi • 2020 • Iran
Starring Ali Nasirian, Javad Ezzati, Tannaz Tabatabaei
From acclaimed director Majid Majidi (CHILDREN OF HEAVEN) comes a breathtaking adventure rooted in the often-harsh social reality of contemporary Iran. Twelve-year-old Ali (Ruhollah Zamani) and his frie...
Directed by Sterling Van Wagenen • 1992 • United States
Starring Lukas Haas, Vanessa Zaoui, Michael Gross
Set in 1940s Brooklyn, ALAN & NAOMI is a deeply touching story of friendship and the rare children’s film to deal seriously with the issue of trauma. Ever since witnessing the murder of her ...
Directed by Anthony Powell • 2013 • New Zealand
ANTARCTICA: A YEAR ON ICE is a visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of sci...
Directed by David Lean • 1948 • United Kingdom
Starring Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh
Following the success of GREAT EXPECTATIONS, David Lean applied his sterling craftsmanship to another beloved Charles Dickens classic and once again set the standard for all future screen adaptations....
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu • 1935 • Japan
The final still-extant silent film directed by Yasujiro Ozu is an exquisitely tender portrait of everyday survival in 1930s Japan. Anticipating the neorealist poetry of BICYCLE THIEVES, AN INN IN TOKYO follows unemployed ne’er-do-well Kihachi (Takeshi Saka...
Directed by Satyajit Ray • 1956 • India
Starring Pinaki Sengupta, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee
Satyajit Ray had not planned to make a sequel to PATHER PANCHALI, but after the film’s international success, he decided to continue Apu’s narrative. APARAJITO picks up where the first film leaves of...
Directed by Chester Erskine • 1952 • United Kingdom
George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable, about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act, was written as a meditation on mode...
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1961 • Soviet Union
When Sasha, a seven-year-old violin protégé, meets Sergei, a steamroller working in his neighborhood, he starts to open up from his strictly imposed routine of practice. Made as a thesis film for the VGIK Soviet film school, this early work by A...
Directed by René Clair • 1935 • United Kingdom
Starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette
An old-world ghost gets a taste of new-world values in this sly supernatural satire. When an ancient Scottish castle is taken down and moved to Florida to be rebuilt brick by brick, the new America...
Directed by Karel Zeman • 1955 • Czechoslovakia
Starring Petr Herrmann, Vladimír Bejval, Josef Lukáš
A beguiling mix of natural history and science fiction, this early feature by Karel Zeman follows four schoolboys on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes an...