Kim Hunter
Series
Criterion collection volume 939
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Two DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
In 1703 Sarah Cloyce, survivor of the Salem witchcraft hysteria, presents her story to a special commission empowered to investigate the trials for witchcraft. The events leading to the trials and the suffering they caused are told through flashbacks.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
British flyer Peter Carter survives a jump from his burning plane without parachute and wakes up in a nether world between Earth and the next life. He is informed that he should have died and must go to Heaven, where he is put on trial for his life. He falls in love with June, an American radio operator.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Two-disc special edition; Standard format.
Language
English
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Thirty-fifth anniversary edition ; widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
11) Bad Ronald
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A family with three daughters moves into an old house, unaware that it has a secret room occupied by a psychopathic teenager.
13) Lilith
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England seems to weave a magical spell on a young man with an equally obscure past. Their relationship deepens leading to a shocking conclusion.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Classic wartime propaganda movie, commissioned by the Ministry of Information, but turned into a fantastical allegory by the Archers, aka Powell and Pressburger. David Niven plays an RAF pilot who is ready to be picked up by the angels after bailing out of his plane. But an administrative error in Heaven leads to a temporary reprieve, during which he must prove his right to stay on Earth. A tribunal in heaven ensues to decide the case.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An astronaut gets thrown through a portal and into the future. When he lands on the ape planet, he finds a subterranean world where highly advanced humans live in New York City's former subway system in fear of militaristic gorillas and worship a weapon capable of destroying the entire planet.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be inherited by apes, it decides to hunt the couple down as...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
In this third Planet of the apes film, two intelligent simians from the future, Cornelius and Zira travel to present-day Earth. They become instant sensations, wined and dined and treated like celebrities -- until a high-level plot forces them to run for their lives.
Series
Criterion collection volume 495
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Features television plays from 1953-1958 and includes Marty (1953); Patterns (1955); No Time for Sergeants (1955); A Wind From the South (1955); Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956); Bang the Drum Slowly (1956); The Comedian (1957); and Days of Wine and Roses (1958).
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search