The Criterion Collection

George Cukor directs this classic drama starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Liberal-minded Johnny Case (Grant) wanders into a storm of troub...

Elia Kazan directs this 1950s drama starring Patricia Neal, Andy Griffith and Anthony Franciosa. Larry Rhodes (Griffith) is a nomadic musician who ...

William Greaves directs this two-part experimental documentary. The first part, filmed in 1968, sees Greaves in New York's Central Park filming a f...

Collection of short films and documentaries directed by Martin Scorsese. The films are 'Italian American' (1974), 'American Boy' (1978), 'The Big S...

Hiroshi Teshigahara directs this documentary about the work of Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí.

Japanese crime drama from director Masahiro Shinoda. When a gangster is released from prison, he struggles to come to terms with the shift in dynam...

Samuel Fuller writes, produces and directs this 1960s drama starring Constance Towers as Kelly, a woman with a past that she would rather forget. S...

Robert Bresson's sombre drama is an unsentimental take on a teenager's tragic home life. 14-year-old Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) is an inarticulate ...

James Stewart stars in this classic Western from director George Marshall. The son of a famous lawman, young Tom Destry (Stewart) is considered som...

Regina King directs this drama inspired by real events. On the night of 25th February 1964, Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) emerges victorious after defea...

Charles Vidor directs this classic film-noir starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. Casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready) orders his right-...

Paul Bartel directs and stars in this dark comedy about a couple eager to start up their own business. Paul and Mary Bland (Bartel and Mary Woronov...

Collection of works brought together by director Orson Welles that serves to examine the idea of forgery and fakes. The film features the work of f...

Andrei Tarkovsky directs this Soviet drama based on the short story 'Ivan' by Vladimir Bogomolov. During the Second World War, 12-year-old Ivan (Ni...

Harold Lloyd stars in this classic silent film, directed by Ted Wilde. In his attempt to save the last horse-drawn streetcar in New York City, Lloy...

Steve McQueen stars in this sci-fi horror about a jelly-like blob from outer space which increases in size with each person it devours. The cast in...

Musical revue starring bandleader Paul Whiteman. Featuring sketches and performances from Bing Crosby, John Boles, Laura La Plante and Slim Summerv...

Mikhail Kalatozov's critically-acclaimed, romantic tragedy starring Tatyana Samojlova. Young Moscow couple, Veronika (Samojlova) and Boris (Aleksey...

Satyajit Ray directs this Bengali drama starring Chhabi Biswas and Gangapada Basu. The film follows the story of aristocrat Huzur Biswamghar Roy (B...

Nagisa Oshima's notorious masterpeice tells the story of the obsessive affair between a young servant girl and her master which ended in 1936, when...

Edouard Molinaro directs this Franco-Italian comedy farce starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault. Homosexual couple Renato and Albin (Tognazzi a...

Psychological drama from the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman following a group of down-on-their-luck circus performers as they face love, jealousy,...

The most savagely subversive film by the iconoclastic auteur LUCHINO VISCONTI (The Leopard) employs the mechanics of deliriously stylized melodrama...

Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to...

John Waters directs this comedy starring Divine and Tab Hunter. Suburban housewife Francine Fishpaw (Divine) has an unfulfilling life. When her hus...

Silent drama from Charlie Chaplin. Marking Chaplin's final appearance as The Tramp, the story follows the character as he struggles to survive in a...

Gregory La Cava writes and directs this screwball comedy starring Carole Lombard and William Powell. Set on Park Avenue in New York, socialite Iren...

Mike Leigh directs this comic look at one of light opera's most famous creative partnerships. In 1880s London, the writing team of William Gilbert ...

Romantic comedy written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck. Jean Harrington (Stanwyck) and her father Colon...

Frank Capra's Oscar-winning classic romantic drama starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. Heiress Ellie Andrews (Colbert) flees her disapprovi...

Luchino Visconti directs this acclaimed version of Thomas Mann's novel. Gustav van Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) is an aging German composer who is vis...

Alexander Hall directs this classic drama starring Robert Montgomery as a boxer who his called up to Heaven too early due to a clerical error. When...

Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth star in this classic drama directed by Howard Hawks. As the San Luis ship docks into the port of Barranca...

Juzo Itami directs this Japanese drama following a grieving family as they prepare for the funeral of a loved one. Set over the course of three day...

Michel Simon and Viviane Romance star in this classic French thriller based on the novel 'Les Fiançailles de M. Hire' by Georges Simenon. When an e...

Wes Anderson's comic Indian road-movie, set on a train, follows three brothers on a road-to-nowhere as they try to bond with one another after the ...