Criterion Movies

Julio, a young fisherman from a provincial village, descends into social alienation as he arrives in Manila to search for his loved one.

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire...

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Arindam, a matinee idol, is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by Aditi, a journalist who somewhat unwillingly...

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and...

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet...

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the...

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own...

Complications arise in a director's attempt to film a scene in Life, and Nothing More... (1992).

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Two college roommates have 24 hours to make the ultimate choice as they finalize arrangements for a black market abortion.

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of...

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure...

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a...

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting...

German journalist Philip Winter has a case of writer’s block when trying to write an article about the United States. He decides to return to...

Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

A student of the occult encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris.