criterion movies

Mulholland Drive (2001)
7.8 / 10

Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two...

Blue Velvet (1986)
7.626 / 10

Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him...

Spartacus (1960)
7.5 / 10

History, War, Drama, Adventure

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the...

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
7.4 / 10

Drama, Mystery, Horror

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl....

The Seventh Seal (1957)
8.195 / 10

Fantasy, Drama

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges...

M (1931)
8.092 / 10

Drama, Thriller, Crime

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's...

Good Morning (1959)
7.7 / 10

Comedy, Family, Drama

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story...

Yojimbo (1961)
8.102 / 10

Drama, Thriller

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

His Girl Friday (1940)
7.404 / 10

Comedy, Romance

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged...

Sanjuro (1962)
7.939 / 10

Drama, Action, Comedy

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Vampyr (1932)
7.3 / 10

Horror, Fantasy, Mystery

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

Criterion Designs (2014)
0 / 10

Kogonada's video essay made in conjunction with the release of Criterion Designs, a 300-page book, which features highlights from cover art...

Reflecting On Take Out (2022)
0 / 10

Documentary

In this new documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2022, directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and actors Charles Jang, Wang-Thye...

A Sense of Carol Reed (2006)
0 / 10

Documentary

The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the famous stage actor, 'Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree'...

Criterion Collection : 1000 Spines (2019)
10 / 10

A short film, commemorating the first 1000 spines in the Criterion Collection.