Drama

Roving with his dazzlingly mobile camera around the decadent ballrooms, bucolic countryside retreats, urban bordellos, and painter's studios of late nineteenth-century Parisian society, Max Ophuls brings his astonishing visual dexterity and storytelling...

Missing (1982) DVD

Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's controversial turn-of-thecentury play La ronde. Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, and aristocrats, all...

Crossing social boundaries is prohibited in 19th Century Sweden. But Miss Julie, a count's daughter, treads the line of propriety, and flirts with danger by getting involved with Jean, her father's valet - a member of the lower class. Jean, however,...

John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles. The classic Dickens story of young Pip and his mysterious benefactor is brought to the screen beautifully in this terrific Oscar-winning adaptation. Directed and coscripted by David Lean. 1946/b&w/118...

Jacques Becker lovingly evokes the Belle Hpoque Parisian demimonde in this classic tale of doomed romance. When gangster's moll Marie falls for reformed criminal Manda their passion incites an underworld rivalry that leads inexorably to treachery and...

The story of Ingemar, a working-class twelve-year old sent to live with his uncle in a country village when his mother falls ill. Once there, Ingemar finds refuge from his misfortunes and unexpected adventure with the help of the warmhearted town. A...

In the swift, cynical SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, directed by Alexander Mackendrick (THE LADYKILLERS), Burt Lancaster (BRUTE FORCE, THE LEOPARD) stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis (SOME LIKE IT HOT, SPARTACUS) as...

Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation...

Drama which features both Vittorio de Sica's original, full-length cut of the film Terminal Station (Stazione Termini) and producer David O. Selznick's edited American version, Indiscretion of An American Wife. Jennifer Jones stars as an American...

With his raw style of filmmaking, Maurice Pialat has been called the John Cassavetes of French cinema, and the scorching + nos amours is one of his greatest achievements. In a revelatory film debut, the dynamic, fresh-faced Sandrine Bonnaire plays...

Awarded a special Palme d'Or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, the Leopard translates the original novel, and the history it recounts, into a truly cinematic masterpiece. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the film in two distinct versions:...