 | Eclipse Series 5 - The First Films of Samuel Fuller (The Baron of Arizona / I Shot Jesse James / The Steel Helmet) (Criterion Collection)
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $24.95 ***** 1949-1951. Written and directed by Samuel Fuller. The first three movies of this filmmaker who's one of the most underrated American directors. A box set every movie lover should have in his library. Indispensable.
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 | Where the Sidewalk Ends (Fox Film Noir)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $6.30 ***** 1950. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger. A violent policeman, son of a thief, accidentally murders a key witness of the murder he must investigate. The father of the dead man's wife is charged with the murder while the policeman is feeling more and more guilty. Masterpiece.
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 | Angel Face
Buy used from: $15.97 ***** 1952. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Robert Mitchum is seduced by Jean Simmons, the stepdaughter of a wealthy business woman. He's put on trial when Jean manages to plot her stepmother's death. A movie I worship for more than 35 years now. Masterpiece.
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 | Pickup on South Street - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $17.99 ***** 1953. Written and directed by Samuel Fuller. One nomination for the Academy awards (Thelma Ritter). A pickpocket steals a microfilm without knowing it. Cops, F.B.I. and communists are soon after him. Masterpiece.
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![The Moon Is Blue [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411AEVNQEML._SL75_.jpg) | The Moon Is Blue [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]
***** 1953. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Golden Globe earned by David Niven and three Academy awards nominations. An exceptional comedy about sex featuring William Holden trying to understand the honest but disconcerting Maggie McNamara's speech about how to seduce a woman. Masterpiece.
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 | Smiles Of A Summer Night - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.62 ***** 1955. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. A prize (Best Poetic Humor!) at Cannes and the Bergman phenomenon started at that moment. A romantic comedy opposing women and men or rather life and death. Masterpiece.
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 | Forty Guns
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.98 ***** 1957. Written, produced and directed by Samuel Fuller. Griff Bonnell and his two brothers arrive in Cochise county, a land ruled by Jessica Drummond and the forty gunmen who work for her. Brilliant movie. A must.
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 | The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $14.71 ***** 1957. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Jury Special Prize at Cannes. A knight comes back home from the Crusades. As he wanders through a country devastared by the black plague, he asks Death to play chess with him with the hope to earn some more time to live. Masterpiece.
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 | Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $13.95 ***** 1957. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Golden Berlin Bear and Golden Globe. An old doctor, solitary and egocentric, remembers his childhood while driving to an honorific appointment. Masterpiece.
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![Party Girl (1958) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HTGENYCDL._SL75_.jpg) | Party Girl (1958) [VHS]
Buy used from: $14.98 ***** 1958. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Chicago in the early 30's. A dancer, Cyd Charisse, falls in love with Robert Taylor, the lawyer of the local mob. She persuades him to start a new life. Last masterpiece of Nicholas Ray who pays tribute to all precedent gangsters movies. The dance acts of Cyd Charisse are sublime and Robert Taylor's performance beyond comparison. Indispensable.
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 | The Virgin Spring - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $34.49 / Used from: $19.99 ***** 1960. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. A prize in Cannes and Academy award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. This adaptation of a ballad of the XIIIth century tells the story of a young virgin who's raped in the forest by three vagrants while riding to the church. Masterpiece.
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 | The Ingmar Bergman Trilogy: The Criterion Collection (Through a Glass Darkly / Winter Light / The Silence)
Buy new: $71.99 / Used from: $48.79 ***** 1961-1963. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. A box set that should already be in your library. The fourth DVD is an indispensable documentary about Ingmar Bergman shot by Swedish director Vilgot Sjöman.
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![Through a Glass Darkly ( Såsom i en spegel ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Great Britain ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KE3GH7E5L._SL75_.jpg) | Through a Glass Darkly ( Såsom i en spegel ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Great Britain ]
Buy used from: $33.99 ***** 1961. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. A prize in Berlin and Academy award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. A young woman, her husband, her brother and her father pass their vacation on a Swedish island. Karin is schizophrenic and, soon, suffers from hallucinations. Masterpiece.
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 | The Silence (Criterion Collection)
Buy used from: $19.97 ***** 1963. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Two sisters argue in an hotel room while Johan, a 10 years old kid, is discovering the corridors and the strange guests of the hotel. In my opinion, one of the most beautiful films ever made. Masterpiece.
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 | The Naked Kiss - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.99 ***** 1964. Written and directed by Samuel Fuller. A prostitute decides to quit his job, is hired as a nurse for handicapped children in a small town and finally falls in love with the heir of the Founding Father of the town. A Cinderella story for adults which is a must for any movie lover. Masterpiece.
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 | The Naked Prey - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $23.99 ***** 1966. Produced and directed by Cornel Wilde. Academy award nomination in the Best original Screenplay category. Africa in the 1860's. A safari guide is the last survivor of the expedition he organized. He must now run through the savanna, pursued by the best warriors of a bloodthirsty tribe. Masterpiece.
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 | Good Bye, Lenin!
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.52 ***** 2003. Co-written and directed by Wolfgang Becker. Six European Film awards. A few months before the fall of the Berlin wall, Alex's mother suffers from a heart attack and falls into coma. When she wakes up months later, her family fears that she won't be able to face the new political reality. Masterpiece.
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 | Innocent Voices
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $3.57 ***** 2004. Co-written and directed by Luis Mandoki. Numerous awards earned in international festivals. El Salvador in the 80's. Chava lives in a village that lies between the Salvadorian army and the guerrilla warfare. He must hide with his friends when the army starts to enlist by force 12 years old boys. Masterpiece.
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 | Cache (Hidden)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.47 ***** 2005. Written and directed by Michael Haneke. Three prizes at Cannes. Georges is receiving videotapes of himself with his family. Soon he suspects Majid to be the man responsible for this situation. Masterpiece.
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 | A Scanner Darkly
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.28 ***** 2006. Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Los Angeles, California, near future. An undercover cop starts to take the substance D drug, a new dangerous substance. He suffers soon from hallucinations that prevent him to concentrate on his job. Masterpiece.
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 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $1.97 ***** 2007. Written and directed by the New Zealander director Andrew Dominik. Two nominations for the Academy awards and a prize in Venice. The last months of Jesse James and his gang. Masterpiece.
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 | I Am Legend (Widescreen Single-Disc Edition)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.33 ***** 2007. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Dr. Robert Neville is the sole survivor of a pandemic that started in NYC. For three years now, he tries to find an antidote to the virus at night while infected people are haunting the city. Masterpiece.
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 | Across the Universe (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $3.24 ***** 2007. Written and directed by Julie Taymor. An Academy award and a Golden Globe nomination. The 60's seen through the songs of the Beatles. A unique vision developed by one of the most interesting directors of our time. Masterpiece.
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