Criterion Classics Collection
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Beamafilm’s Criterion Classics Collection brings some of the most influential films in history to libraries, schools, and universities. This carefully curated selection showcases groundbreaking storytelling, cinematic innovation, and enduring cultural impact. From the social realism of The Bicycle Thief to the revolutionary montage of Battleship Potemkin, these films have shaped the art of filmmaking. Metropolis stands as a visionary sci-fi epic, while Pygmalion offers a sharp literary adaptation. Perfect for film studies and humanities courses, this collection provides an essential foundation for understanding the evolution of cinema.
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A father and son search for the stolen bicycle that will deliver them from poverty.
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When they are fed rancid meat, the sailors on the Potemkin revolt against their harsh conditions, soon encouraging the whole city of Odessa to join their revolution.
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Shaw’s classic play in which a Victorian dialect expert bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to speak proper English and thus be taken for a lady.
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Anarchic and offbeat 1960s story of 36 hours in the lives of The Beatles, as they travel to a TV show in London.
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In a diner somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Al Roberts ruminates about his life and what has led him to this place in time. He's got a tale to tell but Al's problem becomes more apparent as he explains it all.
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An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
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A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
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Two spinsters have their world shaken when a Parisian cook enters their lives.
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The 13th century: Russia is overrun by foreign invaders. Prince Alexander Nevsky, rallies the people to form a ragtag army to drive back an invasion by the Teutonic knights.
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
Monsieur Hulot takes a van full of gadgets to an auto-show
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Four men compete for the love of a courtesan.
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Two men on a park bench discuss the story of Cesare, a sleep-walking circus performer under the control of the murderous Dr. Caligari. But all, of course, is not quite as it seems.
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A brilliantly conceived spectacle which sees master of comedy Tati perform a series of live circus acts on the stage. A playful and imaginative take on the experience of seeing a show.
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An imaginative girl refuses the mould of Victorian society.
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Le Quattro Volte is an ineffably beautiful meditation on the mysterious cycles of life. It traces the path of one goat herder’s soul, as it passes from human to animal, to vegetable, and to mineral.
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The crowning achievement of the German silent cinema. In a futuristic city a beautiful utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers.
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Mike, a.k.a. Storm Boy, lives with his recluse father on South Australia's lonely and beautiful coast. Here his spirit roams with his pet pelican, Mr. Percival.
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Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
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A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal men in a ritualized taboo murder and learns disturbing things about himself in this Peter Weir classic starring Richard Chamberlain and David Gulpilil.
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An Oscar-winning classic about injustice and the horror of war.
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A young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
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H.G. Well's vision of the future comes to the screen. After a 30 year war, there is finally hope. But first the ruling tyrant must be dethroned...
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Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
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A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
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A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl’s benefactor and suitor.
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The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
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A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
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A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
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When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty from the rain-slicked gutters of an eerily artificial back-lot Greenwich Village, he plunges into a whirlpool of lust, larceny and revenge.
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Alain Delon plays a master thief, fresh out of prison, who crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic ex-cop.
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Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. Mowgli learns human language and some human ways quickly, though keeping jungle ideas.
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