Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1959 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

Cary Grant stars as an innocent man mistaken for a spy in one of director Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers, featuring some of the Master of Suspense’s most indelible set pieces. While leavi...

Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1995 • United States
Starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt

Terry Gilliam’s grungy, gonzo riff on Chris Marker’s LA JETÉE (with a host of try-and-spot-’em Hitchcock allusions thrown in) stars Bruce Willis as a prisoner in the year 2035 who’s zapped back in ...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1951 • United States
Starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker

Widely considered one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest movies, this classic suspense tale taps into the evil that lies hidden just beneath the surface of each of us. When two strangers—tennis sta...

Directed by Catherine Breillat • 2023 • France
Starring Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin

After a decade-long absence, Catherine Breillat triumphantly returns with an exploration of the themes that have made her one of cinema’s most rousing and controversial directors: the ecstasies...

Directed by Tony Scott • 2006 • United States
Starring Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, federal agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secre...

Directed by Joel Coen • 1990 • United States
Starring John Turturro, Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney

A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, MILLER’S CROSSING marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers’ trademark savory dialog...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1958 • United States
Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO has been recognized as the director’s most spellbinding and deeply personal achievement—and as one of the greatest films ever made. James Stewart reteams with the ...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1941 • United States
Starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce

Alfred Hitchcock discovered dark new shades in Cary Grant’s star persona with this classic thriller, the director and actor’s first collaboration. Handsome, charming, well-liked Johnnie Aysgarth (...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1956 • United States
Starring Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle

With this claustrophobic thriller drawn from real events, Alfred Hitchcock delivered an unusually naturalistic take on his trademark themes, shooting on location in New York with documentary real...

Directed by John Waters • 1994 • United States
Starring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake

Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the picture-perfect, all-American housewife, leading a modern “Leave It to Beaver” life in suburban Baltimore with her husband (Sam Waterston) and two kids (Ric...

Directed by Jeff Tremaine • 2002 • United States
Starring Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera

The MTV sensation made the leap to the big screen with this feature-length shock-fest in which Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of maniacs perform the daredevil stunts and gross-out pranks no one ...

Directed by Alexander Payne • 1999 • United States
Starring Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, Chris Klein

Perky, overachieving high schooler Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) gets on the nerves of social-studies teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) to begin with, but after she launches h...

Directed by Frank Capra • 1930 • United States
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Graves, Lowell Sherman

In the first of her remarkable collaborations with Frank Capra, Barbara Stanwyck plays a “party girl” who finds genuine love when she begins modeling for the wannabe-painter son (Ralph Graves) ...

Directed by Joel Coen • 1987 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman

The delightfully sophomoric sophomore feature from the Coen brothers stars Nicolas Cage as a dim-bulb bandit whose solution to the infertility of his ex-cop wife (Holly Hunter) is to babynap one fourth...

Criterion Collection Edition #779

A love story in the city of dreams . . .
Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s ident...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1948 • United States
Starring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger

In this charged thriller inspired by the notorious case of Leopold and Loeb, two Manhattan college friends (John Dall and Farley Granger) strangle a classmate for intellectual kicks and then pro...

Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2007 • United States
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

A deadly game of chance and destiny plays out against the stark backdrop of early-1980s West Texas in Joel and Ethan Coen’s powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. When he hap...

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1954 • United States
Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey

Alfred Hitchcock was at the height of his powers as a visual storyteller when he made this enduring suspense classic. James Stewart is L. B. Jeffries, an injured photojournalist confined to his...

Criterion Collection Edition #929

Glamour has never been more grotesque than in FEMALE TROUBLE, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the f...

Directed by John Waters • 1990 • United States
Starring Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Iggy Pop

John Waters blends nostalgia with camp irreverence in this irresistible spoof of the 1950s delinquent-youth movie. In the role that began his transition from teen idol to movie star, Johnny Depp plays Wade ...

Directed by John Waters • 1988 • United States
Starring Ricki Lake, Sonny Bono, Divine

John Waters scored one of the biggest commercial and critical successes of his career with this affectionately outrageous musical satire that found the filmmaker bringing his outsider vision into the mainstrea...

Directed by Christopher Nolan • 2000 • United States
Starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss, Joe Pantoliano

A virtuoso high-wire act of nonlinear storytelling, Christopher Nolan’s breakthrough second feature deploys a complex time-hopping structure to evoke the fractured psyche of Leonard Shelby (...

Directed by John Waters • 1981 • United States
Starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey

For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Fr...

Directed by Joel Coen • 1991 • United States
Starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis

The Coen brothers’ darkly surreal journey through 1940s Hollywood casts John Turturro as the titular, Clifford Odets–esque New York playwright who moves to LA to work as a screenwriter for Capitol Pictu...