Criterion Channel Films

After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Claire and Eugene's relationship is falling apart, while a nuclear satellite threatens to fall out of orbit and destroy Earth. Claire travels the world when she meets Sam, a man with connections to technology that could change everything.

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.

Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.

A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.

The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.

A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.

A young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.

The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

An aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel.

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

After ten years in prison to protect a mafia family, Duke Anderson is released and he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.