The Lure (2015)

Zero for Conduct (1933)

Summary: In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.

Release Date: June 21, 1947

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short

Director: Jean Vigo

Writer: Jean Vigo

Runtime: 0 h 47 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Franfilmdis, Argui-Film

Distributor: Cine Classics, The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel

Country: France

Language: French

Z (1969)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: December 08, 1969

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Costa-Gavras

Writers: Vassilis Vassilikos

, Jorge Semprún

, Costa-Gavras

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: M/PG

Production: Valoria Films, Reggane Films, Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)

Distributor: Cinema V, Janus Films, Rialto Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, Wellspring Media

Countries: France, Algeria

Language: French

Domestic: $ 83,305

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Summary: While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Release Date: November 01, 1938

Genres: Thriller, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Ethel Lina White

, Sidney Gilliat

, Frank Launder

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Gainsborough Pictures

Distributor: Gaumont British Picture Corporation of America, United Artists, Janus Films, Hal Roach Studios, The Criterion Collection, Films sans Frontières, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Tubi TV, Diamond Video, MPI Home Video, Stream Go Media

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Mala Noche (1986)

Summary: A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak any English and finds Walt really strange and undesirable.

Release Date: June 19, 1987

Genre: Drama

Director: Gus Van Sant

Writers: Walt Curtis

, Gus Van Sant

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Distributor: Gus Van Sant, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000

Domestic: $ 25,386

International: $ 37,357

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Summary: Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others...

Release Date: August 25, 1939

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Directors: Victor Fleming

, Mervyn LeRoy

, King Vidor

Writers: Noel Langley

, Florence Ryerson

, Edgar Allan Woolf

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, The Voyager Company, Image Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Cartoon Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,777,000

Domestic: $ 24,668,669

International: $ 969,000

Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Summary: A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.

Release Date: January 21, 1976

Genre: Drama

Director: Chantal Akerman

Writer: Chantal Akerman

Runtime: 3 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Paradise Films, Unité Trois, Ministère de la Culture Française de Belgique, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Distributor: Janus Films, New Yorker Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Belgium, France

Language: French

Working Girls (1986)

Summary: A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.

Release Date: March 20, 1987

Genre: Drama

Director: Lizzie Borden

Writers: Lizzie Borden

, Sandra Kay

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Alternate Current, New York State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, First Run Features, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 300,000

Domestic: $ 1,777,378

Pandora's Box (1929)

Summary: The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Release Date: February 22, 1930

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Writers: Frank Wedekind

, Ladislaus Vajda

, Joseph Fleisler

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Nero-Film AG

Distributor: Embassy Home Entertainment, Filmmuseum München, Grapevine Video, HBO Max, Janus Films, Nelson Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 53,485

International: $ 9,486

Wanda (1970)

Summary: Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.

Release Date: January 14, 1971

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Barbara Loden

Writer: Barbara Loden

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: GP

Production: Foundation for Filmakers

Distributor: Bardene International, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Parlour Pictures, TeleVentures, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 115,000

Domestic: $ 51,713

International: $ 56,979

The Other Side of Hope (2017)

Summary: A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.

Release Date: February 03, 2017

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Writer: Aki Kaurismäki

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sputnik, Oy Bufo Ab, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: Janus Films

Countries: Finland, Germany

Language: Finnish

Movie budget: $ 1,600,000

Domestic: $ 183,943

International: $ 4,099,030

Desert Hearts (1985)

Summary: While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.

Release Date: March 07, 1986

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Donna Deitch

Writers: Jane Rule

, Natalie Cooper

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Desert Hearts Productions, The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Distributor: Wolfe Video, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,250,000

Domestic: $ 2,492,088

International: $ 408

Irma Vep (1996)

Summary: A Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les Vampires (1915), but petty intrigues and clashing egos plague the production.

Release Date: April 30, 1997

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Olivier Assayas

Writer: Olivier Assayas

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Dacia Films, Canal+

Distributor: Kino Lorber, Janus Films, Fox Lorber, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 282,310

International: $ 32,705

The Great Beauty (2013)

Summary: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisi...

Release Date: May 21, 2013

Genre: Drama

Director: Paolo Sorrentino

Writers: Paolo Sorrentino

, Umberto Contarello

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Indigo Film, Medusa Film, Babe Film, Mediaset, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Regione Lazio, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC), Banca Popolare di Vicenza, Roma Lazio Film Commission, Eurimages, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Biscottificio Verona

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 9,200,000

Domestic: $ 2,852,400

International: $ 22,515,930