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1) Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto =: investigation of a citizen above suspicion
Series
Criterion collection volume 682
Language
Italiano
Description
Elio Petri's acclaimed Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector investigating a heinous crime-which he committed himself. Both a penetrating character study and a disturbing commentary on the draconian crackdowns by the Italian government in the late 1960s and early '70s, Petri's kinetic portrait of surreal bureaucracy is a perversely pleasurable...
Series
Criterion collection volume 448
Language
Français
Description
A French criminal, recently escaped from prison and trying to pull off a robbery, finds himself being chased by an inspector.
Series
Criterion collection volume 380
Language
English
Description
Jean Dexter is an attractive blonde model who is murdered in her New York City apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty people who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie.
4) L'humanite
Series
Criterion collection volume 981
Language
Français
Description
It's the story of a profoundly alienated police detective who, while investigating the murder of a young girl, experiences jolting, epiphanous moments of emotional and physical connection. Demonstrating Dumont's deftness with nonactors and relentlessly frank depiction of bodies and sexuality, it is at once idiosyncratic police procedural and provocative exploration of the tension between humankind's capacity for compassion and one's base, sometimes...
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Language
English
Description
"There are eight million stories in the Naked City," as the narrator immortally states at the close of this breathtakingly vivid film, and this is one of them. Master noir craftsman Jules Dassin and newspaperman-cum-producer Mark Hellinger's dazzling police procedural was shot entirely on location in New York. Influenced as much by Italian neorealism as it is by American crime fiction, this double Academy Award winner remains a benchmark for naturalism...
6) The hit
Series
Criterion collection volume 469
Language
English
Description
Terence Stamp is Willie, a gangster's henchman turned informer, trying to live in peace and hiding in a remote Spanish village. Sun-dappled bliss turns to nerve-racking suspense, however, when two hit men, played by a soulless John Hurt and a youthful, loose-cannon Tim Roth, come calling to bring Willie back for execution. This stylish gem from Stephen Frears boasts terrific hard-boiled performances from a roster of England's best actors, and ravishing...
Series
Criterion collection volume 177
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in 1975. When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The film shows an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina, though innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her dignity and her sanity.
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