Stanley Kubrick
6) Spartacus
Series
Criterion collection volume 105
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dramatized account of the slave uprising led by laborer-turned-gladiator Spartacus, against the combined forces of the late Roman Republic. After escaping from a gladiator training ground, Spartacus convinces his fellow escapees to join him in an attempt to free all Roman slaves, and becomes the head of a massive revolt that threatens to overwhelm the power of Rome.
8) Lolita
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Humbert, a divorced British professor, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte, whom he marries in order that he might pursue her 14-year-old daughter, Lolita.
9) Barry Lyndon
Series
Criterion collection volume 897
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of an eighteenth-century Irish rogue whose opportunism takes him from the farm to the battlefield and ultimately into high society as the husband of a widowed aristocrat.
10) The shining
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
13) The shining
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a couple takes a job as hotel caretakers for the winter, their young son's psychic powers bring out the evil in the old hotel.
14) Paths of glory
Language
English
Formats
Description
The French General Staff, safely behind the lines, sends orders for what amounts to a suicide mission. To cover up their fatal blunder, three soldiers are arrested and made scapegoats. Captures the spirit of Humphrey Cobb's novel in presenting a harsh attack on the futility of war in general and World War I in particular. A blistering indictment of military politics.
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
17) Fear and desire
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A plane carrying four soldiers crashes in a forest behind enemy lines in an unnamed country. Desperate to escape, the group plans to build a raft and travel up the river into allied country. However, they are sidetracked by a local woman who stumbles across them in the woods, and the nearby presence of an enemy general who one member of the group is determined to kill.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Alex is a teenage hooligan, in a near-future England, who gets jailed by the police. There, he volunteers for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually, nearly dying, he becomes a major government embarrassment and they arrange to cure him of his cure. He and his gang break into an author's home. The author is writing a book that is a plea against...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It is the middle of the 21st century. Extremely sophisticated robots do everything from nannying to prostitution, supplying the illusion of feeling, but true emotion has eluded the android builders. Until Professor Hobby builds David, a robot boy who can really love. In the same manner that some people substitute pets for more demanding human relationships, the Swinton's try to fill the void left by the illness (and subsequent cryogenic animation)...