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  • The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
  • The Deadly Affair
  • The Looking Glass War
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  • Smiley's People

Le Carré

16 films

  • Man of Aran
  • The Plough and the Stars
  • Captain Boycott
  • Odd Man Out
  • The Quiet Man

Ireland

39 films

  • State Fair
  • Oklahoma!
  • Carousel
  • The King and I
  • South Pacific
  • Holiday
  • I Know Where I'm Going!
  • The Parent Trap
  • Moonstruck
  • Whisper of the Heart
  • Kid Auto Races at Venice
  • In My Merry Oldsmobile
  • Motor Mania
  • Renault Dauphine
  • The Great Race
  • The Great Dictator
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • Z
  • Star Wars

Fight Fascism

4 films

  • Blood Simple
  • Raising Arizona
  • Miller's Crossing
  • Barton Fink
  • The Hudsucker Proxy
  • Repo Man
  • House
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • The Third Man
  • Demon Pond

Criterion Challenge 2025

16 films

Categories: 1. Watch a film from the CC40 Boxset 2. Watch a film from the year you were born 3.…

  • The Sword in the Stone
  • King Arthur
  • Excalibur
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • The Green Knight

English History—Briefly and Chronologically—through Film

34 films

This list is a work in progress, and there are several immediately apparent gaps in the timeline. Suggestions for additions…

  • Going My Way
  • Christmas in Connecticut
  • The Bells of St. Mary's
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • White Christmas

Christmas 🎄

30 films

Christmas viewing, both traditional and adjacent

  • Hands over the City
  • Letter Never Sent
  • Yi Yi
  • Mr. Klein
  • Fail Safe

Criterion Challenge 2024

52 films

This is the fourth annual Criterion Challenge!

There are 52 categories. The goal is to watch any Criterion-released film based…

  • Bridge of Spies
  • Thirteen Days
  • The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • The Manchurian Candidate

Red Scare — Cold War Theatre on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain

84 films

Sometimes playful and figurative, sometimes direct and literal, sometimes silly, and sometimes deadly serious, these films present a broad look…