Janus Films

Insiang (1976): Insiang leads a quiet life dominated by household duties, but after she is raped by her mother's lover and abandoned by the young man who claims to care for her, she exacts vicious revenge. Mysterious object at noon (2000): Apichatpong creates a film version of the corpse game, enlisting locals to improvise narration to create a combined story. Revenge (1989): A child raised in Korea spends decades avenging the death of his father's...

A young Native American boy carves a small wooden man into a canoe. Follows the adventures of the tiny craft as it forges its own path from Lake Superior through the Great Lakes and down to the Atlantic Ocean. A thrilling journey across the waves and rapids of North America.

In this documentary-style film, which reconstructs events leading up to a trial and includes footage of actual trial proceedings, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami tells the story of unemployed Iranian man, Hossain Sabzian, who insinuated himself into the lives of a well-to-do Iranian family by posing as famous Iranian director Moshen Makhmalbaf and promising their son a prominent role in his next film.

Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Buñuel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all of Vigo's titles--Container. À propos de Nice: What...

The haunted strangler: Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin believes that the wrong man has hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret. Corridors of blood: In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton dares to dream the unthinkable: to operate on patients without causing pain. Unfortunately, the road to general anesthesia is blocked by a ruthless killer,...

53 newly restored films from 41 editions of the Olympic Games -- Container.

A romantic deadbeat finds he has a crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant. Unfortunately, the man speaks no English and finds him to be undesirable.

A perverse, playfully absurd comedy that compiles many of the illogical themes that preoccupied Buñuel through his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.

An evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth. 12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the World War II eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child.

A gangster story about a hitman who lost his last target, and now another hitman is after him.