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The Criterion Collection — IMDb Rating 8/10 or Higher

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The Criterion Collection is an American home video distribution company that focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films".

Criterion serves film and media scholars, cinephiles, as well as public and academic libraries.

Criterion has helped to standardize characteristics of home video such as film restoration, using the Letterboxing format for widescreen films, and adding bonus features as well as scholarly essays and commentary tracks.

The below is just a sampling of the great films that the collection offers.

Which of these is your favorite The Criterion Collection title? [IMDb rating 8/10 or higher]

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Results of 867 votes

Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Edward Binns, John Fiedler, E.G. Marshall, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Jack Warden, and Robert Webber in 12 Angry Men (1957)

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)

25%219 votes
Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

2. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

17%150 votes
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

7%61 votes

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