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A travelling strongman buys the service of a poor young woman whose openness meets his cruelty on the road.
Mexican-American miners strike for safer and fairer conditions, while the women who sustain the action force the community to confront inequality inside its own homes.
A family torn apart by slavery carries one moral instruction across years of cruelty.
An adulterous couple leave a cyclist dying after a collision, then discover that guilt and class privilege produce different kinds of fear.
A carefully planned murder leaves behind one impossible problem: the body will not stay where it belongs.
A woman returns to postwar Japan and tries to revive a wartime affair with a man whose promises repeatedly dissolve into avoidance.
In a Danish farmhouse, belief and doubt wait beside a family’s ordinary work.
Four thieves prepare a silent heist whose precision cannot protect what follows.
A country weekend brings a tangle of lovers, spouses and former lovers together. Bergman makes desire a contest in which the people most certain of themselves are especially vulnerable.
A prisoner prepares an escape one sound, tool, and repeated gesture at a time.
As Apu grows from child to student, education opens a future whose distance from home becomes increasingly painful for his mother.
Women working in a Tokyo brothel try to secure a future while money, family and changing public attitudes restrict their choices. Mizoguchi keeps several lives in view rather than offering one representative victim.
A meticulously timed racetrack robbery is retold from the angles most likely to break it.
A media heir turns a serial-murder investigation into a competition among executives, reporters, and photographers seeking promotion.
A charismatic drifter discovered on local radio learns how quickly intimacy can be manufactured for a mass audience.
A failed attack becomes a courtroom, and military order reveals its machinery.
An unpublished poet is dismissed by family and publishers, then becomes valuable to the same society after he is mistakenly reported dead.
A desperate press agent accepts a powerful columnist’s demand to break up his sister’s romance and regain professional favour.
War separates two young lovers and leaves the woman at home to endure loss, coercion, judgement, and uncertainty.
Kurosawa relocates Macbeth to feudal Japan, where a warrior’s rise is inseparable from ambition and betrayal. Fog, landscape and Noh-derived performance give the familiar tragedy a different dramatic language.
Two sisters face a family past that refuses to stay separate from their adult lives. Marital conflict and an unwanted pregnancy give Ozu’s domestic world an unusually harsh emotional register.
An elderly professor’s road journey opens into dreams, memories, and an unsparing look at the life behind him.
On the day war ends, a young assassin receives one more political order.
At Cairo’s main railway station, a disabled newspaper seller’s obsession with a drinks vendor turns a crowded social world towards violence.
A general escorts a defeated clan’s princess and treasure through enemy territory, accompanied by two unreliable peasants. The mission has a clear goal and a persistently awkward human complication.
A restless married woman finds a new attraction that unsettles both her domestic life and an existing affair.
A declining aristocrat clings to the concerts that once confirmed his standing. Ray places the pleasures of listening inside a story about wealth, pride and resistance to change.
A border explosion opens a night of corruption, surveillance, and unstable identities.
A murder trial becomes a contest over which version of motive, memory, and respectability a jury will accept.
A young soldier receives a short leave to visit his mother, but the journey home fills with people whose wartime needs consume his limited time.
A brief affair in Hiroshima opens a difficult passage between public catastrophe and private memory.
Four geologists searching for diamonds find themselves stranded in the Siberian wilderness.
A solitary young man treats theft as proof that ordinary rules do not apply to him.
In the final days of the Second World War, teenage boys are ordered to defend a bridge that the retreating army no longer considers important.
A surgeon hides his injured daughter while pursuing a series of experiments intended to restore her face.
A woman disappears from a rocky island, and the search slowly exposes a different kind of absence.
Rome, glamour, emptiness — beautiful and exhausting.
A mother and her five sons move from southern Italy to Milan, where work, boxing, ambition, and desire pull the family into competing futures.
A young Nottingham factory worker treats weekends as rebellion until an affair and its consequences make freedom harder to define.
A young executive pursues the person responsible for his father’s death. Kurosawa carries the revenge story into the offices and hierarchies of postwar corporate Japan.
A young refugee woman supports her family after Partition while each relative treats her sacrifice as a resource that will continue indefinitely.
A music teacher hires a housemaid, and the family’s new middle-class home becomes a volatile system of desire, labour, and revenge.
A family’s island life depends on the repeated labour of bringing water across the sea.
After his daughter is raped and murdered, a father seeks revenge in medieval Sweden. Bergman places the violence within a world divided between Christian belief and older faiths.
In a vast hotel, a man insists that a woman promised to leave with him last year—or perhaps in another version of the past.
A gifted pool player tries to prove himself against a legend and discovers how many people wish to own the result.
A governess becomes convinced that two children and their country house are haunted by a corrupt past.
On an island retreat, Karin’s mental illness brings a family’s fragile relationships under pressure. Her father’s use of her condition for his writing makes care difficult to separate from exploitation.
A novice nun attempts charity in a world Buñuel refuses to make morally tidy.
Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.
A child scout crosses wartime marshes while dreams preserve a world already lost.
Two friends love the same mercurial woman across years of art, war, marriage, travel, and changing agreements.
A couple invite a young stranger onto their yacht, where status and rivalry have nowhere to escape.
After ending one relationship, a woman drifts into another amid the spaces and distances of modern Rome.
A scruffy, experienced samurai helps a group of idealistic young warriors confront corruption within their clan. His methods make their ideas of proper conduct look dangerously naive.
Bank robbers must return to free the two people they have locked in an airtight vault.
After an elegant dinner, a group of wealthy guests discover that none of them can bring themselves to leave the room.
Poetry, daily routine, and direct observation meet inside an Iranian leper colony.
A young offender’s talent for distance running becomes a reform-school governor’s favourite proof of success.
A decorated soldier returns from war with a heroic story that his former commander cannot make fit his dreams.