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A woman who killed her lover claims self-defence, until a letter threatens the account on which her marriage and trial depend.
A young man tending an isolated river property meets a woman bound to an absent lover, and winter turns their encounter into dependence.
Petruchio courts Katherina through a contest of authority, performance, and humiliation in an early sound Shakespeare adaptation.
German schoolboys enlist with patriotic excitement and encounter a trench war that steadily dismantles every promised meaning.
Logging in Maine is followed from forest work through transport and milling towards the shipment of finished lumber.
A self-made young man plans to stop working while he is still young, alarming the wealthy family of the woman he intends to marry.
A cabaret singer in Morocco is drawn to a Foreign Legion soldier even as a wealthy admirer offers the security he cannot provide.
A scout leads a vast wagon train west while pursuing the men responsible for a friend’s murder.
A First World War squadron commander must keep sending inexperienced pilots into combat while the officers beneath him mistake responsibility for indifference.
Wrongly blamed for crimes after a shooting in self-defence, Buck Duane joins the Texas Rangers to clear his name and win Mary Aldridge’s trust.
Three former sideshow performers operate a criminal scheme through a false domestic identity, disguise, and divided loyalty.
A cavalry setting becomes the stage for romantic deception, honour, and the pressure placed on a woman whose choices are judged unequally.
A restless newspaper editor and his family move through decades of Oklahoma settlement, expansion, politics, and repeated departure.
Made at night on Universal’s sets, George Melford’s Spanish-language production gives Dracula a distinct rhythm, cast, and visual life.
A travelling cowboy enters a compact Western of danger, assistance, and conflict built around Tom Tyler’s direct screen presence.
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and their friends enter a loose adventure drawn from Mark Twain but reshaped around child-star comedy.
A singer tries to protect her sister from a charming man whose previous relationship has already exposed the limits of his honesty.
Four stowaways loose on an ocean liner evade authority, invade other people’s roles, and turn a gangster plot into organised interruption.
A factory worker leaves her small town for New York, becomes the companion of a wealthy lawyer, and confronts the social limits placed on their relationship.
A privileged man confronts the damage caused by an earlier relationship when the woman he abandoned appears before a court as a defendant.
A mysterious gunman enters a frontier conflict shaped by persecution, concealed identity, loyalty, and the pressure placed on an independent woman.
Two young islanders flee after the woman is declared sacred and forbidden, but colonial money and religious authority follow their escape.
A washed-up boxer tries to remain a hero to his young son while gambling, alcohol, and an unstable life make love an insufficient plan.
Debt, secrecy, and coercion tighten around a married woman after private risk-taking gives a predatory man power over her.
A long-running feud over land and water draws a younger generation into divided loyalties, business rivalry, and romance.
A Chicago street boy turns Prohibition crime into a career whose speed leaves loyalty and family behind.
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love in wartime Italy, where military duty and institutional interference repeatedly separate them.
A bank president who lends on character rather than collateral faces robbery, panic, and a run that tests whether public trust can move faster than fear.
A woman accepts a life kept out of public view as the long-term lover of a wealthy married man.
A circus community closes ranks after a trapeze artist’s scheme against a performer with a substantial inheritance.
Guests and workers cross inside a Berlin hotel where money, loneliness, performance, and chance briefly share a lobby.
A young man enters a struggle over a Western ranch, where land, water, loyalty, and a growing romance are threatened by organised violence.
A veteran’s search for work leads to wrongful implication in a robbery, a brutal chain gang, escape, and a life made increasingly impossible by the system pursuing him.
A socialite and a pilot fall in love, while the money behind his invention complicates their freedom to choose each other.
A Parisian tailor follows an unpaid bill into an aristocratic household and lets a borrowed identity become a musical romance.
On a remote rubber plantation, a manager’s attraction to two very different women exposes the emotional and colonial assumptions sustaining his authority.
A gangster climbs through a city with such speed that every victory already looks like a warning.
A train journey through civil conflict reunites a notorious courtesan with the British officer who once loved her.
Two elegant thieves discover that love can be harder to manage than a perfect robbery.
A tiny nation hires Groucho Marx and discovers that government is perfect slapstick.
Sparring travellers turn a difficult journey into a romance.
In revolutionary Dublin, Gypo Nolan informs on a wanted friend and spends a long night trying to escape the moral and political consequences.
After losing their home, an elderly couple discover that their grown children can offer rooms more readily than a shared life.
A divorcing couple test new romances, old jealousies, and each other’s patience while insisting that their marriage is finished.
A palaeontologist’s orderly life collapses after one woman, one leopard, and one missing bone arrive at once.
Terry and Michel meet on a ship to New York, then promise to reunite at the Empire State Building six months later.
An idealistic new senator arrives in Washington and discovers that sincerity alone is not enough to defeat a carefully protected political machine.
Nine uneasy travellers cross Monument Valley while a new kind of western takes shape.
Where black-and-white opens into colour. Pure wonder.
A newsroom romance races so quickly that manipulation and affection share a breath.
A dispossessed Oklahoma family travels west during the Depression and finds that California’s promise of work conceals another system of exploitation.
On the eve of a society wedding, an ex-husband and two reporters turn certainty into scrutiny.
Two shop assistants irritate one another at work while unknowingly falling in love through anonymous letters.
A successful comedy director disguises himself as a poor traveller to gather authentic suffering for a serious social film.
A cardsharp falls for a sheltered heir, then invents a new identity when his distrust turns affection into humiliation.
A Serbian designer fears that intimacy will awaken a fatal animal inheritance her new American husband refuses to believe.
A proud family mistakes inherited importance for permanence while the modern city grows around it.
A woman decides that divorcing her inventor husband and marrying money is the most practical way to finance his ambitions.
A Warsaw theatre company uses costumes, timing, and professional vanity against the Nazi occupation.
A Canadian nurse arrives on a Caribbean island to care for a silent woman and enters a household shaped by illness, desire, and colonial history.
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Read a film closely
Character companions, film comparisons and a closer look at particular scenes.
- Seven Samurai
Who are the seven samurai?
Names, actors and roles to keep the seven apart.
- The Wages of Fear
The original, Sorcerer, or the remake?
Three films compared before you choose.
- Breathless
What disappears in a jump cut?
A diagram of the time Godard leaves out.
- Wild Strawberries
What do the dreams mean?
Trace the clocks, mirror and final scene.
After watching · Spoilers - Persona
Why hear the same speech twice?
Follow who speaks and whose face fills the frame.
After watching · Spoilers - Bicycle Thieves
What happens at the end?
The final encounter, seen through father and son.
After watching · Spoilers