Films
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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.
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.
Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.
Two friends love the same mercurial woman across years of art, war, marriage, travel, and changing agreements.
After ending one relationship, a woman drifts into another amid the spaces and distances of modern Rome.
A man is arrested without being detained and drawn through a legal system that never states the charge against him.
A director unable to make his next film retreats into memories, fantasies, and an ever-growing production circus.
A man leaving treatment spends a day revisiting Paris, old friends, and the life he cannot persuade himself to re-enter.
A married literary scholar begins an affair, and a romance gradually takes on the pressure of a suspense story.
Falstaff’s warmth, vanity, and appetite fill the space between a prince’s youth and a king’s responsibilities.
A donkey passes from owner to owner, carrying the weight of human tenderness, use, and cruelty.
Insurgency and counter-insurgency unfold through streets, checkpoints, apartments, and the systems that connect them.
An angel listening to Berlin’s private thoughts begins to long for weight, colour, touch, and one mortal life.
A travelling whale and a mysterious speaker arrive in a cold town already close to collective rupture.
A series of cruel incidents disturbs a German village where discipline already governs family, school, church, and work.
A father, a daughter, and a horse repeat the work of survival as wind and light begin to withdraw from their world.
A young novice meets her aunt and learns that the life awaiting her rests beside a family history she never knew.
Two musicians repeatedly find and lose one another as borders, politics, and temperament change the terms of their love.
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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