Films
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A vast silent city of the future, still staggering.
A shadow crosses the wall, and horror cinema finds its shape.
Sherlock Holmes investigates a family curse, a threatening hound, and danger surrounding the heir to Baskerville Hall.
Don José abandons duty for Carmen, whose refusal to surrender her independence turns his desire into destructive jealousy.
A shy heir tries to avoid marriage by choosing a lifelike mechanical doll, unaware that the doll-maker’s daughter has taken its place.
A fairground prediction becomes a question of who controls the outcome.
Hamlet investigates a father’s death and a corrupt court in an adaptation built around a radical account of the prince’s identity.
A celebrated woman’s past and a younger man’s idealised love collide in a drama of desire, reputation, and social judgement.
A student convinced of his exceptional right to act commits murder and discovers that an idea cannot contain the consequences.
An ageing hotel doorman loses his prestigious uniform and tries to hide the demotion from neighbours who measure him by it.
A poet invents stories for three wax figures, moving from exotic adventure to historical nightmare and a final pursuit through distorted space.
In inflation-stricken Vienna, two neighbouring women face hunger, exploitation, and sharply unequal chances of escape.
Explorers encounter the mysterious ruler known as She in a British-German adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s imperial fantasy.
Working-class lives in Berlin are shaped by unemployment, crowded housing, crime, and the fragile effort to remain a family.
A wager over one man’s soul expands into plague, desire, flight, and tragedy under skies that seem built from shadow.
A man terrified by a sudden impulse to stab his wife seeks psychoanalytic treatment, leading the film into dreams, symbols, and buried jealousy.
A scientist creates a woman through an experiment shaped by a mandrake legend, then attempts to control the life he treats as proof of his theory.
A master criminal, a government agent, and a conflicted operative move through a modern network of surveillance and deception.
Lulu moves through desire, scandal, and social punishment with a presence the film cannot contain.
A strict schoolteacher follows his pupils into a nightclub and becomes obsessed with the performer he intended to discipline them for watching.
After an underground disaster, German miners cross the border to rescue French workers despite the political divisions above them.
A boy robbed on his journey to Berlin recruits a fast-growing group of city children to follow the thief and recover the money.
Five men from different backgrounds shelter between the front lines of the First World War; only one understands all their languages.
A child-killer hunted by the whole underworld. Electric.
Criminal celebrity Mackie Messer marries Polly Peachum and provokes her father into mobilising London’s thieves, beggars, and police against him.
A criminal mastermind confined to an asylum appears to direct a new empire of terror through written instructions.
In a collapsing rural settlement, the return of a persuasive man reorganises hope, money, and betrayal.
A timid accountant travels west, becomes an outlaw by accident, and drifts toward a death he barely understands.
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.
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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