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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.
Two brothers learn that their father’s place in the adult world does not match the hero they imagined.
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.
A criminal mastermind confined to an asylum appears to direct a new empire of terror through written instructions.
A travelling actor returns to a provincial town, where an old relationship and an unacknowledged son disturb the troupe’s temporary calm.
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.
A mother gives up much of her own future to fund her son’s education. When aspiration meets adult reality, love becomes difficult to separate from disappointment.
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 widowed teacher tries to secure his son’s future, yet the decisions he makes keep them apart. Ozu turns the bond between parent and child into a conflict over duty.
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.
A teenager’s adored uncle arrives in her quiet California town just as she begins to suspect that his charm conceals a violent past.
A posse forms quickly; certainty forms even faster.
A young woman searches Greenwich Village for her missing sister and finds a private circle organised around fear, secrecy, and death.
A detective investigating a woman’s murder becomes fascinated by the portrait, apartment, and testimony that survive her.
Shipwreck survivors share a lifeboat with a German officer during the Second World War.
A professor’s encounter with the woman depicted in a gallery portrait draws him into killing, concealment, and blackmail.
A doomed hitchhike into the bleakest B-movie poetry.
A murder investigation frames the story of a mother who builds a restaurant business while trying to satisfy a daughter ashamed of her origins.
A lonely amateur painter is drawn into a relationship built on deception, desire, and other people’s willingness to profit from his work.
A gambler joins a Buenos Aires casino and discovers that the owner’s new wife is the woman whose memory he has been trying to erase.
A woman recruited to infiltrate a Nazi circle discovers that espionage and intimacy demand the same dangerous trust.
Three veterans return to the same town and discover that home has changed less visibly, but no less decisively, than they have.
Private detective Philip Marlowe takes a blackmail case for a wealthy family and enters a chain of disappearances, debts, murders, and withheld loyalties.
A returning serviceman becomes the prime suspect in his estranged wife’s murder and enters a nocturnal search for the truth.
After two hired killers execute a man who makes no attempt to escape, an insurance investigator reconstructs the choices that led him there.
During a violent storm, a mute young woman is trapped in a mansion where a killer targets women he considers physically imperfect.
A war-crimes investigator follows a Nazi fugitive into an apparently ordinary American town where a respected schoolteacher has built a new identity.
A police captain investigates a murder among demobilised soldiers and discovers that antisemitic hatred, not robbery, shaped the crime.
A former private investigator’s quiet new life ends when the criminal past he tried to leave behind sends for him.
A doctor tries to treat a gangster with tuberculosis in postwar Tokyo. Their uneasy bond puts care up against pride, with Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune pulling in opposite directions.
Before a duel, a concert pianist receives a letter recounting a woman’s lifelong devotion to him—an attachment he repeatedly failed to recognise.
An escaped convict travels towards revenge with the loyal woman who arranged his escape and the legal assistant who believes he deserves another chance.
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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