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A vast silent city of the future, still staggering.
A shadow crosses the wall, and horror cinema finds its shape.
The end of the world is managed by men who cannot manage a meeting.
A surgeon brings Joseph Merrick into public view, where care, curiosity, and display become difficult to separate.
An ordinary theatre-goer becomes the chief suspect in a murder and crosses Britain with both the police and a spy ring close behind.
A missing passenger turns a crowded train into a brisk puzzle of memory, manners, and danger.
Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by Marley’s ghost and visions that compress Dickens’s Christmas story into a few inventive minutes.
Frank Benson brings Shakespeare’s ambitious king from the stage to a compact silent adaptation built around gesture, plotting, and royal imagery.
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.
Twin sisters associated with opposing temperaments enter a melodrama of family division, nightlife, and mistaken identity.
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 privileged schoolboy accepts blame for a friend, is expelled and disowned, then descends through increasingly unstable social roles.
A castaway attempts to survive on an island and impose order on an unfamiliar world in this British Defoe adaptation.
A landlady begins to suspect that her strange new lodger may be connected to a series of killings across London.
A fairground boxer rises towards a championship bout while jealousy turns his marriage and professional rivalry into the same contest.
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 wealthy young woman’s father pretends to lose his fortune, forcing her to test whether independence and romance survive without inherited ease.
A divorced woman tries to begin again abroad, but marriage draws her back into a society determined to turn her past into a permanent verdict.
Backstage life at the Moulin Rouge places performance, desire, and family loyalty under the pressure of Parisian nightlife.
A master criminal, a government agent, and a conflicted operative move through a modern network of surveillance and deception.
A widowed farmer makes a list of suitable women to marry, overlooking the person who understands both him and his household best.
After killing a man during an assault, a young woman finds guilt, police procedure, and blackmail closing around her.
Lulu moves through desire, scandal, and social punishment with a presence the film cannot contain.
Two lifelong friends love the same woman on the Isle of Man, and a promise made before one man leaves creates a private tragedy on his return.
An English soldier loses his memory of Lola, the dancer he loved in Paris. Their later reunion brings his wartime promise into conflict with his marriage.
A Dublin family facing poverty believes an inheritance will rescue them, while political violence and self-deception close in.
A juror who helped convict an actress begins to doubt the verdict and privately investigates the theatrical world around the crime.
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.
A bored married couple inherit money, leave suburban routine for a world cruise, and discover that escape magnifies rather than solves their dissatisfaction.
Criminal celebrity Mackie Messer marries Polly Peachum and provokes her father into mobilising London’s thieves, beggars, and police against him.
A vacant house, a corpse, a missing necklace, and several uncertain identities lead into a chase that refuses to remain indoors.
A criminal mastermind confined to an asylum appears to direct a new empire of terror through written instructions.
A railway-station meeting grows into a love affair shaped as much by restraint as desire.
A frightened boy’s encounter on the marshes grows into a story of money, shame, and mistaken hopes.
A disinherited young man sets out to remove eight relatives standing between him and a dukedom, while managing two competing romances.
A writer investigates his friend’s death in Vienna, where accounts of the accident refuse to agree.
A modest bank clerk who has supervised gold deliveries for years finally finds the partner and export scheme needed to steal one.
A young Nottingham factory worker treats weekends as rebellion until an affair and its consequences make freedom harder to define.
A governess becomes convinced that two children and their country house are haunted by a corrupt past.
Bank robbers must return to free the two people they have locked in an airtight vault.
A young offender’s talent for distance running becomes a reform-school governor’s favourite proof of success.
A wealthy young man hires a servant whose competence gradually reorganises the house and every relationship inside it.
A miner becomes a rugby league star, but physical success cannot give him the intimacy or social place he demands.
In a collapsing rural settlement, the return of a persuasive man reorganises hope, money, and betrayal.
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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