Films
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One stolen bike, a father and son. Devastating.
The capture of Rome is condensed into staged military action and a patriotic reconstruction of 20 September 1870.
The Roman legend of the abduction of the Sabine women is staged as an early Italian historical spectacle.
A Roman officer’s love for a Christian woman unfolds amid Nero’s court, persecution, and the spectacle of imperial power.
The revolt led by Spartacus becomes a large-scale conflict between enslaved people and Roman authority.
Love, jealousy, religion, and enslavement intersect in Pompeii as Vesuvius turns private intrigue into collective catastrophe.
A Roman nobleman and his strong companion try to rescue a child abducted during war and marked for sacrifice in ancient Carthage.
In turn-of-the-century Turin, a student’s romance with a seamstress is damaged when he is drawn towards a more sophisticated older woman.
Italia Almirante Manzini leads an Italian silent drama centred on Olimpia and the social pressures surrounding marriage.
A drifter begins an affair with an innkeeper’s wife, and their desire turns escape into a crime neither can leave behind.
Resistance, family life, and occupation collide across streets that feel dangerously close to the present.
An elderly pensioner facing eviction tries to preserve his dignity and his bond with his small dog in postwar Rome.
A pair of earrings passes through sale, gift, concealment, and return as an aristocratic marriage gives way to forbidden love.
Four men, two trucks, and a road where every bump can end the film.
A travelling strongman buys the service of a poor young woman whose openness meets his cruelty on the road.
An adulterous couple leave a cyclist dying after a collision, then discover that guilt and class privilege produce different kinds of fear.
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.
A novice nun attempts charity in a world Buñuel refuses to make morally tidy.
Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.
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.
Falstaff’s warmth, vanity, and appetite fill the space between a prince’s youth and a king’s responsibilities.
Insurgency and counter-insurgency unfold through streets, checkpoints, apartments, and the systems that connect them.
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.
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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