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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 young flower seller and her lover struggle to marry while their village punishes her for the stigma attached to her mother.
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.
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.
An Irish sailor enters the orbit of a glamorous woman and her wealthy husband, then finds desire, employment, and murder folding into one another.
New York detectives investigate a young woman’s murder while the city around the case continues its daily routines.
Three men find gold in Mexico and discover how quickly possession invents enemies.
A shy New York heiress faces a contemptuous father and a charming suitor whose intentions may be inseparable from her fortune.
An aging boxer, one last fight, told in real time.
A volatile gang leader plans robberies while an undercover agent enters the intimate circle that sustains him.
A gifted marksman and a thrill-seeking sharpshooter fall in love, then turn their shared fascination with guns into a life of robbery and flight.
A screenwriter suspected of murder begins a romance with the neighbour who gave him an alibi, while his volatility makes trust increasingly fragile.
Children surviving on the margins of Mexico City become trapped in cycles of violence, abandonment, labour, and retaliation.
A London hustler tries to control professional wrestling and discovers that every shortcut places him deeper inside another person’s territory.
A criminal planner assembles specialists for a jewellery robbery whose careful design cannot contain the weaknesses around it.
A struggling charter-boat captain accepts increasingly dangerous work as debt and pride narrow the choices available to his family.
A fragile visitor enters her sister’s crowded home and meets a man determined to expose every illusion.
A disgraced reporter turns a man trapped in a cave into a prolonged national spectacle that may restore his career.
A marshal watches the clock while an entire town discovers reasons to leave.
A detective escorts a murder witness by train while killers search the carriages and identities become dangerously uncertain.
A pickpocket unknowingly steals microfilm from a courier and becomes the target of both federal agents and Communist spies.
A homicide detective’s inquiry into a suspicious suicide exposes a city where organised crime and official authority protect one another.
An adoption investigation exposes a travelling salesman’s two marriages and the loneliness, compromise, and deception that produced them.
Two friends offer a stranger a lift and find themselves trapped on a desert road by a killer who never seems to sleep.
Mexican-American miners strike for safer and fairer conditions, while the women who sustain the action force the community to confront inequality inside its own homes.
A meticulously timed racetrack robbery is retold from the angles most likely to break it.
A media heir turns a serial-murder investigation into a competition among executives, reporters, and photographers seeking promotion.
A charismatic drifter discovered on local radio learns how quickly intimacy can be manufactured for a mass audience.
A failed attack becomes a courtroom, and military order reveals its machinery.
A desperate press agent accepts a powerful columnist’s demand to break up his sister’s romance and regain professional favour.
A border explosion opens a night of corruption, surveillance, and unstable identities.
A murder trial becomes a contest over which version of motive, memory, and respectability a jury will accept.
A gifted pool player tries to prove himself against a legend and discovers how many people wish to own the result.
A novice nun attempts charity in a world Buñuel refuses to make morally tidy.
After an elegant dinner, a group of wealthy guests discover that none of them can bring themselves to leave the room.
A decorated soldier returns from war with a heroic story that his former commander cannot make fit his dreams.
A Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop has reduced life to transactions until the present begins to break through.
A late-night drink between two academic couples becomes an escalating struggle over marriage, status, and shared fictions.
Work, family, play, and fatigue shape daily life in a Black neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
New York is photographed as a romance while its adults make a series of far less graceful choices.
A timid accountant travels west, becomes an outlaw by accident, and drifts toward a death he barely understands.
A mathematician searching for a universal pattern turns his apartment, computer, and body into parts of the same unstable system.
Still deciding? Ask Momo.
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