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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.
Twin sisters associated with opposing temperaments enter a melodrama of family division, nightlife, and mistaken identity.
Explorers encounter the mysterious ruler known as She in a British-German adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s imperial fantasy.
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 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 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.
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 bored married couple inherit money, leave suburban routine for a world cruise, and discover that escape magnifies rather than solves their dissatisfaction.
A vacant house, a corpse, a missing necklace, and several uncertain identities lead into a chase that refuses to remain indoors.
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.
A quiet barber attempts blackmail and discovers that passivity can still leave a precise trail of damage.
A young novice meets her aunt and learns that the life awaiting her rests beside a family history she never knew.
Two musicians repeatedly find and lose one another as borders, politics, and temperament change the terms of their love.
A boy’s close-knit street becomes a fault line during the Troubles while his family considers leaving home.
Two Black women reconnect in 1920s New York, where visibility, safety, desire, and identity never align neatly.
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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