Films
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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 young Nottingham factory worker treats weekends as rebellion until an affair and its consequences make freedom harder to define.
A gifted pool player tries to prove himself against a legend and discovers how many people wish to own the result.
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 decorated soldier returns from war with a heroic story that his former commander cannot make fit his dreams.
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 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.
A quiet barber attempts blackmail and discovers that passivity can still leave a precise trail of damage.
A dancer moves between flats, jobs, cities, and friendships while adulthood refuses to arrive in one clean step.
A young novice meets her aunt and learns that the life awaiting her rests beside a family history she never knew.
A son drives his ageing father toward a supposed prize, passing through a hometown that remembers value in its own ways.
A lonely vampire moves through Bad City, where exploitation and desire already haunt the streets.
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.
A radio journalist caring for his young nephew learns that listening professionally and listening lovingly are different skills.
Two Black women reconnect in 1920s New York, where visibility, safety, desire, and identity never align neatly.
A prophecy enters an austere world of corridors, fog, birds, and ambition already looking for permission.
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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