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One room, no escape, all pressure.
Three hours that fly. The template for the epic.
Maybe the funniest film ever made. Still is.
Before the icon came the nightmare: destruction with a memory.
One crime, four truths, no easy answers.
A faded star, a kept writer, Hollywood's darkest joke.
Quiet, domestic, and devastating in the softest way.
A knight plays chess with Death. Unforgettable.
Theatre claws out. The wittiest knife-fight on film.
A boy slips through the cracks. Tender, true.
Childhood discovery, family strain, and a world alive beyond the path.
A life measured in paperwork discovers one unfinished thing that matters.
A dockworker caught inside a corrupt system begins to understand the cost of silence.
Two children flee a murderous preacher through an American landscape turned into a dream.
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.
Noriko’s family wants to find her a husband. Ozu follows the wider household and its neighbours as her own wishes unsettle what everyone assumes a marriage should accomplish.
A modest bank clerk who has supervised gold deliveries for years finally finds the partner and export scheme needed to steal one.
A marshal watches the clock while an entire town discovers reasons to leave.
An older woman recalls the successive roles society has assigned her, from court attendant to sex worker. Kinuyo Tanaka gives continuity to a life repeatedly redirected by status and power.
A detective escorts a murder witness by train while killers search the carriages and identities become dangerously uncertain.
An elderly pensioner facing eviction tries to preserve his dignity and his bond with his small dog in postwar Rome.
Monsieur Hulot arrives at a seaside hotel and gently disrupts the routines by which everyone else is trying to enjoy a proper holiday.
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.
A pair of earrings passes through sale, gift, concealment, and return as an aristocratic marriage gives way to forbidden love.
Two friends offer a stranger a lift and find themselves trapped on a desert road by a killer who never seems to sleep.
Four men, two trucks, and a road where every bump can end the film.
War, ambition, and a ghostly shore draw two families away from the lives they have.
A travelling strongman buys the service of a poor young woman whose openness meets his cruelty on the road.
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 family torn apart by slavery carries one moral instruction across years of cruelty.
An adulterous couple leave a cyclist dying after a collision, then discover that guilt and class privilege produce different kinds of fear.
A carefully planned murder leaves behind one impossible problem: the body will not stay where it belongs.
A woman returns to postwar Japan and tries to revive a wartime affair with a man whose promises repeatedly dissolve into avoidance.
In a Danish farmhouse, belief and doubt wait beside a family’s ordinary work.
Four thieves prepare a silent heist whose precision cannot protect what follows.
A country weekend brings a tangle of lovers, spouses and former lovers together. Bergman makes desire a contest in which the people most certain of themselves are especially vulnerable.
A prisoner prepares an escape one sound, tool, and repeated gesture at a time.
As Apu grows from child to student, education opens a future whose distance from home becomes increasingly painful for his mother.
Women working in a Tokyo brothel try to secure a future while money, family and changing public attitudes restrict their choices. Mizoguchi keeps several lives in view rather than offering one representative victim.
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.
An unpublished poet is dismissed by family and publishers, then becomes valuable to the same society after he is mistakenly reported dead.
A desperate press agent accepts a powerful columnist’s demand to break up his sister’s romance and regain professional favour.
War separates two young lovers and leaves the woman at home to endure loss, coercion, judgement, and uncertainty.
Kurosawa relocates Macbeth to feudal Japan, where a warrior’s rise is inseparable from ambition and betrayal. Fog, landscape and Noh-derived performance give the familiar tragedy a different dramatic language.
Two sisters face a family past that refuses to stay separate from their adult lives. Marital conflict and an unwanted pregnancy give Ozu’s domestic world an unusually harsh emotional register.
An elderly professor’s road journey opens into dreams, memories, and an unsparing look at the life behind him.
On the day war ends, a young assassin receives one more political order.
At Cairo’s main railway station, a disabled newspaper seller’s obsession with a drinks vendor turns a crowded social world towards violence.
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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