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A circus community closes ranks after a trapeze artist’s scheme against a performer with a substantial inheritance.
Guests and workers cross inside a Berlin hotel where money, loneliness, performance, and chance briefly share a lobby.
A veteran’s search for work leads to wrongful implication in a robbery, a brutal chain gang, escape, and a life made increasingly impossible by the system pursuing him.
Two brothers learn that their father’s place in the adult world does not match the hero they imagined.
A gangster climbs through a city with such speed that every victory already looks like a warning.
A travelling actor returns to a provincial town, where an old relationship and an unacknowledged son disturb the troupe’s temporary calm.
A mother fights to protect her son while the city reduces her choices and judges the means of survival.
In revolutionary Dublin, Gypo Nolan informs on a wanted friend and spends a long night trying to escape the moral and political consequences.
Prisoners and captors discover that class, nationality, and friendship do not divide along the same lines.
After losing their home, an elderly couple discover that their grown children can offer rooms more readily than a shared life.
A thirteenth-century prince is called back to defend Novgorod against an invading Teutonic army.
A dispossessed Oklahoma family travels west during the Depression and finds that California’s promise of work conceals another system of exploitation.
A successful comedy director disguises himself as a poor traveller to gather authentic suffering for a serious social film.
A proud family mistakes inherited importance for permanence while the modern city grows around it.
In a seventeenth-century Danish household, a young wife’s desire and the persecution of an accused witch begin to mirror one another.
A drifter begins an affair with an innkeeper’s wife, and their desire turns escape into a crime neither can leave behind.
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 young flower seller and her lover struggle to marry while their village punishes her for the stigma attached to her mother.
A railway-station meeting grows into a love affair shaped as much by restraint as desire.
On a crowded theatrical boulevard, love becomes performance and performance becomes fate.
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.
Resistance, family life, and occupation collide across streets that feel dangerously close to the present.
A lonely amateur painter is drawn into a relationship built on deception, desire, and other people’s willingness to profit from his work.
Three veterans return to the same town and discover that home has changed less visibly, but no less decisively, than they have.
After two hired killers execute a man who makes no attempt to escape, an insurance investigator reconstructs the choices that led him there.
A police captain investigates a murder among demobilised soldiers and discovers that antisemitic hatred, not robbery, shaped the crime.
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 old friend’s visit unsettles a marriage already living among the ruins of war.
Three men find gold in Mexico and discover how quickly possession invents enemies.
A disinherited young man sets out to remove eight relatives standing between him and a dukedom, while managing two competing romances.
A father and daughter share a peaceful home that social expectation begins to rearrange.
A stolen police pistol sends a young detective through the heat and desperation of post-war Tokyo.
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.
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.
An elderly pensioner facing eviction tries to preserve his dignity and his bond with his small dog in postwar Rome.
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.
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.
Four thieves prepare a silent heist whose precision cannot protect what follows.
As Apu grows from child to student, education opens a future whose distance from home becomes increasingly painful for his mother.
A media heir turns a serial-murder investigation into a competition among executives, reporters, and photographers seeking promotion.
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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