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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An unpublished poet is dismissed by family and publishers, then becomes valuable to the same society after he is mistakenly reported dead.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.
On the day war ends, a young assassin receives one more political order.
A young soldier receives a short leave to visit his mother, but the journey home fills with people whose wartime needs consume his limited time.
A brief affair in Hiroshima opens a difficult passage between public catastrophe and private memory.
A solitary young man treats theft as proof that ordinary rules do not apply to him.
In the final days of the Second World War, teenage boys are ordered to defend a bridge that the retreating army no longer considers important.
A woman disappears from a rocky island, and the search slowly exposes a different kind of absence.
A mother and her five sons move from southern Italy to Milan, where work, boxing, ambition, and desire pull the family into competing futures.
A young Nottingham factory worker treats weekends as rebellion until an affair and its consequences make freedom harder to define.
A young refugee woman supports her family after Partition while each relative treats her sacrifice as a resource that will continue indefinitely.
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.
A child scout crosses wartime marshes while dreams preserve a world already lost.
A couple invite a young stranger onto their yacht, where status and rivalry have nowhere to escape.
After an elegant dinner, a group of wealthy guests discover that none of them can bring themselves to leave the room.
Poetry, daily routine, and direct observation meet inside an Iranian leper colony.
A young offender’s talent for distance running becomes a reform-school governor’s favourite proof of success.
A man is arrested without being detained and drawn through a legal system that never states the charge against him.
A man leaving treatment spends a day revisiting Paris, old friends, and the life he cannot persuade himself to re-enter.
A rural woman negotiates decades of upheaval, exploitation and opportunity in twentieth-century Japan.
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.
Two women survive a civil war by ambushing lost soldiers in tall reeds until desire unsettles their arrangement.
A Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop has reduced life to transactions until the present begins to break through.
Falstaff’s warmth, vanity, and appetite fill the space between a prince’s youth and a king’s responsibilities.
A young factory worker in a town with few men mistakes one night with a visiting pianist for the beginning of a shared future.
A timid carpenter is appointed “Aryan controller” of a Jewish widow’s button shop and discovers that ordinary self-interest cannot remain separate from persecution.
An icon painter crosses a violent medieval landscape while doubt interrupts both faith and artistic work.
A donkey passes from owner to owner, carrying the weight of human tenderness, use, and cruelty.
A young Senegalese woman travels to France for domestic work and discovers that the promised new life confines her to an apartment and a role imposed by others.
A young railway apprentice worries about sex while occupation, resistance, and military traffic pass through his apparently sleepy station.
Insurgency and counter-insurgency unfold through streets, checkpoints, apartments, and the systems that connect them.
After a failed uprising, prisoners are isolated inside a detention camp where authorities use uncertainty and betrayal to identify remaining rebels.
A late-night drink between two academic couples becomes an escalating struggle over marriage, status, and shared fictions.
A feud between medieval clans becomes a harsh encounter between desire, violence and competing beliefs.
A condemned man survives his execution, and the authorities struggle to make their punishment proceed.
A bourgeois intellectual remains in Havana after his family leaves Cuba, observing the revolution while avoiding any stable commitment to it or to other people.
Work, family, play, and fatigue shape daily life in a Black neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
Two Soviet partisans looking for supplies face a wartime test of survival, loyalty and betrayal.
In a collapsing rural settlement, the return of a persuasive man reorganises hope, money, and betrayal.
A timid accountant travels west, becomes an outlaw by accident, and drifts toward a death he barely understands.
A travelling whale and a mysterious speaker arrive in a cold town already close to collective rupture.
A quiet barber attempts blackmail and discovers that passivity can still leave a precise trail of damage.
A series of cruel incidents disturbs a German village where discipline already governs family, school, church, and work.
A father, a daughter, and a horse repeat the work of survival as wind and light begin to withdraw from their world.
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.
Two journeys decades apart follow an Indigenous shaman and Western visitors through an Amazon scarred by extraction and memory.
Two musicians repeatedly find and lose one another as borders, politics, and temperament change the terms of their love.
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