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Petruchio courts Katherina through a contest of authority, performance, and humiliation in an early sound Shakespeare adaptation.
A self-made young man plans to stop working while he is still young, alarming the wealthy family of the woman he intends to marry.
A Dublin family facing poverty believes an inheritance will rescue them, while political violence and self-deception close in.
A boy robbed on his journey to Berlin recruits a fast-growing group of city children to follow the thief and recover the money.
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and their friends enter a loose adventure drawn from Mark Twain but reshaped around child-star comedy.
A singer tries to protect her sister from a charming man whose previous relationship has already exposed the limits of his honesty.
Four stowaways loose on an ocean liner evade authority, invade other people’s roles, and turn a gangster plot into organised interruption.
A bored married couple inherit money, leave suburban routine for a world cruise, and discover that escape magnifies rather than solves their dissatisfaction.
Criminal celebrity Mackie Messer marries Polly Peachum and provokes her father into mobilising London’s thieves, beggars, and police against him.
Two brothers learn that their father’s place in the adult world does not match the hero they imagined.
A socialite and a pilot fall in love, while the money behind his invention complicates their freedom to choose each other.
A Parisian tailor follows an unpaid bill into an aristocratic household and lets a borrowed identity become a musical romance.
A vacant house, a corpse, a missing necklace, and several uncertain identities lead into a chase that refuses to remain indoors.
Two elegant thieves discover that love can be harder to manage than a perfect robbery.
A tiny nation hires Groucho Marx and discovers that government is perfect slapstick.
Four boys return to a boarding school whose petty rules soon invite an uprising.
Sparring travellers turn a difficult journey into a romance.
A divorcing couple test new romances, old jealousies, and each other’s patience while insisting that their marriage is finished.
A palaeontologist’s orderly life collapses after one woman, one leopard, and one missing bone arrive at once.
An idealistic new senator arrives in Washington and discovers that sincerity alone is not enough to defeat a carefully protected political machine.
A country-house farce that quietly indicts everyone.
A newsroom romance races so quickly that manipulation and affection share a breath.
On the eve of a society wedding, an ex-husband and two reporters turn certainty into scrutiny.
Two shop assistants irritate one another at work while unknowingly falling in love through anonymous letters.
A successful comedy director disguises himself as a poor traveller to gather authentic suffering for a serious social film.
A cardsharp falls for a sheltered heir, then invents a new identity when his distrust turns affection into humiliation.
A woman decides that divorcing her inventor husband and marrying money is the most practical way to finance his ambitions.
A Warsaw theatre company uses costumes, timing, and professional vanity against the Nazi occupation.
A disinherited young man sets out to remove eight relatives standing between him and a dukedom, while managing two competing romances.
A modest bank clerk who has supervised gold deliveries for years finally finds the partner and export scheme needed to steal one.
Monsieur Hulot arrives at a seaside hotel and gently disrupts the routines by which everyone else is trying to enjoy a proper holiday.
A charismatic drifter discovered on local radio learns how quickly intimacy can be manufactured for a mass audience.
A young Nottingham factory worker treats weekends as rebellion until an affair and its consequences make freedom harder to define.
After an elegant dinner, a group of wealthy guests discover that none of them can bring themselves to leave the room.
A director unable to make his next film retreats into memories, fantasies, and an ever-growing production circus.
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.
A young railway apprentice worries about sex while occupation, resistance, and military traffic pass through his apparently sleepy station.
A dancer moves between flats, jobs, cities, and friendships while adulthood refuses to arrive in one clean step.
A son drives his ageing father toward a supposed prize, passing through a hometown that remembers value in its own ways.
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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