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A coal stoker on one night of shore leave rescues a woman from the water, and their hurried marriage tests whether either can imagine a life beyond the docks.
A performer whose face was surgically fixed into a grin is pulled between love, spectacle, and aristocratic power.
An impoverished Viennese prince falls for a working-class woman while family debt and social expectation prepare marriages for both of them.
A silent adaptation of Zane Grey’s novel directed by Herman C. Raymaker, listed as lost in the Library of Congress’s February 2021 inventory. Later versions appeared in 1933 and 1947.
Beaumarchais’s Figaro moves through a late-silent adaptation drawing on The Marriage of Figaro and material from the surrounding plays.
A poor young woman forms a bond with a disabled war veteran whose isolated farm offers both refuge and a test of independence.
Lulu moves through desire, scandal, and social punishment with a presence the film cannot contain.
Edmond Dantès’s imprisonment, escape, reinvention, and revenge unfold across an unusually expansive silent adaptation of Dumas.
Two lifelong friends love the same woman on the Isle of Man, and a promise made before one man leaves creates a private tragedy on his return.
A young man tending an isolated river property meets a woman bound to an absent lover, and winter turns their encounter into dependence.
An English soldier loses his memory of Lola, the dancer he loved in Paris. Their later reunion brings his wartime promise into conflict with his marriage.
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 cabaret singer in Morocco is drawn to a Foreign Legion soldier even as a wealthy admirer offers the security he cannot provide.
Wrongly blamed for crimes after a shooting in self-defence, Buck Duane joins the Texas Rangers to clear his name and win Mary Aldridge’s trust.
A cavalry setting becomes the stage for romantic deception, honour, and the pressure placed on a woman whose choices are judged unequally.
A singer tries to protect her sister from a charming man whose previous relationship has already exposed the limits of his honesty.
A young man working in his father’s Marseille bar loves Fanny but cannot silence his longing to leave by sea.
A factory worker leaves her small town for New York, becomes the companion of a wealthy lawyer, and confronts the social limits placed on their relationship.
A privileged man confronts the damage caused by an earlier relationship when the woman he abandoned appears before a court as a defendant.
A mysterious gunman enters a frontier conflict shaped by persecution, concealed identity, loyalty, and the pressure placed on an independent woman.
A long-running feud over land and water draws a younger generation into divided loyalties, business rivalry, and romance.
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love in wartime Italy, where military duty and institutional interference repeatedly separate them.
A woman accepts a life kept out of public view as the long-term lover of a wealthy married man.
Fanny faces pregnancy and an uncertain future after Marius leaves Marseille for the sea, while the people around the harbour debate love, duty, and security.
Guests and workers cross inside a Berlin hotel where money, loneliness, performance, and chance briefly share a lobby.
A young man enters a struggle over a Western ranch, where land, water, loyalty, and a growing romance are threatened by organised violence.
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.
On a remote rubber plantation, a manager’s attraction to two very different women exposes the emotional and colonial assumptions sustaining his authority.
A train journey through civil conflict reunites a notorious courtesan with the British officer who once loved her.
Two elegant thieves discover that love can be harder to manage than a perfect robbery.
Sparring travellers turn a difficult journey into a romance.
A newly married couple drifts between a cramped barge and the promise of Paris.
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.
Terry and Michel meet on a ship to New York, then promise to reunite at the Empire State Building six months later.
Nine uneasy travellers cross Monument Valley while a new kind of western takes shape.
A country-house farce that quietly indicts everyone.
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 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 detective investigating a woman’s murder becomes fascinated by the portrait, apartment, and testimony that survive her.
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 society woman turns her former lover's next romance into an instrument of revenge.
A familiar fairy tale enters a castle where arms hold candles and statues breathe.
A gambler joins a Buenos Aires casino and discovers that the owner’s new wife is the woman whose memory he has been trying to erase.
A frightened boy’s encounter on the marshes grows into a story of money, shame, and mistaken hopes.
A woman recruited to infiltrate a Nazi circle discovers that espionage and intimacy demand the same dangerous trust.
A former private investigator’s quiet new life ends when the criminal past he tried to leave behind sends for him.
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 old friend’s visit unsettles a marriage already living among the ruins of war.
A shy New York heiress faces a contemptuous father and a charming suitor whose intentions may be inseparable from her fortune.
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.
A pickpocket unknowingly steals microfilm from a courier and becomes the target of both federal agents and Communist spies.
A pair of earrings passes through sale, gift, concealment, and return as an aristocratic marriage gives way to forbidden love.
A woman returns to postwar Japan and tries to revive a wartime affair with a man whose promises repeatedly dissolve into avoidance.
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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