Films
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A vast silent city of the future, still staggering.
A shadow crosses the wall, and horror cinema finds its shape.
The end of the world is managed by men who cannot manage a meeting.
One crime, four truths, no easy answers.
A faded star, a kept writer, Hollywood's darkest joke.
A laboratory sparks to life, and a monster enters cinema history looking afraid.
A filmmaking expedition brings an impossible creature into a modern city and turns wonder into catastrophe.
A knight plays chess with Death. Unforgettable.
Cool, restless — the moment cinema broke its rules.
A nervous man, an industrial wasteland, and an impossible infant form a domestic nightmare with its own weather.
One woman stops speaking; another talks until identity starts to split.
Two lighthouse keepers, one isolated post, and a hierarchy that begins to warp under weather, drink, and desire.
Two men perform beside a recording horn while an early camera and phonograph attempt to preserve movement and sound together.
Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by Marley’s ghost and visions that compress Dickens’s Christmas story into a few inventive minutes.
A rocket in the Moon’s eye: a voyage built from stage illusion.
A fire brigade answers an alarm and attempts to rescue a woman and child from a burning room.
A spinner’s legend is presented as a compact piece of visual folklore in an early film by Louis Feuillade.
Lovers, fairies, and amateur actors cross paths in a forest where enchantment makes affection change direction without warning.
A doctor’s experiment releases an alter ego whose appetite for freedom quickly becomes violence.
Louis Feuillade turns the figure of a hermit into the centre of a brief French silent comedy.
Alice follows the White Rabbit into a world of changing size, abrupt rules, and encounters drawn from both Alice books.
Edgar Allan Poe’s life and imagination are combined in a stylised screen biography starring Henry B. Walthall.
Captain Nemo’s submarine, a mysterious sea creature, and two Verne narratives meet in an undersea adventure built around technological wonder.
A grocery clerk’s flour-covered rivalry expands into a boarding-school rescue involving disguises, thrown food, and collapsing order.
A shy heir tries to avoid marriage by choosing a lifelike mechanical doll, unaware that the doll-maker’s daughter has taken its place.
A respected doctor separates his moral impulses from his hidden desires, creating a second identity that becomes increasingly difficult to contain.
A fairground prediction becomes a question of who controls the outcome.
Young Jim Hawkins acquires a treasure map and sails with a crew whose most charismatic member has plans of his own.
Hamlet investigates a father’s death and a corrupt court in an adaptation built around a radical account of the prince’s identity.
On New Year’s Eve, a ghostly carriage arrives to collect more than the dead.
A fraudulent aristocrat in Monte Carlo targets wealthy women while his accomplices maintain the appearance of status around him.
Woodcuts, staged visions, and social argument combine in an unsettling investigation of witchcraft and persecution.
A student convinced of his exceptional right to act commits murder and discovers that an idea cannot contain the consequences.
Earthly jealousy and post-revolutionary hardship spill into an angular fantasy of Mars, revolution, and desire.
Objects, bodies, city views, a cannon, a funeral procession, and cinematic tricks collide in a playful refusal of ordinary narrative logic.
Dziga Vertov and his collaborators assemble work, leisure, markets, bodies, and machines into an argument for a camera that sees social life differently from the human eye.
Peter Pan takes Wendy and her brothers from their London nursery to Neverland, where play, danger, and the refusal to grow older exist together.
A poet invents stories for three wax figures, moving from exotic adventure to historical nightmare and a final pursuit through distorted space.
Explorers encounter the mysterious ruler known as She in a British-German adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s imperial fantasy.
An expedition travels to an isolated plateau where prehistoric creatures survive, then brings evidence back to a city unprepared for it.
Three former sideshow performers create a criminal household built on disguise, deception, and the increasingly unstable loyalty between them.
A man terrified by a sudden impulse to stab his wife seeks psychoanalytic treatment, leading the film into dreams, symbols, and buried jealousy.
A privileged schoolboy accepts blame for a friend, is expelled and disowned, then descends through increasingly unstable social roles.
A circus performer who hides his arms becomes dangerously obsessed with the young woman who feels safest in his apparently armless company.
A scientist creates a woman through an experiment shaped by a mandrake legend, then attempts to control the life he treats as proof of his theory.
A soldier with amnesia gradually recovers memories and returns to a society transformed by revolution.
A city wakes, works, plays, and becomes cinema while the camera reveals its own tricks.
Sixteen minutes of dream logic sever cause from effect and make familiar objects suddenly unsafe.
A strict schoolteacher follows his pupils into a nightclub and becomes obsessed with the performer he intended to discipline them for watching.
Three former sideshow performers operate a criminal scheme through a false domestic identity, disguise, and divided loyalty.
Three people drift in a small boat while memory, landscape, and gesture loosen ordinary narrative time.
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.
A circus community closes ranks after a trapeze artist’s scheme against a performer with a substantial inheritance.
A tiny nation hires Groucho Marx and discovers that government is perfect slapstick.
A criminal mastermind confined to an asylum appears to direct a new empire of terror through written instructions.
Four boys return to a boarding school whose petty rules soon invite an uprising.
A newly married couple drifts between a cramped barge and the promise of Paris.
A palaeontologist’s orderly life collapses after one woman, one leopard, and one missing bone arrive at once.
A country-house farce that quietly indicts everyone.
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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