Films
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Hunger, loneliness, and a dinner roll become materials for Chaplin’s warmest dreams.
The montage that taught cinema how to shout.
A Jewish prince is betrayed by a Roman friend, enslaved, and driven towards revenge as the life of Christ unfolds alongside his own.
An escaped convict poses as a preacher, exploiting a community’s trust; Paul Robeson also plays the preacher’s upright twin.
The son of Zorro is framed for murder in Spain and must use disguise, acrobatics, and family assistance to clear his name.
A young woman’s work and relationships draw her into the class display and personal risk surrounding New York fashion.
A solitary drifter tries ranch work, befriends a cow named Brown Eyes, and eventually guides an entire herd through Los Angeles.
The Bakhtiari people undertake a seasonal migration across rivers and mountains in search of grazing land.
In inflation-stricken Vienna, two neighbouring women face hunger, exploitation, and sharply unequal chances of escape.
A gunfighter helps a rancher resist coercion in a Western shaped by land, religious authority, and threatened family separation.
Explorers encounter the mysterious ruler known as She in a British-German adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s imperial fantasy.
Working-class lives in Berlin are shaped by unemployment, crowded housing, crime, and the fragile effort to remain a family.
A working-class mother confronts the social distance between her own life and the future she wants for her daughter.
An idle young American enlists for the First World War, forms friendships in France, and discovers how quickly adventure becomes loss.
A Russian officer becomes the masked Black Eagle after rejecting an empress and discovering that a powerful noble has stolen his family’s estate.
A new college student copies a screen personality, mistakes ridicule for popularity, and pursues football glory with absolute sincerity.
An expedition travels to an isolated plateau where prehistoric creatures survive, then brings evidence back to a city unprepared for it.
Tom Mix enters a frontier conflict adapted from Zane Grey’s sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage.
Three former sideshow performers create a criminal household built on disguise, deception, and the increasingly unstable loyalty between them.
A Navajo man confronts dispossession, war service, and a romance constrained by the white institutions governing his community.
An orphaned girl enters the life of a travelling showman and a new rural community in Jean Renoir’s early feature.
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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