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A blind flower seller and a penniless tramp meet beyond the city’s noisy surfaces.
A laboratory sparks to life, and a monster enters cinema history looking afraid.
A cavalry setting becomes the stage for romantic deception, honour, and the pressure placed on a woman whose choices are judged unequally.
A restless newspaper editor and his family move through decades of Oklahoma settlement, expansion, politics, and repeated departure.
After an underground disaster, German miners cross the border to rescue French workers despite the political divisions above them.
Made at night on Universal’s sets, George Melford’s Spanish-language production gives Dracula a distinct rhythm, cast, and visual life.
A boy robbed on his journey to Berlin recruits a fast-growing group of city children to follow the thief and recover the money.
A travelling cowboy enters a compact Western of danger, assistance, and conflict built around Tom Tyler’s direct screen presence.
Five men from different backgrounds shelter between the front lines of the First World War; only one understands all their languages.
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.
Three people drift in a small boat while memory, landscape, and gesture loosen ordinary narrative time.
A child-killer hunted by the whole underworld. Electric.
A young man working in his father’s Marseille bar loves Fanny but cannot silence his longing to leave by sea.
Four stowaways loose on an ocean liner evade authority, invade other people’s roles, and turn a gangster plot into organised interruption.
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 bored married couple inherit money, leave suburban routine for a world cruise, and discover that escape magnifies rather than solves their dissatisfaction.
A mysterious gunman enters a frontier conflict shaped by persecution, concealed identity, loyalty, and the pressure placed on an independent woman.
Two young islanders flee after the woman is declared sacred and forbidden, but colonial money and religious authority follow their escape.
A washed-up boxer tries to remain a hero to his young son while gambling, alcohol, and an unstable life make love an insufficient plan.
Debt, secrecy, and coercion tighten around a married woman after private risk-taking gives a predatory man power over her.
A long-running feud over land and water draws a younger generation into divided loyalties, business rivalry, and romance.
A Chicago street boy turns Prohibition crime into a career whose speed leaves loyalty and family behind.
Criminal celebrity Mackie Messer marries Polly Peachum and provokes her father into mobilising London’s thieves, beggars, and police against him.
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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