Films
Read about the filmsFind a film by title, director, mood or the time you have.
A town’s familiar life is measured against the absence of one exhausted man.
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.
Three veterans return to the same town and discover that home has changed less visibly, but no less decisively, than they have.
Private detective Philip Marlowe takes a blackmail case for a wealthy family and enters a chain of disappearances, debts, murders, and withheld loyalties.
A returning serviceman becomes the prime suspect in his estranged wife’s murder and enters a nocturnal search for the truth.
After two hired killers execute a man who makes no attempt to escape, an insurance investigator reconstructs the choices that led him there.
During a violent storm, a mute young woman is trapped in a mansion where a killer targets women he considers physically imperfect.
A war-crimes investigator follows a Nazi fugitive into an apparently ordinary American town where a respected schoolteacher has built a new identity.
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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