Films
Read about the filmsFind a film by title, director, mood or the time you have.
A ransom demand turns one room, then an entire city, into evidence.
A director unable to make his next film retreats into memories, fantasies, and an ever-growing production circus.
A man leaving treatment spends a day revisiting Paris, old friends, and the life he cannot persuade himself to re-enter.
A rural woman negotiates decades of upheaval, exploitation and opportunity in twentieth-century Japan.
A wealthy young man hires a servant whose competence gradually reorganises the house and every relationship inside it.
Two estranged sisters and a child stop in an unfamiliar country that seems close to war. Illness and sexual tension make their enforced proximity more isolating, not less.
A miner becomes a rugby league star, but physical success cannot give him the intimacy or social place he demands.
A pastor asked to comfort a frightened parishioner discovers how little assurance he can offer. Bergman makes a crisis of faith inseparable from failures of attention and compassion.
Still deciding? Ask Momo.
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