Films
Read about the filmsFind a film by title, director, mood or the time you have.
The end of the world is managed by men who cannot manage a meeting.
A poor couple cross Brazil’s sertão through a messianic cult, hired violence, and revolutionary myth after killing an exploitative landowner.
A lonely newspaper editor’s wife discovers her literary voice and a dangerous emotional intimacy when his poet cousin comes to stay.
Two boys escape a concentration-camp transport and struggle through a landscape of hunger, memory and fear.
Four stories move through pre-revolutionary Cuba with a camera that seems able to cross walls, crowds, water, and history.
Two women survive a civil war by ambushing lost soldiers in tall reeds until desire unsettles their arrangement.
A yakuza released from prison meets a reckless gambler, and their search for excitement draws them towards danger.
A Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop has reduced life to transactions until the present begins to break through.
A married literary scholar begins an affair, and a romance gradually takes on the pressure of a suspense story.
An amateur entomologist is trapped in a sand pit with a widow whose nightly labour keeps their home from being buried.
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