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A young man working in his father’s Marseille bar loves Fanny but cannot silence his longing to leave by sea.
Criminal celebrity Mackie Messer marries Polly Peachum and provokes her father into mobilising London’s thieves, beggars, and police against him.
Fanny faces pregnancy and an uncertain future after Marius leaves Marseille for the sea, while the people around the harbour debate love, duty, and security.
A criminal mastermind confined to an asylum appears to direct a new empire of terror through written instructions.
Four boys return to a boarding school whose petty rules soon invite an uprising.
A newly married couple drifts between a cramped barge and the promise of Paris.
Prisoners and captors discover that class, nationality, and friendship do not divide along the same lines.
A country-house farce that quietly indicts everyone.
A drifter begins an affair with an innkeeper’s wife, and their desire turns escape into a crime neither can leave behind.
On a crowded theatrical boulevard, love becomes performance and performance becomes fate.
A society woman turns her former lover's next romance into an instrument of revenge.
Resistance, family life, and occupation collide across streets that feel dangerously close to the present.
A familiar fairy tale enters a castle where arms hold candles and statues breathe.
An elderly pensioner facing eviction tries to preserve his dignity and his bond with his small dog in postwar Rome.
Monsieur Hulot arrives at a seaside hotel and gently disrupts the routines by which everyone else is trying to enjoy a proper holiday.
A pair of earrings passes through sale, gift, concealment, and return as an aristocratic marriage gives way to forbidden love.
Four men, two trucks, and a road where every bump can end the film.
A travelling strongman buys the service of a poor young woman whose openness meets his cruelty on the road.
An adulterous couple leave a cyclist dying after a collision, then discover that guilt and class privilege produce different kinds of fear.
A carefully planned murder leaves behind one impossible problem: the body will not stay where it belongs.
Four thieves prepare a silent heist whose precision cannot protect what follows.
A prisoner prepares an escape one sound, tool, and repeated gesture at a time.
A restless married woman finds a new attraction that unsettles both her domestic life and an existing affair.
A brief affair in Hiroshima opens a difficult passage between public catastrophe and private memory.
A solitary young man treats theft as proof that ordinary rules do not apply to him.
A surgeon hides his injured daughter while pursuing a series of experiments intended to restore her face.
A woman disappears from a rocky island, and the search slowly exposes a different kind of absence.
Rome, glamour, emptiness — beautiful and exhausting.
A mother and her five sons move from southern Italy to Milan, where work, boxing, ambition, and desire pull the family into competing futures.
In a vast hotel, a man insists that a woman promised to leave with him last year—or perhaps in another version of the past.
Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.
Two friends love the same mercurial woman across years of art, war, marriage, travel, and changing agreements.
After ending one relationship, a woman drifts into another amid the spaces and distances of modern Rome.
A man is arrested without being detained and drawn through a legal system that never states the charge against him.
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 married literary scholar begins an affair, and a romance gradually takes on the pressure of a suspense story.
Falstaff’s warmth, vanity, and appetite fill the space between a prince’s youth and a king’s responsibilities.
A donkey passes from owner to owner, carrying the weight of human tenderness, use, and cruelty.
Insurgency and counter-insurgency unfold through streets, checkpoints, apartments, and the systems that connect them.
An angel listening to Berlin’s private thoughts begins to long for weight, colour, touch, and one mortal life.
In a collapsing rural settlement, the return of a persuasive man reorganises hope, money, and betrayal.
A timid accountant travels west, becomes an outlaw by accident, and drifts toward a death he barely understands.
A travelling whale and a mysterious speaker arrive in a cold town already close to collective rupture.
A series of cruel incidents disturbs a German village where discipline already governs family, school, church, and work.
A father, a daughter, and a horse repeat the work of survival as wind and light begin to withdraw from their world.
A young novice meets her aunt and learns that the life awaiting her rests beside a family history she never knew.
Two musicians repeatedly find and lose one another as borders, politics, and temperament change the terms of their love.
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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