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A society woman turns her former lover's next romance into an instrument of revenge.
A familiar fairy tale enters a castle where arms hold candles and statues breathe.
A frightened boy’s encounter on the marshes grows into a story of money, shame, and mistaken hopes.
A disinherited young man sets out to remove eight relatives standing between him and a dukedom, while managing two competing romances.
A writer investigates his friend’s death in Vienna, where accounts of the accident refuse to agree.
A modest bank clerk who has supervised gold deliveries for years finally finds the partner and export scheme needed to steal one.
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 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.
On the day war ends, a young assassin receives one more political order.
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.
A young Nottingham factory worker treats weekends as rebellion until an affair and its consequences make freedom harder to define.
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.
A governess becomes convinced that two children and their country house are haunted by a corrupt 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.
A couple invite a young stranger onto their yacht, where status and rivalry have nowhere to escape.
Bank robbers must return to free the two people they have locked in an airtight vault.
A young offender’s talent for distance running becomes a reform-school governor’s favourite proof of success.
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 wealthy young man hires a servant whose competence gradually reorganises the house and every relationship inside it.
A miner becomes a rugby league star, but physical success cannot give him the intimacy or social place he demands.
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.
An angel listening to Berlin’s private thoughts begins to long for weight, colour, touch, and one mortal life.
A travelling whale and a mysterious speaker arrive in a cold town already close to collective rupture.
A quiet barber attempts blackmail and discovers that passivity can still leave a precise trail of damage.
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.
A boy’s close-knit street becomes a fault line during the Troubles while his family considers leaving home.
Two Black women reconnect in 1920s New York, where visibility, safety, desire, and identity never align neatly.
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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