Films
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Four boys return to a boarding school whose petty rules soon invite an uprising.
A travelling actor returns to a provincial town, where an old relationship and an unacknowledged son disturb the troupe’s temporary calm.
Sparring travellers turn a difficult journey into a romance.
A newly married couple drifts between a cramped barge and the promise of Paris.
A mother fights to protect her son while the city reduces her choices and judges the means of survival.
In revolutionary Dublin, Gypo Nolan informs on a wanted friend and spends a long night trying to escape the moral and political consequences.
A mother gives up much of her own future to fund her son’s education. When aspiration meets adult reality, love becomes difficult to separate from disappointment.
Prisoners and captors discover that class, nationality, and friendship do not divide along the same lines.
After losing their home, an elderly couple discover that their grown children can offer rooms more readily than a shared life.
A divorcing couple test new romances, old jealousies, and each other’s patience while insisting that their marriage is finished.
A thirteenth-century prince is called back to defend Novgorod against an invading Teutonic army.
A palaeontologist’s orderly life collapses after one woman, one leopard, and one missing bone arrive at once.
Terry and Michel meet on a ship to New York, then promise to reunite at the Empire State Building six months later.
An idealistic new senator arrives in Washington and discovers that sincerity alone is not enough to defeat a carefully protected political machine.
Nine uneasy travellers cross Monument Valley while a new kind of western takes shape.
A country-house farce that quietly indicts everyone.
Where black-and-white opens into colour. Pure wonder.
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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