Films
Read about the filmsFind a film by title, director, mood or the time you have.
Insurgency and counter-insurgency unfold through streets, checkpoints, apartments, and the systems that connect them.
After a failed uprising, prisoners are isolated inside a detention camp where authorities use uncertainty and betrayal to identify remaining rebels.
A late-night drink between two academic couples becomes an escalating struggle over marriage, status, and shared fictions.
A hit man caught between rival gangs must negotiate a crime world that increasingly closes around him.
An assassin botches a job and becomes a target in a crime story driven by strange obsessions and abrupt turns.
A feud between medieval clans becomes a harsh encounter between desire, violence and competing beliefs.
A condemned man survives his execution, and the authorities struggle to make their punishment proceed.
A bourgeois intellectual remains in Havana after his family leaves Cuba, observing the revolution while avoiding any stable commitment to it or to other people.
Love, rivalry, performance, and filmmaking overlap within Tokyo’s late-1960s gay counterculture.
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