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Wrongly imprisoned Edmond Dantès escapes, finds a fortune, and returns under a new identity to punish those who betrayed him.
Huck escapes an abusive home and travels along the Mississippi, encountering fraud, danger, and the demands of friendship.
A sailor falsely imprisoned for years escapes, acquires a fortune, and returns under a new identity to punish the people who betrayed him.
An English gentleman framed by his half-brother is enslaved, becomes a corsair, and returns with the power to confront betrayal.
A castaway attempts to survive on an island and impose order on an unfamiliar world in this British Defoe adaptation.
Edmond Dantès’s imprisonment, escape, reinvention, and revenge unfold across an unusually expansive silent adaptation of Dumas.
A British officer who resigns before a military campaign receives four white feathers and travels to Sudan to prove his courage in disguise.
Three men find gold in Mexico and discover how quickly possession invents enemies.
Two journeys decades apart follow an Indigenous shaman and Western visitors through an Amazon scarred by extraction and memory.
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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