Films
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Chaplin vs. the machine age — tender and funny.
A blind flower seller and a penniless tramp meet beyond the city’s noisy surfaces.
Maybe the funniest film ever made. Still is.
The end of the world is managed by men who cannot manage a meeting.
A tramp finds a child, and slapstick quietly becomes a family story.
Keaton, a train, and perfect deadpan engineering.
Hunger, loneliness, and a dinner roll become materials for Chaplin’s warmest dreams.
Shakespeare’s courtship battle is reduced to a brisk contest of gesture, resistance, and coercive domestic order.
Bébé develops an infatuation in a compact French comedy built around childhood imitation and adult social behaviour.
Louis Feuillade turns the figure of a hermit into the centre of a brief French silent comedy.
A penniless drifter finds work as a sparring partner and moves from the training gym into the prize ring.
A grocery clerk’s flour-covered rivalry expands into a boarding-school rescue involving disguises, thrown food, and collapsing order.
A silent American comedy directed by Tod Browning, included in the Library of Congress’s lost-film list dated 4 February 2021.
Newlyweds assemble a prefabricated house whose numbered parts have been quietly rearranged by a resentful rival.
A perfect city comedy climbs one floor at a time toward an impossible clock.
The same romantic rivalry unfolds in the Stone Age, ancient Rome, and the modern 1920s, with each era insisting that love has completely changed.
Forty-five minutes of impossible silent-comedy joy.
Two wealthy young people accidentally find themselves alone aboard a drifting ocean liner and must learn the simplest tasks of survival.
A new college student copies a screen personality, mistakes ridicule for popularity, and pursues football glory with absolute sincerity.
A small-town inventor’s failed demonstration leaves him humiliated, until an encounter with a visiting princess transforms his standing at home.
Reginald Denny leads a silent comedy in which speed, competition, and social confusion push ordinary confidence towards escalating disorder.
Two Christmas-tree salesmen and one resistant customer escalate a failed doorstep sale into the systematic destruction of property.
Four stowaways loose on an ocean liner evade authority, invade other people’s roles, and turn a gangster plot into organised interruption.
Two brothers learn that their father’s place in the adult world does not match the hero they imagined.
A tiny nation hires Groucho Marx and discovers that government is perfect slapstick.
Sparring travellers turn a difficult journey into a romance.
A newsroom romance races so quickly that manipulation and affection share a breath.
A cardsharp falls for a sheltered heir, then invents a new identity when his distrust turns affection into humiliation.
Monsieur Hulot arrives at a seaside hotel and gently disrupts the routines by which everyone else is trying to enjoy a proper holiday.
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