Films
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A washed-up boxer tries to remain a hero to his young son while gambling, alcohol, and an unstable life make love an insufficient plan.
A bank president who lends on character rather than collateral faces robbery, panic, and a run that tests whether public trust can move faster than fear.
Fanny faces pregnancy and an uncertain future after Marius leaves Marseille for the sea, while the people around the harbour debate love, duty, and security.
Two brothers learn that their father’s place in the adult world does not match the hero they imagined.
A travelling actor returns to a provincial town, where an old relationship and an unacknowledged son disturb the troupe’s temporary calm.
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.
Terry and Michel meet on a ship to New York, then promise to reunite at the Empire State Building six months later.
Where black-and-white opens into colour. Pure wonder.
A dispossessed Oklahoma family travels west during the Depression and finds that California’s promise of work conceals another system of exploitation.
Two shop assistants irritate one another at work while unknowingly falling in love through anonymous letters.
A railway-station meeting grows into a love affair shaped as much by restraint as desire.
Three veterans return to the same town and discover that home has changed less visibly, but no less decisively, than they have.
An old friend’s visit unsettles a marriage already living among the ruins of war.
A father and daughter share a peaceful home that social expectation begins to rearrange.
A modest bank clerk who has supervised gold deliveries for years finally finds the partner and export scheme needed to steal one.
An elderly pensioner facing eviction tries to preserve his dignity and his bond with his small dog in postwar Rome.
Monsieur Hulot arrives at a seaside hotel and gently disrupts the routines by which everyone else is trying to enjoy a proper holiday.
An adoption investigation exposes a travelling salesman’s two marriages and the loneliness, compromise, and deception that produced them.
A travelling strongman buys the service of a poor young woman whose openness meets his cruelty on the road.
In a Danish farmhouse, belief and doubt wait beside a family’s ordinary work.
As Apu grows from child to student, education opens a future whose distance from home becomes increasingly painful for his mother.
An elderly professor’s road journey opens into dreams, memories, and an unsparing look at the life behind him.
Ninety anxious minutes in Paris, measured by mirrors, streets, and attention.
Poetry, daily routine, and direct observation meet inside an Iranian leper colony.
A man leaving treatment spends a day revisiting Paris, old friends, and the life he cannot persuade himself to re-enter.
A donkey passes from owner to owner, carrying the weight of human tenderness, use, and cruelty.
Work, family, play, and fatigue shape daily life in a Black neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
An angel listening to Berlin’s private thoughts begins to long for weight, colour, touch, and one mortal life.
A dancer moves between flats, jobs, cities, and friendships while adulthood refuses to arrive in one clean step.
A son drives his ageing father toward a supposed prize, passing through a hometown that remembers value in its own ways.
A boy’s close-knit street becomes a fault line during the Troubles while his family considers leaving home.
A radio journalist caring for his young nephew learns that listening professionally and listening lovingly are different skills.
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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