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Where black-and-white opens into colour. Pure wonder.
A doomed hitchhike into the bleakest B-movie poetry.
A familiar fairy tale enters a castle where arms hold candles and statues breathe.
An Irish sailor enters the orbit of a glamorous woman and her wealthy husband, then finds desire, employment, and murder folding into one another.
A writer investigates his friend’s death in Vienna, where accounts of the accident refuse to agree.
In a Danish farmhouse, belief and doubt wait beside a family’s ordinary work.
An elderly professor’s road journey opens into dreams, memories, and an unsparing look at the life behind him.
At Cairo’s main railway station, a disabled newspaper seller’s obsession with a drinks vendor turns a crowded social world towards violence.
A restless married woman finds a new attraction that unsettles both her domestic life and an existing affair.
A border explosion opens a night of corruption, surveillance, and unstable identities.
A brief affair in Hiroshima opens a difficult passage between public catastrophe and private memory.
A solitary young man treats theft as proof that ordinary rules do not apply to him.
A surgeon hides his injured daughter while pursuing a series of experiments intended to restore her face.
Rome, glamour, emptiness — beautiful and exhausting.
A music teacher hires a housemaid, and the family’s new middle-class home becomes a volatile system of desire, labour, and revenge.
In a vast hotel, a man insists that a woman promised to leave with him last year—or perhaps in another version of the past.
A novice nun attempts charity in a world Buñuel refuses to make morally tidy.
After ending one relationship, a woman drifts into another amid the spaces and distances of modern Rome.
After an elegant dinner, a group of wealthy guests discover that none of them can bring themselves to leave the room.
A decorated soldier returns from war with a heroic story that his former commander cannot make fit his dreams.
A man is arrested without being detained and drawn through a legal system that never states the charge against him.
A director unable to make his next film retreats into memories, fantasies, and an ever-growing production circus.
A wealthy young man hires a servant whose competence gradually reorganises the house and every relationship inside it.
A poor couple cross Brazil’s sertão through a messianic cult, hired violence, and revolutionary myth after killing an exploitative landowner.
Two boys escape a concentration-camp transport and struggle through a landscape of hunger, memory and fear.
Two women survive a civil war by ambushing lost soldiers in tall reeds until desire unsettles their arrangement.
A yakuza released from prison meets a reckless gambler, and their search for excitement draws them towards danger.
An amateur entomologist is trapped in a sand pit with a widow whose nightly labour keeps their home from being buried.
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.
In a collapsing rural settlement, the return of a persuasive man reorganises hope, money, and betrayal.
A timid accountant travels west, becomes an outlaw by accident, and drifts toward a death he barely understands.
A mathematician searching for a universal pattern turns his apartment, computer, and body into parts of the same unstable system.
A travelling whale and a mysterious speaker arrive in a cold town already close to collective rupture.
A lonely vampire moves through Bad City, where exploitation and desire already haunt the streets.
Two journeys decades apart follow an Indigenous shaman and Western visitors through an Amazon scarred by extraction and memory.
A prophecy enters an austere world of corridors, fog, birds, and ambition already looking for permission.
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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