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Two Christmas-tree salesmen and one resistant customer escalate a failed doorstep sale into the systematic destruction of property.
After killing a man during an assault, a young woman finds guilt, police procedure, and blackmail closing around her.
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.
A woman who killed her lover claims self-defence, until a letter threatens the account on which her marriage and trial depend.
Petruchio courts Katherina through a contest of authority, performance, and humiliation in an early sound Shakespeare adaptation.
German schoolboys enlist with patriotic excitement and encounter a trench war that steadily dismantles every promised meaning.
Logging in Maine is followed from forest work through transport and milling towards the shipment of finished lumber.
A juror who helped convict an actress begins to doubt the verdict and privately investigates the theatrical world around the crime.
A scout leads a vast wagon train west while pursuing the men responsible for a friend’s murder.
A First World War squadron commander must keep sending inexperienced pilots into combat while the officers beneath him mistake responsibility for indifference.
Wrongly blamed for crimes after a shooting in self-defence, Buck Duane joins the Texas Rangers to clear his name and win Mary Aldridge’s trust.
Three former sideshow performers operate a criminal scheme through a false domestic identity, disguise, and divided loyalty.
A cavalry setting becomes the stage for romantic deception, honour, and the pressure placed on a woman whose choices are judged unequally.
A restless newspaper editor and his family move through decades of Oklahoma settlement, expansion, politics, and repeated departure.
After an underground disaster, German miners cross the border to rescue French workers despite the political divisions above them.
Made at night on Universal’s sets, George Melford’s Spanish-language production gives Dracula a distinct rhythm, cast, and visual life.
A boy robbed on his journey to Berlin recruits a fast-growing group of city children to follow the thief and recover the money.
A travelling cowboy enters a compact Western of danger, assistance, and conflict built around Tom Tyler’s direct screen presence.
Five men from different backgrounds shelter between the front lines of the First World War; only one understands all their languages.
A child-killer hunted by the whole underworld. Electric.
A mysterious gunman enters a frontier conflict shaped by persecution, concealed identity, loyalty, and the pressure placed on an independent woman.
Debt, secrecy, and coercion tighten around a married woman after private risk-taking gives a predatory man power over her.
A long-running feud over land and water draws a younger generation into divided loyalties, business rivalry, and romance.
A Chicago street boy turns Prohibition crime into a career whose speed leaves loyalty and family behind.
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.
A young man enters a struggle over a Western ranch, where land, water, loyalty, and a growing romance are threatened by organised violence.
A veteran’s search for work leads to wrongful implication in a robbery, a brutal chain gang, escape, and a life made increasingly impossible by the system pursuing him.
On a remote rubber plantation, a manager’s attraction to two very different women exposes the emotional and colonial assumptions sustaining his authority.
A gangster climbs through a city with such speed that every victory already looks like a warning.
A train journey through civil conflict reunites a notorious courtesan with the British officer who once loved her.
A criminal mastermind confined to an asylum appears to direct a new empire of terror through written instructions.
In revolutionary Dublin, Gypo Nolan informs on a wanted friend and spends a long night trying to escape the moral and political consequences.
A thirteenth-century prince is called back to defend Novgorod against an invading Teutonic army.
An idealistic new senator arrives in Washington and discovers that sincerity alone is not enough to defeat a carefully protected political machine.
Nine uneasy travellers cross Monument Valley while a new kind of western takes shape.
A newsroom romance races so quickly that manipulation and affection share a breath.
A Serbian designer fears that intimacy will awaken a fatal animal inheritance her new American husband refuses to believe.
A Warsaw theatre company uses costumes, timing, and professional vanity against the Nazi occupation.
In a seventeenth-century Danish household, a young wife’s desire and the persecution of an accused witch begin to mirror one another.
A drifter begins an affair with an innkeeper’s wife, and their desire turns escape into a crime neither can leave behind.
A teenager’s adored uncle arrives in her quiet California town just as she begins to suspect that his charm conceals a violent past.
A posse forms quickly; certainty forms even faster.
A professor’s encounter with the woman depicted in a gallery portrait draws him into killing, concealment, and blackmail.
A society woman turns her former lover's next romance into an instrument of revenge.
A murder investigation frames the story of a mother who builds a restaurant business while trying to satisfy a daughter ashamed of her origins.
Resistance, family life, and occupation collide across streets that feel dangerously close to the present.
A lonely amateur painter is drawn into a relationship built on deception, desire, and other people’s willingness to profit from his work.
A gambler joins a Buenos Aires casino and discovers that the owner’s new wife is the woman whose memory he has been trying to erase.
A woman recruited to infiltrate a Nazi circle discovers that espionage and intimacy demand the same dangerous trust.
Private detective Philip Marlowe takes a blackmail case for a wealthy family and enters a chain of disappearances, debts, murders, and withheld loyalties.
A returning serviceman becomes the prime suspect in his estranged wife’s murder and enters a nocturnal search for the truth.
During a violent storm, a mute young woman is trapped in a mansion where a killer targets women he considers physically imperfect.
A war-crimes investigator follows a Nazi fugitive into an apparently ordinary American town where a respected schoolteacher has built a new identity.
A police captain investigates a murder among demobilised soldiers and discovers that antisemitic hatred, not robbery, shaped the crime.
A former private investigator’s quiet new life ends when the criminal past he tried to leave behind sends for him.
An escaped convict travels towards revenge with the loyal woman who arranged his escape and the legal assistant who believes he deserves another chance.
New York detectives investigate a young woman’s murder while the city around the case continues its daily routines.
Three men find gold in Mexico and discover how quickly possession invents enemies.
A stolen police pistol sends a young detective through the heat and desperation of post-war Tokyo.
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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