Films
Read about the filmsFind a film by title, director, mood or the time you have.
A railway-station meeting grows into a love affair shaped as much by restraint as desire.
On a crowded theatrical boulevard, love becomes performance and performance becomes fate.
A doomed hitchhike into the bleakest B-movie poetry.
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.
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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