Films
Read about the filmsFind a film by title, director, mood or the time you have.
The shower, the house, the shift that rewired horror.
A borrowed apartment exposes the private cost of corporate advancement.
Cool, restless — the moment cinema broke its rules.
A surgeon hides his injured daughter while pursuing a series of experiments intended to restore her face.
A woman disappears from a rocky island, and the search slowly exposes a different kind of absence.
Rome, glamour, emptiness — beautiful and exhausting.
A mother and her five sons move from southern Italy to Milan, where work, boxing, ambition, and desire pull the family into competing futures.
A young Nottingham factory worker treats weekends as rebellion until an affair and its consequences make freedom harder to define.
A young executive pursues the person responsible for his father’s death. Kurosawa carries the revenge story into the offices and hierarchies of postwar corporate Japan.
A young refugee woman supports her family after Partition while each relative treats her sacrifice as a resource that will continue indefinitely.
A music teacher hires a housemaid, and the family’s new middle-class home becomes a volatile system of desire, labour, and revenge.
A family’s island life depends on the repeated labour of bringing water across the sea.
After his daughter is raped and murdered, a father seeks revenge in medieval Sweden. Bergman places the violence within a world divided between Christian belief and older faiths.
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