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(2016) The Wages of Fear (1953) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Tampopo (1985) The French Connection (1971) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Gladiator (2000) Touch of Evil (1958) La Haine (1995) Heat (1995) All the President's Men (1976) The Raid (2011) Schindler's List (1993) Taxi Driver (1976) Do the Right Thing (1989) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Princess Mononoke (1997) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Sholay (1975) The Killer (1989) The Maltese Falcon (1941) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) Sanjuro (1962) Rocky (1976) Forrest Gump (1994) RRR (2022) The Wild Bunch (1969) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) High Noon (1952) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) West Side Story (1961) Dune: Part Two (2024) The Big Lebowski (1998) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 1917 (2019) Andhadhun (2018) Apocalypse Now (1979) Ran (1985) M (1931) The Handmaiden (2016) Z (1969) Arrival (2016) 12th Fail (2023) Avengers: Endgame (2019) Good Will Hunting (1997) La La Land (2016) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Ex Machina (2014) The Sound of Music (1965) Nine Queens (2000) Bad Genius (2017) Kung Fu Hustle (2004) Vertigo (1958) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Das Boot (1981) Rififi (1955) Cinema Paradiso (1988) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Interstellar (2014) Hero (2002) Nightcrawler (2014) Train to Busan (2016) Three Colors: Red (1994) The Elephant Man (1980) Sullivan's Travels (1941) Diabolique (1955) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) Sicario (2015) Tumbbad (2018) Persepolis (2007) The Killing (1956) Ikiru (1952) There Will Be Blood (2007) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) A Man Escaped (1956) The 400 Blows (1959) Cabaret (1972) The Conversation (1974) Chungking Express (1994) The Graduate (1967) Her (2013) Braveheart (1995) For a Few Dollars More (1965) Prisoners (2013) On the Waterfront (1954) Le Samouraï (1967) Zodiac (2007) The Philadelphia Story (1940) A Prophet (2009) Castle in the Sky (1986) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) 3 Idiots (2009) Drishyam (2013) Citizen Kane (1941) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Raging Bull (1980) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Throne of Blood (1957) American Beauty (1999) Joker (2019) Return of the Jedi (1983) Serpico (1973) Sound of Metal (2019) A Silent Voice (2016) Lagaan (2001) Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) (2007) Avengers: Infinity War (2018) The Intouchables (2011) Nights of Cabiria (1957) King Kong (1933) Another Round (2020) The Raid 2 (2014) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Sorcerer (1977) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Badlands (1973) The Father (2020) Anatomy of a Fall (2023) Y Tu Mamá También (2001) The Worst Person in the World (2021) Dunkirk (2017) Kumbalangi Nights (2019) Amores Perros (2000) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Godzilla (1954) Scarface (1983) Drive (2011) A Fistful of Dollars (1964) A Taxi Driver (2017) Headhunters (2011) Army of Shadows (1969) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Volver (2006) Jai Bhim (2021) Incendies (2010) Akira (1988) About Elly (2009) Ghost in the Shell (1995) Central Station (1998) Mother (2009) Monster (2023) Elite Squad 2 (2010) Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK (2024) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) Children of Heaven (1997) Dangal (2016) Paris, Texas (1984) A Matter of Life and Death (1946) La Strada (1954) Three Colors: Blue (1993) Oldboy (2003) The Hunt (2012) Perfect Blue (1997) Let the Right One In (2008) Capernaum (2018) Ponyo (2008) The Usual Suspects (1995) Kahaani (2012) The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) In the Mood for Love (2000) Blue Velvet (1986) A Short Film About Love (1988) Shoplifters (2018) Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) The Vanishing (1988) Millennium Actress (2001) Riders of Justice (2020) The Invisible Guest (2016) Grand Illusion (1937) Bicycle Thieves (1948) Wild Strawberries (1957) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Blade Runner (1982) Point Blank (1967) Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Downfall (2004) Paprika (2006) I Swear (2025) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) The Green Mile (1999) Tokyo Godfathers (2003) Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) Rashomon (1950) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Collective (2019) Decision to Leave (2022) Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Pain and Glory (2019) Deliverance (1972) Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) Asuran (2019) Special 26 (2013) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Days of Heaven (1978) The Exterminating Angel (1962) Where Is the Friend's House? 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(2001) A Brighter Summer Day (1991) Solaris (1972) Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) His Girl Friday (1940) Notorious (1946) Trouble in Paradise (1932) Ford v Ferrari (2019) In the Name of the Father (1993) Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) In the Heat of the Night (1967) Un Chien Andalou (1929) The Night of Counting the Years (1969) Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) Mary and Max (2009) Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Timbuktu (2014) Logan (2017) Cries and Whispers (1972) Marketa Lazarová (1967) Eraserhead (1977) Funny Games (1997) Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Spotlight (2015) The Chaos Class Failed the Class (1975) Pickpocket (1959) The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) Out of the Past (1947) Vivre Sa Vie (1962) A Day in the Country (1936) Titanic (1997) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) Easy Rider (1969) Don't Look Now (1973) Amarcord (1973) Before Sunset (2004) Maharaja (2024) The Terminator (1984) To Be or Not to Be (1942) A City of Sadness (1989) Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) The Tree of Life (2011) Possession (1981) A Night at the Opera (1935) Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009) The Incredibles (2004) Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) The Birds (1963) Mirror (1975) Johnny Guitar (1954) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Room (2015) The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) Hotel Rwanda (2004) The Exorcist (1973) The Iron Giant (1999) Vagabond (1985) Sophie's Choice (1982) All That Heaven Allows (1955) Swing Time (1936) Rush (2013) Vampyr (1932) Daughters of the Dust (1991) Killer of Sheep (1978) Born in Flames (1983) Stand by Me (1986) Le Bonheur (1965) By the Bluest of Seas (1936) My Father and My Son (2005) Children of Paradise (1945) The Last Picture Show (1971) Journey to Italy (1954) Melancholia (2011) Petite Maman (2021) The Gleaners and I (2000) In a Lonely Place (1950) Contempt (1963) Wanda (1970) Orlando (1992) The Color of Pomegranates (1969) Napoleon (1927) Pierrot le Fou (1965) Sambizanga (1972) The River (1951) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Mouchette (1967) Ordet (1955) Love Streams (1984) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Black Narcissus (1947) Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Twenty Years Later (1984) L'Argent (1983) An Autumn Afternoon (1962) The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) One Way or Another (1977) Shoah (1985) Pyaasa (1957) La Ciénaga (2001) Under the Skin (2013) Magnolia (1999) Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) Paris Is Burning (1990) I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) Sans Soleil (1983) Red Desert (1964) A Touch of Zen (1971) A Canterbury Tale (1944) Greed (1924) Flowers of Shanghai (1998) The Headless Woman (2008) Soleil Ô (1970) Brief Encounter (1945) L'Eclisse (1962) Zama (2017) Europa '51 (1952) Syndromes and a Century (2006) Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) Gertrud (1964) The Green Ray (1986) Blue (1993) Crash (1996) Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979) Happy Together (1997) Videodrome (1983) Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) Pink Flamingos (1972) The Crowd (1928) My Darling Clementine (1946) Tropical Malady (2004) Dream of Light (1992) The Intruder (2004) Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Morvern Callar (2002) The Hour of the Furnaces (1968) News from Home (1976) Je Tu Il Elle (1974) Pandora's Box (1929) Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) Nostalgia for the Light (2010) Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) The Mother and the Whore (1973) India Song (1975) Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002) Limite (1931) Histoire(s) du cinéma (1998) In Vanda's Room (2000) Sátántangó (1994) Wavelength (1967) As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) Out 1 (1971) Director · Collaborator · National Cinema Memories of Murder A same-director connection that shifts from thriller toward crime, useful for tracing authorship rather than simple similarity.
Open film Make a Double Feature Director · National Cinema Mother A same-director connection that shifts from thriller toward crime, useful for tracing authorship rather than simple similarity.
Open film Make a Double Feature Collaborator · National Cinema · Historical Context · Formal Kinship A Taxi Driver Song Kang-ho connects the films across 2 years and different creative contexts.
Open film Make a Double Feature National Cinema · Historical Context · Formal Kinship The Handmaiden A connection through films from South Korea across 3 years, pairing national context with genre continuity.
Open film Make a Double Feature Collaborator · National Cinema The Good, the Bad, the Weird Song Kang-ho connects the films across 11 years and different creative contexts.
Open film Make a Double Feature National Cinema · Formal Kinship Oldboy A connection through films from South Korea across 16 years, pairing national context with genre continuity.
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Parasite Kineticcalibrated Gatewaycalibrated Cultural landmarkfactual 1958–1968 · France French New Wave A postwar break with studio convention through location work, reflexive form, and personal authorship.
Start here: Breathless
The 400 Blows Core · calibrated Breathless Core · calibrated Cléo from 5 to 7 Core · calibrated Vivre Sa Vie Core · calibrated The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Core · calibrated 1943–1952 · Italy Italian Neorealism Postwar Italian cinema centered on ordinary lives, social conditions, and location-based realism.
Start here: Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves Core · calibrated Rome, Open City Core · calibrated Rocco and His Brothers Influenced By · calibrated Umberto D. Core · calibrated Paisan Core · calibrated 1919–1933 · Germany German Expressionism Stylized space, shadow, and performance externalize psychological and social disturbance.
Start here: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
M Core · calibrated The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Core · calibrated Metropolis Core · calibrated 1967–1982 · United States New Hollywood Director-led American filmmaking that reshaped genre, character, and studio practice.
Start here: The Godfather
GoodFellas Influenced By · calibrated The Godfather Core · calibrated The Godfather Part II Core · calibrated The Departed Influenced By · calibrated Taxi Driver Core · calibrated 1956–1976 · Japan Japanese New Wave Formally and politically confrontational work responding to postwar Japanese society.
Start here: Woman in the Dunes
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