Postwar Japan
Marriage, family ties and ways of making a living in a Japan transformed by the war.
30 films
View selection →Selections
Personal paths through the collection. Some follow a filmmaker, a period or a national cinema; others reflect interests and connections that emerge over time.
Sidney Lumet
From the courtroom to the city streets, people confront power, guilt and the limits of their own conscience.
32 films
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American noir
Detectives, desire and crimes that exact a price. Stories in which escaping the past is rarely simple.
5 films
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With Portuguese subtitles
Films in the collection with Portuguese subtitles.
119 films
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Japanese cinema
From the family dramas of Ozu and Mizoguchi to the radical departures of Ōshima and Tsukamoto, different ways of looking at Japan.
104 films
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The 1950s
Changing families, restless cities and contested frontiers. An encounter with the cinema of the 1950s.
115 films
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John Ford
The making of communities, their promises and contradictions, across Western landscapes, dramas and documentaries.
64 films
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Kenji Mizoguchi
From feudal Japan to twentieth-century cities, women face poverty, exploitation and family obligations.
28 films
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Love comes apart and people seem to lose their bearings amid streets, interiors and changing landscapes.
20 films
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Orson Welles
Ambition, power and competing versions of a story, in films where staging itself becomes part of the conflict.
14 films
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Akira Kurosawa
Samurai, police officers and ordinary people facing difficult choices. The responsibility to act in a world of conflict.
10 films
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Yasujirō Ozu
Marriages, farewells and relationships between parents and children. Films in which changes in family life emerge through conversations, gestures and household routines.
9 films
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Jacques Tourneur
Danger does not always reveal itself. Shadows, suspicion and threats run through his horror films, noirs and westerns.
13 films
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Michael Mann
Men defined by what they do, on both sides of the law. Work, obsession and the cost of living by a code.
6 films
View selection →Italian cinema
Family dramas, comedies, westerns and horror, with films by Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini, Antonioni, Leone and Argento.
43 films
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French cinema
From Renoir and Bresson to the New Wave, encounters between private lives, social tensions and the freedom to experiment.
56 films
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Hong Kong cinema
Loyalties tested, violence and lives in motion, from the films of John Woo to those of Johnnie To and Stanley Kwan.
9 films
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Brazilian cinema
From the sertão to city streets, stories of work, inequality and invention that question the country.
21 films
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Portuguese cinema
João César Monteiro and Manoel de Oliveira explore desire, memory and the pleasure of giving words a place in cinema.
10 films
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Soviet cinema
War, memory and everyday life in films that ask where each person stands in relation to history.
9 films
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Childhood and growing up
Growing up between care and abandonment, discovering friendships and seeking a place in a world shaped by adults.
10 films
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Work and inequality
Work in factories, in the countryside and in cities, as seen in films such as Blue Collar, The Grapes of Wrath and They Don’t Wear Black Tie.
9 films
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Justice and institutions
Who judges, who investigates and who answers for their actions? Films about the distance between law, power and justice.
12 films
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War and its aftermath
In combat or far from it, war changes relationships, enters memory and continues to weigh on those who survive.
13 films
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Western territories
Land, law and violence in the struggle for a place. Westerns in which building a community also means deciding who is left out.
32 films
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