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Takashi Shimura

Haruo Tanaka

Nobuo Kaneko

Bokuzen Hidari

Miki Odagiri

Shinichi Himori

Minoru Chiaki

Minosuke Yamada

Kamatari Fujiwara

Makoto Kobori

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Akira Kurosawa

Ikiru

Andrew

Mack

Kate

Ikiru (1952) Original Trailer [4K]

Ikiru - The Moment He Started Living

Shinobu Hashimoto

Hideo Oguni

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Bibi Andersson

Liv Ullmann

Margaretha Krook

Gunnar Björnstrand

Jörgen Lindström

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

Ingmar Bergman

Persona

Hajar

Joshua🥚🥚🥚😎

Lanya

Persona Trailer

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Tatsuya Nakadai

Akira Terao

Jinpachi Nezu

Daisuke Ryū

Mieko Harada

Yoshiko Miyazaki

Mansai Nomura

Hisashi Igawa

Shinnosuke Ikehata

Masayuki Yui

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

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Stevie Southworth

Ismam Uz Zaman

Ran (1985) Original Trailer [HD]

Official Trailer

Masato Ide

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Toshirō Mifune

Machiko Kyō

Masayuki Mori

Kichijirô Ueda

Noriko Honma

Daisuke Katō

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Rashomon

Alexandre

Isaac Banks

Boo Boo Kitty

BFI Re-Release Trailer

Rashômon (1950) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Robert Altman on Rashomon

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Kim Hye-ja

Won Bin

Jin Goo

Yoon Je-moon

Jeon Mi-seon

Song Sae-byuk

Lee Young-suk

Moon Hee-ra

Chun Woo-hee

Kim Byeong-soon

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

Bong Joon-ho

Mother

Sam Willwerth

Connor

Jimbo Wimbeeny

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Trailer

Park Eun-kyo

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Bengt Ekerot

Nils Poppe

Max von Sydow

Inga Gill

Maud Hansson

Inga Landgré

Gunnel Lindblom

Bertil Anderberg

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

The Seventh Seal

Matt

Jack Watson

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The Seventh Seal (1957) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Mark Kermode reviews The Seventh Seal | BFI Player

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Yōko Tsukasa

Isuzu Yamada

Seizaburō Kawazu

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Yōsuke Natsuki

Eijirō Tōno

Sanjuro Collection

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Yojimbo

Mr.Blue

Gianni

Yojimbo (1961) Original Trailer [4K]

YOJIMBO Trailer (1961) - The Criterion Collection

Ryūzō Kikushima

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Marcello Mastroianni

Claudia Cardinale

Anouk Aimée

Sandra Milo

Rossella Falk

Barbara Steele

Madeleine Lebeau

Caterina Boratto

Eddra Gale

Guido Alberti

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

Federico Fellini

Jonathan Maurice

Heitor Lucas Foschetti

melinda

35mm Trailer [Subtitled]

Mark Kermode reviews 8½ (1963) | BFI Player

Marcello Mastroianni’s guide to being cool | BFI

Federico Fellini - 8 1/2 (New Trailer) - In UK cinemas 1 May 2015 | BFI Release

8 and a Half Trailer HD

8 1/2 and Cleopatra Win Costume Design: 1964 Oscars

8 and a Half Trailer

Federico Fellini accepting Best Foreign Language Film for "8 1/2": 1964 Oscars

Allan Arkush on 8 1/2

8 1/2 Trailer (1963) - The Criterion Collection

Ennio Flaiano

Tullio Pinelli

Brunello Rondi

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Alisa Freyndlikh

Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Nikolay Grinko

Natasha Abramova

Faime Jurno

Evgeniy Kostin

Raymo Rendi

Vladimir Zamanskiy

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Stalker

Connaisseur of Stuff

Paul Gossett

Salman Al Farisi Prasad

Mark Kermode reviews Stalker (1979) | BFI Player

STALKER Trailer [1979]

Janus Films Trailer

Geoff Dyer on STALKER

Arkadiy Strugatskiy

Boris Strugatskiy

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Jean-Pierre Léaud

Claire Maurier

Albert Rémy

Georges Flamant

Patrick Auffay

Robert Beauvais

Yvonne Claudie

Pierre Repp

Guy Decomble

Daniel Couturier

The Adventures Of Antoine Doinel

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.

François Truffaut

The 400 Blows

John Scognamiglio

Chuck

Mark Kermode reviews The 400 Blows (1959) | BFI Player

New trailer for The 400 Blows - in cinemas from 7 January 2022 | BFI

Robert Weide on THE 400 BLOWS

Jean-Pierre Léaud at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival for 400 Blows

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Gene Hackman

John Cazale

Allen Garfield

Frederic Forrest

Cindy Williams

Michael Higgins

Elizabeth MacRae

Teri Garr

Harrison Ford

Mark Wheeler

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

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