Postwar Japan
Marriage, family ties and ways of surviving in a Japan changing after the war.
30 films
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Here I group films by filmmaker, period or country, as well as themes and other interests that emerge as I watch and organize the collection.
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 caught up in desire and crimes that exact a price. Escaping the past is rarely simple in these films.
5 films
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With Portuguese subtitles
Films in the collection with Portuguese subtitles.
133 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
Films from the 1950s about changing families, restless cities and contested frontiers.
117 films
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John Ford
Communities taking shape, with 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 face difficult choices and 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
On both sides of the law, his characters define themselves through work and obsession and pay the price of living by a code.
6 films
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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, films about private lives and social tensions, with 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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